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SkyeStarfall ,

Society is really doing its darndest to turn all the dystopian cyberpunk worlds into reality huh

SkyeStarfall ,

I don’t know if it’s a decade, aren’t new next-gen (or maybe it was next-next gen) foundries being built in Europe and the US? The actual machines to make the machines that make the hardware is made in Europe IIRC.

Edit: www.intel.com/…/eu-news-2022-release.html cutting edge (at their time) Intel foundries plan to come online in 4 years in Germany.

SkyeStarfall ,

Or you can just say yes. You don’t usually stop finding other people attractive when you are in a relationship

What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

What I mean is… sometimes people are very loyal to a videogame franchise or a company because they loved a game they released years ago (Silent Hill/Konami with Silent Hill 2, Blizzard/Bethesda with their respective golden eras, some could argue this happens too with Pokémon and Final Fantasy, etc). Ethical/consumer reasons...

SkyeStarfall ,

Path of exile is great because it doesn’t shy away from complexity at all, instead it does the exact opposite, it just goes balls deep. It really make for a very refreshing change to typical AAA games where your intelligence as a player doesn’t feel insulted.

SkyeStarfall ,

It truly is the worst long term “solution”. You’re not gonna make friends by bombing them, I thought that much would have been obvious.

SkyeStarfall ,

“privatized healthcare gives you the best service”

Piracy is Preservation (feddit.de)

Image description: a screenshot from the Wikipedia page for the Doctor Who TV series, with a user-added caption that reads “Preserve the media you can before it’s gone forever.” The Wikipedia article reads, “No 1960s episodes exist on their original videotapes (all surviving prints being film transfers), though some were...

SkyeStarfall ,

I highly doubt it would have cost much to preserve a few of the original tapes.

SkyeStarfall ,

Which then makes it easier for people to argue that we aren’t the good guys, rhetoric useful for possibly changing our foreign policies. It’s not ideal, but it’s something.

SkyeStarfall ,

The biggest issue to me seems to be the model struggling to put emphasis in the right places, but if that’s something you can manually tune…

Aside from that, it sounds fine. I would hate to be a VA right now. Maybe it won’t kill the field, but it will reduce a lot of job opportunities.

SkyeStarfall ,

Arch is great these days, and in my own experience rarely breaks just due to updates if you set it up correctly.

But unless you’re willing to configure a lot of stuff to your own liking, it’s probably best to use some other, more mainstream distro.

SkyeStarfall ,

You’d be surprised how many parents struggle with even basic stuff like “don’t scream at your child all of the time”. It should be easy and common sense, and yet so many fail at this…

SkyeStarfall ,

The axe forgets, the tree remembers.

Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

I usually play games on “normal” difficulty these days, for a balanced challenge. However, I don’t particularly enjoy boss fights, or at least I don’t enjoy the extra challenge associated with them. Was thinking it would be nice if games had a separate setting so I could just set boss fights to “easy”, while not...

SkyeStarfall ,

Making the boss easier after I die to it would frustrate the hell out of me unless it was optional. I want it to be a challenge, not just something I can beat if I dir enough times.

SkyeStarfall ,

In the end, it’s personal preference, and so both play styles should ideally be supported.

I love a challenge, it’s how I relax. If something isn’t challenging for me I quickly get bored and stop playing. I basically need my brain to be stimulated and thinking and trying to properly relax. Which is why I often trend towards “hardcore” or difficult/brutal games.

SkyeStarfall ,

Again, personal preference. What I consider a fun challenge you would 100% consider a slog.

SkyeStarfall ,

This depends entirely on the distribution. The distribution I run has no automatic updates by default. I do it manually.

I could easily set it up if I wanted to, but yeah. There is no consensus, it’s just case-by-case basis. Some do have automatic updates by default.

SkyeStarfall ,

There have been plenty of uproar about the crisis in Yemen, but ultimately the US didn’t budge from their support of Saudi Arabia, and then… what more is there to do?

It’s hard to build up momentum for a movement without the media on your side, and now Israel Palestine is in the news a lot, so that takes the focus. I sure would love to give more aid to stop bloodshed, poverty, and other crises everywhere.

SkyeStarfall ,

You can vote, you can voice your opinions, you can send messages to politicians in your jurisdiction, you can join protests. These will lead to change if sufficient numbers also perform these things.

If you ignore it, then yeah, nothing will happen. But even just being aware of it, and brining it to others’ attention, which may influence stuff like their vote, etc… helps.

SkyeStarfall ,

It helps to determine the response your country will give

In the israel-palestine war, the west has been heavily involved since basically the creation of Israel itself. When it comes to the Ukraine war, it’s about the aid Ukraine gets, and how we treat Ukrainian refugees.

Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space?

So I have a born again christian family member in their mid twenties who stated with complete confidence that there is a dome in the sky called the firmament and beyond it is where heaven is. She believes space doesn’t exist and rockets just blow up because the bible said so. She is not the brightest and normally I would let...

SkyeStarfall ,

You’re more patient than me. I couldn’t help myself bit to constantly talk about airlines, how the fly, shortest routes, planes going over the Arctic Circle since it’s faster, etc…

SkyeStarfall ,

Elon failed at scaling businesses. He lucked out at the start, and people think he’s a genius due to survivorship bias, but tesla is going down the drain, even if it had an extremely good position in the market. SpaceX is doing alright I suppose, but didn’t achieve many of the ambitious goals Elon said would happen, like the mars stuff, if not cancelled, then very delayed. The boring Company is a failure. Twitter is a failure. Solar roofs were a failure. Neuralink is a failure.

Employees talk about how they constantly have to tip-toe around him, and basically psychologically manipulate him to do the right thing. I think SpaceX just has really good managers that manage not the employees, but Elon himself. Whenever he gets full reign in a company, it falls apart.

SkyeStarfall ,

You don’t think new wars or escalations of them should be in the news because Ukraine is still in a war?

SkyeStarfall ,

You don’t think the war escalated? Really?

Random thought: Windows is largely successful because of Piracy

Windows as a software package would have never been affordable to individuals or local-level orgs in countries like India and Bangladesh (especially in the 2000’s) that are now powerhouses of IT. Same for many SE Asian, Eastern European, African and LatinoAmerican countries as well....

SkyeStarfall ,

Linux is designed to be able to do group policies like that very well

Remember, Linux originates back from the terminal days, and the vast majority of servers run Linux. If any OS is made to function well in large organizations, it’s Linux. Windows is popular on desktop for reasons other than better group policies.

SkyeStarfall ,

Then they wonder why people hate law enforcement lmao

SkyeStarfall ,

Except that is literally judging you from how you look. And you don’t think actual bad actors will try to trick the system?

SkyeStarfall ,

Well, sorry if it’s something I’m super skeptical towards as a minority

SkyeStarfall ,

Serverless sounds like a terrible name for this lmao.

Why not remote functions or something like that.

SkyeStarfall ,

This ignores how interconnected our logistics is on a global scale. As other nations devolve into war, not only between themselves but against the west as well of we try to stop the migration, the world logistics will get severely disrupted, from food, to resources, to everything else. How will that look?

The west is not immune to serious consequences, and it is very likely we will see living conditions severely worsen to the point of mass unrest as well. The chaos very much will end up being global.

You mentioned the high inflation, and that “life goes on”… but does it? Or does it push more and more people to the breaking point, leading to more and more dysfunctional societies, planting the seeds for serious future unrest?

These things do happen over long periods… but they do happen. I won’t pretend to know how the future will look like, but it is far too early to say that things turned out fine.

SkyeStarfall ,

Your first paragraph doesn’t really make much sense. The countries with natural resources are almost all poor countries. Africa is very rich in resources, which the wealthy nations import. Do you even know where most of our resources come from? Especially for advanced technologies like electronics?

And, again, you’re ignoring agriculture being disrupted. This is the most critical industry which is at high risk to be seriously damaged by climate change. We have already started to see the consequences, look at India stopping export of grain due to droughts, for example.

I don’t get where you get your sources of the worst affected countries, because the worst thing that can happen is crop destruction on a mass scale leading to a famine. That can easily destroy a country, and it has in the past.

Countries have been devolving into chaos before climate change. Climate change goes on top of everything else, exacerbating current problems and starting chain-reactions of consequences. The world has been growing more unstable in recent times, what do you think will happen when more fuel is thrown at the powder keg?

Thinking that we will be fine through climate change if we don’t do anything very soon is straight up delusional. There is so much that can go wrong.

SkyeStarfall ,

The truth is that blowing up pipelines or even directly threatening the lives of the elite is perfectly morally justified. The problem is that the media, which is in large part controlled by the people in power, really really fights against this. I mean, look how demonized peaceful protests are! But the companies which are effectively selling our future barely get a slap on the wrist.

It’s so frustrating too, because history is inevitably going to be on the side of protestors. Just to take examples from older movements, does anyone really fault slaves in the past for killing their masters (or abolitionists protesting violently)? Or even consider that a negative? No, we consider slavery to be incredibly inhumane and probably would say the masters got what they deserved. But at the time? You would bet it was extremely demonized by the media at large.

But indeed, we do not live in history, we live in the now, where such actions absolutely would be demonized, even if they are morally sound.

But also, there’s nothing we can do that won’t be demonized… so, maybe we should just go nuts after all?

SkyeStarfall ,

Yeah but america is just too special and so teaching evolution has that magic effect on people there.

God just doesn’t care about the other countries as much.

SkyeStarfall ,

It’s a laptop, I don’t think there is much you can do. They tend to push the hardware to the thermal limits, after which it starts to throttle.

SkyeStarfall ,

No it is pretty common, especially when it comes to safety features.

The EU has stricter requirements especially stuff like lights, and you see European models often fitted with extra lights to comply with the regulations.

Technology connections has an old video on this regarding brake lights and turn signals at least youtu.be/O1lZ9n2bxWA?si=h5I-5_BMLoFEoj1k

SkyeStarfall ,

Not having distinct brake and turning lights is

SkyeStarfall ,

Then don’t use it, but don’t complain when your experience inevitably gets worse.

I don’t get why people have such a need to be contrarians for stuff that is in their own best interest.

SkyeStarfall ,

It’s more about it being the needle that breaks the camel’s back. Windows does tons of small shitty things, and they keep adding more.

SkyeStarfall ,

Well, I personally disagree. Windows just keeps getting worse meanwhile Linux just does what I tell it to do. It feels much nicer to me.

SkyeStarfall ,

You don’t follow the pheromones of fellow humans when you lose track of home?

SkyeStarfall ,

That version had bugs especially in relation to vsync. You should at least try the newer one with some of the issues fixed

SkyeStarfall , (edited )

Yeah, honestly, the state of the game is fine. Yes, they should have taken a couple of more weeks to fix up the performance, and they definitively should have chosen more sane default settings…

But, other than that, the launch state is fine. There are no major bugs, and there is nothing too major missing. A lot of things are done and designed quite well actually, I’d say.

Just give it a month or two and then look again. There’s no rush, it’s not a story game. But I’ve been enjoying my time so far.

SkyeStarfall ,

They do invest a lot in cpu optimization. The problem here seems to be unoptimized GPU performance.

In addition, you will always struggle with CPU performance in complex simulation games with many interlocking systems. There’s only so much you can do without limiting the gameplay.

One month after experimental pig heart transplant, doctors say they see no signs of rejection or infection (www.cnn.com)

One month after experimental pig heart transplant, doctors say they see no signs of rejection or infection::One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and shows no signs of rejection.

SkyeStarfall ,

I think it’s much less fucked than growing them just for food we don’t actually need to eat, just luxury. And we do that on an absurdly large scale.

SkyeStarfall ,

rats rats, we are the rats

SkyeStarfall ,

I don’t know, considering Nazis are becoming a problem again, it’s a bad look.

SkyeStarfall ,

While Ubisoft itself is just a company seeking to maximize profits, many workers there likely do have at least some passion for what they do. It’s not unheard of that devs do small cool stuff like this.

Tested: Windows 11 Pro's On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45% (www.tomshardware.com)

Tested: Windows 11 Pro’s On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45%::Windows 11 Pro defaults to BitLocker being turned on, using software encryption. We’ve tested the Samsung 990 Pro with hardware encryption to show how the various modes impact performance, and how muc

SkyeStarfall ,

Also, is always encrypting drives even a good or desirable thing for most users?

I don’t know the details, but what if someone forgets the password, or some PC components get broken, but they still want their data put of there?

Disk encryption is something that should be a choice, opt-in.

SkyeStarfall ,

Sure, but that is by far not exclusive to energy drinks, that often have less sugar than typical sodas, even.

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