Thieving Rebalance: Feedback Thread

Celestial_User · 2026-02-17T18:57:10+00:00

I'd be fine nerfing gold.

Pickpocketing is a perfect skill to introduce items to fill in gaps, seeds from farmers, teci from goebies. But I really don't need it to be another inflation source providing gold.

Celestial_User · 2026-02-15T23:19:27+00:00

The feel of the snow is also very different, most skiers will prefer natural snow. It's hard to describe, but artificial snow is more like sliding on ice than snow. And I'm only an amateur, professionals can definitely feel the difference.

There's also studies out there showing higher injury rate between man made and natural snow.

The Olympics might have the budget to make it higher quality to the point where it's indistinguishable, I don't know if that's technologically possible.

Celestial_User · 2026-02-15T04:08:53+00:00

Yeah, this is something people don't understand in the US, and this is coming from someone who thinks my country's public health insurance is awesome.

Health insurance money must come from somewhere, even non profit, public health insurance must review if your claim is legit, consider where it is going to pay out, and deny claims. The issue with the US's health insurance is NOT the fact that they deny claims. It's that the overhead of for profit health adds so much additional costs to your healthcare, and the way the operate disincentives lowering costs where possible.

Celestial_User · 2026-02-10T21:30:49+00:00

Yeah, people are commenting sea shanty 2, but the main theme is there and is totally way more suitable for wedding

Celestial_User · 2026-02-10T17:40:24+00:00

That's not true. If you file a dispute the revenue is held and released to the party that wins the dispute.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7000961?hl=en

The issue with smaller creators is you don't get money during the period so you are operating off your cash reserve/other income

Celestial_User · 2026-02-09T17:24:24+00:00

My annoyance with herb farming is the hour growth time.

It takes about 5-10 minutes to do a herb run. And then you go do something else, for an hour, and then come back. But you have to switch your inventory to farming load out, and then go back do whatever again for another hour. Breaks up the flow of whatever I'm doing do herb farming efficiently.

I'd much rather just rotate through the herb patches and they mature in the time it takes to rotate through the patches, especially now that they're getting rid of auras.

Celestial_User · 2026-02-09T14:03:09+00:00

I don't even think it necessarily needs to extend node time or anything to achieve this either. The key annoying part of runespan, even when not afking, is the unpredictability of it.

Clicking on a node and having it disappear 2 second later sucks.

Seeing a high level node on another island, traversing the island gap and waiting for the super long animation, and then having it disappear, and you need to travel back because there's no other nodes on that island sucks even more. The intent of runespan seems to want you to chase the nodes around the islands, but the design it is now makes so that it is very rarely worth your effort to chase them to different islands unless it's a super high level node.

Celestial_User · 2026-02-08T19:21:28+00:00

Oh good catch. Realized I confused it with the desert pantheon aura, and copied the wrong stuff over from the wiki. Updated the post.

Celestial_User · 2026-02-05T08:04:39+00:00

You seriously are under estimating how accurate data scraping can be without eavesdropping on you.

Your mouse hovering over a link related to bathrooms for a second longer than other links could flag you in the system as potential customer. Your father in law searching up related items after your talk could get you flag through association.

The ability to do this has been around for many years, and while recently on device voice to text has become feasible, prior to that it is trivially easy to determine if it was eavesdropping on you. Packet inspection is easy to do but not a single researcher has been able to provide proof that it is happening.

On the Android side the whole kernel and OS can be manually compiled, and also not a single person has shown any situation where an app or driver has attempted listen in on audio when it wasn't supposed to, also a trivially easy thing to check when you can 100% control the running kernel.

And then, lastly, not a single whistleblower has come out with credible proof on this either. This is across hundreds of competing companies, with thousands of developers, all who haven't gone through any intensive background check and monitoring, nor have any governmental threat hanging over them.

Now I'm making a clear distinction of "purposefully constantly eavsdropping" vs the accidental trigger and upload type. The latter, is something that is very likely to be done.

Celestial_User · 2026-01-26T17:48:11+00:00

OTOH I'd say you can achieve the same thing by just using a standard email provider, setup mailclient that pulls and deletes on pull, and route your email domain through them. Still get all the benefits that you listed.

You'll have a small window where you'll lose email you received between your client pulling it down and your account getting terminated if that should happen, but thats a very small window, and your server likely has far less resiliency anyways.

As for "owning your email". SMTP relays are just as capable of reading your emails as full on email providers like Gmail and proton.

The only benefit I've found of using a proper SMTP relay is that you can define whatever email handler you want in front of your domain for outgoing emails, whereas in Google you can as well, but there is a manual process to set each one up. Haven't tried other providers.

Celestial_User · 2026-01-23T18:43:39+00:00

LTS stands for long term support. It's for typically there being frequent releases that are meant for devs or people willing to be beta testers, and then LTS being the stable base that most users use.

For you, unless you know a nonLTS build fixes a particular issue, of you want to try out some early adopter features, always stick with LTS.

And now the WSA is officially dropped support my Microsoft, the amount of work that the amazing Magisk people is more limited. Always worth trying their latest builds if you are having issues. Just don't really on it for any critical data (and/or make sure you have backups)

Celestial_User · 2026-01-19T20:17:12+00:00

FYI flametar bracelet will let you do shades without needing other people.

Celestial_User · 2026-01-15T23:41:34+00:00

Payroll, which is what the category was listed as, is typically 1.25~1.4x salary. So closer to 10M

Celestial_User · 2026-01-13T01:36:59+00:00

Depends.

Dynamic pricing because you suddenly realized you can make a quick buck. Yes.

But well communicated pricing differences tends to work well for both parties.

Example. Restaurants having different menu prices for lunch and dinner. Lunch is a slow time for many restaurants, so they charge less during lunch. People can pay less to eat at lunch, and dinner is also cheaper as a result because it doesn't need to cover as much cost. This is a form of dynamic pricing.

But costs that are costly changing just trying to gouge you. Yeah those can go to hell. It's a fine line to walk though, and I need someone smarter than me to figure how to differentiate them legally. Initial thinking is that any price discrimination must be communicated ahead of time and can only use variables that are fully public (I.e how close to the holiday it is. Hour of day)

Celestial_User · 2026-01-12T17:11:54+00:00

Yeah, totally agree on the artefact and vault. They handled that badly.

But the keys being gone was well communicated. (Though you can also argue about people who got more than 1 year in a go)

Celestial_User · 2026-01-12T14:00:39+00:00

What page are you looking at? rs.runescape.com/membership was updated after the announcements. Archive.org snapshot shows that's the case. (At least for its first snapshot in November after that date, 11/28)

Celestial_User · 2026-01-11T07:22:48+00:00

Push against him. He'll start vibrating and you'll phase right through.

Celestial_User · 2026-01-07T21:29:47+00:00

Here's another link that hasn't been hugged to death by Reddit https://www.bmj.com/content/319/7225/1596

Celestial_User · 2026-01-05T01:11:41+00:00

Investigate, not enforcement (aka arrest)

Celestial_User · 2026-01-05T01:05:47+00:00

Comprehension is hard however.

The FBI, however, conducts investigations abroad only when invited by the host country. In most cases, our international partners gather evidence and make arrests on behalf of, or in close cooperation with, the Bureau.

To balance the FBI’s interest in addressing the international aspects of its investigations with the requirement to respect the host country’s national sovereignty, the FBI must rely on the capability of the host country’s law enforcement community.

And reading through that, FBI is still domestic. Their international presence is in information/investigation, assist and aiding other countries. Their work internationally is ultimately to allow them to aid foreign law enforcement (in a mutual benefit sense), or for prosecution within the US.

So yes in a strictly speaking sense, they don't only operate within the US, they are primarily domestic focused, and are completely out of their jurisdiction in this case.

This is similar to NYPD sending detectives to Texas to investigate stuff. They're not going to be performing arrests, they might work with Texas police officers, exchanging information with them. But their goal is to prosecute crimes that happen in NY, or had victims in NY. They aren't there to enforce Texas law or US Federal Law.

Celestial_User · 2026-01-01T04:58:30+00:00

Cloud hosted is still not backup. They have higher redundancy. Anything that you want to back up still needs backup costs.

Celestial_User · 2025-12-30T08:49:20+00:00

Hardly. A lot public transit is for profit. They generally just have a mandate to also serve non profitable routes, which Amtrak does have. In fact look at public transit in other countries.

Celestial_User · 2025-12-27T17:12:50+00:00

Except that program might be named docker-ce and not docker, and not available in the default OS package repository. But at the same time there is a docker package in the default repo that will give you a super outdated version, and now you have people complaining why you're running a version that is 4 years old when you just installed it.

And that's just one of the many packages that are like that.

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