I start a script instead of the Steam binary directly.

#!/bin/bash
exec steam "$@" >~/.steamlog -console -nobigpicture -nochatui -nofriendsui -silent 2>&1 &

That way, I’ve always got a log of terminal output in a file in my home directory, and don’t need to go restarting Steam, just glancing at the file. Gets overwritten the next time I start Steam.

The War Zone doesn’t have much up yet as of this writing, but I’d consider them a stronger publication on military matters than Newsweek.

https://www.twz.com/air/the-air-to-air-missiles-that-equip-india-and-pakistans-fighters

Meanwhile, another senior Pakistani security source has described to CNN a large-scale air battle involving 125 jets, fighting for over an hour, in which time the aircraft remained in their respective airspaces and lobbed AAMs at each other from long distances.

As well as crewed fighters, Pakistan has also made extensive claims on the destruction of Indian drones. Earlier today, Pakistan said it had downed 25 Israeli-made Harop loitering munitions. One of these drones was able to “partially” engage a target near the city of Lahore, injuring four army personnel, according to Pakistan Army spokesman Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.

So far, India’s government has neither confirmed nor denied any of these losses. The use of Chinese-made AAMs by the Pakistan Air Force has also been capitalized on by Beijing, leading to the Indian embassy in China accusing Chinese state media of “disinformation.”

Overall, a significant degree of confusion is very much typical when dealing with engagements that have been happening in the heat of combat. A flood of official and unofficial claims and counterclaims, some of them outlandish, is also to be expected, especially when dealing with social media. So, we should keep an open mind about the results of these aerial confrontations and consider that accidents, as well as friendly fire incidents, are also very possible. At the same time, Indian and Pakistani ground-based air defense systems have very likely also played a significant role, and any aircraft losses could also be the result of surface-to-air missile engagements.

On the off chance that you’re not joking, what @Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works is pointing out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogfight

A dogfight, or dog fight, is an aerial battle between fighter aircraft that is conducted at close range.

A “dogfight” isn’t just a synonym for an air-to-air engagement, but specifically refers to a close-range one.

I mean, you’re going to be fine with any new x86 system pretty much no matter what you do. CPU performance just doesn’t vary all that much today, and I don’t think that any of these are particularly GPU-intensive.

All of the 2D games are going to be CPU-bound, not GPU-bound.

If it’s so great for Privacy, why does it support DNS over HTTPS?

DNS queries can be and are logged by public WiFi access points and ISPs. DoH cannot.

Taking name resolution control away from the user and the OS is NOT a benefit to your privacy.

It doesn’t take anything away. It’s just a default. If you don’t want DoH, then just turn it off.

(And yes, you can disable it… FOR NOW.)

So you’re okay with the current situation and are complaining about some hypothetical future that you are theorizing might materialize?

The pole is just an ordinary pole. In 1977, after measuring land subsidence over time, they put the signs up on it to illustrate how far the land had sunk. They could have put the signs on anything tall enough to provide enough space.

“Because of our long time history and allegiance together, it is a great honor to have the United Kingdom as our FIRST announcement. Many other deals, which are in serious stages of negotiation, to follow!”

“Allegiance” and “alliance” aren’t synonyms. Neither of us has held allegiance to the other since we were part of the British Empire in the colonial era. How do you manage to dick this up? Literally all you have to do is have someone write things on paper and open your mouth and say them without improvising.

You have to have a speechwriter on-staff.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Director_of_Speechwriting

Ross Worthington.

kagis

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/14/congress/trump-worthington-00198301

Ross Worthington worked on many of Trump’s policy speeches, but the president-elect often veered off-script.

Trump praised his speechwriters but frequently went off script and had a habit of freelancing large portions of his speeches before returning to the teleprompter.

Yeah, no kidding.

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The nation’s fastest-sinking city is Houston, with more than 40% of its area dropping more than 5 millimeters (about 1/5 inch) per year, and 12% sinking at twice that rate.

kagis

https://texaslivingwaters.org/groundwater/subsidence-houston-galveston-region/

Understanding subsidence in the Houston-Galveston region

Since 1836, groundwater withdrawals have caused about 3,200 square miles of the Houston-Galveston area to subside (or sink) more than a foot, with some areas subsiding as much as 12 to 13 feet.

Noob-tier numbers, Texas. Here’s a photo from 1977 in California showing land subsidence on a telephone pole from 1925 to 1977.

https://water.usgs.gov/ogw/pubs/fs00165/Images/fig2.jpg

It’s the first of any Bethesda title, to officially use procedural generation extensively.

There’s Daggerfall.

From one of my comments in a thread three days ago when discussing Meta’s new glasses:

https://lemmy.today/post/28724654/16057604

I don’t totally get the use case for cameras plus single screen on lens. I guess maybe you could take a picture of someone’s face, upload the photo to Meta, do facial recognition on it, and then have personal details sent back to the screen at the bottom of your right eye. Like, maybe that’d be useful for people who don’t want to be in a position of awkwardly forgetting names or security personnel or something.

From the article:

This time, Lee attempted a viral launch with a $140,000 scripted advertisement in which a young software engineer, played by Lee, uses Cluely installed on his glasses to lie his way through a first date with an older woman. When the date starts going south, Cluely suggests Lee “reference her art” and provides a script for him to follow. “I saw your profile and the painting with the tulips. You are the most gorgeous girl ever,” Lee reads off his glasses, which rescues his chances with her.

Ah.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25612517

That’s fine as long as you want a clock showing the timezone on the opposite side of the world.

Congress dislikes fun things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_Submersible_Seaplane

The Convair Submersible Seaplane (or “Subplane”) was a United States Navy project to produce a seaplane which could travel underwater as well as fly.

Convair made detailed designs and built scale models which were tested, and averred that the craft would work, but the project did not get beyond that stage and was cancelled by Congress in 1965[2] or 1966.[1][3]

TWZ’s coverage:

https://www.twz.com/news-features/india-strikes-pakistan-responds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-E2B5GfI8

Last month, Trump claimed to have already struck 200 trade agreements with foreign countries, a remark so outlandish it sent members of his administration scrambling to make it make sense. (There are also only 195 countries in the world.)

The vile foreigner swine must have pulled out of all of them over the past month.

https://homemicrowave.com/microwave-with-alexa/

Want to set up your microwave with Alexa for plenty of cool tricks, but didn’t know how to pick the best microwave that works with Alexa?

Having an Alexa compatible microwave in your kitchen, you can control the microwave and adjust the cooking setting simply via Alexa’s voice control feature.

Speaking for myself, I don’t really want Internet dependency, much less a microphone sending data to the Internet on my appliances.

I’m guessing a tankless water heater involves some electronic controls. It probably could be designed to use low-voltage DC with a battery backup, but that would be fancy.

It definitely has to if it doesn’t have a pilot light, else its electrical ignition won’t work, but if it has that, there are various ways you could make it work, including just using the heat from the pilot light to drive a thermoelectric generator to get a small amount of juice.

Dogs love chewing on ice cubes, especially in the summer.

Just as a warning — I don’t know if it’s an issue for dogs, or as much of an issue for them — I once chipped a tooth by chewing on ice. I liked chewing on ice too. Would sometimes put a little black pepper on it. The dentist told me to knock it off, not good for teeth.

That being said, at least the icemaker ice I had was softer, much easier to crush, probably would have been much less of an issue, so if you’re giving 'em ice from one, maybe that avoids any potential issue.