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Love the three body spin on the old scorched earth game!

I am not ruling out the GUI. I just should not be required to look at it. The GUI is a necessity for learning, but once you know a key sequence there must not be a delay before the second click can be made.

The menus should be shown on the dashboard (not on the central screen). I would argue that that would be even safer than trying to look at the symbols in the wheel/stalks while driving.

Re physical buttons: I always wonder why there are no "modal buttons" in cars. E.g. 4 buttons on the left, 4 on the right.

The ones on the left open "submenus" the ones on the right trigger an action from the submenu.

Can be visual, but should not depend in the GUI to keep up.

Examples: Left 1 puts you in the audio menu, Right 1 increases volume. Left 2 puts you in the cruise control menu, Right 1 activates.

Humans are actually pretty good at learning simple patterns like that.

4x4 gives you 16 functions on the wheel. Going one level deeper (left, right, left) would give you 64 possible results. That should be enough to cover all bases.

Rogue Like Celebration is _now_. Great video coverage on YouTube

What? An opinion piece, written by a human, in 2026?

Don't want to go into the details of the article, but to me it becomes ever more apparent that there is a clear divide between LLM and human written text.

Version 10-12 is 10-ish years ago. They switched to yearmonth (e.g. 2604) release names long ago.

Let's just say things changed since then.

There is also a difference between intuitive and familiar.

I learned to CAD on Fusion 360 with no formal education and it just worked. I can use FreeCAD sufficiently well to be productive (it really has become better over the years). I tried OnShape and just started working. I like using OpenSCAD and CadQuery...

... but I still struggle to get spline extrusions to work in NX because you just have to know which buttons to press in which order.

Good luck with that. NX is such a pain to use compared to other alternatives (commercial and free/open source). NX Open being even more painful because it's basically 90% guesswork.

I have some fond memories of getting into computers around 2000. Building PCs, installing Windows, re-installing Windows ever so often.

At some point Windows just crashed and couldn't be brought back to life, straight up refused to be installed on that disk again.

(Funfact: the crash happened while playing some opensource sci-fi game... Produced by Microsoft)

I had a Gentoo Linux partition back then thanks to a friend from school and used that for everything from that point on.

Interestingly I never really had major issues. Running Warcraft 3 on Gentoo, writing my thesis (theseses actually) on Ubuntu and later switching to Arch Linux just worked.

I still remember switching to Gnome 3 (from KDE) and being impressed by how fast the Shell felt.

...

Fast forward to two years ago and I am forced to use Windows for the first time in 20+ years, in a locked down corporate setting nonetheless.

... what a hot mess :-)

> I'm using it to build an AI RPG site

I am trying something similar: basically a LLM managed MUD for people with too little time for roleplaying.

If you want to chat, hit me up at [email protected]

Actually yes. It's been a while, but now that you mention that, that probably was the reason for somebody (me) bringing the reels to the cinemas for a single showing in the first place.

"buy twice" is one of those live advices I heard and adhere to since.

It's basically the optimistic interpretation of "buy cheap, buy twice":

When I consider getting into something I buy cheap first, the idea being that that is enough to get a feel ...

... then you buy the second time and don't cheap out. But this purchase is more informed and you really get to appreciate it more because you know the step up from the cheap thing.

And sometimes... maybe even most of the time... the cheap thing is just enough.

One of my student jobs was to transport film spools to theaters. They would arrive at my door in a box, I would walk them to the cinema on a small trolley and spend 2-3 hours in the projection rooms. The reels were spliced on site by a technician, projected, cut again and I transported them back home where they would be picked up again.

The job was less to transport the spools, but to supervise that there was no copying happening.

This was late 200x-ish, before digital protection became widespread iirc.

Wouldn't be the first time that having nothing better to do (being in school) and dedication lead to amazing results.

"Back in the day" people were afraid that pupils would create CS (beta 6.5) maps of their schools. Gaussian Splatting would have been very convenient for that :-)