I used Shadow PC for a long time. Never any issues over several years. Lots of reasons in preferred it over GeForce. I can expound on that later if needed

Is it possible to fake a world curvature so that using a fog isn’t as necessary, as far items sink below the horizon?

That is tricky with raytracing, since rays would need to be curved, and at least in this raytracer, ray steps are not all equal in size so doing that correctly could be very expensive.

But is generally a cool idea.

Fog is good too, though. It helps with a sense of scale, and it helps colors and distance noise not be too busy.

My experience with two kids is that solids are easier. With good diet, the poop has a good chance of just being a “roll off” and into the toilet. Get a spray wand/ hand held bidet attachment for toilet to help rinse it off before it goes in wash.

That's good to know! Makes me feel a bit better.

We do have a bidet but it's a toilet seat bidet so we may need to rethink our system.

It won’t ALWAYS be nice little rollers. And it depends on diet. Right now with 1 year old it’s a lot of smears but with a good shake they peel off and into the toilet, sometimes helped with the spray wand.

We also use a cheap synthetic fleece cloth liner, too. We just got a couple yards of it from fabric store and cut it into strips. The poop mostly hits that, and since it’s synthetic it slides off well.

That's a good suggestion!

Consider just doing dropping the global leader board. Who benefits from it? For most, it’s a passing curiosity. But for some, it’ll be an obsession which ends up endangering them, animals/plants, and others. These kinds of contents can encourage someone who may not tromp through a delicate bog normally to decide to step off the boardwalk and recklessly go get that picture for the app points. And for 99% of the world, it’s just an additional screen with no chance of being relevant.

Replace it with a leaderboard amongst phone contacts/friended users

Consider just doing dropping the global leader board. Who benefits from it? For most, it’s a passing curiosity. But for some, it’ll be an obsession which ends up endangering them, animals/plants, and others. These kinds of contents can encourage someone who may not tromp through a delicate bog normally to decide to step off the boardwalk and recklessly go get that picture for the app points. And for 99% of the world, it’s just an additional screen with no chance of being relevant.

I so desperately want this, I think about it about 5 times a week and probably mention it to my wife as often. But in my old small house I doubt I could ever get one set up. Much better than a touch less one.

It's just a standard plumbing fitting, and it engages with the plumbing below your actual faucet. Space shouldn't be an issue?

I bought an one that attaches to the source line to the faucet, but I'm nervous to install it for risk of leaks.

Teflon tape is your friend when plumbing things together.

Not always. It only works with FIP/MIP connections. If it's a compression fitting you're just wasting money.

Compression fittings first question is "can you use a shark bite push fit instead?"

Second thing is, get a small amount of food safe grease and put it on the copper ferrule to make the connection: took me far too long to learn that.

Definitely. I'm more worried about the valve in the pedal being faulty and leaking.

Zach Weinersmith’s Beawolf graphic novel is basically an ode to Calvin. He has a new book coming out soon, too.

Looks like it's "Bea Wolf" (I had not heard of it and Googled.)

My understanding is that you need an account and Internet for the download and license activation, but then works offline (they specifically say “for extended periods”) in the FAQ. That is pretty much the same as v2 right?

They ought to follow the intellij/jetbrain model, where you pay for the subscription to access the latest version, but when you stop paying, you can keep using the last version you've paid a subscription for.

But of course, this does not hold your data hostage, and thus less "profitable" in the long run.

Since Affinity saves your files to local disk, no one can hold them "hostage." And it reads and writes standard filetypes, including PSD (Photoshop).

The administration has posited that they don’t have to do backpay for many positions. Currently, there is no reason anyone could expect norms to hold.

Their FAQ says that the account and online access are needed for the download and license activation, but after that it can be run offline.