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There are very few flaws with Blue Prince, a new indie puzzle game about exploring a mansion whose room layout changes daily — with said room placement decided by the player as they explore and discover the mysterious properties of each room and the mansion as a whole. The game does have a big problem for a certain segment of players, however, which is that it has color-based puzzles in both the Billiard Room and the Utility Closet, and there’s no setting as yet to make these puzzles more accommodating for colorblind players. Polygon has reached out to the developer to learn when the color assist mode will be available, but has yet to hear back. At this time, it’s a listed option in the game’s settings, but it’s grayed out, as it has not yet been released. This screen notes that it’s a feature that’s “currently being developed and tested and will be included in a forthcoming update. This is a priority for us, so thank you for your patience.” There is some minor good news for colorblind folks who don’t want to wait to play this game, however, which is that you don’t need to solve these particular puzzles in order to make progress or even complete the game. [Ed. note: Minor descriptions of the puzzles follow in the next paragraph. If you don’t want to know any details at all about Blue Prince’s puzzles, don’t read on.] The Billiard Room puzzle, for example, appears every time you choose that room to be included in your daily mansion layout, but you can skip the puzzle that’s in the room and keep on walking through the rest of the mansion and solving the larger mysteries in the game. Solving the daily puzzle in the Billiard Room does reward you with great (different) items every time, but these are items that you can earn through other means. The Utility Closet puzzle is a different situation in that you only need to solve it one time, and then you’re all set, and it also isn’t a puzzle you have to solve to beat the game, but it will give you a specific permanent item-related benefit if you solve it. Asking a friend for help with it might be a good move in the meantime.

We may earn a commission from links on this page.Knife blocks seem like a great idea at first. You assume there are a variety of useful knives in there, and you get a whole row of steak knives for one low price. You may not eat steak that often, and never with seven other people, but who can say “no” to so many matching knives? You, that’s who. That mass-produced knife set is unlikely to work with your unique food personality. Skip the block of cheap knives (many of which you won’t touch anyway).Instead, focus on fewer, better, personalized knives. A high-quality knife (or three) can be versatile enough to meet all of your needs without blowing your budget. Use this guide to help you pick a knife, based on your specific needs, budget, and available space.The best knife to buy if you can only have one knife…You have to start somewhere. Instead of buying four cheap knives, you’re better off putting that money into one good knife that’s versatile enough to make a lot of different cuts. (Like the six basic knife cuts everyone should know.) For a knife that provides power and maneuverability, and can chop, slice, mince, and carve, two knives stand out: the chef’s knife and the santoku. The chef’s knife Credit: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann The chef’s knife has a wide blade with a curved edge that tapers to a point, giving it the functionality of three knives in one. The wide blade with a deep heel has cleaver-like qualities, making it good for downward chopping with meats and root vegetables. The curved edge caters to a rocking motion, almost like a mezza-luna blade, which is prized for mincing and slicing. The narrow, sharp tip allows for precision carving and finer cuts, whether it’s slicing a strawberry or guiding meat off the bone. If you slice meats, chop veggies, and mince herbs, onions, and other aromatics, this is probably the knife for you.The santoku knife Credit: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann The santoku is a blade shape that originated in Japan and has similar functionality to the western chef’s knife. This knife has a wide blade with a less dramatically curved edge. The tip is noticeably different from the chef’s knife, with a more blunt, downward design. The santoku comes with a smooth blade or a Granton edge (long dimples along the side), which keep food from sticking to your knife. These features make the santoku more cleaver-like, with the Granton edge keeping meats, fruits, and veggies from suctioning onto the blade, allowing for faster, more efficient chopping. The santoku can do what the chef’s knife does, but if you find that you do a lot more chopping in comparison to carving or slicing, this might be the knife best suited for your needs. I chop and cook vegetables almost every meal, so I reach for my santoku far more frequently than my chef’s knife. Mercer Culinary M23590 Renaissance, 7-Inch Santoku Knife $43.60 at Amazon $47.19 Save $3.59 Shop Now Shop Now $43.60 at Amazon $47.19 Save $3.59 The chef's knife or santoku will be your go-to food prep, slicing, and carving knife. Whichever you choose, you want it to be capable of powerful cuts. Look for a knife with a full tang which will lead to a weightier handle. Make sure the handle and bolster are comfortable in your grip. Both of these features will allow you to control the blade better, and put some oomph behind your cuts. The chef’s knife and santoku both come in a variety of sizes, but I think smaller ones afford more maneuverability. Stick with a six- to eight-inch blade.If you can only buy three knives…Three knives will allow you to explore blades with more specific functions. One of the knives should be a workhorse–the chef’s knife or santoku. The other two should be versatile, but hone in on more specialized functions. The following two blades cover a wide variety of foods with more precise handling.The bread knife Credit: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann It might sound like the bread knife only cuts one thing, but it can break down more than a sourdough. A bread knife has a long, thin, narrow blade and a serrated edge, with either sharp or rounded serrations. It’s this feature that makes the bread knife special. Unlike the knives we’ve discussed so far, the edge punctures and saws through food to eliminate drag, and works horizontally, rather than with downward force. Use a bread knife for slicing anything that has a tough outer layer and a softer texture inside, including breads, pies, flaky pastries, eggplant, or tomatoes. Bread knives come in sizes ranging from six to twelve inches. I suggest an eight-inch bread knife to comfortably cut a broad range of ingredients.The utility knifeA utility knife, sometimes called a “petty knife,” is a medium-sized knife with a sturdy blade of about four to six inches. The blade has the same taper as a chef’s knife, but is more narrow. This makes the heel of the knife rather shallow, but overall the knife is versatile and easy to handle because of its more compact size. The utility knife is better suited to slicing and precision cutting, rather than chopping; the heel of the knife may not drop to the cutting board before your knuckles do. Utility knives come serrated or smooth, and can do a lot of the work paring knives do, thanks to their narrow design. Use this knife for slicing, deseeding, or peeling fruits and vegetables, take it on a picnic, or cut through a tall turkey club. WÜSTHOF Gourmet 4.5" Utility Knife, Black $40.00 at Amazon Shop Now Shop Now $40.00 at Amazon If you can buy five kitchen knives…If you have room for five knives in your life you can have a little fun. You already have your chef’s knife or santoku, a utility knife, and a bread knife. Consider the things you prep with those three knives, and what you wish was either easier, or faster. Maybe the utility knife is a bit too big for cutting fruit. Is breaking down a chicken clunky? You might need a more flexible blade. Fileting a lot of fish? That calls for a thin, long blade. Take a look at the following knives and pick two that will best serve your needs. The paring knife Credit: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann A paring knife is the tool you're reach for when you're hulling strawberries, peeling apples, or snacking on cheese. It’s what you want for fine, precision work. A paring knife has a short, thin, tapered blade that may or may not be angled. You can’t put a lot of chopping power behind a paring knife, it's better with small cuts. Most of its value lies in maneuverability. Usually two and a half to three and a half inches, you can use this blade for slicing small ingredients that don’t require a lot of force, like citrus or berries, peeling potatoes, or mincing onions and garlic. I have a cheap Victorinox serrated paring knife, and honestly, it’s a great size and has stayed extremely sharp even with high use. The Opinel paring knife is also a popular choice.The boning knife This knife has a unique shape and feel in comparison to the prior knives listed–it’s long and skinny, thin and razor sharp, and ranges in feel from sturdy to downright flexible. Boning knives are meant to slip under silverskin and around cartilage, to separate meat from the bone, and to get in between bone to separate joints when butchering. If your grown-up kitchen involves taking apart chicken, trimming steak, or breaking down whole fish, this is a good knife to add to your collection.The cleaver Not so subtle in stature, the cleaver has an intimidating look that might make you think it’s only for chopping meat and bones. Not so. While it is good at those things, the cleaver is a veritable multitool in the kitchen. This knife sports a wide, strong, rectangular-shaped blade with plenty of weight, and more weight means more power. Use this knife to chop through a large quantity of veggies or thick fibrous produce like butternut squash, or mow down a whole boneless cut of meat into mince. The tall, flat blade with a deep heel is good for cleanly cutting and separating bread dough, biscuits, or slicing up a finished pizza. Don’t forget the broad side of the blade; use that real estate to crush garlic, or like you would a bench scraper when transferring food from cutting board to pan.The carving knife Credit: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann A carving knife can have a long, narrow blade with a tapered tip or blunt tip, and some carving knives look a lot like overgrown chef's knives. In fact, you may be able to get away with simply using your chef's knife for carving as long as it has a long enough blade. The important thing is to have a carving knife large enough to make thin slices across wide cuts of meat. Instead of trying to navigate halfway across a flank steak or hack apart a Thanksgiving turkey, use a carving knife to make long, clean cuts in a single motion.While these are my main suggestions when you start selecting knives, take a moment to think about what you eat. The point of a knife is to make cooking easier, faster, and less work. A good knife shouldn’t make you tired or give you blisters, and it should perform well for a long time (providing you care for it). These knives will take care of most of your needs, but it’s just a starter list. If you need two santoku knives of different sizes, go ahead and get them. If you prepare one particular food a lot, like raw oysters, well then add an oyster shucking knife to your shopping list. Just don’t get a knife block. You deserve better.

The Social Security Administration is planning to stop issuing press releases and move all of its official communications to X, according to Wired. The change is happening amidst cuts at the department directed by DOGE, the organization created by Elon Musk, the CEO of X. "We are no longer planning to issue press releases or those dear colleague letters to inform the media and public about programmatic and service changes," SSA regional manager Linda Kerr-Davis reportedly told staff in a meeting. "Instead, the agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public." Like any other government organization, the SSA uses press releases to inform the public and update employees about any changes they should be aware of. That could be simpler things, like correcting the record on how the SSA's death record works, to more vital updates like changes being made to how the SSA does identity verification. The SSA using X for official announcements will do little to dissuade anyone who sees Elon Musk's presence in government as a way to benefit him and his companies. X is not most retirees' preferred social media app, nor is it reasonable to expect them to know how to make an account. Moving official communication there makes it more likely elderly people will miss important updates. That fits with DOGE's other moves, though. The department reportedly cut jobs at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has butted heads with Musk's Tesla, and has a plan to deploy a custom government chatbot.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/the-social-security-administration-is-reportedly-moving-all-official-communication-to-x-223201698.html?src=rss

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Millennials were told the 2008 recession was a “once in a generation” economic crisis. Almost two decades later, déjà vu has struck. While the U.S. market rose following President Trump’s decision to pause global tariffs on most countries—and global banks reset their recession risk assessments—lingering fears of economic collapse are driving millennials to TikTok, where they’re passing down survival tips to Gen Z. “We don’t panic during recessions, we prepare for them,” content creator and marketer Itzett Romero said on TikTok. “Listen to your millennial friends.” @itzettromero #recession #fyp #stockmarket #stockmarketcrash #politics #economy #shoppingtips #millennial #latinacontentcreator #latinos #latinas #mexicanamerican ♬ original sound – itzettromero Romero advised her 70,000 followers to “make alliances” by sharing the cost of subscriptions and bulk grocery items with friends and neighbors. “Cannot stress buying bulk and buying EARLY,” a user commented on Romero’s video. “You don’t want to be in the store when everyone is panicking.” In a separate video, TikTok user @yaptrapped, who graduated college in 2011, also emphasized sharing. “Make friends because you can share a lot,” she said. “We survived a long time like that.” @yaptrapped Just my thoughts. #recession #millennial ♬ original sound – yaptrapped Financial advice was also widely shared across various videos. In one video, TikTok creator Rach to Riches advised that people “Build up your emergency fund, you should have three to six months of living expenses saved.” Separately, Saprina Danise, a creator focused on personal finance, said she will scale back her retirement contributions. “Anything above my minimal contribution I am diverting into my emergency fund for the foreseeable future,” she said in a video. @moneywithsaprina Replying to @FAM_embroidery here’s what I’m doing with my money right now ♬ Avoid Copyright – Wolf Other popular tips offered budget-friendly recipes and grocery shopping strategies. Advice included checking your fridge before heading to the store, meal-prepping with what’s already in the pantry, buying meat in bulk to freeze, stocking up on shelf-stable goods like canned tuna, and cooking from scratch using dry ingredients like beans. Other millennial creators took a separate approach, simply sharing a glimpse of what life during 2008 looked like. “Working crappy retail jobs, making just barely above minimum wage, living at home with my parents,” user @sellingnwa shared on her TikTok. “On the weekends I was putting on business casual outfits and going to house parties.” She explained how jungle juice—a cheap liquor concoction—was served with no food. @sellingnwa 2008… what a time to be alive #recession #2008recession #millennial ♬ original sound – 📚Stephanie📚 One user commented on that video saying that millennials “know how to party on a budget.” “You wan’t to know how to survive a recession,” another user commented. She offered a quick response in the description, “Cheap booze, that’s how.”

 It’s 2 a.m. Your ultrabook is wheezing through a Blender render, Chrome tabs are multiplying like rabbits, and somewhere in a Discord thread, someone’s flexing their water-cooled RTX 4090 rig. You think, “I should’ve just built a desktop.” But here’s the twist – what if you didn’t have to? The Thunderboost eGPU Dock is what happens when the age-old tradeoff between portability and power gets blown apart. It’s a six-inch box that slips into your backpack, weighs less than your charger, and turns your modest laptop, mini-PC, or Steam Deck into an RTX-powered monster for everything from work to play to even dabbling with LLMs and GPTs. No compromises. No need to buy a second machine. Just plug it in and let it rip. Designer: ThunderBoost Click Here to Buy Now: $759 $1099 (30% off) Hurry! Only 7 of 345 units left. Inside that slim housing? NVIDIA’s mobile RTX 4090 GPU with 16GB of GDDR6 – yes, mobile, but don’t let that word trip you up. This isn’t some watered-down silicon. This chip is capable of real-time ray tracing, 8K video editing, and yes, training Large Language Models at your kitchen table. We’re talking 9728 CUDA cores in a form factor smaller than a paperback. That’s not just efficiency – it’s borderline magic. The LLM part matters more than it used to. Whether you’re tuning a small GPT model on local data, building a fine-tuned classifier for medical research, or just tinkering with AI art engines, the ThunderBoost gives you Tensor Cores without renting time on a cloud server. It’s personal compute power – sovereign and local, like the old internet – but with 2025 horsepower. And if you’re not an AI tinkerer? Cool. Fire up Cyberpunk 2077, crank it to ultra, and pair your laptop with a proper monitor, or even your handheld gaming rig. The ThunderBoost’s HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a outputs mean smooth, high-refresh gameplay. Even on devices that weren’t built for gaming. The Thunderbolt 5 interface keeps latency as low as industry standards permit. It quite literally doesn’t get faster than this! ThunderBoost’s chassis is a mix of aluminum and carbon fiber, not because it’s trying to win a fashion award, but because heat needs to go somewhere fast when you’re running a 4090 mobile at full tilt. Dual fans handle the airflow, while a dense internal heatsink pulls thermal load off the GPU like a champ. No throttling, no thermal drama – just sustained performance whether you’re rendering Unreal Engine assets or juggling three 4K monitors. And yeah, you can go vertical with the included dock, because airflow actually matters here. And the ports? It’s a Swiss Army knife for serious setups. Three USB-C, two USB-A, and a 2.5GbE Ethernet port mean your laptop becomes a full workstation the second you plug in. Thunderbolt 5 handles high-speed bandwidth like it’s coasting, while OCulink support (via M.2 if you’re feeling spicy) lets mini-PC builders cut latency even further. There’s also HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a – enough for buttery high-refresh external displays, VR headsets, or both. And hidden inside? An NVMe SSD bay, because you will need fast storage once you start diving into large projects or game libraries that don’t fit on your main drive. This isn’t a dock that rounds out your setup – it is the setup. And it’s vertical – literally. You stand it up on your desk with the included cradle, letting air flow through like a proper desktop tower. It’s weirdly satisfying, seeing this tiny vertical monolith silently feeding power to your laptop. When you’re not using it, it literally unplugs and fits into your backpack like one of those chonky Western Digital 500GB hard disks back in the day. Your laptop isn’t weak – it’s just under-equipped. Like showing up to a drag race in a Miata. It’s zippy, reliable, even stylish, but it’s not built for the quarter mile. That’s where Thunderboost slides in. It’s for the folks who don’t want to gut their setup every two years, who chose thin-and-light for portability, but still crave desktop-class power when the workload spikes. Whether you’re tethered to a corporate-issue ultrabook or holding onto a beloved mini-PC that just can’t keep up with modern engines or AI workflows, this is your performance injection. No need to migrate files, reinstall apps, or learn a new machine. Plug it in, power it up, and suddenly your old hardware feels like it took a sabbatical at NVIDIA HQ. Still, let’s not ignore the sticker shock. Early Kickstarter units start at $759, which isn’t exactly impulse-buy territory. But put it next to the cost of a gaming laptop or AI workstation, and suddenly the numbers start making sense. ThunderBoost offers variants with the RTX 4090 and the 4060 (all competitively priced so that you get the best deal), but GPUs obviously don’t come cheap. The best part, however, is they factor the current (and future) tariffs into their pricing too, which means US customers won’t have to pay a single dime extra, and EU backers don’t need to worry about extra VAT charges. The ThunderBoost ships globally starting August 2025 – if you set up a Nintendo Switch 2 fund and are now annoyed that the console’s launch is delayed, this might just be the next best splurge! Click Here to Buy Now: $759 $1099 (30% off) Hurry! Only 7 of 345 units left.The post This Plug-and-play eGPU Gives Your Laptop The Power Of An RTX 4090 with Thunderbolt 5 first appeared on Yanko Design.

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In the latest trade back-and-forth, China has surged its tariff rate on US goods from 84% to 125%, at the same time saying it won't negotiate if the U.S. continues to engage in "trade blackmail." China's Ministry of Commerce | Image credit: N509FZ at Wikimedia CommonsStarting on April 12, the Chinese government will raise tariffs on all U.S. goods by another 41%. This increase comes two days after the last increase, saw tariffs surge from 34% to 84%.In a statement released by China's State Council Tariff Commission, spotted by Bloomberg, China has declared that it will raise tariffs from 84% to 125%. It then said that because of the prohibitively high tariff level, there is no market for American goods. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums