BillibusMaximus

I guess that heavily depends on the games you're playing

I think this is the key thing.

If you're always buying the newest GPU to play the latest tech- envelope-pushing AAA title that requires the latest greatest driver, then you're probably not going to have a good time with gaming on Debian.

But some of us don't care about those types of games, or maybe in some cases we do but are willing to wait a while to play a particular title (hello Patient Gamers). In that case Debian is a nice, rock solid gaming platform.

Anecdotally, I probably do 85+% of my gaming on Debian (the rest being my steam deck). And it works fine for me because of the types of games I play and/or how long I tend to wait before getting new titles (giving Debian time to catch up).

It's definitely not for every gamer, but I don't think it's as unusable for gaming as people often suggest.

Plus queens are often dewinged so they don't fly away.

Not dewinged. Beekeepers don't go around pulling wings off of queens.

Some beekeepers will clip part of a queen's wing, similar to how people with pet birds will sometimes clip a wing. This doesn't hurt the queen just like it doesn't hurt the bird.

That said, I don't think it's as common of a practice as it once was, as its benefits are pretty questionable (especially vs the risks). I expect when it happens, it's new/hobby beekeepers who read about it in a book somewhere and don't know any better.

I've heard, but have next to no proof, that in winter, drones are suffocated because they will eat the honey that they make instead of humans getting it.

That's ridiculous. You've been lied to.

It's true that drones die in winter, but it's because the hive itself makes the decision to evict the drones - the workers force them out and then they starve, freeze, or are eaten by predators. This is true of wild colonies as well as managed ones, and is how the life cycle of the honey bee has evolved.

Humans have absolutely nothing to do with it.

I've read that there are some 3rd party launchers that will let you bypass the account requirement for solo play. I haven't dug into it to figure out which one(s) though.

Of course it doesn't look like one... They're robots in disguise.

Lots of methods work, but they each have their own pros and cons. Different yields, different risks, different costs, etc. There is no method that is perfect, IMHO.

That said, shroomscout's guide is good, though personally I found 90sm's videos to be similar content but easier to digest. ( He also had a video on fruiting from the bag but I've never tried it)

I don't know your situation but I know a lot of people on this path are doing it to try to deal with shit they haven't otherwise been able to deal with.

If that describes you, then my advice is to inoculate a few bags using whatever method you feel like you can handle right now.

If you have a normal size syringe, you can do several bags of UB and still have a lot left over to try again.

Then, while you're waiting for growth, keep learning. If it doesn't work out, figure out what went wrong, fix it, and try again.

As someone who had to carry one of these for work at the time -

One of the most ridiculous things about it, was that you didn't have to use the speakerphone with the walkie talkie feature. You could hold it up to your ear like a regular cell phone, talk at a normal volume, hear the other person perfectly fine, and actuate the PTT with your thumb (or index finger if left handed) when necessary.

There was zero reason to use it as obnoxiously as most people did.

If you want EQ without most of the modern comforts, you might consider trying one of the fan-run emulated servers like Project 1999.

But it still isn't quite the same. And to me, it can't be, because I think that part of the magic was how new and different a lot of it was for a lot of the players (It wasn't the first MMO, but it was a lot of people's first MMO).

It works except when it doesn't.

Our previous cats (who have all crossed the rainbow bridge) were happy to use scratching posts.

Our current cats are a different story. We've tried scratching posts with various coverings, including cardboard, jute, and carpet, and even uncovered, bare wood. They all prefer one particular chair, and occasionally the wood trim on one corner of the kitchen.

Shrug

There are some older studies that indicate it may be an issue if you eat them raw.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3731070/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2132000/

(and maybe more, but I'm lazy)

But the latter one seems to suggest that cooking them (including eating canned mushrooms, which get cooked during the canning process) should to mitigate it.

Maybe the underwear gnomes are using the bag clips to hang the missing socks to dry.

I love that gill shot

What works for me:

1. Have radar coverage to keep an eye on biter expansion

2. Keep an eye on your pollution cloud, and reduce production (at least initially) if it's expanding too fast.

3. Build up military tech alongside your other tech

4. Pending 3, take out biter nests that expand too close to the edge of your pollution cloud.

If you can do 1-4, biters should never actually get to your base.

Then by the time you're ready to go off world, make sure you have a perimeter lined with turrets (and some walls to help protect the turrets), repair bots and repair kits, automated ammo production, and supply lines (belts or trains) to automatically get that ammo to your perimeter turrets.