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So I have been trying to beat shattered planet, trying various things. One thing I've tried is throttling by cutting off engine fuel to engines based on damage taken, on the theory that the slower the platform goes, the fewer asteroids it has to deal with. I have a big, 6 ending platform that runs between a max of around 190, and can throttle down to about half that by shutting down all but two engines.

To my eye, it doesn't seem to make any difference in asteroid density. It just takes longer, with the end effect of using more ammo to go less distance. Coming to a complete stop, of course nearly shuts off the flow.

So now I have it in my head that controlling velocity doesn't affect asteroid speed or volume, which would suck.

I also can't get interrupts to work properly, and nearly stranded my platform before I noticed :-/ But that's a different post.

Anyway, is velocity affecting asteroid density, or not?

Update, 2025-04-22

Thanks to everyone who had suggestions; I used most of them:

• Use foundries. This had the single biggest impact. I always forget about foundries except on Vulcan.
• Use lasers for little asteroids. Foundries are only an option if you have fusion, and if you have fusion lasers start to make sense. I'd given up on them when I tried to build a nuclear + accumulator platform, and was quickly annihilated, but they become useful later.
• Rail for huge, rockets for large, guns for medium, lasers for small. This is the magic formula for me, although I also have some logic that switches rails to include medium if rockets get low; rockets seem to be the bottleneck for me.
• Quality lasers are really effective for small asteroids -- even just quality 2.
• 1 fusion reactor is not enough. I was a little surprised that fusion is so wimpy compared to nuclear, but with lasers and foundries, I was getting into spots where I didn't have enough energy to keep the fusion reactor running.
• I have a bunch of logic controlling speed. This is a critical factor in success.
• I'm processing Promethium on the ship, rather than trying to use it as a cargo. This is much more effective, but requires all that logic.
• I'm not using interrupts. I don't know why I didn't notice before, but the Shattered Planet has "turn around when" logistics instead of the normal planet logistics.

So, now I load up on everything, hitting Nauvis last for one load of eggs. Then I make a speed run (175km/s max) for the shattered planet. As soon as I detect that I have shards, I cut speed to about 60km/s and cruise for shards, processing eggs to Promethium packs. As soon as I'm down to about 50 eggs, I turn around. I still have a couple hundred shards by the time I cycle around to Nauvis again, which gets me a few extra packs. This gives me about 300 packs, per run.

There's a bunch of extra logic to throttle based on damage and/or ammo levels, and where I am in the system -- I run at 50% on my way back to the edge, because otherwise I inevitably take damage running full speed at the turn-around point. With this set-up, it's fully automated, I can make the run with no damage, and I am able to process all of the eggs before any spoil. At this point, I think most of the ammo management -- designed before I converted to foundries -- is unnecessary. I just need to hang out a bit before heading to Nauvis to let missiles stockpile, and I don't think ammo has throttled speed lately.

Egg management is a pain, and there's more logic to make sure there are no unprocessed eggs in the cryo factory or on the belt; I used to toss them overboard, but found it was faster to run them through a recycler until they're gone -- there are never more than 9 left over, anyway, and that's really just in case I get a late batch from Nauvis and a few spoil on the way such that I end up with an odd number at the end.

Ok, Lemmy, let's play a game!

Post how many languages in which you can count to ten, including your native language. If you like, provide which languages. I'm going to make a guess; after you've replied, come back and open the spoiler. If I'm right: upvote; if I'm wrong: downvote!

Bonus question: do you ever do your counting in a non-native language, just to make it more interesting?

Several times now, I've tried to reply to a comment -- usually, I'm doing this on a mobile app -- and when I hit "post" I get an error. Then, when I refresh, I get a "post not found" error. Until now, I just move on, because, it's only Lemmy.

But this morning, I got the same error, and in frustration I opened the post in Firefox, and went to reply to the comment, and in the web page all of the post editing stuff was disabled. I mean, I could click "Reply" and open the reply widget, but the text editor area and all of the buttons are disabled. The post in question is this one.

Before, I speculated that the mobile app would only load so many posts back in time, and maybe they were aging out or something. Or, perhaps, some were removed by mods or the author. Although irritating, I didn't much care.

This, though, is weird, and I wonder how many of the posts I've had this issue with is because of it. It's as if the post is locked, except that there's no indication I can find that it's locked. On the web site, it at least prevents you from trying to reply -- on Voyager, it'll merrily let you spend ten minutes composing a reply only to fail to submit, but that's just a Voyager bug. However, the fact that the post is for all intents and purposes locked, but the official Lemmy UI provides no indication of this ... is this also a bug?

And is is "locked", or is this some behavior relating to cross-site blocking, where blaha.zone won't let midwest.social users post, and the server knows it and so prevents the user from trying to post? Or is it because I've blocked the poster, and Lemmy will show me, but won't let me comment on, posts by blocked users? Or is this some weird situation where the poster deleted the post but it's still showing up?

In any case, this feels like a bug. The site should clearly indicate that posts are locked, or blocked, or whatever the reason commenting is disabled. The web interface clearly knows that the post is un-comment-able; it should show this, and preferably, display why.

Or, am I missing something obvious?

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/17187098

Hmmm

I've noticed increasing requests in places like [email protected] people asking for self-hosted or free web solutions for things that, to me, seem to be absurd tasks to go to web apps for. Examples I've seen are:

• Self hosted file hasher
• Self hosted image resizer
• Note apps

There are dozens of these. They vary in the amount of "reasonably benefit from being online," but mostly I'm coming to believe that it's because this group of people either don't realize there's a difference between native and web apps, or ... well, I don't know what the alternative is.

Going to a web app to resize an image is sheer idiocy. It's something for which there is a dozen of free, open-source, native mobile apps that don't require an internet connection, are faster, and are entirely within the capability of any mobile smart phone that would be able to access a web page. And it's even crazier on the desktop: even if you are incapable of using a CLI and running convert, you're probably running some desktop that has a graphics program that can resize an image. Why, the hell, would you self-host a service like this? The same goes for generating checksums of files.

Ok, so you need something to actually host an image for you, because your Lemmy client seems incapable of uploading images. That's a web service. And note taking? That's on the "almost acceptable as a web service", if you for some reason can't run SyncThing. Again, there are GUI markdown editors galore, text editors for the raw doggers, and numerous mobile apps that can more-or-less WYSIWYG markdown much less just plain text editors.

I haven't yet seen someone ask for an online calculator, but it's just a matter of time. Just... why? Are people really no longer capable of distinguishing between web and native apps, or is there some other reason I'm overlooking?

What are you folks using for self-hosted single sign-on?

I have my little LDAP server (lldap is fan-fucking-tastic -- far easier to work with than OpenLDAP, which gave me nothing but heartburn). Some applications can be configured to work with it directly; several don't have LDAP account support. And, ultimately, it'd be nice to have SSO - having the same password everywhere if great, but having to sign in only once (per day or week, or whatever) would be even nicer.

There are several self-hosted Auth* projects; which is the simplest and easiest? I'd really just like a basic start-it-up, point it at my LDAP server, and go. Fine grained ACLs and RBAC support is nice and all, but simplicity is trump in my case. Configuring these systems is, IME, a complex process, with no small numbers of dials to turn.

A half dozen users, and probably only two groups: admin, and everyone else. I don't need fancy. OSS, of course. Is there any of these projects that fit that bill? It would seem to be a common use case for self-hosters, who don't need all the bells and whistles of enterprise-grade solutions.

You know the -ism about having to rotate a USB-A plug at couple of times before it goes in? Well, IRL have a USB-A cable that I have to rotate exactly once. Never 0, never more than once. Exactly once, every time. If I try to cheat it and pre-rotate it before the first time, I still have to rotate it. Exactly. Once.

I'm certain it's simply magic; there's no other explanation for it. Sure, I can visually check and make it go in the first time -- it's not that kind of magical. It just... blindly, always, reliably, only inserts exactly the second time.

I had no other place to post this. I don't know what it portends, or otherwise means. I just had to tell someone about it.

I have a magic USB-A cable.

I had to. We should have Prague Fridays, or something.

So, the (c) on the scan is 2012, but I took the photo on BW film in late December, 1990. It's one of my favorites - probably the favorite - of my own pictures. Although, it's not the one I get the most print requests for from friends & family. It's funny how your own memories influence your artistic impressions.

Recommendations for a color, full duplex, laser printer?

Another printer company (Brother) has fallen to the allure of "remote disable" if they object to you using your own device in a way they don't like: trying to self-service, use third party inks, whatever. It's at their discretion. Given printers are the sorts of devices to which you tend to want to have network access, preventing this is a lot of work.

I've been looking at color duplex laser printers, and Brother has been at the top of the list, until they recently announcement that they'd disable printers using third party inks.

BIFL to me implies that the company isn't going to actively sabotage self-service, or restrict your usage of the thing, so I think this is an appropriate question for this c/.

My wife's work computer desktop background changed itself today, and she called me in to see it. I said, "that's a Saw Whet." Not believing me, she looked up the credits and said, "get out! It is!"

I owe it all to !superbowl. I couldn't have identified even a Snowy before this community.

Thanks, anon6789.