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Could we have had Beast Wars in the 60s?

That’s because the government has had tech way beyond even what we have today. They just peace-meal it out to us bro. They’ve been coordinating mass propaganda against us 1984 style since like. Before 1984.

Also. The government is so incompetent they can’t provide health care better than private insurance companies. Obviously.

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[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!

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You're throwing back "It just works." at them because you failed to maintain a Windows VM that you haven't updated in FIVE YEARS? Not to mention that you really expect game dev studios test and support running a game in virtual box??

If you want to do something tech savvy, that's on you to do the tech part.

This has to be one of the most wild "gamer" complaints I've ever seen.

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Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts

This was inevitable. They’re not going to let huge subreddits just sit closed making the site look broken.

It’s dumb on their end though. They should’ve just ripped the band aid off and immediately banned mods and reopened the second of the blackout if they’re going this route. It was dumb of them to let it fester and once it had multiple days of major press, make it worse.

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how to block meta from mastodon

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There's nothing stopping them from harvesting data with or without Threads. They can just create their own hidden Lemmy, Mastadon servers and pull all the data that way. Sure, someone could catch on and block that server, but they could just spin more up wherever.

This is the main concern.

I create Threads. It gets 30 million users very quickly. Lemmy users only make up say, 1 million users.

I make changes to Threads that don't follow the ActivityPub protocol to the T, this makes the Lemmy servers glitchy when interacting with Threads content until Lemmy can be patched, but I'll just keep making these changes to Threads over and over.

User A likes Lemmy, but it's really starting to glitch out all the time. They have a lot of friends they interact with on Threads and because Lemmy has so many issues they say fuck it, hop over to Threads so they can consistently keep up with their friends/community.

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People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars

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I purposely bought the base dash on my Focus ST. Screen is smaller than a phone like 4 inches at most, has no apps. It Bluetooth syncs my phone for music and calls. There’s no touchscreen, all interactions are dedicated knobs and buttons.

For GPS I just use my phone and audio directions, my smart watch has the upcoming direction as well. If I really don’t know where I’m going I have a dash mount for my phone if I need it. But that’s not often.

It’s great honestly and the dash doesn’t blind me driving at night.

I was also looking at a Mazda before I got this car and their dash is absolutely horrendous. It’s like they just took a Alibaba knock off iPad and welded it on top of the dash. It’s literally in your view of the road causing a small blind spot.

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Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is the best-feeling 30fps game ive ever played

Frame pacing is a big thing. At 30 FPS you need to deliver a frame to the screen every 33.3333 MS. If the game is doing that consistently it will feel significantly better than a game displaying frames randomly at 30 ms, 33 ms, 36 ms. That could still average out to 30 fps but it will feel bad.

I imagine most console games probably use vsync or some kind of buffering to avoid screen tearing as well. If you’re not delivering your frames on time before that 33ms, it will get delayed to the next screen refresh and that’s when thing start to feel really bad.