Great game, played the hell out of it, but to me its the easy mode dark souls people always asked for, especially with regards to multiplayer. Invasions are almost always 1 v 3 people, and the reward is minimal when you can craft the item you need to summon people endlessly. There’s no covenants, so theres no decent rewards for multiplayer participation. I almost never felt threatened getting invaded, I always easily had two allies and could just run away in the massive areas.

I played way more single player in this than most other souls games as a result, and felt like I overleveled for most of it just because of exploring. Exploring was fun, but wow, being thorough just led to me being rich even when spending on weapons and armor I didnt really need. Even respeccing allowed for way more uses than I ever actually needed. All the other souls games felt way tighter on resources and required a little more consideration when using them, or leveling up, or even summoning help. Can I handle an invasion? Am I running out of uses - will I be able to summon for a boss? Shit I might need to invade people if I cant (or go help others with a boss Im better at). Elden ring just never felt that way, I just helped occasionally because it was easy to top off for a level up. Invading was just tiresome.

Dark souls has a jump button. Click the left joystick while sprinting.

I lucked out and my banking app is fine too. Weirdly its the wifi garage door opener which came with my house that refuses to work. I took it offline and am back to a remote now. I may replace it someday when I finally get home assistant going.

Thats fair. When I had a smaller phone I did use a case. It took me awhile to get used to not using one, I have to grip it differently to prevent slipping.

$450. Its a pixel 8. Admittedly I have also considered a case just to streamline the shape, I really really hate how the camera bumps out the back. It really was designed with the expectation people would use a case.

I have been scolded by my SO for going caseless, but I also hate how rubber ones turn my pocket inside out as I retrieve my phone sometimes, and I dont drop it. If I was prone to being more clumsy I might concede

I dont even use a case. The very idea that phones are sold in a state of fragility that I am required to add another layer to it is bullshit. There are some very minor scratches as a result but nothing noteworthy. The real reason I go caseless is this shit is too bulky already, phones keep getting bigger and I want them smaller.

And current. School curriculums are being actively modified to completely eradicate acknowledgement of our real history. It’s tragic.

I am not an expert.

Many many apps rely on google play services to function, basically for most of the data fetching, push notifications, authentications, etc. Disabling it will break those apps as a result. Since your data is fed through those services you cannot maintain privacy from google without doing so.

So yes, you should disable google play for privacy, but you will need to find replacement apps in many cases.

Graphene does a thing where it “sandboxes” google play services, preventing it from grabbing unnecessary data like your real time location telemetry. I think this lets you use those apps that need it, but they will still get some of your data where thats being used. Banking apps are notorious for needing it for authentication, but you can easily use a different map app like magic earth to avoid google services for other needs.

I’m still exploring this and learning so those are just examples I know of. Not sure how much else this will break if you aren’t using graphene to manage it.

I am wary of ever recommending to completely block or avoid updates. Generally this means opening yourself up to security concerns.

You may also want to run non-steam games. I’m still new to linux and haven’t tried that yet but I think I will need to for my GoG library.

Starcraft - alt and ctrl are frequently used, easy slip to make in a rush. Pretty sure there was an override in the options menu specifically for preventing this.

A Bethesda game not optimized?? Unheard of. I expect a completely bug free experience with no jank whatsoever.

Duly noted, will look into it, thanks!

I still cant properly articulate why I didn’t like Eternal but loved 2016. So, part of me thinks this looks cool as hell but worries I won’t have fun with it again. Not sure what to think.

I just switched to linux and totally forgot about this. Do I really not need one? 99% of what I do is steam gaming anyway so I’m not too worried, worst case I just format and reinstall, but still…

Might be driver issues. Current nvidia drivers are apparently pretty fucked. On Bazzite myself, Lies of P started having all kinds of issues after updating the distro. I had to rollback to a version from the beginning of the year and it seems to have fixed it. The hangs I get were pretty random so I need to play more to be sure. Might be worth trying as a last resort.

Dont get me wrong, this will work for awhile. It would be a ton of work to just rearrange all this. Keep those k9 patrols beefy and control contraband. I think metal detectors are gonna help, cant tell if you have those.

Been a long time and I know they updated a lot since then but…

It looks like you built out a ton of facilities before you have enough inmates to use them. Probably will run into problems if you dont have a good profit going, so I would try to leave more of a buffer. I think license plates and woodshop were decent money makers. I wouldn’t accept too many max sec prisoners until that is going. They are more profitable to have but the contraband from those two shops is useful for escapes so you need good security.

I separate my cell blocks, and usually centralize them a bit. If you keep min security, med and max separate from eachother you can manage their security needs better and usually keep maxers from killing others as much. Especially separate any CIs in their own section. Keeping it central means they need to tunnel further. Make sure K9 patrols around each block as well as your overall perimeter. The large perimeter is the last chance to catch but its huge so you really want to catch them earlier.

I think your chapel can be way smaller. I just dont remember it needing to be that big. Dont be afraid to build multiple of each room type to continue keeping the different security types separate. You can use schedules to help with that too if you need to have them use the same room area. Early on when I couldn’t afford that I would make sure they all took their meals separate I pretty much dont let max sec go anywhere they can get weapons or tools, so I just have them use a small caf and maybe small chapel of their own, or whatever need they have to satisfy. Pretty sure when they mix they give eachother contraband so watch out for that.

One other thing I did was make special guard only access hallways. These things would let the guards get around a lot more easily which will help reduce overall staffing needs - otherwise it takes too much time to get around. Its gotta be quick and easy to get to kennels and the armory, but very difficult for prisoners to get to those. If a riot breaks out and they get to the armory you’re fucked.

That’s all I remember, theres so much to know in this game its crazy.

Pretty sure they take AOSP and rip the google out of it and sandbox any google you want to put back on it. I know they change a lot of things for security and privacy purposes but they also seem to pull things from mainline updates. Admittedly I am not an expert so don’t sue me if Im wrong about that

You guys turn off dark theme?

Im on graphene but my map app definite ly changes automatically based on lighting in my surroundings, and scheduling dark theme through modes seems to work too.

I gotta say its shocking that powerpoint is your go to for image editing like that. Like, its kind of impressive but wow that seems like a super difficult way to do it.