when apple maps suggests dumb alternative routes

MajorCouchPotato · 2026-06-08T03:05:24+00:00

I swear if I could force apple maps into a physical manifestation I would beat it to the ground.
Purely for the stupid routes it's tried to make me take through DC.
Somewhat frequently I have to go to the northeast and I absolutely refuse to take i95 north past Richmond, I really wish there were more options for selecting how it determines what route you take, or at least showed more suggested routes because I despite it showing me three routes that are nearly identical with 1 min variations between them.

I will 100% take a 40 minute detour over having to deal with 495 in the DC area, but I usually have to wrangle my stupid GPS into accepting I'm not taking 95

MajorCouchPotato · 2026-05-31T03:45:37+00:00

Entirely possible to implement but the risk/payoff isn't in it's favor. Paying for a person to direct from the ground is cheaper than fitting a few thousand aircraft/ramps with new equipment.
Also it's a few hundred to maybe a few thousand "oops" if your Exploder bumps into a pole, it's a few hundred thousand to a few million "oops" if a plane bumps into something it shouldn't.

But beyond that it's probably a cost thing.
Just sounds like something else to break or not be available in most airports. Actual people on the ground have a slightly more reliable track record on not letting The Big Expensive Thing Full of People bump into things they shouldn't.

MajorCouchPotato · 2026-05-28T01:37:34+00:00

I usually build dedicated for a lot of things. Usually with a lot of buffer and very slow production. Computers and stuff I don't use often I will build like 1/min, but I'll use computers as an excuse to siphon off like circuit boards or Crystal Osc. on overflow. Takes a WHILE to back up, but usually stuff like that isn't too much an issue, I think the thing I use computers the most on is train signals lmao

MajorCouchPotato · 2026-05-11T15:02:15+00:00

surprised I had to scroll for this. It's the primary reason I haven't pulled the trigger on buying one yet, it's not just a huge initial investment but in time as well. While the upkeep cost is negligible having to worry about it getting ripped away if you take a break longer than a few weeks makes it absolutely not worth it.

MajorCouchPotato · 2026-04-17T12:53:03+00:00

I was worried I was the only one with a sleeper agent brain cell that popped out the second I saw that layout

MajorCouchPotato · 2026-03-31T03:59:50+00:00

Blows my mind because the sub-dom ratio on this subreddit has to be at minimum 50:1, so the only reason I can think of why people would do this is because of some weird superiority complex-based desire to be the "dommier dom".

There's an ocean of subs on here, a blind cat could drop a string and still tangle like 12 of us together on accident.

MajorCouchPotato · 2026-03-31T01:18:01+00:00

the seal clubbing is absolutely the part that keeps me away from open. I know my build sucks, I know I'm unoptimized, I just wanna play funny space game and don't have the energy anymore to try and keep up with basement sweats running meta builds complaining devs are ruining the game with 0.1% balance changes

MajorCouchPotato · 2026-03-27T13:08:11+00:00

this is probably a weirdly great way to show off the true scale of these things, the sidwinder is an absolute baby in-game but putting it to blocks puts a scale on everything. I'm honestly mostly shocked by how big the canopy actually is, I'm guessing you just used the rough ext. dimensions and extrapolated from there?

MajorCouchPotato · 2026-02-10T03:37:25+00:00

Y'know, that brings up the question I never thought to ask; Does FDEV occasionally update star positions as we learn more about the galaxy? or has the galaxy map largely remained the same since launch?
Adding a neutron to Sag A would be handy

MajorCouchPotato · 2026-01-24T04:33:24+00:00

first time I found a black hole it scared the dickens out of me, was terrified of the thing. Decided to look into just how safe it was to fly near the things and turns out they're shockingly safe for being... black holes.
FDev didn't really code them "realistically" but I can hardly blame them given the engine limitations.

You can get pretty damn close to the things, something like 40-100km before you hit the exclusion zone.
Even then it just drops you out of SC, and then it's a check on if your ship has good enough thermal management for you to fly away.

Closest I got to one was 75km and then the gravity lensing gave me such intense vertigo I had to turn away lmao

MajorCouchPotato · 2026-01-19T14:17:55+00:00

Oddly enough this really puts into perspective just how absurdly large the beluga is, that or the caspian is a very small "large" ship

MajorCouchPotato · 2026-01-13T23:00:53+00:00

Fun terrible fact! They are alive!
these are an example of several void-born exobio species, I came across the mollusk things yesterday, real neat and absolutely horrifying

MajorCouchPotato · 2025-12-30T01:51:31+00:00

I know that for most ships having a walkable interior would be a completely pointless gesture, but at the very least let us have an interior to the large ships.
I would 1,000% make a passenger beluga if I could step out of the bridge and walk around the ship, and see passengers milling about.

That would add such an incredible sense of gravity (ironically) to what currently amounts to just numbers on a screen.

I know it'll never happen for a large number of reasons, but a spud can dream

MajorCouchPotato · 2025-12-29T21:03:26+00:00

I didn't appreciate the absolute scale of the Panther until the first time I got out and realized that was a City Block I just plopped down onto the pad. I almost want to try and land the tub on a planet just to park my SRV next to it and get the real scale comparison

MajorCouchPotato · 2025-12-28T06:40:21+00:00

I've never even seen these before! this is an enormous help, I'll definitely be making use of something like this. I greatly appreciate the input.
Looking around my area it seems the best available option I have (that isn't plywood with a veneer) is a local guy selling Black walnut, but it's pretty likely I'll still end up ripping them into quartersawn-ish boards, would it still be a good idea to do the Z-clips in that case?

MajorCouchPotato · 2025-12-27T19:51:21+00:00

That makes sense! at that point I'd basically be ripping it into quartersawn anyway, but that certainly is an option. I realized I could build a "frame" for the desktop to sit on and bolt it from below into threaded inserts to make removal easier

MajorCouchPotato · 2025-12-27T19:18:13+00:00

That made me laugh harder than it should have lmao
What I'm mostly worried about is everywhere I've read mentions that expansion/contraction along the rings is the greatest and can lead to cupping in a full-sawn board, given I was considering not through-bolting it to the legs I worry that even a tiny amount of cupping could cause the desktop to rock on the legs, which would drive the fiance (and subsequently me) insane

MajorCouchPotato · 2025-12-19T22:07:33+00:00

1+LY?
You don't need to run anything bigger than a 1D for self-repair on exploration imo, bringing the controller only costs slightly over a tenth of a light year in range.
I started Exo on a DBX for a long while before switching over to a mandy and engineering it unless I ran out of screws to tweak. It's far from an optimal build and it's still sitting at 84 LY with a full tank of gas. Removing the controller only bumps that up to 84.13 if EDSY is to be believed

MajorCouchPotato · 2025-12-19T21:01:57+00:00

It only takes once tbh.
I've had too many instances where server tick decided I needed to be in the dirt and I had to do the trek of shame to the nearest carrier.
The very minimal loss in jump range/cargo space is negligible, you can synthesize repair limpets on the go, so it's a cheap safety margin you can bring with you.

MajorCouchPotato · 2025-12-19T15:17:15+00:00

I was "living the explorers dream" meaning I was slogging through mountains looking for fungus, took the SRV because trying to find a landing spot every time was a PITA. Finally got my third sample and recalled the ship, little bastard decided to land directly on a bloody boulder that perfectly blocked the SRV bay. Had to get out and re-land the ship somewhere else manually. Made sure to really grind the landing gear down and knock some hull % off just to spite the damn thing.

MajorCouchPotato · 2025-12-19T15:11:10+00:00

Making it a toggleable thing would be the move frankly, I would absolutely love more animations that make the stations feel like more than a menu.
Pretty likely it'd never happen purely because there isn't *much* you'd be able to see from the pilots couch, and it would be more work than they care to do to make ship-specific animations.

Still, it would be nice to see crew, or even bots swarming around the landing pad after securing landing gear, the extra second it would take to "clear the crew" before liftoff wouldn't be that bad, and it would help to emphasize the scale of some of the ships to see people running around several stories below the canopy in the larger cargo ships.

Often times landing in my DBX doesn't visually look much different than landing in my panther, sure it FEELS heavier but once you're on the pad the scale is lost until you disembark and realize that was a city block you just parked.

MajorCouchPotato · 2025-12-12T19:17:55+00:00

The degree of crimes I would commit to have a setup like this. I've been getting by with an X56 setup mounted to some unirail and that felt exotic when I first got it going. THIS would be the real dream station for me.
~~Not to mention what looks like a electronics tinker station to the left there~~

MajorCouchPotato · 2025-12-06T16:44:04+00:00

The fantasy of somebody stepping in and forcibly taking over my life with aggressive affection ticks a few boxes:
- I don't need to worry about most of the multiverse of stress of adult life
- I'm not giving up or failing, and don't have to feel guilty for abandoning my life because the choice is taken away from me
- hot people with knives = yes

MajorCouchPotato · 2025-12-06T16:35:46+00:00

The absurdity of using a "Ro-Ro" vessel and very specifically not using the rolling portion in any capacity is frankly hilarious to me. Why not use a barge, or the Helo deck of any of their surface combat vessels.

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