Jesus_666

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[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Steam tends to have massive issues with permissions for games on NTFS partitions. You might've run into that.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, but by threatening Denmark, Trump can make it so that the USA no longer get to have military bases on Greenland while also driving the narrative that more guns are needed, which no doubt makes some of his buddies very happy.

His behavior makes a lot more sense if you don't assume he has his country's best interests in mind.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Even ignoring the police officers, aren't there clear rules for what to do when traffic lights are turned off?

In Germany, an inactive traffic light means that traffic control reverts to any present traffic signs (stop/yield/priority road). If none are present, the default rules for entering an intersection apply (which in Germany are to yield to any traffic coming from your right).

All of those rules already must be implemented for autonomous driving so why the hell couldn't they implement a hierarchy?

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that LSD takes away your ability to ignore things. That applies to things around you, hence the feeling of enhanced perception – your brain no longer filters out all the things cracks in the sidewalk that you normally ignore. This is independent from the hallucinations, of course.

But it also applies to all those thoughts you've been ignoring. Hence the life-changing insights people report having; in your case I think you were subconsciously aware that you should quit drugs but didn't want to confront that thought. LSD made you confront it.

(By the way, that's also why I think people with unresolved trauma should be very careful around LSD. Being forced to deal with your repressed shit all at once can go very badly depending on what you're repressing.)

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

At the time people welcomed it; Trident really was terrible. However, since then Gecko's marketshare has fallen into the single digits on account of Mozilla's terrible governance. WebKit isn't exactly a big alternative, either (and is often regarded as the new Trident in terms of web standard adherence). Opera used to have Presto but nope, that's also Chromium now.

That means we're now stuck in a situation where an advertising company controls how the web works for 75% of all users. And they're happily abusing that power.

I'm rooting for Servo and Ladybird as new entrants into the market but both are small projects trying to challenge a multi-billion dollar industry titan who wants the web to be as complex as possible so that only they and their token competitors can exist.

We might actually have been better off with Microsoft trying to keep Trident relevant.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The reviews are a part of the community, even if they're not found in the "Community" part of Steam.

But yeah, EGS has many failings, pretty much all of which were pointed out right at the start. They weren't improved upon because Epic don't want to deliver the best possible experience or promote the capability of the PC as a gaming platform. They just want you to buy digital shit, get bored of it, and then buy more digital shit at the lowest possible cost to them. Effort costs money so they won't make any.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I do get pestered about mine, including full-screen popups about it. If I do agree to view it I get an error screen because they couldn't collect that data due to my privacy settings.

You'd think they could check for that before bombarding me with disruptive popups. (Then again, Discord is 50% disruptive popups these days so it's par for the course.)

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's about PMMA sheeting (aka plexiglass), right?

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Where I live fall is basically a completely random mix of anything between +15 °C and dry weather (but the ground is still wet from yesterday) and rain at +1 °C, with nights being anything between +10 and -5.

Winter is basically two months of damp +2°C days followed by a February with actual snow that nobody is really happy about because it happens at the worst time possible.

Spring is nice. Then summer rolls around with temps between 30 and 40 °C because of climate change. It's still better than fall and winter.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, poppers are various alkyl nitrites. Hydrofluoric acid is a different thing altogether. It has no psychoactive properties but will give you nasty chemical burns.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know if they get a share or if they get a flat payment for every device that has crap preinstalled. Either way, not doing it would reduce profits and therefore go against the interest of the shareholders who would then have grounds to the CEO for failing to do their job.

I'm very much unhappy with how that works but it's a consequence of how publicly traded companies work. Companies that make it their legally binding goal to maximize shareholder gains attract more investors, have more money, and are thus more effective in increasing their market share. Over time they outcompete their rivals until the market is dominated by maximally profitable companies.

At that point, shit-free products are only available if there is a clear indication that they will generate more profit than shitty products. And the handful of major players will happily collude to make sure only shitty products enter the market, increasing profits for everyone. Welcome to cartelville, population: the three companies that make up 95% of the world market.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It might but most devices only use HDMI. DP is pretty much only used by PCs.

Maybe the GPMI consortium decides to make their standard open; that might help. But I don't see DP catching up to HDMI; HDMI is too entrenched.

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