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.

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

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

That’s basically what I’d expect. The US isn’t going to aim to compete with China by putting more riflemen in trenches than China — China has lower wages and more people, not the battlefield you want — but by aiming to maintain a tech and hardware advantage and leveraging that. That’s going to involve spending on military systems procurement.

new “socialist alternative” before next election

An ever-expanding category, that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Socialist_parties_in_the_United_Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Community_Labour_Alternative

Cross-Community Labour Alternative is a minor political party founded to contest the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election. It stood three candidates[3] in the East Belfast, South Belfast and East Antrim constituencies. It was initiated by the Socialist Party.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_(Ireland)

The Socialist Party (Irish: Páirtí Sóisialach) is a political party in Ireland, active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Internationally, it was affiliated to the Trotskyist International Socialist Alternative (previously the Committee for a Workers International) until 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Unity_(UK)

Left Unity is a left-wing political party in the United Kingdom founded in 2013 when film director and social campaigner Ken Loach appealed for a new party to replace the Labour Party (which according to him failed to oppose the United Kingdom government austerity programme and had shifted towards neoliberalism).[5][6][7] More than 10,000 people supported Loach’s appeal.[8]

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

The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) is a minor unionist[6] political party in Northern Ireland. It was formed from the Independent Unionist Group operating in the Shankill area of Belfast, becoming the PUP in 1979. Linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Red Hand Commando (RHC), for a time it described itself as “the only left of centre unionist party” in Northern Ireland, with its main support base in the loyalist working class communities of Belfast.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Justice_Party_(UK)

The Social Justice Party (SJP) is a left-wing minor political party in the United Kingdom.[2] It was launched in August 2023 at a conference in Whitby,[2] and was officially registered with the Electoral Commission on 2 February 2024.[3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transform_(political_party)

The Transform Party (also known as Transform Politics, or simply Transform) is a political party active in Great Britain. A merger of two political groups, the Breakthrough Party and the People’s Alliance of the Left, Transform aims to build a new left-wing political party to challenge both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. The party is also associated with the Liverpool Community Independents and Left Unity, who remain independent parties.[1][2]

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

The Workers Party of Britain (WPB), also called the Workers Party of Great Britain (WPGB) or Workers Party GB,[16][17][18] is a socialist and socially conservative political party in the United Kingdom, strongly identified with its leader, former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Labour_Party_(UK)

The Socialist Labour Party (SLP) is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. The party was established in 1996 and was led by Arthur Scargill, a former Labour Party member and the former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. The party’s name highlights its commitment to socialism and acknowledges Clause IV of the Labour Party’s former constitution, as fundamental to the party’s identity. As of 2024, it is led by Jim McDaid.[1]

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

The Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) is a small socialist political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1904[2] as a split from the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), it advocates using the ballot box for revolutionary purposes and opposes both Leninism and reformism. It holds that countries which claimed to have established socialism had only established “state capitalism” and was one of the first to describe the Soviet Union as state capitalist. The party’s political position has been described as a form of impossibilism.

Depends on the game.

I think that they have been used effectively in games like Starbound and Terraria or many roguelikes and roguelites.

I think that there have been some games where they do not work well.

Starfield has a beautiful terrain generator, but different terrain doesn’t really change gameplay, nor does combat really scale up to making use of very large maps, so you have the ability to explore infinite expanses of planets, but it doesn’t really provide much in gameplay terms. Aside from finding a cluster of useful resources near each other for an outpost, which isn’t that interesting from a gameplay standpoint and doesn’t need most of the terrain generator’s functionality, it’s mostly just cosmetic.

I think that they work best where how you play the game changes substantially based on the mix of features of the dungeon. Then throwing a new mix each time at the player helps keep things interesting.

The phone system doesn’t have a way to identify people other than Caller ID, and that’s vulnerable to various forms of spoofing.

“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.

I guess Signal’s probably less-prone to letting attackers pose as other people than the phone system, but the phone system is abysmal.

Could probably benefit from some sort of trust system(s), like X.509 certs for organizations, or GPG keys for a distributed web of trust or something, and adoption of calling practices that aren’t vulnerable to this. Needs to be a few simple steps that people can be told to follow, not a constantly moving target that requires information security familiarity.

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.

IPv4 has some other features too.

$ ping 0x8.02004010

That’ll be Google’s root DNS server, using hexadecimal and octal representations.

Maybe they don’t want to move to a cloud-based system.

I don’t want a cloud-based office package, and I can imagine that the same might apply to them.

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

The War Zone also has coverage:

https://www.twz.com/news-features/houthis-launch-first-red-sea-attack-on-shipping-since-december

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.

Gorske claims that after getting his first car, the first place he went to was the McDonald’s on Military Road in his hometown of Fond du Lac on May 17, 1972.[4][5] He purchased and ate three Big Macs at lunchtime. He returned two more times to consume nine Big Macs the same day he discovered the burger. He further claims to have eaten 265 Big Macs the following month, an average of 8.5 Big Macs daily.

Gorske had a single Burger King Whopper sandwich in 1984 and never ate one again. Gorske tried the Whopper after his friend bet him $5 to do so, later spending the winnings on Big Macs.

That’s some brand loyalty.

Hmm. So the battery’s a factor then.

I’m not specifically familiar with your specific hardware, but I’d try charging the laptop when it’s off.

On PC laptops, my understanding is that normally, just the BIOS controls charging in that case, so that takes the OS out of the equation. If it’s not charging in that situation, then I doubt that the operating system is going to be able to change the situation; the battery management system (BMS) on your hardware doesn’t like the battery, for whatever reason. Dead, not actually the right model…shrugs Dunno.

From a Linux standpoint, you can pull whatever information you can about the battery looking in the virtual files under /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0. If there’s no BAT entry, I’d guess that Linux can’t even see a battery, that the BMS is saying that there’s nothing there.

EDIT: I was thinking that maybe if there was a ribbon cable connecting the battery to the rest of the system, maybe it wasn’t properly reconnected or something, but doing a really quick skim of this video replacing said battery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DONdmtR6mug

It looks like there is a ribbon cable, but it runs to a board containing the trackpad as well as the battery, and given that you haven’t said anything about the trackpad not working, I assume that it’s back in place.

EDIT2: In that video, it looks like the old battery is glued to the battery board, and the guy has to use some “adhesive softener” to get it out. If you did the same, I assume that there is liable to be some goop floating around in there. I assume that there are some contacts between the battery connector and the battery board; mayhap it or something like that got on top of the battery contacts. You might consider trying to clean those if other things don’t work and the system can’t see the battery.

EDIT3: Yeah, the top comment on that video is indeed someone who apparently didn’t get the ribbon cable all the way back in, and their keyboard wasn’t working.

The first time I replaced the back cover and tried logging in I couldn’t type in my password. I followed Apple’s hints but they didn’t work so I took the cover back off again and refitted the flex cable. This time there was a satisfying little snap sound when I plugged it in at the logic board end and after that everything worked fine. Best to just put a couple of the screws back in the back cover and try logging in to make sure.

If you’re not seeing that, I assume that the ribbon cable is properly connected.

EDIT4: Oh, the batttery has a second cable that goes right to the battery. The other cable just had to come off because it obstructs removing the battery. Sorry, comes from just doing a quick skim. Might check that that cable is in all the way.

“It is indefensible that today that I’m canceling flights from Ireland to Italy, from Germany to Spain, from Portugal to Poland,” O’Leary said.

The budget airline chief blamed the European Union, and specifically European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, for the situation.

looks puzzled

Is the European Commission responsible for mediating union disputes?

The strike, which took place on Thursday and Friday, was over disputes between two unions and the French directorate general for civil aviation

I mean, this sounds like it’s between the French government and French unions.

Did the laptop charge when the old battery was present?

I remember Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor being some of the earliest commercial games with native Linux ports. Probably a lot harder to get the native port running on current Linux distros than the Windows release, unfortunately…