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Harassing specific devs may mean those devs don't push back, but being open source means anyone else hosting it can trivially counter claim bullshit DMCA nonsense.

It doesn't take any tech literacy. There's no infringement and precedent out the ass that things far closer to the line are legal. There's no need for a novel interpretation of anything. The project doesn't contain their IP.

I had a lot of games on PS4 where the difficulty isn't "why" I stopped, but the lengthy loads when I died was.

I'm perfectly happy dying a bunch of times in a row, provided the deaths are fair and consistent. I have a big issue with waiting 5-10 minutes to replay a section that doesn't last meaningfully longer than that.

Getting a PS5 let me go back to a lot of those games and properly enjoy the brutal difficulty without the headaches.

That is not a rational goal by any stretch of the imagination.

I definitely scroll for web pages, but my ebook reader apps all give the option to do scrolling and I can't stand anything but pages for a book, so I get it.

(I do do most of my reading on eInk, so obviously scrolling wouldn't work there. But I don't do it exclusively. I read some on my phone and iPad as well and scrolling books feels awful.)

I don't think it's an extra display.

If you have a 4K display, you can still have that display accept a 1080p signal. You can do this because the GPU isn't controlling the display. It's merely sending an image to the display 60 (or 120, or 144, etc) times a second. This passes through a chip that's part of the display that is able to turn that feed into the signals to each sub pixel and tell them how bright to be. Monitors generally don't really process much, but TVs often do additional processing to (in theory) make the image look better. This is the level this MSI display is going to be processing and adjusting the image at. (I've glossed over a lot of details here, and am not pretending I understand all of them. But in broad strokes, this is what's happening)

Screen captures by your computer don't see any of the adjustments your display makes. They just see the image you send to the display. They have no way of knowing if your display is cranking saturation through the roof, inserting gross fake frames it's calling "true motion" or whatever, blasting the shit out of brightness and blowing out highlights, etc. They don't actually know what the final output looks like. They only know what they send.

Yeah, the last of us is an example of a game with a moderately compelling story.

But it's also a game that does a really good job of offering brutal difficulty in a way that's fair, engaging, and makes success all (OK, mostly) about you. There aren't really cheap fails. If you approach encounters intelligently and execute your actions, you will succeed. If you don't, you get punished. The mostly is because resources are scarce and there's some RNG to drops, so if you're too low, some harder encounters can vary in difficulty based on the ammo that you get.

If that's not what you want, that's fine. But I read books and watch TV for stories. I play games for mechanics. Is it nice when a game like Horizon makes a character like Aloy really compelling by having her have to present advanced tech to primitive tribalist cultures? Sure. But if the mechanics weren't good, writing couldn't even sort of mitigate that for me.

I'm willing to bet your Walmart underwear will be grimier in six months than regularly correctly laundered higher quality underwear far older.

You'd think if it was they'd be pointing to that.

As far as I'm concerned "you must have parental consent until 18" is perfectly legitimate, because you can't really sign contracts or fully legally consent until then.

I absolutely agree, but "you need parental consent to have an account" doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

Nintendo can't get emulators that actually are for the primary purpose of bypassing their restrictions (even if doing so on legitimately purchased games is perfectly legal) shut down, and this company thinks they can close a fucking reader because it's possible some people might use it with pirated copies of their IP?🤣

I put them on my OLED when it had brand new joycons pretty much right away. The joysticks on brand new joycons are still awful.

I use binbok I found on Amazon. They're a huge upgrade IMO. The joysticks aren't a trainwreck like the joycons are even before drift, and the shape is much better for handheld use.

I'm all for "8GB is horseshit". There's a reason it's built onto the chip though. But past that the idea that having multiple levels of performance is bad is stupid.

And so is the idea that 4 grand on a laptop that will meaningfully save you work time is a huge deal. It it's a hobby that doesn't make you money, just let it be slower.

Those keyboards are designed to be used with your thumbs while holding it from the side. They don't really function any other way. You can't reach the keyboard from the side because of the width of the controller. There's no possibility whatsoever that the device will balance if you hold it from the bottom where your thumbs could theoretically reach, ignoring that your thumbs also don't bend that way.

It's quite possibly the least ergonomic device ever made.

Linux is used a lot, though, in a lot of high value situations (servers).

Yep. I can't read.

Thanks.

That's helpful extra context. Then hard to argue Boeing didn't shit the bed too.

The reason I added the "if" is because I didn't see any information about age and don't know the specifics of the engineering/specs. Bolts needing the be checked annually and tightened every 5 on average could be perfectly reasonable with how much stress is on airplanes. There's a reason frequent inspection is enforced more heavily on airplanes, and it's not just because failures mean potentially falling out of the sky.

But yeah, it's entirely possible they fucked up, but it's for sure United Alaska did.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is leading an investigation into the incident, said pilots had reported pressurisation warning lights on three previous flights made by the specific Alaska Airlines Max 9 involved in the incident.

As bad as it is if a manufacturing issue caused a piece to fall off an airplane, there's a huge amount of negligence in an airline continuing to fly an airplane that has triggered pressure warnings multiple times without investigating and resolving the issue.

lol at the sliding form factor for a keyboard you can't reach.