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  • And even if you delete a comment the API will still provide the message content as due to federation shenanigans it's actually just hidden. If you need to remove something, edit and redact the message first.

  • That's actually nothing new, it's been like that with family sharing for ages. If the family share account gets banned, the owner of the game gets banned as well* so that they can't keep making alt accounts to bypass the ban. Others in your family not being impacted by the ban would actually be an improvement - it used to be that if the owner is banned, anyone family sharing the game would be as well.

    *There are exceptions with a few games, like Dark Souls 3, which doesn't ban your main account so you can use family share to play mods in coop. Elden Ring bans both, however.

  • Also check if you have TMC drivers and if they have Stealthchop enabled, it can cause these types of issues. Especially for the extruder motor.

  • The question wasn't "Is it efficient or cheap", it was how much energy is in a battery, and if and for how long would it run a fridge. If you also want to add one more point to why you probably shouldn't do it, car starter batteries don't generally like to be deeply discharged, you'd want to get a marine battery for that use.
    As for how much the inverter would cost, depends on the fridge, but Amazon has a 1000W inverter for around $85, that should be enough for most. Ours could run from a 300W one, they cost around $30. Pretty handy devices if you want to run any kinds of electronics from a car anyway, I have one for when I want to charge my laptop and RC batteries on the field.

  • Extrusion variance and bad tolerance filament will also exhibit the exact same looking issues, not just poor Z alignment.

    Just to be sure, you have z-hop disabled? That can cause all kinds of issues if the gantry isn't absolutely perfect.
    Another thing would be making sure all variable line width printing options are disabled, I.e ones that try to fill gaps with thicker lines or print thinner lines faster to stretch the filament.
    And finally, melt temperature oscillations, making sure every feature - outer/inner walls and infill - are printed at the exact same, slower, speed.

    As for actual z issues, if the bed/gantry isn't freely moving and has even a slight bind on the screws/axis, it can miss microsteps. One rather harsh troubleshooting tip is to reduce z-microstepping to a lower value, as that gives it more torque per step and usually you do not need the z to move anywhere near as gradually as some microstepping setups theoretically might allow.

  • All are still on WebKit, as that's all Apple has allowed so far. Having other engines running on iOS is still far off, if it ever happens as it's a ton of work.

    Especially as iirc it would only work for EU users anyway, because Apple is being as huge of a dick as it possibly can be.

  • Watt hours are watt hours. Sure the compressor won't run on 12 volts as is but the energy is there, just needs a converter.

    Fwiw, our 15 year old fridge uses around 1000Wh per day.

  • Humans had to learn that the hard way in multiple places, unfortunately.

  • It's pretty fine until act 3 when the sheer amount of NPCs running around max out the CPU usage and drop the FPS down below 20 pretty much no matter what graphical settings you try to run as there is just no power left for the GPU.

    OTOH, BG3 is a turn based game so low FPS isn't an obstacle for playing it, it's more of a visual nicety, like higher resolution or clearer textures, itself.

  • And if there is a need to write text, it has to pop up the in screen keyboard automatically. Which afaik means "you have to implement the Steam Input API", unless there is some hacky workaround for that. But in any case, it's something the dev has to do specifically for Deck support, it doesn't just happen.

    Icons actually can just happen, as quite a few games use libraries that already have the SD icons included if it detects the controller type.

  • The logic behind the concept originally made sense, they manufacture just one car with all the features as that reduces manufacturing overhead by a ton, much more than what they would save by having one with heated seats and one without (especially when multiplied by all the possible configurations), but instead of only providing the model at the price point with all of them enabled, they disable some for the cheaper models - this is possible because car prices aren't really based on how much they actually cost to manufacture.

    This then lead into allowing people to pay to enable the features later if they wanted to, because why not, they are already there. Iirc Tesla was one of the first to do this with unlocking range, performance and "self-driving" stuff.

    And finally it morphed into a subscription option because hey, if you only need heated seats a few months a year, why pay for the others? Only $10/month! And $15 for that, and $5 for that, and...

    Same goes for this Audi, the subscription is an option if you buy the lower spec model and then later don't want to pay the full price to enable the features permanently.

  • Would be neat if Google got caught with a GDPR violation, the max fine is 4% of your global revenue, which for Google would be 12.2 billion.

    So far the biggest has been Meta who was hit for 1.2 billion.

  • The moderation effort required to clean up these ads must be massive.

  • Oh the days when anyone could download wall hacks and aimbots from a random forum and run them, those were truly great times. It was really nice starting a match in CS and getting shot every time you showed a pixel of your head anywhere. The TF2 sniper bot thing few years back really brought a nostalgic tear to my eye as well.

    Anticheat sure sucks, but without them any game with global matchmaking and not a tightly knit set of community run servers with a very active moderation ready to wield the banhammer would literally be unplayable, as people are assholes.

  • And we've mostly hit the limit of usable maximum sizes. For like the last two decades you could upgrade your TV to the next bigger size every few years for the same money you paid for the last one.
    I remember starting with a maybe... 21" LCD TV back in 2005ish, and for that money today I could get like 70" TV. I don't have space to fit one that large, nor do I have any need for it even if I could.

  • That is why they keep getting more and more invasive. When they run at kernel level all the time, like Vanguard, it's almost impossible to prevent detection and they can then ban you at a literal hardware level based on your motherboard & CPU identifiers.

    You still encounter cheaters every once in a while because they don't immediately ban them, as that would give hints as to what exactly was detected and when.

  • Major part of it is that some people differentiate hard between rogue-likes and lites, and others simply do not, and the two will never get along with each other. The thing being that if there are any type of permanent upgrade/unlock systems that makes the game easier the more you play, it is not like rogue, where instead of grinding for more max hp or dodge percentage, you "grind" knowledge and experience as a player.

    Which means that there are very, very few actual roguelikes because upgrade systems are just so cool (tm) and every game obviously needs one. Or three.

  • Mercury Nitrate

    Which, should be noted, is not the mercury show in the picture. Mercuric nitrates are a white/yellow dry powder that is the result of mixing mercury with nitric acid. The process of making mercuric nitrates, and carroting itself, both result in rather toxic fumes that you really should not breathe in.

    Handling liquid mercury is basically almost harmless as it absorbs through the skin really slowly and doesn't produce much vapours. Putting it in acid, heating it up, and putting the cloth treated with it in an oven is not.

  • If it was that easy more governments would have political parties that were fighting for all of that in power, most of the world does have some sort of democracy where the people get to choose. But it's extremely rare, because people don't vote for them as all the things that need to be done right now are really annoying. Fewer cars, more smelly public transport, expensive green energy, higher taxes, no cheap flights to holidays?!
    This climate change thing prolly isn't such a bad thing, and if it is, we can do it later, and if we don't who cares, we are gonna be dead anyway.

    Here in Finland, the Greens lost 7 seats dropping to just 13 out of 200 in last years election, for example. Who won? The right-wing populists who are reducing the tax on petrol and trying to increase taxes on electric cars, for example. Yay....

  • If you can survive 95F at 100% humidity, you can survive 160F dry heat. No biggie. Roughly around 6 hours until you are dead in both cases though.

    "At wet bulb temperatures above 35°C (95F) researchers estimate that even fit people will overheat and potentially die within 6 hours. Although that temperature might seem low, it equates to almost 45°C (113F) at 50% humidity, and what it would feel like 71°C (160F) using the U.S. National Weather Service heat index."

    https://www.science.org/content/article/lethal-levels-heat-and-humidity-are-gripping-global-hot-spots-sooner-expected