They’ve apparently got an above-ground railroad, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Railroad

You typically need to notify other members of a treaty of your withdrawal, and then there’s some time delay until you’re no longer bound by the terms. You can’t just secretly withdraw, or treaties wouldn’t be very meaningful.

EDIT: Yeah. The submitted article says that it happens in six months from today, and here’s the treaty text on withdrawal:

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.44_convention antipersonnel mines.pdf

Article 20

Duration and withdrawal

1. This Convention shall be of unlimited duration.

2. Each State Party shall, in exercising its national sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from this Convention. It shall give notice of such withdrawal to all other States Parties, to the Depositary and to the United Nations Security Council. Such instrument of withdrawal shall include a full explanation of the reasons motivating this withdrawal.

3. Such withdrawal shall only take effect six months after the receipt of the instrument of withdrawal by the Depositary. If, however, on the expiry of that six- month period, the withdrawing State Party is engaged in an armed conflict, the withdrawal shall not take effect before the end of the armed conflict.

4. The withdrawal of a State Party from this Convention shall not in any way affect the duty of States to continue fulfilling the obligations assumed under any relevant rules of international law.

Oh, that’s interesting. Didn’t know about that.

I don’t think that there’s a way to list instances that a PieFed instance has defederated from, unlike Lemmy; while both have a list of instances at /instances, only Lemmy indicates which ones have been defederated from. It was a helpful tool to help me guess the sort of content an instance had.

Like:

https://lemmy.world/instances (under “Blocked Instances”)

https://piefed.world/instances

EDIT: It does show the last time that the instance sent data, and I guess you could sort of guess that if a large instance that probably has activity hasn’t sent data to the PieFed instance recently — like lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net on piefed.world — then they’re probably defederated. But it doesn’t clearly indicate that this is the case, either.

ragingHungryPanda

And poop while I was doing it.

looks skeptical

Bamboo is pretty fibrous.

Expect a bunch of people in comments who will deliberately recommend default Arch

Arch

Any of them that use the Arch repos directly are probably fine. Don’t use Manjaro.

Manjaro or Endeavour.

Just base arch

Garuda

Steamos

Artix + OpenRC

CachyOS

EndeavourOS and nothing else.

I suppose that pretty much covers the full gamut.

EDIT: Here’s the Linux distro family tree:

https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/releases

It lists 19 still-living Arch-based distros. Disregarding category-based recommendations and looking only at explicitly-named recommendations, as of this writing, you’ve explicitly been recommended 7 so far, or over a third of what exist. :-)

This has a raven:

https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1c91nyu/a_raven_is_crowned_in_tictactoe/

I could have guessed Liberia, but I remember being genuinely surprised when I first discovered that Belize spoke English. I’d have expected Spanish, given the geography.

Do you want the router to also be 10" rack-mountable? That seems like it’d be a big input into the hardware you get.

There’s a whole class of controllers, often called “fightsticks”, which have a full-size arcade-style joystick and a ton of buttons, to replicate the feel of arcade fighting games.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fightsticks/

!fightsticks@lemmy.world (not very active)

https://www.amazon.com/Arcade-Sticks/s?k=Arcade+Sticks

Honestly, I feel like Morrowind is the title least in need of a remaster, as unlike later 3D titles, it has an open-source fan reimplementation of the engine, OpenMW, plus the fan updates of content.

searches for video of content

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnvOy5Kw79Y

It looks like the OpenMW people are also working on a VR version.

“Fallout is the big one,” Middler claimed. “There are multiple Fallout projects in development, including, as far as I’m aware, that one that I’m sure you’re all wanting. It’s not far enough in along to say anything like ‘you’re going to be playing this game anytime soon’.”

Middler then joked, “Anyway, New Vegas 2, coming soon”. Is this the one we’re “all wanting”? Yes, but then also so is Fallout 3 Remastered, Fallout 5 and even a remake of Fallout 2. The fanbase is rabid, and hungry, and it’s been a long time since they’ve been fulfilled outside of Fallout 76 updates.

I mean, if Bethesda released all four of those, I’d buy all four.

I also don’t know what “Fallout 3 Remastered” entails, but if it means forward-porting the content to Starfield’s engine, that’d be pretty cool, though I do wonder how much effort will be required for mod-porting.

Acquiring F-35A jets is “part of NATO’s nuclear mission”;

By March 2026, the UK will add 27 more jets: 12 F-35A and 15 F-35B;

I hadn’t been following this closely recently, but if you go back far enough, the Royal Air Force had been planning to get F-35As and the Royal Navy F-35Bs. The A variant isn’t equipped for carrier operations, which makes it not really viable for the Royal Navy, but has longer range and more payload. Then there was some discussion at one point about maybe just having both use F-35Bs to help leverage commonality, which I imagine the Royal Air Force wasn’t too keen on. Sounds like they’re back to both the A and B model.

I love CDDA, but I don’t know if I’d call it light on a battery. It won’t hammer a GPU, but it actually does use a fair bit of CPU time for the simulation. Also, every time it redraws a frame, it does so via recomputing the world lighting and such, so it’s actually surprisingly heavyweight.

kagis

https://docs.luanti.org/for-players/controls/

Mobile devices (Android / iOS) #

Touchscreen

Display inventory: Press on-screen button in left lower corner

No; they’re similar games, but not protocol-compatible.

The Luanti client is a free download, though; Luanti is open-source.

There’s a similar, open-source game, Luanti (until recently, known as Minetest). It doesn’t have as many mods in 2025 as Minecraft does, but you might also enjoy it.

They apparently have some temporary desalination stuff in place now to bridge the gap, dunno what it’s using.

The planned permanent plant apparently uses reverse osmosis (which, at least last time I looked, was much more widely used than distillation).

https://greencape.co.za/library/paarden-eiland-desalination-plant/

Jun 1, 2025 The planned permanent Paarden Eiland plant will be a 70 Ml/day seawater desalination plant with a multi-barrier process that will include pre-screening, dissolved air flotation, rapid gravity sand filtration, reverse osmosis, a potential advanced oxidation process, a disinfection step, stabilisation of the water, and safe brine disposal.

Yeah, isn’t loading at the moment here either.

hits archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20250627211645/https://resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcentre/Documents/Graphics and educational material/Desalination_Booklet_English.pdf

Are you looking for specific values in some field in this table, or substrings in that field?

If specific values, I’d probably import the CSV file into a database with an column indexed on the value you care about.

Cape Town apparently decided to use desalination.

https://resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcentre/Documents/Graphics and educational material/Desalination_Booklet_English.pdf

Permanent desalination is planned because seawater is available all the time, whether it rains or not, so it’s more reliable than any other water source. About 97% of water on Earth is in our oceans. We can make use of this huge resource through the process of desalination, which makes it drinkable and usable for us. Although desalination is the most expensive supply option and there are environmental issues that need to be well-managed (such as the salty ‘brine’ it produces as a waste product), it is an important part of the diversified water supply ‘mix’ going forward.

Says they start construction in 2026 and expect production starting in 2030.