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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are the streamed data stored in a local cache? Surely the bandwidth costs are going up to the sky with the server sending data to every single player.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s one key thing you missed: you have never bought a copy of the game on Steam! It’s always been a license. Valve simply made the fact clear now because of legal changes.

  so the next question, is this retroactive

  So the answer for this is a solid no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plants a seed of doubt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the past, fitness (and hence its proxy parameters like height and other beauty standards) correlated to the survivability of your bloodline. So it makes sense that people are programmed, to a certain degree, to admire things like tallness.

  Nowadays because of technology the correlation no longer exists, or at the very least it is much diminished. But the programming is still there right in our DNA, so as a people we should artificially override this natural instinct because it no longer serves a purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plants a seed of doubt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, tallness surely would be a preferable criteria back then! To a certain extent, it is a proxy parameter for fitness.

  I just think we can actually use evolution to explain a lot of things that we do, it doesn’t mean we should do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plants a seed of doubt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately not just America. Heightism is also prevalent in a big part of Asia.

  This is most likely one of the quirks brought to you by Survival of the Fittest rule. Thanks, evolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. I would love to have a “modernized Morrowind” experience – an RPG game that really nails the role-playing part of RPG, but without the cheesy parts of Morrowind like the unintuitive combat system – but all of us know that it’s just not gonna happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pack⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason why English sounds so different from its relatives like Dutch and German.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pdf partee⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But personal files are… personal?

  Research journals are published. Public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voyager 1⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also remember it was built with tools from the 70s. Which is probably an advantage

  Definitely an advantage. Even without planned obsolescence the olden electronics are pretty tolerant of any outside interference compared to the modern ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This also explains why VPN is a possible workaround to this issue.

  Your VPN will encapsulate any packets that your phone will send out inside a new packet (its contents encrypted), and this new packet is the one actually being sent out to the internet. What TTL does this new packet have? You guessed it, 64. From the ISP’s perspective, this packet is no different than any other packets sent directly from your phone.

  BUT, not all phones will pass tethered packets to the VPN client. Mine doesn’t! In this case, TTL-based tracking will still work. And some phones seem to have other methods to inform the ISP that the data is tethered, in which case the VPN workaround may possibly fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if it’s still the case today, but back then cellular ISPs could tell you are tethering by looking at the TTL (time to live) value of your packets.

  Basically, a packet starts with a TTL of 64 usually. After one hop (i.e. from your phone to the ISP’s devices) the TTL is decremented, becoming 63.

  What happens when the ISP receives a packet with a TTL value of 62 instead? It realizes that your packet must have gone through an additional hop, for example when it hopped from your laptop onto your phone, hence the data must be tethered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Madden should not be 70$⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And a guy sitting in their office biting nails all day is somehow much more valuable than the people developing the product. Sure, if you would believe in that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Madden should not be 70$⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If I follow your search terms, the first Google result is this. If the data were to be trusted, then most of the employees are absolutely paid much less than the “top positions”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Madden should not be 70$⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did you pull those numbers from, then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Madden should not be 70$⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am pretty sure we don’t need to raise every employee’s wages. Some of the upper management who sit in their offices biting nails, for example.

  The point is to reduce the wage inequality inside a company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Madden should not be 70$⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cut the CEOs’ pay and you’ll be able to get both