This probably factors into the resurgence of vinyl.
Not sure if it's a factor for you but roku tries to phone home a lot more than anything else on my network (or perhaps my firewall just catches it more than other devices and apps). Otherwise roku is pretty good.
Nvidia shield tv is better though. It's the best set top box. Made even better by replacing the default launcher/ home screen (android TV default launcher now has 2/3 or more of the screen taken up by ads or "recommended content" which is just ads).
Feels like what happened with android tv.
Absolutely one of the best.
Not to be a downer, but you're gonna get a lot of smoke roasting beans in your electric oven (gas would have an exhaust to the outside). That smoke really isn't good for you to breathe in either. Prolonged exposure will lead to "popcorn lung". It's also going to make your stove very dirty in the inside in short fashion. Also, you're gonna melt some plastic colanders if you drop coffee beans into them right out of a 400-500 degree oven. Not to mention that plastic + heat = not good (even without the melting)
If you want to try roasting coffee beans at home once or twice on the cheap, you're better off "pan roasting" them outside on a camp stove or something similar if you don't have an exhaust fan right above your stove that connects to outside.
Specialized at-home electric roasters exist and aren't that expensive. Certainly cheaper than smoke mitigation.
Is your oven electric or gas?
Terraforming Mars is great. A lot more going on than with Catan, but it does have aspects of the same sort of tile/game piece placement. Aspects of engine building, drafting (optional), deck building, and resource management too.
Usually its a 1.5-3hr play through, depending on how experienced the players are and how many people are playing (1-5).
One big plus over Catan is it plays well with just 2 people.
Night Owl makes a doorbell camera. Haven't used it but it's one of the few I found when looking for them that doesn't force cloud services on you.
PETG is great but ABS is still more durable I think in most cases and probably more rigid.
But PETG does not give off toxic fumes. I believe I remember there being even less fumes than PLA.
PETG is trickier to print than PLA though, but easier (and safer) than nylon. TPU and TPE are flexible and don't really compare apples to apples with the others.
That's a pretty good question and I've never sat down and wrote a list of things I like about it. First time for everything though...
[After writing out this list, I actually think doing something similar for favorite games would be a good way to get more content here]
- In general, I'm drawn toward "engine building" games
- there's something comforting about the game having a defined end after four rounds (rather than when some victory condition is met)... note that this doesn't necessarily mean the game plays quickly!
- the end of round goals (one of the way you can score points) are randomized. This keeps things fresh
- the "bonus goals" (which are another way to score points) are also randomized on a per-player basis, which creates an interesting asymmetry... all players are working to score points, but each player's path to that end is different
- (i think this has a lot to do with the randomized nature of the end of round goals and bonus goals) plays great with just 2 people but also fun with 5-7 (6 and 7 player variants require the Asia expansion)
- it may not seem like it at first but there actually can be quite a bit of player interaction
- the artwork is really gorgeous... will have to take a pic next time we play for an example
- the components are fairly high quality for the price point
- despite the relative complexity/weight, setup and breakdown are really easy
Overall, I very much recommend it. That said, there are things i dont like as much about it
- people are generally intimidated by the complexity the first time they play. I have found though that about 3/4 through the first game things start to click.
- because it has a lot of randomization via card draw and dice roll, there is a fair bit of luck involved. Sometimes you just don't get the cards.
- although there is some player interaction, I wish there was more. I think this is addressed in one of the expansions (but admittedly I haven't played all of the expansions)
The only game I like more is Terraforming Mars. I play it less, though, as it's a but longer and the folks I play with don't like it as much.
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I have found synching to be very useful for making copies of files across devices. I have it setup to mirror photos from my phone, photos from my wife's phone, and various other things (to-do lists for todo.txt, notes and shopping lists for obsidian... stuff like that) back to my desktop and my NAS. You can set it to do one-way sync (which is more like a backup) or two way sync (where changes anywhere are propagated to everywhere else).
As others have said, it's not really a true backup solution, but handy to have immediately accessible copies of what's on your phone in case of phone loss or damage.
For photo viewing and sharing, I am more or less pointing the photo sharing app on my NAS to the photos I sync from phone. They all get dropped into an "inbox" when first synced and then can be organized from there.
You may also want an actual backup solution. There are quite a few and that's a different topic. The reason I bring it up, though, is that simply mirroring what's currently on device is not considered a real backup by most people, and for good reason.