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I assume that early access games are in the running when they exit EA. Presumably, that's when they're at their strongest. Doesn't seem to me like it'd be fair to treat them as being entered when they enter EA, as they aren't fully developed yet.

What do you think the point is?

Robert E. Lee’s “excellent abilities” as general of the Confederate Army

Lee did do very well. Civil War history isn't specifically my area of interest, but I don't think that there's another high-ranking commander who one could reasonably say used his forces more effectively in the war. He had a heavily-winning record while fighting larger forces that were better-equipped.

He was also highly-regarded in his time; he was offered command of the Union Army, and commanded the most-important Confederate military formation for much of the war.

I assume that the 999 is just off-scale.

https://animanswers.com/hedgehog-nests/

Do Hedgehogs Dig Dens to Live In?

When hedgehogs burrow, they aim to create a shelter where they can nest and sleep easily. As our spikey friends sleep for long periods, sometimes as much as 18 hours a day, they need somewhere safe to sleep without fear of predators.

However, while it will serve as their home, it will be a temporary home. Most hedgehogs only stay in their burrows for a short time before leaving. Usually, they’ll only stay in that specific burrow for a few nights before moving to find another one. 

If they're removable, could just put actual floppy drives in.

EDIT: Oh, they're flip-down drawer covers rather than fixed panels. Well, still might be removable.

any tips

If I wanted to whiten teeth at home -- I don't, but if I did -- I'd probably use those whitening strips, which it looks like use hydrogen peroxide.

Coconut oil is what movie theaters use on popcorn and IMHO is the best use for it if you've got some. I used to keep a jar of it along with some Flavacol to get the movie-theater experience.

EDIT: I later switched to a mix of chili oil and olive oil for popcorn, which is not as authentic but can be misted with a mister without congealing in the mister and is also pretty good.

It looks like the $75/mo rate is for their "premium" package. Their standard one is $39/mo.

It looks like that's on the high side, but not radically so compared to typical American newspapers.

https://www.thepricer.org/newspaper-subscriptions-cost/

Digital Pass Subscriptions

• Local/regional papers – $10 to $30 per month

  Example: Seattle Times Digital – $7.99 per month

• National publications – $15 to $50 per month

  Example: The Washington Post Digital – $39.99 per month

Also, note that FT is British, not American.

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

Oh, I haven't played them for a long time, but if you have a gamepad and like twin-stick abstract minimalist shooters, I remember having fun with Kenta Cho's games, and all are packaged in current Debian-family Linux distros. They use 3d textureless graphics, will run on any system out there that can do 3d.

• gunroar

• rrootage

• tumiki-fighters

• torus-trooper

• titanion

• mu-cade

• noiz2sa

https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/

I don't see people often mentioning those, so maybe give them a bit more visibility.

Just wanted to stick something a bit more action-oriented in.

Tyrion is an old DOS shmup that was open-sourced ages back and is also in Debian-family distros as opentyrian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_(video_game)

I'd still play that.

Another old DOS game that was open-sourced is Star Control 2, in Debian-family Linux distros as uqm for Ur-Quan Masters.

That's old, but I think still fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ur-Quan_Masters

Open source does help keep games be forward-ported and playable, but I can think of at least a couple of open-source games that I remember playing that I don't see any more.

• Nighthawk, an open-source [Paradroid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradroid1 clone, was in Red Hat Linux 5.2, IIRC, but seems to have fallen out of Linux distros at some point.

• Lacewing, an Asteroids-genre game done by Linley Henzell, the guy who did Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, was definitely ported to Linux at some point, as I remember running it, but I haven't seen it in distros for a long time. A successor game he made, Overgod, does appear to be in current Debian.

I want to understand if it is possible to use WiFi just like a radio to broadcast data, without actually connecting.

Yes, at least some WiFi adapters can. Software used to attack WiFi connections, like aircrack, does this by listening and logging (encrypted) packets without authenticating to the access point, and then attempting to determine an encryption key. You can just send unencrypted traffic the way you do today, and software could theoretically receive it.

However, this probably won't provide any great benefit. That is, as far as I know, just being connected to a WiFi access point shouldn't generate much traffic, so you could have a very large number of computers authenticated to the WiFi access point -- just set it not to use a password -- without any real drawback relative to having the same machines snooping on unencrypted traffic.

WiFi adapters cannot listen to multiple frequencies concurrently (well, unless things have changed recently), so it won't let you easily receive data from more access points simultaneously, if you're thinking of having them all send data simultaneously.