DdCno1 @ DdCno1 @beehaw.org

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You must have clearly missed the enormous damage the far right has caused in Eastern Europe in particular. "Allowed to exist" makes you sound like a conspiracy theorist, as if there was a shadowy power in charge.

Here's your +100 social credit score, loyal citizen.

Do you really think that had AI been available to apparatchiks in Communist countries, they wouldn't have used it to advance their careers?

The problem isn't capitalism, it's human nature, regardless of the system. Incentivize behavior that is beneficial to the individual (even if just in the short term), but not society as a whole and people will engage in it. It doesn't matter if there's a democratically elected leader, monarch or first party secretary at the helm of the nation.

But what about America...

Thanks, I'll give it a go!

Simon Tatham's Puzzles is my go-to. No art to speak of, but it just does what it's supposed to and you'll quickly find a few favorites. No fluff, no ads, nothing to annoy or distract from the gameplay.

People on Steam are complaining about their antivirus freaking out about this game. While that's the PC version, this isn't exactly a good look, especially not on a F2P game.

Not to mention, schools and universities previously had to allocate more time to additional classes praising Xi's genius, which should be self-evident, given that under his perfect rule, millions died of COVID.

/s, just in case

Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things. He has already achieved exactly what he wanted with this murder, shining a spotlight on the criminal racket that is privatized healthcare in America.

How mature is the game? Can it be recommended to players looking for a complete experience or are there still many bugs and obviously unfinished features?

changing region lock app stores to china

This wouldn't work, given that TikTok isn't allowed in China. This cyberweapon is only meant to be used against foreigners. Either way, don't help them and instead actively dissuade them from trying to keep their addiction alive.

No, that's not what they are talking about. Even if you set the video to 1080p and make sure that YouTube isn't lowering it to a lower resolution, it still won't look very good.

Whether you notice or not depends on how perceptive you are, the quality of your eyesight and also the size and quality of your display. It's hard to notice on a low-grade laptop screen (or smaller), as well as a cheap TN panel monitor, but go beyond around 20" and use a decent enough IPS panel and those blocky compression artifacts are hard to miss.

AVI is a container, not a codec. An AVI container can contain video encoded with any kind of codec (unlike some other container formats, which are more restrictive). If you want to, you could put e.g. a VP9 or AV1 video stream (so the ones that YouTube is using) into an AVI container. In theory at least, if you uploaded an AVI file containing VP9 video, YouTube could just extract it from the container and stream it as is, but they'll still re-encode it. Before you think that all of this talk of modern codecs in AVI containers is theoretical, AVI is used a a standard for archiving with some institutions, so it's more relevant than you might think.

However, you are partially right in that AVI can not be used for streaming, not just by YouTube, but in general, since this requirement obviously wasn't taken into account when it was introduced in 1992 and thus not incorporated into this standard.

There's something else that hasn't been mentioned yet: Video games in particular have been so detailed since the eight generation (XB1/PS4) that 1080p with its significant compression artifacts on YouTube swallows too many of those fine moving details, like foliage, sharp textures, lots of moving elements (like particles) and full-screen effects that modify nearly every pixel of every frame.

And no, you will not get a less sharp image by downsampling 1440p or even 4K to 1080p, on the contrary. I would recommend you take a few comparison screenshots and see for yourself. I have a 1440p monitor and prefer 4K content - it definitely looks sharper, even down to fine-grain detail and I did the same when I had a 1200p screen, preferring 1440p content then (at least as soon as it was available - the early years were rough).

If you are noticing high CPU usage at higher video resolutions, it's possible that your GPU is outdated and can't handle the latest codecs anymore - or that your operating system (since you're on Linux based on your comment history) doesn't have the right drivers to take advantage of the GPU's decoding ability and/or is struggling with certain codecs. Under normal circumstances, there should be absolutely no increased CPU usage at higher video resolutions.

These adjustments are mandatory in the EU. Keep in mind however that the intended use for this angle adjustment is for when the rear axle of your car is under full load and the headlight pointing upwards. You should not adjust the headlights otherwise. Especially at higher speeds, you need to be able to see far enough ahead in the dark.

As a vegetarian, this kind of reminds me of what I'm going through sometimes. Eating out in particular can be annoying, with most meal options in most restaurants containing meat.

No and thankfully not.

That company was a series of disasters, some of which I averted, which I was thanked for by being fired when I got sick, because many of the disasters were the fault of the boss who felt his personal honor besmirched (or something) by the trainee fixing his mistakes, including finding out (during my first week working there - the ink had barely dried on the contract) that his cobbled together backup system for the entire company had never ever worked (and never been tested). I fixed it in a few minutes, not that I was thanked for it.

Are you not using a software out of principle if it's proprietary?

Or much less, if this thing was being decommissioned, which isn't that unlikely.

On a related note, I once spent much of a summer internship in a dimly lit basement, prying open hard drives and smashing the platters with a hammer. There's a surprising amount of variety in regards to how brittle those are: Some are like glass, whereas others are remarkably elastic and resilient.

Both lasted for around seven years. Not great, not terrible.