Or you can mess with the player. Someone turns up chasing them for child support.

There’s no such thing as stopping processor degradation, it’s just that it usually takes so long that nobody cares anymore.

It’s also possible to have voltage issues on a device with multi-cell batteries.

My laptop charges on a type-C charger, but only if it can get 15+ volts. If it’s a 12V charger, that isn’t enough to push a charge into its battery. It will run on 12V but won’t charge at all, even if it’s off.

Respond to the player with a question, “Are you searching for traps?”

Hey, have you guys heard about this Linux thing?

TIL there’s an Amazon app store.

That’s due to battery prices. You can’t pay $25,000 for a battery, put it in a shitbox and sell it for $30,000 because nobody’s going to buy a $30,000 car with the features and quality of a $5,000 car. Batteries can only be maybe a third of the cost of a car, so everyone’s been targeting the top of the market with expensive EVs.

The good news is, battery prices are continuing to plummet each year. When you have $2,000 batteries, $12,000 cars are doable.

I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but hydrogen fuel cell vehicles do have batteries. You can’t put energy captured from regen braking back into the fuel cell, so either you have a battery or you lose a third of your range.

Fuel cell EVs can’t be fitted with charging plugs for religious reasons.

Once or twice I’ve gone and found another source for the download, copied it into my torrents folder, forced my torrent client to re-scan the file and started seeding it.

Watching a thousand other clients tick over from 99% to ‘seeding’ is weirdly gratifying.

If you’ve got shields and antigravity, do you still need aerodynamics?

In this situation one of the players is going to immediately describe to the others what he saw, so it isn’t really a secret. It does make the player who got the image describe it to the people who didn’t see it though, which is a nice little bit of roleplaying.

Secret rolls are a thing when it’s appropriate. You try and work out whether someone’s lying to you, you shouldn’t know how high the roll was.

Your distro is crap, mine is awesome.

What distro do I use? I don’t see how that’s relevant. No, I don’t need to know what you use either.

Edit: we all secretly know that Hannah Montana Linux is the best.

Yeah, I looked up the price because I’ve been thinking of replacing the basic tablet I bought a couple of years ago.

The Pixel tablet is six times the price. Desperate my ass.

That OP, he’s a really hoopy frood who knows where his towel is.