paultimate14 @ paultimate14 @lemmy.world

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That is the maximum size, but it's also the most expensive size.

Street Fighter 6 is 60GB on Steam, so they probably could put it on the 64GB card if they wanted to. But it's going to be a download.

Bravely Default is only 11GB, but it's going to be a download too. Probably because it's a much more niche game that SE doesn't expect to sell a lot of units of. It's probably more comparable to an indie game where the physical release is more of a collector's item for hardcore fans than the main way they expect people to play the game.

It's a combination of Nintendo following their tradition of using expensive and obscure formats, publishers being cheap, and some combination of publishers/devs for not optimizing for storage.

And it seems to have worked out for him pretty well. He lives an incredibly lavish lifestyle, won the presidency twice, has a huge collection of devoted followers, and generally seems to have avoided any negative consequences.

Between Trump and the people around him, SOMEONE know what they are doing.

Oh yes I see I got distracted and didn't get to my conclusion: perhaps it is unwise to ostracize the creations of evil people and evil corporations.

The Cybertrucks are here. I don't want to toss a bunch of EV's (even bad ones) in a landfill prematurely just because the CEO is a fascist.

Definitely sucks for the people who thought they were doing the right thing by going electric and ended up driving Swasticars.

I know there's an argument that those folks should have known what they were in for by the time the Cybertruck in 2023, but some people just don't pay much attention to current events.

I drive a Subaru and couldn't tell you who the CEO is, although in retrospect perhaps I should have done more research before buying. But even without looking I can guess that it's some shitty billionaire who donated heavily to both the GOP and DNC. Subaru itself has a history that involves... Being a Japanese manufacturer during WW2.

You could also look at the Nazi Henry Ford and all of those gigantic pickup trucks clogging the US while also buying fossil fuels. It helps that Henry Ford is long dead, but are they really that much better than Cybertrucks?

I mean morally. Objectively, Cybertrucks are just badly designed and manufactured vehicles but that's separate from my point. Although if I may also rant- we already know that he used the Boring company to purposely sabotage high-speed rail projects in the US. We know that he bought Twitter not to make it profitable, but to gain power over social media. When you look at Tesla- the QC issues, the labor relations issues, the missed deadlines, the proprietary charging connector, the complete mess of a car the Cybertruck is, and how he is now very actively supporting a president who seems to be trying to destroy EV's and prop up fossil fuels... Was Elon EVER actually trying to push EV's, or was he actively trying to sabotage them? I know this is borderline conspiratorial thinking, but a lot of his madness seems to make a lot more sense in that context.

Imagine believing that Democrats are homogenous

Maybe if you live under a rock?

Exactly. The whole world suffers from that. And I've seen a LOT of Democrats get absolutely destroyed by their bases for supporting it. Fetterman went from being a folk hero of work class Pennsylvanians to a genocide-mongerer. Cory Booker just pulled off a pretty amazing feat of giving a 25 hour filibuster and yet the news cycle very quickly shifted to how he voted with Republicans to continue bombing Palestine.

This meme doesn't make sense to me because I've never seen Republicans send that accusation towards Democrats. If anything, Republican criticisms tend to go the other way: that Democrats should mind their own business and that there is a moral obligation to limit the scope of government (not that they actually care about that, but they say they do).

Imagine believing that a party can have a policy that doesn't affect you.

To be fair he made a LOT of campaign promises in 2016 that he (thankfully) did not fulfill.

He was going to repeal the ACA and never did. The Wall he promised between the US and Mexico may have cost several billions of dollars but only added a few sections of fence. A lot of what DOGE is doing now was what 47 promised to do in his first term ,"draining the swamp".

Of course, there was still enough terrible shit in the first term that voting for him again was inexcusable, so I'm not trying to excuse thosw who did. Just trying to keep in mind how crazy and illegal most of what he is doing now is. I'm not sure why he was so relatively reserved in his first term.

That's where the "analysis" part of "cost-benefit analysis" comes in and it doesn't make sense to generalize like you seem to want to.

Is it really that much more responsible to run Windows 11? You seem to have a LOT of faith in Microsoft to keep you safe. There's plenty of reasons to not switch to Windows 11.

I also use Linux on some machines. But I can also see why there are reasons why one distro or another, or even Linux in general, may not be the right call for some people.

You seem awfully optimistic about Microsoft's response time lol.

How many people are out there today with broken locks on their doors or windows? How many stores do you think close every night with the minimum wage worker forgetting to lock up properly? How many people out their use incredibly weak passwords, share their credentials with others, or leave everything on post-it notes?

Security is a cost-benefit analysis. Depending on what exactly this hypothetical exploit requires I might very well be comfortable running Windows 10 anyways. The vast majority of security exploits require physical access to the machine- we only hear about the remote ones more often because they are scarier.

I mean... That could happen to Windows11 and be almost as catastrophic even if Microsoft does eventually fix it.

Nah we just don't write fun stories about it when it happens.

Right?

I never understand why people are so obsessed with not getting updates. They usually just break everything and bloat the OS.

"But my security!" OS updates are going to protect you from 99% of the bad actors out there. They do nothing against social engineering. They don't make you use strong passwords. Most of the security flaws OS updates are addressing are the kinda of attacks that only state actors or organized crime rings have the resources and abilities to exploit.

Governments? Heck yeah they need to be concerned. Large enterprises? Definitely. Small businesses? Eh it's probably for the best to protect your livelihood even if you aren't the juiciest target. But for an individual using their PC for gaming, social media, streaming content, online shopping, etc... The cost-benefit analysis is different.

It's not different from physical security. Theres a reason you don't need to go through TSA to get on a bus.

He will have it by Christmas, maybe even before school starts.

It's such a a shame there's no other way to play such great games as Mario Kart, Breath of the Wild, or Tears of the Kingdom any other way until then.

Was there an exodus from Facebook to Lemmy I didn't hear about?

Did this place have bike racks?

As someone who worked in a parking lot for years I can tell you 90% of the time the cars that park in these designated spots do not have anything hung from their mirror or on their license plates indicated they are allowed to do so. We couid have theoretically had the cars towed, but when there's still several empty designated spaces it's just not worth bothering with.

I'm much more upset about minimum parking lot size requirements built into zoning codes than I am about an easily-movable bike being left in a space for a few minutes.

Insane that it took 38 years to go from the first black woman in Congress in 1977 to the first black Republican woman in Congress.

Mia Love would have been 2 years old when Shirley Chisholm entered office.

That's easy for someone who can afford more expensive protein sources to say.

Eggs used to be one of the best protein per dollar values available. You still have flour (and flour products), lentils, and pinto beans as options. Maybe oats and peanut butter, although that's starting to transition from "protein per dollar" to "calories per dollar" to make sense. And those other sources will start to get more expensive as people move to them.

It hasn't gotten as much press, but the cost of chicken meat rises with the prices of eggs too. That has historically been the cheapest available meat, so I would expect people moving to alternatives to drive up the costs of pork, lentils and beans. Maybe beef and seafood too.

It's a significant blow, especially to people who do a lot of physical labor and need that protein. This isn't just as simple as "don't buy the videogame that's overpriced" or "don't watch the movie with the problematic actor" or "don't buy the low-quality fast fashion products made by slave labor". This is messing with people's food. Go look up all of the long-term ramifications to populations after famines.

Society is never more than a few hungry days from collapse. This could very well push America closer to that.