Welcome! Excited to get things going in this community. Lemmy seems to get more active by the day! Working on any projects in particular?

Love this series. Richard is the best.

You will notice a decrease in performance on the Series S. It really just depends on how much you are willing to spend. It’s hard to say how much of a difference there will be because every game and developer is different. I play MSFS on the Series X but have not tried it on my Series S yet. I would expect a decreased resolution on the Series S or some other measure of decreased performance. Maybe less anti-aliasing? However, the Series S is an unbeatable Gamepass machine for super cheap. As I mentioned below, I got my second Series S for $100 on Facebook Marketplace. Have a look at some YouTube videos that discuss this very topic. Here is a direct graphics comparison for MSFS!

I have both a Series X and two Series S consoles and bounce between them frequently depending on where I am. The Series S is a completely capable machine and I love it. If playing on a 4k screen, the Series S may have a decreased resolution (depending on how the developer made the game) as opposed to the Series X output, but it really isn’t a big deal for me. For example, playing Insurgency Sandstorm is sharper on my Series X, but the same game’s decreased resolution on my Series S doesn’t affect my gameplay at all. But if you are on 1080p displays, you may not notice much of a difference at all! I would totally buy the Series S. It’s just such a fantastic deal and such a cheap way to get into GamePass games. I bought one of my Series S consoles on Facebook Marketplace for $100. That’s an insane deal.

Right. I’m working my way through the end of the McWhorter series and have started developing some projects for around the house. The Arduino community has been awesome as far as helping a beginner put the pieces together. For example, I live on the beach and my house is on steel stilts about three feet off of the ground. In the winter, it gets very chilly and pipes have frozen before. I have developed a temperature sensor with alarms and indicator lights to give me advance warning that the temperature in the pipes under the house is approaching freezing. Thinking of monitoring the pipes both under the house and underground just above the frost line. Just need to build an enclosure. By the way, are there specific temperature sensors or thermistors that are better suited for monitoring temperatures underground? I assume I could use any sensor as long as I can wrap it or seal it in some way to protect it from ground moisture. I was thinking about a foot down into sand/dirt.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker can be a super relaxing game. You sit back and slowly disassemble massive spaceships in a salvaging yard. I love playing it when I want something mindless but relaxing. It’s nice sitting alone in the salvaging yard with the catchy music and slicing apart a bulkhead.

r/Arduino!

Also Far: Changing Tides came out recently as well. It’s the sequel to Far: Lone Sails. You’d like both of these, I think.

The first one to fall, unfortunately. The conversation the Apollo Dev had with the admins seemed pretty bleak. I’m slowly accepting that Reddit needs to die. As a Redditor, we built it. We can kill it.