exscape @ exscape @kbin.social

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Top Gear did fake a Tesla running out of battery though... so I can see why they'd be pissed about that. They started pushing it to the garage when it had 20% battery remaining. And said "they never claimed it ran out of battery". I think many viewers got a different impression.

Well, almost no losses. No resistive losses. Should still lose some because of electromagnetic fields surrounding the cabling interacting with the environment.

He was a big fan of freedom of speech of all kinds. That doesn't in any way suggest he possessed child porn. Read the entire page and it becomes quite clear that he is literally just listing laws that make certain kinds of data illegal.

I strongly disagree that CSAM should be legal, but the point that honest people have their lives ruined by being accused of possessing it, or by having normal images of their children, is certainly true.

It's also the last of the points, which he ordered from least to most controversial.

It's the first game to actually use DirectStorage for something useful (that might be impossible without it), so I think it counts as a showcase on PC as well.

How is that a contradiction?

The Open Internet (OI) is a fundamental network (net) neutrality concept in which information across the World Wide Web (WWW) is equally free and available without variables that depend on the financial motives of Internet Service Providers (ISP).

Open is not the opposite of private. You can have an open internet where your information is not shared with third parties, i.e. private.

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Joined June 2023

I don't think that's the original account.

The Android source code is available, but unfortunately that doesn't mean that all phones are based solely on that source code. Almost all vendors (including Google) have closed-source additions to it.

There are indeed people who agree with you. I do in principle too, but I can't say this is something I think about much, which is probably how much people who even understand the issue feel. And most people don't have a clue the issue exists.

Google could ban F-droid on some phones, but not all. OEMs could overrule Google on such things with their custom Android builds, and even if they didn't, users could create their own ROMs to solve the issue for rooted devices.

Most phones use customized versions of Android and decide you shouldn't have root access. It opens up security issues and makes it easier to bypass ads and DRM which they don't like.

You can get it on some phones, including Google's.

The name, and domain. It will be x.com with the X logo, and no birds anywhere.

"Nowadays even pleasant" clearly implies he wasn't always pleasant though.

She obviously doesn't have the money left to pay WITH. It's not that she's sitting with $452M in the bank that she can't return "because if she did she wouldn't have any (stolen) money left".

... where more specifically? The only thing I find is this:

Holmes will also face three years of supervised release after her sentence ends and has been ordered to pay $452m in restitution to victims of the fraud, though a judge has delayed those payments due to her “limited financial resources”.

... which doesn't state she get to keep any of the money she stole.

It's about saving space, not money. The jack is relatively large compared to other smartphone components. It's bigger than a USB-C port, for one, when you consider the volume and not just the width.

Yes, indeed. But I find it very, very noticeable when just moving the mouse pointer too. Looks horrible on a 60 Hz screen.

The most important thing I think is movement speed. Extremely slow movements would look the same at 10 fps as 1000 fps (think a movement of 10 pixels per second, for example), while large movements look choppy at lower framerates. That's also (part of) why it's more important to have a high framerate in Quake/Unreal Tournament-style games than it is in e.g. first person puzzle games, latency being the other big one.

For me the biggest difference between 60 and 85 Hz on a CRT was that one gave me a massive headache and nausea within a few hours, and the other didn't.

Modern displays work differently though, especially LCDs which only really flicker if the backlight flickers. CRTs only display a small sliver of the image at any given time, while the rest is black or fading away until the next frame is drawn.

(Though I do see a big difference between 60 and 85 fps these days; 85-95 is where I start to find FPS games to not feel downright choppy, but there's still a big, big difference between 95 and 165.)

Off topic, but according to Kbin this thread has 22 upvotes and 0 downvotes.

Some people notice it a lot more. I wouldn't want to go back from 144 to 60 on my phone, but I could live with it. Going back to 60 on my computer on the other hand... That would be a deal breaker. Especially for gaming, of course, but I literally have worse precision with the damn mouse pointer at 60 Hz now.

Did you read it backwards? Or are you a huge NFT fan?

No no, it's not "broadcasted". It still has a fixed sender and receiver IP address, but UDP doesn't verify whether the receiver got the data or not. You can implement that over UDP, but you have to do it yourself.

With TCP, the packet will retransmitted automatically if the receiver didn't tell the sender "yep, I got it".