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SSJ2Marx , 23 days ago

visible-disgust

SSJ2Marx , 23 days ago

It’s a bit flexible nowadays because a lot of cars will let you leave the a/c on while you walk away with the keys.

SSJ2Marx , 23 days ago

I won’t even post to Hexbear without rereading my post and editing spelling/grammar errors, how do people submit research papers that will effect their professional reputation without doing it?

SSJ2Marx , 23 days ago

Funny fact: google’s newest feature is also its best, but it’s kinda hidden and might not be available everywhere - it’s “web search”, which cuts out all the awful bullshit

SSJ2Marx , 29 days ago

Can I get some enterprising North Koreans to steal my identity so that I can put their work experience on my CV?

SSJ2Marx , 30 days ago

I lived in Japan when streaming was becoming a thing. Everything was region blocked, and DVDs were (and still are) horrendously overpriced for what you get.

SSJ2Marx , 1 month ago

We’re leftists and our site culture is pretty aggressive. Liberals are predisposed not to like us because of the first one, and we’re especially prone to arguing with them in the comments of their instances because of the second. This means we’re more well known and more disliked than we would be if we stayed in our corner.

SSJ2Marx , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

CW: extremely cringe jokeIt looks like this democracy… big-cool…has been managed. lets-fucking-go

Hopefully they restore the game in all regions where it was disabled. It went from being region free to blocked in 172 countries.

SSJ2Marx , 1 month ago

this is the ending to Men in Black (and then they did it again for the ending to Men in Black II because that film was creatively bankrupt).

SSJ2Marx , 1 month ago

surprised-pika

SSJ2Marx , 1 month ago

wow. Imagine burning out your expensive GPU for a fortnite skin.

SSJ2Marx , 1 month ago

Stealth becomes obsolete

Missile defenses get better

BVR combat becomes basically impossible

Everybody always knows where everybody else is

Sixth generation fighters Retvrn to being purpose-built dogfighters/interceptors

SSJ2Marx , 1 month ago

Oh I never said it would be humans piloting the sixth gen dogfighters. They’re gonna be drones designed to withstand sustained 20G turns to be able to get their guns on target, commanded from something like an AWACS.

SSJ2Marx , 1 month ago

This is true of current gen air combat, but I’m speculating about a future where dogfighting once again becomes the only way to achieve air superiority.

SSJ2Marx OP , 1 month ago

Left that unchecked, I’ve got 16gb ram so I don’t think that was the issue

SSJ2Marx , 1 month ago

This is true of the consumer market, but the OP asked about governments, and 90% of government computers in China run Kylin or NeoKylin, with plans to consolidate the two into a single os. This follows the overall trend of China’s tech sector seeking to replace imports (and copied versions of foreign tech) with fully domestic alternatives.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

This reminds me that I’m writing a story about a witch and one of the first things that happens is that she pisses off the mushrooms and they tell the trees not to talk to her. I should get back to that.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

Ready Player One I guess. There’s a big difference between seeing a fuckload of pop culture artifacts on screen and reading multiple pages of somebody rattling off their knowledge about them. The worst part is that RP1 doesn’t even really engage with the culture it utilizes in any kind of interesting way, it’s all just surface level references that you’d learn from reading Reddit comment sections where people quote memes at each other. The movie on the other hand kind of makes it work because the pop culture artifacts aren’t dwelled on, they’re used more like an aesthetic choice, while the main focus of the movie is on its paint-by-numbers plot.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

I do wonder how many people got hoodwinked by the film and then went to read the book only to be hit with an entire textbook of lectures from a libertarian.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

The thing is that Rowling hadn’t really thought it through yet. Having the hero save a slave is pretty clearly heroic and good, and it’s a nice way to wrap up the Dobby story arc, but then the fans were all like “wait WHAT!? there’s slaves under Hogwarts!?” and she was forced to think it through, and it turns out JK’s pretty awful so the result of her thinking it through was to make it worse.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

edited out of the episode and then the user could also download said episode where ads are cut out of the final audio file

This is your problem, because you’re redistributing someone else’s work with the ads cut out, which isn’t sufficiently transformative to qualify for fair use. Sponsorblock is allowed because it doesn’t actually interfere with the video stream, it just tells your computer when to skip ahead using YouTube’s already-existing playback features - your app should work the same way, integrating into an existing podcast platform and skipping forward based on crowdsourced timestamps, then the only thing you’re providing are the timestamps, which don’t violate copyright.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

Death to Israel, from the river to the sea Palestine will be free.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

cereal1 DOOM can’t run inside a CAPTCHA!

cereal2

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

If course Blastoise would be a cop.

Not like anarchist queen Charizard or vegan king Venusaur.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

Unfortunately the more I read the less this seems like a long overdue accounting of the video game industry’s hubris and the more it seems like someone with looking for someone to blame for their failson. These companies have literally hired psychologists to come up with ways to more effectively manipulate their players into buying their digital bullshit, and surprise surprise many of the things those psychologists have come up with are basically unregulated gambling.

I wonder if this is a false flag?

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

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SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

Scrolling through the massive list of Humble Bundle games I didn’t and still don’t care about.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

Too much information from too many places and too much of it is wrong.

Metal_Gear_Solid_2.iso

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

nationalize the cartels

Something tells me that the cartels wouldn’t just let the government do this, and then you’re right back to square one where the Mexican government is fighting against them.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

I love it when good studios do new things

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

I think they did at one point, but during the plot he’s the only one and he’s working unpaid overtime, because he warned them when he signed his original contract that the system they wanted needed more engineers and more time but they didn’t listen and then threatened him into working for free when the system wasn’t ready at the end of his original contract. This is the direct reason why he committed the corporate espionage that caused the whole park to go fubar.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

I have no doubt that for a lot of reviewers the process is extremely wasteful. But for those who make a lot of videos, they’re leaving a lot on the table if they don’t make an effort to resell their stuff - and depending on where they live they could be leaving a lot on the table if they don’t recycle it.

The big ticket items get loaned out to reviewers as part of the company’s marketing campaign. Some reviewers are blacklisted from this process (or refuse to be part of it for ethical reasons) and have to beg, borrow, or buy from their contacts in the industry/community.

If a retro reviewer lives in your town, it’s possible that they’re single handedly keeping multiple secondhand tech stores afloat. Also, if you keep a sharp eye on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace (easy if you’re doing it as part of your job) then you’ll see interesting tech appear there literally all the time.

Really prolific reviewers will do regular auctions of things that have piled up. This practice is common but they gotta be careful, as we saw when it got Linus Tech Tips into pretty hot water a few months ago when they sold something they had promised to return.

If you have a production team, then you can have people who spend their time listing and shipping out unneeded items - not to mention that people will tend to just take things that aren’t being used if they lie around long enough. On the other hand smaller reviewers tend to get big collections because they run out of people to give things to and selling stuff takes time away from video production.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

Vietnam was embargoed until the 90s, and dropping it basically allowed the soft power of the US to do it’s thing. 'Nam isn’t really an ally of the US, they consider themselves neutral, but they’re undeniably very friendly. I suspect that a generation of trade and tourism could do the same to our relationship with Cuba and might result in softening attitudes among Cuban-Americans as they reestablish contact with their families and reconcile lingering animosity from the revolution.

I think this would also work for the DPRK, Iran, and others. Trade is really nice and children are rarely willing to carry the grudges of their parents.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

It might be discussion of piracy/VPNs or something like that. China’s got rules about that stuff too AFAIK. Maybe if one of the admins can read/write Simplified Chinese they could reach out to the relevant government bureau and request clarification.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

low prices

On a Thinkpad!? Unless you’re buying a last-generation one that’s on clearance, that’s a laugh.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

Arch users

pathetic LinuxFromScratch users

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

Well yeah I guess if you’re buying a used machine from six years ago with millions in existence because every business bought them it’ll be cheap no matter what manufacturer it’s from. Thinkpads do hold up better against age than most.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

Joining the by far largest instance beats the entire purpose.

There’s kind of a tension here between Lemmy’s design and what makes most people join social media websites. Most people want the biggest, most centralized website.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game. Other family members are not impacted.

Oh man that’s gonna cause so much drama lmao

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

It offers a lot of power in a smaller and lighter package than an equivalent diesel engine, but it tells you something about how much of an advantage that really winds up being when the later Abramses all added batteries to shore up the biggest weakness of the turbine engine (large fuel consumption at idle) and the Russians went back to diesel engines with the T-90.

SSJ2Marx , 2 months ago

Both the Americans and the Soviets went to a jet turbine on their MBT at around the same time, but the Russians decided it wasn’t worth it with the next generation and went back to diesel.

SSJ2Marx , 3 months ago

Gambling I guess? Although I count cards so it’s not quite the same, but I can’t exactly explain to the people around me that I’m an advantage player when I start throwing fistfulls of cash at the dealer…

SSJ2Marx , 3 months ago

Even if WB pursues Erasure, we will Always have these games in our heart.

SSJ2Marx , 3 months ago

The Red Army stopped the Holocaust and saved the world from fascism while the western powers were playing with their dicks in Africa. They only invaded France after it became clear that Soviet victory was inevitable in order to prevent Western Europe from being liberated from capitalism.

SSJ2Marx , 3 months ago

I live near a few military bases, so enough to overrun the guardhouses and evict all the troops currently inside. I would need like 100,000 clones (one of the bases is pretty big).

Does the power clone any equipment I’m carrying? If yes then I can get a single military uniform and a box of ammo before I start - if not the initial attack will have to be a human wave that captures an armory at least.

Once I’m rolling I will unironically do the “enemy at the gates” thing by having twice as many clones as I have rifles. If the man in front of you dies, clone yourself and pick up his weapon!

SSJ2Marx , 4 months ago

That sucks. I’ve found that 90% of stuff works fine in Linux, 5% works if you jury rig it enough, and 5% just straight up doesn’t work - and if that last 5% is needed for your job, then you’re SOL. For me the few things that don’t work are worth giving up because of how much I hate Windows’ spyware and adware, and all my work apps work fine in a browser window so I’ve never had to worry about that.

SSJ2Marx , 4 months ago

If you’re in America, I wouldn’t worry about the Chinese Government spying on you, and be much more worried about the American government doing it, since they can actually use what they find to prosecute you for crimes real or imagined.

But while it is true that you could get forced into using it by social pressure, my post is about how I really don’t think that the tech has the potential for the kind of mass adoption that would create those conditions. You could be forced to use it by your job, but then when you’re not working you can take it off - compare that to the cell phone in your pocket, which they can already use to call you back into work at all hours of the day, the emails they use to get you to give them free labor outside of working hours, and the other ways in which corporations have gotten their fingers into our off time I just don’t see this as a breakthrough or a new threshold being crossed in any way.