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- Comment on The Crew from Ubisoft gets revived thanks to the The Crew Unlimited project 4 days ago:
Same, picked it up on a whim a few months before the shutdown, couldn’t put it down. They got the tone perfectly, and the map is really good, and their progression system actually requires you to play the game. It felt magical, like a NFS World sequel of my dreams, the only downside was trying to set up steering properly.
Then i tried the crew 2, and haven’t tried it since, just doesn’t feel as good. - Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 weeks ago:
Makes sense, blurays are at like 50MB/s read, at least you could keep the disc and share it
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s a bit too big to be just the OS, they have like 50GB of built-in stuff (share factory+astro but you can uninstall both). It’s probably something sensible like 60GB but they’re playing it safe by doubling the reserved space. It’s Sony after all
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 weeks ago:
You lose some because 825GB refers to 825.000.000.000 bytes, divide by 1024 and you get 768GB usable space. In the early days of ps5 there was 667GB left over after OS and stuff
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 weeks ago:
You can still get modern games on a bluray, but people started valuing convenience in the moment over everything else. That’s why digital-only consoles got so huge, on top of being cheaper.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 weeks ago:
I mean… you can still use physical media for games, just prepare for it to be awfully slow unless it’s like a tiny indie game or something low-fi. As for the console makers, they still offer non-digital models. Idk who’s “they” in this instance,
- Comment on Exposing the billion dollar secret most VPN companies don't want you to know 4 weeks ago:
It’s almost like a way to sell a proxy service to a new audience, so many people only use it for geoblocking and think it’s all there is to it, kinda sad
- Comment on Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t the try something similar in 2042 but on their own servers?
- Comment on Anon watches youtube 5 weeks ago:
Stopped reading after “if it’s promoted by YT it’s not worth watching”, that shit is based on your recently watched channels if your account settings aren’t all fucked up.
If you turn off history - yeah, you’ll get default recommendations and those are cancer. Probably the only good reason to turn history on. Even then, it’s a bandaid on a horrible UI that gets worse every update. - Comment on Seen in a public bathroom. What am I missing? 1 month ago:
It’s a screenshot from a vertical video, it doesn’t look much better anyway, I linked it in this thread
- Comment on Seen in a public bathroom. What am I missing? 1 month ago:
There’s a video of a guy looking at both of those statues, linked it in my other comment while I’m looking for a higher res version. Too stable for ai
- Comment on Seen in a public bathroom. What am I missing? 1 month ago:
It’s not a normal bathroom, found it on some random website, doesn’t seem like a typically planned room lol
- Comment on There are too many cases where this applies or is going to apply 1 month ago:
I meant OD
- Comment on There are too many cases where this applies or is going to apply 1 month ago:
There should be like a global PSA on how painful dying from paracetamol really is
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 2 months ago:
If you think about it, they’ve been doing that for a while with experimental life extending stuff, of course now they’re a bit more likely not to die with modern medicine being so good
- Comment on LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th 2 months ago:
Not having DRM is better for piracy. So in a way they’re helping “true preservation” more than other platforms that allow DRM.
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 2 months ago:
Yep, that one. I saw it on their telegram first, they make a similar system for quads too
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 2 months ago:
Ptashka Systems make a reusable one. A bit more expensive but the net cartridges themselves are less than half the price of Tenet’s launcher. Same net size too.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 2 months ago:
You don’t have to accept pairing, if both devices are discoverable they can see each other. It doesn’t have to be some app, you can be discoverable with 0 apps installed. That’s what I’m talking about with rudimentary tracking.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 2 months ago:
Anyone with a spectrum analyzer can see people using their earbuds, they can’t deduce any useful information from that. Several analyzers? Yea, can triangulate signals, so what. They still can’t know for sure who they belong to, since BT doesn’t transmit identifying info unless you’re pairing (aka discoverable), and even then it can be randomized.
Also I posted in in a different comment but I’ll leave this here too.
I can get a lot further from my phone than I’d be from the drink machine in who knows how many fast food spots before service drops.
A typical fast food restaurant has dozens, if not hundreds of wifi and bt devices. Nothing surprising when your phone has to fight to get loud enough for your buds.
From a quick search, bluetooth classic has 79 channels, and if there’s 2.4Ghz Wifi in use, it has 14 in damn near the same frequency range.
If you’re worried about tracking - there are far easier ways to do that than hope your BT devices are discoverable and then try and match the (possibly randomized) device IDs to you.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 2 months ago:
Depends on the device, there was a story recently of a Nissan infotainment system that was perma-pairing as long as you had the options screen open afaik. If your earbuds are pairing close by, as is the machine - you can probably make some rudimentary motion tracking. Gonna be inaccurate as hell though, and it relies on both devices permanently being in pairing mode.
I can get a lot further from my phone than I’d be from the drink machine in who knows how many fast food spots before service drops.
This part though is way easier to explain with interference. A typical fast food restaurant has dozens, if not hundreds of wifi and bt devices. Nothing surprising when your phone has to fight to get loud enough for your buds.
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 2 months ago:
Most likely works, since evaporation helps keep your temps down
- Comment on “When the fun stops, stop.” Addiction experts consider the rise of gambling in the U.K. a test case 2 months ago:
They have a lot of money to pay for ads and most platforms showing them have no morals. Money doesn’t smell and all that.
- Comment on ‘Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered 2 months ago:
They stuck the model Y’s new added front camera right under the “grille” shape (where the black trim ends and body colored panels begin), so the rest of it being so bland doesn’t have an excuse. The rest of it’s front cameras are under the front glass, they could at least make an interesting fascia, even if they had to keep the dimensions roughly the same
- Comment on ‘Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered 2 months ago:
Looking at their recent facelifts, I don’t think they have many good designers left
- Comment on Ok so it's that second time of the week to post this hit classic 2 months ago:
I’m happy that the people who built tools of terror (that are of particular significance to me) are getting fucked. I’m not happy which way/fashion they’re getting fucked. We’re on the same page here.
I’m not gonna write paragraphs about the nature of oppression and theory of state building, I don’t think that’s gonna help anyone. Simply stating my feelings about one particular oppressor. I don’t even know if they’re gonna be dethroned. But I do know the people of that country (and those of perpetrating ones) have infinitely more power over their future than my words on here. And actions support neither side.
- Comment on Ok so it's that second time of the week to post this hit classic 2 months ago:
That’s not how it works.
How what works? My feelings about the situation?
- Comment on Ok so it's that second time of the week to post this hit classic 2 months ago:
I’m glad that at least one oppressor gets to the “find out” part. I’m sad it’s not mainly the people they’ve been oppressing that are doing it.
Let’s hope that changes when it’s the others’ turn.
- Comment on Borderlands 2 is free to claim and keep on Steam 3 months ago:
Pirates keep winning
- Comment on The future of warfare is now 3 months ago:
wow you’re such an empath