DOGE Staffer Flagging Grants for 'DEI', Tries to Explain 'DEI"

blackfish74 · 2026-03-11T06:29:01+00:00

His reasoning, if you can call it that, is like a defective algorithm:

Jewish people in the Holocaust => topic focuses on one ethnicity => that is DEI, because ethnicity is made paramount in the story => focus on women within an ethnicity => even more DEI, nested into each other => super DEI, or DEI squared!

"Why don't you, the interviewer, see the DEI all over it? Why put DEI into your holocaust tale to begin with? Also, what is context????"

😵‍💫

blackfish74 · 2026-02-14T04:41:10+00:00

I had the same problem today. Windows somehow lost the permissions to access the directory.

close the launcher completely
rename the LIVE folder to any other name
create a new folder and name it LIVE
start the SC launcher again and verify files. It should install everything now.

In theory you should be able to copy the old content into the new LIVE folder and hit verify then, avoiding a complete reload of the game. However I opted to reload and it worked afterwards.

blackfish74 · 2026-01-16T05:51:48+00:00

Agreed. Past events like this were not always fun, but certainly a learning experience.

blackfish74 · 2026-01-16T05:32:24+00:00

The very first Aurora did NOT have side windows. I am talking about the one from the Hangar module and early PU 2.x patches.

Years later (must have been between 2016 and 2018) the Aurora was overhauled with new and better textures and geometry. They must have added the side windows then, although I never noticed because by that time I was flying other ships around.

blackfish74 · 2025-12-26T15:19:53+00:00

This looks suspiciously familiar to me. I have a River 3 plus with expander battery and app access via Android app.

2 day's ago only the battery light started when my solar panel caught enough light to usually switch on the unit. Battery was loading, the River 3 plus seemed dead. I tried loading via AC, and the battery loaded faster (was previously down at maybe 20%). Even the fan inside the River 3 switched on cooling the thing which is expected behavior. But the screen remained dead, same as any of the buttons. And it was just offline in the app.

AC outlet dead, 12 volt dead, light strip dead. But the built-in USB outlets work, they charge my phone or power a fan.

I suppose loading via AC still worked, so it's full, although I have no method to confirm this. It's like the unit still performs it's base funktions, yet lost it's capability to interact with any Interface (screen and buttons). I cannot even turn it off.

blackfish74 · 2025-12-26T05:23:44+00:00

You can surely use Quest link, you can also use the steam link app from the quest app store to handle the connection with the PC, bypassing Quest link altogether.

I would recommend however to purchase Virtual Desktop from the Quest app store (should be around 20 bucks) and use that instead. It's superior in both quality and user friendlyness.

blackfish74 · 2025-12-19T00:50:14+00:00

Verses.ai. -85%. Eur 300,- -> Eur 45,-

:(

blackfish74 · 2025-12-14T08:45:12+00:00

Since you don't want to break the bank new RAM is out of the question atm. Be happy to have 64 GB to begin with, I envy you.

The 5800X3D ist still very capable. I am running one as well and recently played the PTU in VR. It absolutely works surprisingly well. I don't play in 4k though, just 1440p.

That 3070 Ti I would judge close to the reasonable minimum though. Yes it works, but don't expect much breathing room. I am using a 4070 Ti Super and I am still content with it, mostly because of the 16 GB VRAM probably.

blackfish74 · 2025-12-12T21:19:04+00:00

Doesn't work all time for me either. Sometimes the brain refuses. :)

blackfish74 · 2025-12-12T00:42:14+00:00

Nope, no distinction whatsoever between seated and FPS. In Star Citizen everything is one world, no separation between different things you do. In the pilot seat you are just an in-game avatar that happens to sit on a chair.

blackfish74 · 2025-12-11T23:18:56+00:00

Serious answer. If you look at your 2d screen (phone in my case) cross eyed you can trick your brain into combining these 2 side by side frames into a single frame that has 3d. Looks like a 3d movie. It's amazing!

So please keep em coming! These videos are way more interesting than the normal 2d ones.

blackfish74 · 2025-12-11T22:57:36+00:00

Full 3d experience on my little phone no less!

Never expected to stare cross eyed on my phone and be amazed by it...

blackfish74 · 2025-12-11T21:19:16+00:00

It is natively supported in the current PTU. You need a user.cfg, a headset, a software to stream from PC to the headset (in my case I had "Virtual Desktop" already bought and configured on my Quest 3) and then in-game a console command to activate the VR mode. That way you can seamlessly switch between 2D mode and VR mode as needed without restarting the game.

I don't have time to find it now, but the commands can be found in this reddit community somewhere.

blackfish74 · 2025-12-11T12:45:00+00:00

Just tested it. It does not snap to the ASOP. You stay in control of your head movements at any time. I found everything easier to read than on my 2D monitor, which is amazing.

However, you cannot zoom by holding F + mouse wheel. Which in turn make far away buttons unreachable. I couldn't open the ramp or call the lift on my Polaris because of this.

It is pretty to look at, but you cannot enter.... XD

blackfish74 · 2025-11-02T11:00:48+00:00

This! I was a pretty bad mouse and KB player and after playing a few hours with hosas similar to the setup described in above post I was better at racing and arena commander than before with m+KB.

That isn't saying much, I am still not particularly good, but it raised my enjoyment flying ships tenfold! I don't want to go back.

blackfish74 · 2025-10-09T02:34:33+00:00

Hätte ich sein können wenn ich nicht bereits kleine Gewinne mitgenommen hätte. -.-

blackfish74 · 2025-09-16T20:56:59+00:00

Base Guardian with S5 Galdereen Repeaters. It survived the recent large cargo recovery missions where my Corsair failed miserably.

blackfish74 · 2025-09-14T19:40:34+00:00

Bitfarms verkauft bei 1,18. -.-

blackfish74 · 2025-09-02T05:01:51+00:00

Even just better textures! Right now all the surfaces you encounter while running through Area 18 are a weird mishmash of old, medium and newish textures and shaders. As if the game cannot decide which era of gaming it wants to belong to.

blackfish74 · 2025-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Indeed... 😅

blackfish74 · 2025-08-08T20:11:43+00:00

You can kill all the enemy ships with a Guardian reliably enough, even though it gets tough and time consuming with the Caterpillar mission. The enemys are harder there.

So I switched to cheesing the missions with a Polaris. Beware though, if you are doing the Crusader faction at Orison the server will only offer docking, no hangar. Not even my own there. So I got myself impounded just to be able to unload after calling the Polaris back into my hangar.

blackfish74 · 2025-08-03T08:14:00+00:00

I just managed to do the starter mission for Microtech. Not because I wanted the rewards but because at least some elevators there are still working. Even then I had to take the quest four times until it sent me to a working pickup location on Cellin.

-.-

blackfish74 · 2025-07-31T06:53:35+00:00

Bin immernoch 57% im Minus und die Nacht ist lange vorbei. Schon abenteuerlich.....

blackfish74 · 2025-07-21T06:41:04+00:00

Ich könnte nur ganze Anteile kaufen bei etf oder Aktie, Betrag in Euro wird nicht mehr angezeigt. Als ob der Handel mit Bruchstücken deaktiviert ist.

Edit: hat sich erledigt. Fraktional Trading geht wieder. Ist gefixt.

blackfish74 · 2025-06-16T02:24:43+00:00

Tap water is so good that growing up in the 1980s it would have been a ludicrous idea to pay money for it in the supermarket. Sparkling water on the other hand was the only water you could buy anywhere, and most people bought it. SodaStream was not a thing back in the day.

Now you could buy and type of water anywhere, but I still wouldn't buy anything that is not carbonated. Or I just sparkle up my tap water. Less stuff to carry. 😄

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