laurelraven

That thing makes the Aztec look positively sleek by comparison

Thanks, I'll check that out!

I wasn't asking about a Linux client for Teams, I was asking about an open source alternative to Teams

Are there some open source Teams alternatives you'd recommend?

Probably not, they'll still hold sham elections to maintain the false veneer of mandate

Yes, the reason they aren't is they want people to buy new phones, not fix and upgrade their current ones. This is not hard to figure out.

All these unfinished comments are going to drive me to

Maybe the sand is the opposite of a non-newtonian fluid, is solid at rest but becomes basically fluid with vibration

Though I imagine sand would naturally behave this way if it isn't packed too densely

I want to say you're wrong about that but frankly it's plausible enough at this point to be scary

That said, let's make him have to blatantly try and take it by force, give him no legitimate claim to it. Even if he pulls that, I still think that's a better outcome than him winning in any capacity.

Mostly, my general advice boils down to three things: fully automate everything you can as you go, don't tear down factories without a specific goal in mind, and break big production lines down into smaller pieces

• fully automate: it can be tempting to stand up box fed mini factories to solve a short term goal, but it's almost always better long term to automate it, even if you just do it sloppy and inefficiently. At least it's there and can churn away quietly and be ready to plug into something bigger later
• don't tear down: if you aren't rebuilding a factory to handle more throughput, there's probably not a good reason to remove it yet. It can keep idly producing as long as there's power and somewhere for the product to go. You might find yourself needing something you're already making that's gone idle and it's usually easier to redirect an output that build a whole new factory. Critically, DO NOT DISASSEMBLE PROJECT ASSEMBLY, pretty much all of it gets used again and again and having the factories continue running means you'll have a leg up on the next part in the chain. When I got to the last part, ballistic wrap drive, I realized my factory making turbo propulsion rockets had slowed a lot due to some upstream issues with nitrogen gas hauling, but it didn't matter because I'd already made enough to finish by then anyway
• break it down: don't focus on the big picture, it's overwhelming. Solve the production line one step at a time and the end of the production line will just be plugging in the inputs, more or less

Bonus tip: look up Satisfactory Tools if you haven't already, the production calculator on it is fantastic and once you get the hang of all it can to it'll make production planning way easier. With bigger builds, I'll look at the parts and add them in as direct inputs if I am already making enough of it and it makes the diagram way simpler. I'll even split off parts into their own production plan to eliminate the rest so I'm just focusing on that bit. Before you know it... It's done.

Well of course, that makes perfect sense to me! What would we do if the ISPs ran out of bits? Can't just use them anywhere you know, those suckers aren't cheap!

I think it does, but only blocks competing advertisers

(Note: I actually have no clue if they do and I'm talking out my ass; that said, I would absolutely not be surprised one bit if they did exactly that)