Interesting to hear news from the smaller countries too. Thanks for sharing!
onoki
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Baba Is You belongs to the same category. One of my favorite puzzles.
Pre-existing models/art is something that is a huge work effort. Not to be undervalued. If one can get those for free, it can be the reason some game exists.
Take Auto Chess for example. I can imagine programming that DOTA 2 mod was an effort one or few programmers did as a hobby at first. If they would have had to either pay or network with artists to create the art and other people to do marketing, it would have been a lot more than a hobby.
One of the best games there is, but without any keyboard shortcuts, that will be annoying really soon.
I participated in multiple homestays in different countries as part of my studies. The shortest was one night, the longest one month. But to be clear, no working, just an opportunity to live with a local family when studying abroad.
I guess those were the best ways to actually see how regular people live in those countries. What are the apartments like, what kind of habits they have. Everyday stuff that you won't see as a regular tourist.
Those would have also been golden opportunities to improve my language skills more, if I wasn't so shy.
But regardless, now almost 20 years later, those are one of the very memorable and distinct experiences from my youth.
I would definitely recommend it. Assuming the culture/country is something that interests you.
They were a bigger deal. I started learning Japanese when the first Iphone came out and spent quite some time in Japan when the Android phones were a new thing. Internet on the phones was very limited.
Dictionaries existed on the phones, but the usability was non-existent. Even worse if you had to look for a word you didn't know how to read.
The electronic dictionaries had great writing detection and cross-referencing between language and informational dictionaries etc. At the time they were awesome. One electronic dictionary could contain dozens of dictionaries of various topics, which probably was convenient for Japanese themselves (and not just language learners).
Of course nowadays you can do the same on a phone, but there was a period when you couldn't.
"for a lot of models" is a bit of an exaggeration. Especially as Xiaomi/Dreame try to actively restrict Valetudo use.
But yes, Valetudo is a great project. I'd just wish there was a manufacturer who would openly endorse it.
There are many streamers who stream somewhat daily things. But the streamers are content creators - they interact with the viewers and choose their activities such that it is likely to be interesting to watch.
So, I'd give it a try if I was you. But probably not exactly what you are looking for.
Looks really fun. I hope I remember it when it's out of early access.
I have now used Deezer for a bit over half a year after Spotify.
The song selection is pretty equal. The playlists can even automatically be imported/exported with TuneMyMusic.
I think Deezer's best feature is the song radio which finds songs of similar genre, and it really does find songs and artists I have favorited after hearing them. I always found that feature in Spotify to work pretty poorly.
However, if you don't have an exact song in mind, finding music by theme is terrible in Deezer. There are few set categories, but the amount of user-created playlists is very small, compared to Spotify.
I'd recommend giving it a try, but I wouldn't say its better or worse than Spotify. Just different.
I've used the following blog post as a guideline for teaching my 1 year old how to behave with pets.
To summarize, teaching the child to respect the boundaries of the pet (instead of trying to actually play/care of the animal), will make the pet NOT afraid of the child. That in turn allows the pet to choose when to interact with the child. Turns out, at least in our case, the relationship between the child and cat in our case, is very similar to how the adults interact with the cat.
https://dogsandbabies.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/mamas-dont-let-your-babies-get-magnetized-to-dogs/
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I don't care about which operating system, but my hobby projects have always included things that help myself. E.g.
So my suggestion is to think of something that you need, but there isn't a perfect solution yet. Although this advice comes from someone who has been working in software development for two decades now.
If you haven't programmed before, think something very very small first.