On the chill games topic; Reus 2 has most of my deck (train commute) play time if I’m honest. Great chill puzzle/strategy game.

To be clear, you get 1 meaningfully decision. All the other ‘roleplay’ is conversation choices/optional lore conversations.

In that sense it’s more an interactive story with builds and good (IMO) combat.

They are awesome - for some games.

Great to have both!

Especially if you have slow internet

Huh, til

They are refering to a YouTube video I think.

How accurate is this do we think?

Most of my steam deck playtime is offline and it’s awful at recording that playtime.

You cannot get a grant for a hybrid heat pump system (for example a combination of gas boiler and air source heat pump).

I think it just requires you to have a heat pump for all your water and heating. There appears to be pumps that do both, (mentioned in this article) but that’s more research than I can get away with while ‘working’.

Do you have a link for the exclusion bit?

If it’s green energy it’s not really a huge problem.

Put some solar panels up too and you’re golden.

I guess that’s to stop people from using it to get air-con when it’s mean to help people move away from gas. A bit silly though.

…I suspect there are a few models that only need 1 part switched for it to be possible…

They are trying to push people to heat pumps (basically air conditioners tech wise)

They are also moving towards building/efficiency regs that require completely sealed houses and forced air systems in new builds.

So new houses will effectively be required/encouraged to have an air con capable houses.

The old housing stock though? Oof. I’m on a private estate that even bans that kind of stuff!

And everyone already has an account, they can just press a button to join the server and be interacting straight away.

Huh

It’s a custom chip though isn’t it? Seems a strange choice

That’s basically what hibernate is. Shouldn’t be hard to offer as an option.

The difficult bit is having it wake from sleep to hibernate itself. I suspect that would require hardware.

Hibernate would be great as it’s a slightly longer restore, but should work the same (if you are willing g to sacrifice the disk space)

Being able to pick up the deck and know it will have battery left would be really nice. It drains pretty fast in sleep mode.

Got my hopes up there might be some sleep limit too. Would much prefer if it shuts down/hibernated after being asleep for more than 26 hours (or past a certain battery level)

That’s what I get for getting my news from Lemmy memes.

Updated my comment

So him not meeting Vance earlier may not have been a snub then ☹️ (he did)

Was he involved in any of the traditional Easter stuff? (He was)