If you feel tempted to try Star Citizen, just go play Elite:Dangerous. You'll have a much better experience for a fraction of the cost, and still get to do all the things you were hoping to do in SC.

Do you want them to have event paralysis for 9 months waiting for that kid to arrive?

Steam Deck 2 isn't coming for a long time. Steam Deck OLED is still more than viable.

Although those platforms also provide short form content, their algorithms are pretty terrible. Also, Instagram's reels are absolutely flooded with ads, sponsored videos, and undisclosed branded content.

It's been out of early access for a few years. It was just built on a very dated engine and never quite reached that "complete" feeling.

I've burned hundreds of hours in Space Engineers and enjoyed it a lot, but I would never call it polished. I'm really hoping Keen Software learned some lessons from the first one to make the experience better.

Boeing doesn't reward their auditors (called QA Inspectors in aviation). They've been cutting down their numbers and replacing them with much less experienced people at much lower pay for many years.

Every time I visit Germany, I eat and drink a ton. I'll lose about 5 lbs that week just from the higher quality food and walking convenience.

I can't help but question the accuracy of this list, since the Steam Deck doesn't seem to log hours for games played in offline mode correctly. I easily have hundreds of hours unaccounted for. It will also add played time for hours spent in standby with a game running, but then wipe all of the hours played and in standby once I connect to the internet.

Nothing is truly deleted. You will still get sent "memories" of things you sent/shared in the past.

They're employees of NASA. They receive a salary. They probably get hazard pay as a bonus, though.

I switched to Firefox last year when talks of chromium manifest V3 First started popping up. I had used Firefox many years ago when Chrome was first coming out. I was blown away at how well it worked compared to old Firefox, plus how easy they made it to switch. I even changed my phone browser and my desktop browser ties in with it seamlessly. Very happy with the switch and I wish I had switched earlier.

Now, I just wish I could use it at work. Not sure how I'm going to block ads on my work browser.

So many CEOs these days have their heads completely up their own ass when it comes to the concept of "buy it for life".