For some reason I’m on Rogue Legacy 2, cause it’s free with PS Plus Extra. Simple rogue lite, and right now life is kinds stressful so it’s nice to pick up a game that I don’t really need to think about. The mechanics are fun, and it’s been a while since I’ve enjoyed a platformer like this. Also playing Humanity from PA Plus, and it’s excellent. Almost done with it, and looking forward to trying out some of the user-made levels once I’m done with the story mode.

That’s a great and compelling case for Pittsburgh, and I think it will fit in great to the map I’m working on for this trip! Thank you for the recommendation

We don’t live in Chicago, but would use it as our starting point due to the rail connections. The biggest obstacle as I see it is the travel times, but I feel like it’s still within a doable range, as we don’t mind sleeping on the train. So our idea of “reasonable distance” might be questionable lol.

As far as destinations, we are interested in visiting Philadelphia, DC, NYC, and maybe Boston, which all have decent transit networks and a downtown core where we could book hotels near train stations, etc. We also aren’t afraid of using buses in cities we don’t live in, and a certain degree of transit trial and error to get around.

Some destinations are likely going to require some uber trips or other creative solutions to get around, like Niagara Falls and Cincinnati. And I have some family near Albany NY who we’d probably go to stay with for a bit, and would depend on them driving us around in the area. But aside from that, the east coast cities I’d really like to hit seem like they are the closest we could approximate to the sort of trip we wish we could take. It just seems counterproductive to take a plane to Europe to then take trains around.

This barely qualifies as a hobby, but at some point I decided to learn how to count in binary on my fingers. It’s handy if you need to hold a number in your head for a bit and can’t write things down, or to count past 10 visually on your fingers for somebody. There are probably YouTube videos on it. I literally can’t remember where I learned, but I practiced a lot when bored in church. It’s relatively non-disruptive and practicing can eat a decent amount of time.

0 materials. Just takes time. Literally free.

Very cool project! I’ll admit my first thought was “not worth the trouble to fix” but I appreciate being challenged. The final product kept the knives out of a landfill and seem to be working great for you!

Since it’s browser-based, do you have a setting that auto refreshes your cookies, or are you using a privacy mode browser?

As a former Apollo user, using wefwef for lemmy has made adoption so easy. 10/10, it’s basically an Apollo clone in-browser and has been working great. https://wefwef.app/