rm_dash_r_star @ rm_dash_r_star @lemm.ee

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This thing with subscriptions has become insane. You can easily spend several hundred a month getting roped into all the subscriptions companies are pushing. It's the latest way to squeeze as much money as possible out of the consumer.

I've gone into subscription boycott at this point. I had too many and said screw that. I still have Amazon Prime where I think I get my money's worth. I shop there a lot and use their streaming so it's worth it to me. Subscriptions for appliances? No way in hell.

Stardew Valley, hands down one of the graphically ugliest modern games, like 80's console style. Though it's a really good game and I've put a of lot of hours into it. People say it's meant to look that way as intentional retro styling, but damn it's ugly. I actually added a mod on PC to use AA on the blocky graphics and it makes it look a lot better.

I know that game, used to play it on BBS in the early 90's.

They like Lemmy World but don’t like the fractured idea of each instance having the same name for a community.

Ahh, steer your mod friends away from lemmy.world. They're having problems right now because of their high visibility (biggest instance). They're having issues like server overload, DDOS attacks, bot attacks. Recommend an instance that's not heavily loaded and regionally close.

People that don't understand the Fediverse architecture can have trouble with it. Explain it's not the instance that matters other than how well it performs locally. The content is all there for everyone to interact with regardless of the instance.

Also explain that communities may share the same prefix name but people commonly make the mistake of thinking they are two communities with the same name. They are not. The full name for a community includes the instance that hosts it. For example !fediverse@lemmy.ml is not the same community as !fediverse@lemmy.world even though they share the same prefix name.

I think the most outstanding issue is how Reddit is trying to turn mods into employees that work for free. Nobody does that job to benefit Reddit, they do it to build and support a community. You take that away and there's no incentive. Without mods you have no community.

That's really good they provide a redirection to Lemmy, they even list the instance I use as a recommend.

Pretty ironic really, a company slogan exactly the opposite of how they turned out.

Haha, kill -9 all Google processes, and the little daemons they rode in on too.

I like to be nice and give people at least thirty seconds, but I'm never in a hurry. I heavily pad driving times. I hate, hate, hate driving in a hurry. I'm usually a half hour early to everything.

Conversely I find it super rude when people give me less than a few seconds to react to a light. There's so much rude driving in general. Be polite and courteous on the road. Didn't your mother ever teach you to be polite?

Haha, sexagenarian power, well almost for you, a couple years, but you can be in my club anyway.

Honestly I don't know how Tesla got past USA regulation on its autopilot. In the USA aircraft have to meet FAA safety standards. A new model aircraft has to go through extensive flight testing and receive FAA certification before it can go into production. I'm not sure who governs automotive safety in the USA, but they did something unusual to push through it. Either that or automotive safety regulations in the USA are just not that strict.

There's also the fact the batteries they use can spontaneously catch fire (properly known as thermal runaway). I would think that to pose a big safety consideration, but evidently it's not a problem for US regulations. There is a Li-Ion battery technology much less prone to thermal runaway (LiFePO4) and some cars use it. It's greatly safer and has about five times greater battery longevity, but it's also about twenty percent heavier. I think it's a fair trade-off to avoid a fiery death.

In the fourth quarter of 2022, Tesla said its cars using Autopilot were involved in one crash per every 4.85 million miles or 0.2 crashes per million miles. That's compared with around 0.7 crashes per million miles for Teslas not using Autopilot

Well if you can believe Tesla's numbers, autopilot is still safer than manual. Though really I think the criteria for safety should be more strict than just being somewhat safer. Other car makers won't take autopilot beyond self-park for good reason. It's not that Tesla's technology is so much better, other makers are just more responsible about liability.

I get around that paywall using uBO on Chrome with the addition of this filter; https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

I'm using Chrome and added an extension called Empty New Tab Page that makes Chrome open to a blank page. I had to do that because the Google home page got to be so annoying. Also removing the need to fetch content makes the browser and new tabs open faster.

Yeah I really miss those days of logical operands. Back in the Alta Vista days I could do Boolean searches, but yeah that's been replaced with speech recognition which doesn't work as well. To this day I still like the Boolean search better. Newer does not always mean better. Most of the time it only means dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.

There's a good set of movies I rewatch a lot so I can't say which is most often, but I'll pick a couple.

The first Matrix movie is up there for me. I think it's the best one and I've rewatched it the most. I've rewatched the following two, but not as much. I thought the fourth one was weird and produced too late so not going to watch that one again.

There's an obscure movie called Hunter Prey (2010) that I've rewatched a lot. It's a low budget sci-fi, but it's almost like a play with limited settings, just a handful of actors, and limited special effects. I really like the story, actors, and setting plus the music is good. Probably most people would think it's shit, but sometimes a low budget film can really nail it for me.

Is that for real? Got some serious crazy going there.

The singularity would reverse the big bang.

Now that's a funny comment, haha.

I have a couple really old games you can't even pirate because they're just not around anymore. They're PC games and still run well on my version of Windows so I'll hang on to them as long as that's the case. Even so there's always going to be a consideration for supporting hardware and software. It can get tricky as things forge ahead and old games fall into obsolescence.

It's a matter of absolute control, it's not about the money that could be earned with a reasonable deal (which would be the smart play), it's about displacing all third parties to annex control. Initially Spez tried to put a spin on it to make it look less hostile, but honestly it's one of the most abusive things I've seen from a corporation, one for the history books. Now he's doubling down by removing major Reddit features. It's insane. What's even more odd is Musk and Spez seem to be destructively operating in parallel. Honestly if you told me this would happen a year ago I would have thought impossible. Crazy times.