EarMaster

Corn seed oil is my go to cooking oil, but I also use olive oil (mostly for Mediterranean dishes), rapeseed oil and clarified butter.

The train cars are most likely old Berlin metro cars which were sold to North Korea.

I don't think the majority of players play the game that way. I think the development cycle is exemplary for a project of this scope. We need more games with such an structured and open approach.

Mariner asking about the purple carpet of the Enterprise D also references a somewhat vulgar saying about women.

Then he shouldn't have asked a question if he isn't open for answers. If an answer is obviously wrong or dismissive of some important detail I would understand it. But if the complaint is It's not a one-click-fix or I don't understand what you're talking about then that's the best way of not learning anything and not solving the problem.

On Android you have to disable the use of Private DNS (or something like that) in the WiFi settings. If this is enabled it will not use your WiFi's broadcast DNS, but a predefined one. The reasoning behind this (you can believe this or not) is so that on public WiFis your DNS queries cannot be tracked or manipulated by setting up a local DNS.

I can imagine there is something similar for iOS.

If this only affects some apps then they have decided to hardcore their DNS servers. The only thing you can do now is to identify these and block the calls, but this may also break other stuff if the servers are not only used to resolve ad URLs.

First of all: you don't have to like it.

I agree with you that the first chapters are confusing and overwhelming, but as others have already said this is deliberate. The storylines converge later on which makes it easier to follow what's happening. In my experience the book handles it very well to balance its sci-fi themes with a compelling story you want to follow.

The project is focused in Poland, but for a project of this scale it is common (and reasonable) to distribute the workload. So I'm sure there will be parts of it being done in the US.

According to Steam the top 3 are:

1. Oxygen not included
2. Civilization 5
3. Factorio

But that of course does not include the games not running from Steam and pre-Steam games. So World of Warcraft is somewhere in there too. And the final Top 1 must be Transport Tycoon Deluxe (even if you don't include OpenTTD).

There are a few buttons around the house. For my wife (and kids to play with) the most important ones are the ones controlling the light in the bedroom. There is a motion sensor covering the door and wardrobe area which can be muted with a button (e.g. if the kids have snuck into our bed and we don't want to wake them or if either one of us goes to bed later). We use mostly the IKEA Zigbee buttons.

We also have a great device called Home Buttons in our kitchen. It uses MQTT and has a fantastic battery life (using a 18650 rechargeable battery). It has an e-ink display and six buttons. I programmed it to display several things (you can use one MDI icon and a short text to display for each button) for everyday use, like switching some lights, displaying temperature and humidity and controlling the climate in our conservatory. You have to press a button for it to update (to save battery - even though it easily lasts months).

The main touch point though is the app. I built three dashboards:

• A general overview that dynamically changed based on events and time of day.
• A floor plan which holds every light, sensor and switch in it.
• A blood glucose dashboard as both one of my daughters as well as myself have diabetes. As I use the same insulin pump as my daughter I cannot use the pump's app to follow her data as I need the app for myself. So for me this is quite important. My wife uses the pump's app in follower mode for our daughter.

But I also made Home Assistant send notifications to our smartphones for several events (dishwasher, washing machine, too hot / cold in the conservatory, low blood glucose levels, kids turning on the TV in the morning). Some of them offer to respond with an action others are just reminders that something needs to be done.

My wife appreciates especially the notifications I think because you don't have to think about some things as they pop up when action is due and we both can more easily share the workload as she gets notified as well when I started the dishwasher without me needing to tell her. (This may sound like we're not speaking to each other, but we're just not saying things like I just started the dishwasher can you empty it later.)

To be honest: After visiting both the US and China I was way more concerned after my US visit that my phone may have been compromised.

Using a VPN was no problem for me in China, but it has been a few years since I've been there.