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Uncompressed textures and uncompressed audio for all languages at once (this started with the 8th gen consoles because their shitty CPUs couldn’t handle real-time decompression), so a lot of space is being taken up by audio that’s never used in languages you don’t understand because at some point in the last 20 years the gaming industry forgot how to create checkbox installers.

But you could do it, which would give it a use in remote areas with poor electrical service given the ubiquity of both USB power and the BL-4C battery.

I’d kind of hope everyone would know better than that after the disastrous Apollo I fire.

Backward-compatible Xbox 360 games will still be available for purchase on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S stores, Microsoft says.

So no, presumably Microsoft just doesn’t want to deal with the tangle of close to 20-year-old code that holds up the Xbox 360’s store interfaces.

What an idiot. The Mouse does not forgive. The Mouse does not forget. DeSantis can’t surely believe Disney are just going to give up and walk away after he threw down the gauntlet.

Kbin. Kbity. Like kitty but kbin. Kbity!

Well, five times zero women checks out.

Great value for him, maybe.

Before adding “@@*$redirect-rule” to uBlock Origin filters:

• With uMatrix enabled: 99%, everything except ads-api.twitter.com and ads.youtube.com was blocked.
• With uMatrix disabled: 83%, 125/150 blocked.

After adding “@@*$redirect-rule” to uBlock Origin filters:

• With uMatrix enabled: 100%, 150/150 blocked.
• With uMatrix disabled: 85%, 127/150 blocked.

Using Firefox with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and some others.

The undocked Switch is in the same ballpark for raw power as the 360 and PS3, so as long as they’ve managed to sufficiently unfuck the game’s nightmare spaghetti code, should be just fine.

The busiest core routes should be served with light rail, allowing an efficient high-frequency service for the most common journeys, and most parts of a city should ideally have some kind of connection to that rail system within a kilometre or two. But you can’t just put rails and stations literally everywhere, so buses (or trolleybuses with batteries if you’re so inclined) remain useful for less common routes, gaps between stations, the neighbouring areas of rail routes or last-mile connections from light rail to within a short walk of a person’s final destination.

Buses are also necessary as a fallback during maintenance or unforeseen closures on the rail network. Even if it’s just a temporary station closure, that one station will likely be the only one in walking distance for quite a few people (especially if we’re talking about an interurban network where a small, outlying town or village might only have one station connecting it to the rest of its metro area), whereas that same area could have several bus stops, giving pretty much everyone there a way to continue getting around, perhaps even to get a bus to neighbouring stations.

And bus routes don’t change that infrequently. Certainly, not infrequently enough that you’d want to tie them to placing or removing fixed infrastructure like tracks or wires. Diversions also happen sometimes. All of this isn’t to argue against light rail, but to argue for a comprehensive multi-modal vision of public transport. Let passengers use the right combination of services for their particular journey’s needs.

Tyres wear down and produce nasty pollutants, and metal-on-metal is more energy efficient.

That’s incredible. Certified “Directive #4” moment.

Well, the ones based on Chromium aren’t, anyway. I’ve heard some major criticisms of Safari in the last few years, for what that’s worth.

The NHS’ virtual appointment service in the UK doesn’t support Firefox either, only Chrome, Safari and Edge. The dark days of “please view this website in Internet Explorer 6” are creeping closer to the present again. I hate the modern internet.

There’s even rumours that the next version of Windows is going to inject a bunch of AI buzzword stuff into the operating system. Like, how is that going to make the user experience any more intuitive? Sounds like you’re just going to have to fight an overconfident ChatGPT wannabe that thinks it knows what you want to do better than you do, every time you try opening a program or saving a document.

The biggest problem people have with systemd is that it’s constantly growing, taking on more functions and becoming a dependency of more software. People joke that some day you won’t be using Linux anymore, but GNU/systemd, (or as they’ve taken to calling it, GNU plus systemd) because it’s ever-growing from a simple init daemon into a significant percentage of an entire operating system.

People worry that some day, you won’t be able to run a Linux system that’s compatible with much of the software developed for Linux without using systemd. Whether that’s a realistic worry or not I don’t know, and I don’t really have a horse in the systemd VS not-systemd race, but I can appreciate being worried that systemd might end up becoming a hard requirement for a Linux system in a way that nothing else really is - you can substitute GNOME for KDE, X11 for Wayland (or Mir, I guess), PulseAudio for PipeWire and most stuff will still work, so the idea that systemd could become as non-negotiable an element of a Linux system as the Linux kernel itself rubs people the wrong way, as it functionally makes Linux with systemd a different target platform entirely to Linux with another init daemon.

Well, technically atheist extremists would uphold Soviet-style “state atheism” where religious groups are repressed violently and religious affiliation is outlawed. Killing and repressing people for being Christian or Buddhist or whatever would be just as bad as doing the same thing to people for being atheist. Of course, unless you live somewhere like Xinjiang Province or North Korea, you’re very unlikely to encounter any significant organisation which seeks to actively force people to abandon their religions.

Basically, unless someone is running a scam like Scientology, promoting a violent extremist sect like Wahhabi Islam, shunning “apostates” like Mormons or just running a flat-out doomsday cult or something, people should be allowed to practice a religion, own a holy book and convene in a designated place of worship with peers of their faith. They just shouldn’t be allowed to compel others to join that faith, or enjoy privileges from the state such as a blanket tax-free status.

We’ve gone from “work from home” back to “live from work” at an astounding pace. That’s… good? No, wait, the opposite. Fuck this society and the parasitic husks who direct it in this manner.

At this point they’ve literally just developed a carcinogenic spray that happens to be a hydrocarbon. What the fuck. This cannot be allowed to reach the market.