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Waiting on mods to update before I dive back in. Most of the major ones already have.

There are some that are just hard to live without. Eg Primitive Survival, Gimme one Seed please, Soil must Fall etc.

This is the mantra of the family I married to. Sometimes a little too much.

Still love them though:)

Fair ppint. Never that humid here though, except during cool rains, so I didn’t even realise.

Whrere I live, temps go in the 40-50°C range in the summer (and 60+ in some inland areas). Here is what we do to stay cool.

1. Cool(er) air ventilation Windows open at night, closed past morning, with blinds down when sunlight starts hitting the windows. Ensure that air can circulate through (otherwise, you might actually get heatstroke from how hot the house gets). In cass the heat makes you feel like you cannot breathe, blinds down and windows open (better than suffocating) Also, no joke, get greenhouse green screens, and set them up inverse outside your windows. Instead of trapping heat in, they throw heat out instead. Surprisingly cooling.

2. WATER AND COOLING FOOD! Water is a must, and there are foods that cool you down instead of warming you up. (avoid the later wherever possible!) Examples of cool foods: frozen desserts, lassi (yoghurt water drink, makes you sleepy) etc

3. Fans. Fans everywhere. Doesn’t matter if hot enough that it feels like a hair dryer instead. Evaporation + air is your friend (bonus tip: if you live in a dry zone, get an air cooler. It’s an enclosed fan behind a self contained waterfall. Humid air is particularly cooling. Beware metal cabinets in the same room though. They rust, bad).

4. Baths. Baths are especially cooling. Take at least 2 a day. My cousins, who live inland at 60+ temps, bathes at least 4-5 times a day. Also, their bathrooms all have massive fans :)

5. Clothes. In summer, we wear our thinnest, oldest cotton clothes possible (aka, almost seethrough). We never go out in them, but they sure make the house bearable.

6. Naps and talcum powder. Human body temps naturally decrease when napping. Talcum powder, spread on the hottest parts of the body, absorbs heat and cools you too. The powder gets soaked in sweat and is useless pretty quickly, but combine bath + fan + powder + nap (and probably no undergarments/naked) makes noon bearable to go through. Talcum powder in particular stops rashes from too much sweating, if you have trouble bathing more than twice a day like I do.

Thats about it from me. Hope it helps!

Speaking as a South Asian and former school teacher (a middle-class person here, so to speak), our average salary goes anywhere from ~100$ to ~250$ a month. I could afford about 10=20$ worth of games every year, inflation dependant.

Note that this is in a culture where Piracy is the norm and actually buying games is practically unthinkable. If it weren’t for Steam sales, wanting to support indie devs and not wanting to deal with bugs/cracks and updates for once, I wouldn’t have ever ‘bought’ a game at all.

TLDR: Many South Asians cannot afford, much less think, of buying games. The lower prices mean some sales, instead of none.

Same. I could only reddit through Boost.

Typing this from Boost for Lemmy :)

Bottles only recently had a small update to make it less janky. Their team is working on a complete overhaul, Bottles Next.

To be honest, I’ve yet to find a program that doesn’t have a flatpack equivalent (eg OnlyOffice for Microsoft Word) or flatpack version (eg Firefox). But just in case, I have WineCharm installed (Wine GUI)

+1 for Onlyoffice. I tried both it and Libreoffice. Onlyoffice UI is both closer to how MS word looks, and supports word documents better. (Eg text format remains the same in onlyoffice, while in liberoffice it’s flying off the edges. At least in my experience)

Do they? I’ve talked to several NPCs, never happened to me. At most, they get completely confused on what you are saying. Eg, one kid thought he was rich enough to buy a house. Trying to tell him he’s not and he thinks I took his money (and started crying, but also became friends?). In another a guqin player wondered if anyone could tell how sad she was from her playing. Instead, we’re keeping secrets? (No idea how that came about).

And before anyone points out, I dropped the game due to quests requiring MC drinking alcohol (can’t stand games like that. Just a me issue). Sad because I loved the everything else too :(

Seconding Only Office. I had a few docs I needed to print in a hurry, and Libreoffice kept corrupting the fonts/text format. OnlyOffice worked clean.

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Dammit :(

Further reading says its most likely because European Union law 2014/53/EU which imposes new cybersecurity requirements on device manufacturers like Samsung. They must ensure that the devices they sell in Europe block the installation of unauthorized software and only run signed and approved ROMs. . Law was enforced August 01 2025.

Luckily my old phone still works (it is starting to show its age though). Gonna stretch it as long as possible. Hopefully someone will find a hack by then.

Not possible in Third World Countries :(

Your right. Thats what I meant. Ill edit the comment.

Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask, but I literally have no idea in which community this question goes.

I just got Samsung Galaxy A16, and then I learn just how controlling Google/Android is becoming. Research says I SHOULD be able to deGoogle and flash a linux OS custom Android ROM

My question is, as a beginner, which one should I go for? does it have any issues I need to look out for?

Note: Edited for clarity.

Summer, deff (its 42C out in the day).

Winters? Hell no. I was raised by the ocean, so used to very mild climates. Now I live at the base of hills.

On one hand, love all the green, rain and cool temps come spring and autumn. But 0C winter cold? Im a walking cloth hill, nightly buried in comforters.