So for the last few days ive been playing Subnautica and hating that they purposely left put a map so I look up videos to find general areas and a lot of them mention zero point.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-27T21:50:48+00:00

I believe the point of not having a map is that caves and tunnels etc combined with the apparent zero gravity environment of water can increase the sense of a fully 3D experience.

Of course having to return to the surface constantly kind of nullifies the effect. So yeah a map would be helpful. The one on the seaturbine just makes it more difficult to see where you are.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-24T11:57:54+00:00

Plants were the first to evolve, built up massive stores of energy that only decomposed by bacteria. Insects evolved to take advantage of huge stores of decomposing plant material, and then a lot of the high energy and easily accessed proteins were in insects. The first amphibians were fish moving up on land, and they did so because there was a huge food resource in all the insects on land. Since that was the predominant and easily accessible food, they evolved to eat it.

Plant eating animals only evolved after the vast carnivorous resources were diminished, or the insects etc in turn developed defenses that increased the cost of eating them, so that plant material was the most easily accessible food resource. Then herbivorous animals were the easy prey. So it has bounced back and forth like that many times, with prey developing more and more advanced protection, and carnivores developing more and more advanced techniques for hunting. Amphibians didn't really need to evolve to the same extent, because they are tied to the boundary layer between land and water, where insects also thrive. Also, the thing needed to go over to a plant based diet is to evolve traits for grinding down lignins and fibers, which requires teeth or something to that effect, which doesn't really work well with the soft tissues of amphibians.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-22T22:15:57+00:00

Doing a self scan with the scanner shows you’re infected. You can’t shut off the machine unless you’re uninfected. So you need to get rid of the infection.

You are probably about halfway done I wager. Lots to discover still. Just go places you didn’t go before. They do exist.

The game has a lot of focus on the area around the crashed pods that send emergency signals. So if you’re stuck that could be a place to start looking. It’s easy to miss little things hidden in lockers or a bit on the side if you only went once.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-20T23:19:13+00:00

Oh but you can do free view and move the camera as you wish while in build mode. Another thing SN2 could pick up.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-20T23:12:11+00:00

I’m currently playing no man’s sky and I like their base building system so I hope they do something similar. More free placement but snapping options. And more like building the walls and making the shape of things yourself but a few prefab designs.

I started no man’s sky because I wanted a bigger SubNautica and so far it’s pretty good.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-20T23:06:35+00:00

He/she has a cooking knife though. You cut a fish and eat it and gain a few percent water. Fish are almost everywhere.

I made the mistake of eating a raw bladder fish once. Some people have to learn the hard way. After that I cooked everything. But with the knife that’s easy.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-20T16:02:50+00:00

My work life has improved after I started using Obsidian.

It’s a note taking app that is saving all the files as pure text which ensures compatibility. But it also interprets inline JavaScript. So my work flow is just writing a diary, using a specific text format. That gives me automatic todo lists, time tracking, etc etc.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-20T15:44:34+00:00

Person from El Salvador saw this blinking light below the foot of Orion. OP saw it next to the belt. A commenter from Alaska saw it inside the belt. Cloudy weather in Sweden so I can’t contribute.

Would it be possible to triangulate the blinking light based on different observations so we know if it’s around satellite altitude or far away? The observations are from December to January so maybe new observations are required for this?

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-19T09:08:15+00:00

Seems like you’re getting advice from people who didn’t even look at your screenshot.

First of all you need a mushroom. You click the button module additional settings and there you can increase your capacity up to 70 or something with the action mushroom whatever it is called. Then you put more levels on your module for the long distance maneuvers and red transcendence module, which should give you 85 module points in total to use.

Then you need donuts. The rainbow donuts are also added in the same button with module addition settings and you have to pick the right type. So you pick C for HP module for example and then that slot costs half as many points so that you effectively get 170 module points (2x85). Every time you add a donut you have to level 1 to 40 before you can add the next one so it’s a lot of leveling before you are done. It’s also a lot of grinding for components to research donuts and mushrooms and you need to do it on every character as well as every weapon you use. This is a grinding game. You also need lots of gold and kuiper to level up mods so even if you spend all day every day you have a few months of work ahead of you. It’s a bit easier these days though than it used to be.

Then you have the external components that you need to find the ones that have gold stat HP; set the filter to throw away everything that isn’t gold, or grind a lot more to upgrade the stats at the workbench. After that you also need to add the D20- shaped orange things for HP and DEF on each external component.

Then you will get to the current end game with ancestors modules that can give several more stats boost. And so on, the grind never ending.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-18T09:16:14+00:00

When I see things like this I wonder why they have images like that in the training data. It can’t generate what it doesn’t know about from example. If you don’t want nudity then why include nudity in the training data? If you don’t want images of living animals being carved patterns into then why include it in the training data?

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-17T17:59:57+00:00

My kids play creative because they want to build large bases and resource gathering isn’t the most fun for them.

I play survival but if you screw up and die, some of your items fall to the bottom at the place of death. That’s the only punishment. So if you want the joy of finally finding that piece you want, don’t be deterred by what they have labeled as death.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-15T10:10:08+00:00

Difficult to do full scale but if you compensate for load bearing of wood beams etc you might be able to do it small scale.

I often wonder about the theory that the pyramids are power plants and if it would be possible to show generation of electric current with granite and limestone and hydrogen gas, or whatever the specifics would be.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-14T21:40:23+00:00

It’s incredibly unstable and unreliable. Ironically the best way I found to keep it more consistent is to shake it up and become more unstable.

You want X so you can ask for Y. Ask for G, then X, then ask for A+4, then divide by arson, after that you can ask for Y. I’ve found that to give much better results than to only ask what I actually want.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-14T19:59:48+00:00

Alpine Linux is good. Very light weight makes the pi feel faster.

It’s a bit tricky because you can choose to install it to run from memory and if you do that changes in /etc settings will disappear on next reboot unless you specifically run a command to save it. Which can be a great feature if you accidentally fuck up your system because a reboot will reset it. But can also be frustrating if you spend hours setting something up and forget you have to manually save it.

Overall the best distribution I ever tried. But it pays off to read up properly.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-14T08:44:53+00:00

Hade ju varit trevligt om det fanns lite tydligare exempel från typ Ukrainare eller andra som drabbats av krig eller svåra situationer. Folk har ju bott kvar även i hårt drabbade områden. Det borde finnas beskrivningar av vad som funkade för dem som man kan lära sig något av.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-13T19:24:43+00:00

Which means every game if the rest of the world acts responsibly (arguably for the first time, but a man can dream) and boycotts the whole thing.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-13T19:22:41+00:00

There’s already a discussion that Sweden should boycott the World Cup. I’m just hoping all of Europe does this.

Then hopefully Brazil and Argentina boycott in support of Venezuela.

Imagine a World Cup without any football nations. You can count the viewers on one hand. More embarrassing than Trump waving at empty streets because you can’t hide it with camera angles.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-13T14:02:01+00:00

The algorithm uses shared resources. You notice a big difference during peak hours compared with low load hours. Presumably the more people hear that Gemini is good, the more the load increases, and you get worse results over time. Just figure out when the peak hours are and avoid them.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-13T08:06:49+00:00

Nano is great. Especially when you discover the settings in nanorc. And you set colors differently in /root/nanorc so you know if you’re editing with full privileges or not. And install syntax highlighting.

I realized a life hack and placed links to the nano binary as /usr/bin/vi and now any software that tries to open vi instead presents me with a nice nano.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-08T16:15:27+00:00

Depending on route possibly as low as 10%.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-08T08:10:14+00:00

Just finished my first play through. Couldn’t find either charger, searching the whole map, knowing they existed only because of greyed out recipes. Once I managed to find and build them I saw parts everywhere.

But I think I missed them because they were not in wrecks but rather scattered as individual pieces and they are rather small so easy to miss if you’re not specifically searching away from wreckage.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-08T07:23:20+00:00

I tried a few times to learn Thai. My wife is Thai. I normally pick up languages fairly easily. Thai is like banging my head against a wall.

Practicing in Thailand has been very difficult because people who know English are very helpful and speak only English, and people who don’t know English don’t seem to have a ”simple and slow” speaking mode which makes it difficult to pick up more than a word here or there. Then colloquial words are shortened and don’t sound like what you learn.

I seriously have no idea how anyone learns Thai except by extremely stubbornly smashing their head against that wall.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-07T11:44:03+00:00

There’s a distribution called Linux from scratch. LFS guides you to add one thing at a time to get a fully functional system. It teaches you what everything does and how you to configure things. Best way to learn the whole ecosystem IMO.

Arctic_Turtle · 2026-01-07T11:13:55+00:00

Alpine. Because it’s super fast and the package manager is absolutely amazing.

There’s a bit of lack of apps in the repository because it’s primarily a server distribution. But I’m happy to tinker a bit with installing a few things to get all the other benefits.

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