This is reminding me of an ascii art game called Candy Box. It begins very minimal like this, but unfolds into a wonderfully imaginative RPG game.

https://candybox2.github.io/candybox/

On Android, I use a terminal script called Advanced Charging Controller (ACC) to automate keeping the battery under 80% and some other battery saving tweaks. It allows you to charge to any value (like 80%), then stop charging until it discharges to another set value, which triggers it to start charging again. That was you can keep it between something like 70% and 80% while you leave it charging over night. It also has settings to keep the batter under a specified temperature and trigger cool-down intervals if it gets to a particular temperature. It can use a job scheduler to switch between different profiles for different days, or events. There are also some frontend apps, which let the user control the script with a more friendly GUI ("AccA" or "ACC Settings").

Link to the script: https://github.com/VR-25/acc This does require root permissions, though.

AccA is awesome! I used it to repurpose my decade old Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime as a custom wall clock and alarm.

I couldn't figure out how to power it without a battery, and If I had plugged it in all time I was risking an exploded battery.

Enter AccA, it remains between 50-55% all the time, along with prioritizing battery-idle mode (which means the device tries to draw power directly from the external power source).

That is a good idea. Years back, I had a very old phone that I used as an alarm clock and media player. It would have been nice to not worry about charging. I did disable the mobile and wifi radios, which saved a tons of battery.

If you want to play it on macOS, you can install it through Homebrew:

    brew install open-adventure

then to run it type:

    advent

I tried this a few times as a little kid to see if it would work. If I sent it from my home, it didn't work and I got it returned with red pen notes on it explaining how to send it properly. I am sure it looked like a little kids writing, so they gave me the benefit of the doubt. Next I mailed it from the post office and that actually worked, as long as it was being sent locally.

I used to do this on airplanes and in hotels. I had more success in hotels, because there was less chance the other person was using it at the time and less chance of getting kicked off.

There was another little hack that I used as a little kid. Remember when airlines would sell or rent special headphones to watch inflight movies? The port was just two holes beside each other and the plug was two tubes. Before a flight, I would stop by one of the fast food places in the terminal and grab a handful of straws (preferably ones with a bendy joint). When I was on the plane I would connect the straws by fitting them into each other to create a long straw. Put one end into the port on and the other into your ear and you got free movies with audio!

How long ago was this?

20 years ago, all I saw were dual mono bayonet jacks you'd need an adapter for to plug in normal headphones, but straws would get you nowhere.

I was curious so I searched: https://simpleflying.com/inflight-entertainment-headphones-e... - pneumatic headphones from the 1960s were used on Delta as late as 2003, but electronic headsets debuted on 767 in 1982.

Apparently the dual mono jacks are to discourage people taking the headphones, rather than restricting access to audio.

It was when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. Yeah they were on old planes that were just still in use.

Then why isn't at least one of those jacks a TRS so you can use normal headphones?

On newer planes both of them often are

My last four flights used only stereo 3.5mm plugs.

Fairly sure I still saw pneumatic ones sometime in the 2000s in Australia.

Interesting that I have only flown once since 9/11. Almost all of my flying took place in the three decades prior, so the pneumatic headsets are the only ones I remember.

As a kid in the 80s we used to fly YVR-HNL every winter … always pneumatic earphones.

Some messaging apps have options to not automatically download/preview images that are sent, so that might be a good step to take. I know that Google Messages has this feature.

Look at the periodic table and find elements that add up to what you need. In the game lowercase letters will not count as an elemnet unless paired with an uppercase, so either 1 capital letter or One capital and one lowercase letter as the atomic symbols.

Each server (AKA "Instance") is kind of like an email provider, or like a bunch of individual Reddit websites. On Lemmy a "Community" is their version of a subreddit. Each server/instance hosts its own communities, but if you have an account on one server, you can still subscribe, read and post on off-server communities.

Each server is a piece of the federation. Some Instances do not federate with all other instances though. I'm not sure if there are any instances that access every other instance.

I'm not sure about lemmy, but I know that on other fediverse projects like Mastodon there were some servers that were completely unmoderated, filled with terrible content and were defederated by most other instances. Most decent people don't want to see that stuff on their feed.

> some servers that were completely unmoderated, filled with terrible content and were defederated by most other instances. Most decent people don't want to see that stuff on their feed.

Why not solve that by blocking them yourself, instead of forcing everyone else to block them?

From a user point of view that would do just fine. Maybe server owners might not want to be associated with those instances for potential legal issues.

Some servers admins have also defederated from certain instances because they were receiving increased trolling/spam from certain instances and it was too much work to moderate with the current number of mods they had.

I have done this a few times and it turned out delicious! This method basically poaches the fish, which preserves some of the good fats on the fish. I usually put some salt, pepper, lemon slices and a sprig of some herb (thyme or rosemary) in the foil with it. Sometimes I would use some other seasoning or a bit of garlic.

I learned this method from the Surreal Gourmet (as mentioned in the article) as a teenager and gave it a try soon after. It came in handy when I went off to college, because it didn't stink up the apartment and bother the roommates.

If you try it, be sure to use a full, normal cycle. Energy saving and other modes might not get up to the right temperature.

I was browsing music on Spotify and kept seeing this "Escape Room" genre label on what seemed to be very divergent artists. I noticed that particular bands connected to genres such as industrial, hip hop, noise, pop, indie, lofi, jazz, IDM, psychedelic and punk were all being tagged "Escape Room". I found this all very curious, so I consulted google and found this article.

The genre is one generated organicaly from spotify-users' listening habits. The spotify reccomendation algorithm grouped these artists together, despite being quite different on the surface. The article discusses the everynoise.com site, which is a very interesting and useful tool that maps all genres on Spotify. I've used this tool in the past. I looked up "Escape Room" on everynoise and found that many bands that I listen to are in it, mostly along the outside edges of the cloud, but a few toward the core.

I never noticed many similarities between some of these bands, so I found it very interesting that spotify was able to lump them all together and find commonality between them.