Thrashy

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[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

FWIW there is a cottage industry for OnStar disable/delete mods for GM vehicles. It can be done, usually without breaking too much else of the car's electronic functionality.

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

What's the harm in a little bit of Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking?

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Nah, as near as I can tell that group is vigorously in favor of suspending all human rights for capitalists, so regardless of their views on kink I think they'd be inclined to let the comment slide.

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

Worse, on her blog she conceived of herself as the chief consort in his harem in between sharing her thoughts on race science and Harry Potter house sorting quizzes.

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Terrible. Take your upvote and get the hell out of here.

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I agree, this is a good use of the live service model to improve the gameplay experience. Previous entries in the Flight Simulator series did have people purchase and download static map data for selected regions, and it was a real pain in the butt -- and expensive, too. Even with FS2020 there is a burgeoning market for airport and scenery packs that have more detail and verisimilitude than Asobo's (admittedly still pretty good) approach of augmenting aerial and satellite imagery with AI can provide.

Bottom line, though, simulator hobbyists have a much different sense of what kind of costs are reasonable for their games. If you're already several grand deep on your sim rig, a couple hundred for more RAM or a few bucks a month for scenery updates isn't any big deal to you.

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

All I know is that targets[0] returns "FV107 Scimitar" for some reason, and anytime I try to purge that entry from the array it throws an error.

 

image caption: a screen capture of a Facebook post consisting of an AI-generated summary of the Wikipedia page about the A-10, and a bad AI image of a fllightline dominated by misproportioned A-10 being serviced exclusively by M4-weilding infantrymen -- including, notably, one that appears to be mounted to a Hoveround.

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I had quite a bit of fun with it for a few weekends with my friends, but ultimately the lack of a system for mechanical progression left it feeling a bit shallow (ha!). As a primarily PvE game with light PvP it's in a weird place where it doesn't have quite enough RPG-like elements to hold my interest on the PvE side, or enough player-on-player combat to make it a gripping contest of skill.

It's still a fun game to hop into from time to time, but it's never been appointment gaming for me

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

From the industry journal I linked in another comment -- it's literally just an off-the-shelf Mireo Plus B. That's it. The only thing Tesla about it is that it's serving a spur line connecting Tesla's factory to the existing Berlin light rail network, and was presumably financed by them for the PR benefit of not having the workers at an electric car factory arrive by diesel train.

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 93 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

I did a little digging and it seems like there's a tiny kernel of fact at the core of this giant turd of a hype-piece, and that is the fact that they electrified this little spur line from Berlin to the new German Tesla factory by using a battery-electric trainset. Which is not a terrible solution for electrifying a very short branch line that presumably doesn't need frequent all-day service, even if it's a bit of a janky approach compared to overhead lines. But hand that off to the overworked, underpaid twenty-two-year old gig worker they've got doing "editing" at Yahoo for two bucks an article, and I guess it turns into "world-first electric wonder train amazes!"

For a second, though, I read the headline and wondered if Musk and co. had finally looped all the way around to reinventing commuter rail from first principles after all these years of trying to "disrupt" it with bullshit ideas like Hyperloop and Tunnels, But Dumber, And With A Marketing Department.

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's at least more cultured than my brain shouting "MULATTO BUTTS! (Mulatto butts!)" at me

 
[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Right now Intel and AMD have less to fear from Apple than they do from Qualcomm -- the people who can do what they need to do with a Mac and want to are already doing that, it's businesses that are locked into the Windows ecosystem that drive the bulk of their laptop sales right now, and ARM laptops running Windows are the main threat in the short term.

If going wider and integrating more coprocessors gets them closer to matching Apple Silicon in performance per watt, that's great, but Apple snatching up their traditional PC market sector is a fairly distant threat in comparison.

 

EDIT: Realized they're both technically French missiles and that made it even funnier

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