Laurel Raven

Jesse, on his part, suggests Elon Musk’s controversial nature is to blame for the people laughing at him.

While I’m sure that’s part of it, mostly it’s just the fact that you blew 6 figures on a poorly assembled low res rust triangle

That thing makes the Aztec look positively sleek by comparison

Thanks, I’ll check that out!

I wasn’t asking about a Linux client for Teams, I was asking about an open source alternative to Teams

Are there some open source Teams alternatives you’d recommend?

Mostly, my general advice boils down to three things: fully automate everything you can as you go, don’t tear down factories without a specific goal in mind, and break big production lines down into smaller pieces

• fully automate: it can be tempting to stand up box fed mini factories to solve a short term goal, but it’s almost always better long term to automate it, even if you just do it sloppy and inefficiently. At least it’s there and can churn away quietly and be ready to plug into something bigger later
• don’t tear down: if you aren’t rebuilding a factory to handle more throughput, there’s probably not a good reason to remove it yet. It can keep idly producing as long as there’s power and somewhere for the product to go. You might find yourself needing something you’re already making that’s gone idle and it’s usually easier to redirect an output that build a whole new factory. Critically, DO NOT DISASSEMBLE PROJECT ASSEMBLY, pretty much all of it gets used again and again and having the factories continue running means you’ll have a leg up on the next part in the chain. When I got to the last part, ballistic wrap drive, I realized my factory making turbo propulsion rockets had slowed a lot due to some upstream issues with nitrogen gas hauling, but it didn’t matter because I’d already made enough to finish by then anyway
• break it down: don’t focus on the big picture, it’s overwhelming. Solve the production line one step at a time and the end of the production line will just be plugging in the inputs, more or less

Bonus tip: look up Satisfactory Tools if you haven’t already, the production calculator on it is fantastic and once you get the hang of all it can to it’ll make production planning way easier. With bigger builds, I’ll look at the parts and add them in as direct inputs if I am already making enough of it and it makes the diagram way simpler. I’ll even split off parts into their own production plan to eliminate the rest so I’m just focusing on that bit. Before you know it… It’s done.

Well of course, that makes perfect sense to me! What would we do if the ISPs ran out of bits? Can’t just use them anywhere you know, those suckers aren’t cheap!

I think it does, but only blocks competing advertisers

(Note: I actually have no clue if they do and I’m talking out my ass; that said, I would absolutely not be surprised one bit if they did exactly that)

Such an underrated movie

Python exists but I personally like PowerShell more. I’m not crazy about it being Microsoft owned, but it’s at least open source at this point, for whatever that’s worth.

I mean, not really? Unless someone holds onto a really bad exploit until after that point, it’ll be no different than going increasingly behind on updates, there’s no magic switch that will be thrown that makes it more vulnerable after EOL

PowerShell is another advantage, oddly enough, though I’ve been worried for a bit the direction they’re going with that… Everything they’re doing now is Azure and they’re pushing everything to Graph, and the way all of it works is a massive pain for anyone trying to use PowerShell the way it was designed to be used

Just pointing out, Plex and *arr work on Linux too…

I work with a guy who has a couple home servers, runs an AD domain and Exchange server on them among other things, all Windows. He doesn’t touch Linux.

Might be the exception, but at the very least they do exist.

Don’t you mean 13 years and 3 months? At least, that’s when the UNIX Epoch ends…

I dunno, I’ve got a laptop who’s CPU was too new for win 8.1 to have drivers or support for it, and is too old to put win 11 on it…

This is the first time they’ve intentionally cut off the ability to run their OS at all just based on hardware age when it could otherwise run it just fine.

Not dedicating support to old hardware is one thing, blocking it intentionally is something else entirely.

Oh, that laptop? High end gaming laptop that was 6 years old when Windows 11 released. The fact it’s blocked is flat out ridiculous, and defending it is equally ridiculous.

Or I could switch to Linux…

OH WAIT, I already did that, darn. Such a shame I can’t ditch Windows twice.

Oh, and if you haven’t heard of it yet, check it Satisfactory Tools, their production planner is absolutely vital (though you might want to disable SAM as an input if you’re going to tell it to maximize as it’ll convert everything under the sun to get more resources)

Mostly, early on, I’d tap what I need and produce everything I can from it

I automate pretty much every part I can with a focus on the current objective, and leave things running indefinitely

As I go up in tiers I’ll upgrade miners and belts if it makes sense, like I could get something I need by expanding existing production and there’s room available

At higher tiers, I mostly set out to solve a specific need, like I need to make these parts and I want them produced at this rate, so I start by looking at what I already have, and the components I don’t have I’ll set up production for

I rarely set out to completely max out a node right out of the gate, unless that makes sense for what I need

By the end phase, my build schematics were surprisingly simple as a lot of it was just bringing production together and extending, overclocking, and/or slopping to feed the inputs I needed

For the four iron nodes, I probably tap one or two because that’s what I need right now and build my platforms covering the rest which I’ll maybe open up and tap later if needed

A friend of mine, however, has made these stackable blueprints with as many of each maker building as he can cram into them. He’ll then go to a set of nodes and start dropping a massive tower of these things together to set up an absolutely unholy amount of whatever it is he needs. His landscape is dotted with these monster factories reaching skyscraper height

I’ve been trying to do that too, and have been at least somewhat successful

Only have two buildings with interiors so far though, everything else is open air… Did more with buildings last time but eventually it made expanding existing production way harder