baguettefish

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[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 21 hours ago

It is actually enough to twitch, as the ban supposedly only lasts 14 days. In my opinion that’s just not enough though. Genocide can never under any circumstances be justified. Every human is the same. I cannot compromise on that. Influencers like him have a responsibility to society equal to their reach and “influence” (and they truly do influence some people), and any vile comment from him is going to get many more followers than a vile comment from you. Even if he believes that genocide can be justified and that a people can be concentrated and murdered for decades and that’s okay, he should never be allowed to say it and get away with that. That’s a permanent infraction.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is detailed terrain for an entire planet, and figures are at around 10Mbps for just terrain without buildings.

Assuming you're flying at 800kmh in something like an airbus A380, you're flying 13.3km each minute, uncovering a large part of a new circle/sphere of terrain with a radius of 13km (half of it overlaps with old already-downloaded terrain). That's half of 555km squared of terrain. That's a lot of terrain. If you want that terrain to be fairly accurate, you'll want to see at least meter accuracy near the plane (if you're near the ground you'll want to see one datapoint of terrain per meter or more), with lower levels of detail as you get further away. Add onto that things like the placement of trees, bushes, rocks, and all the texture data of the terrain (probably an index into existing possibly procedural textures), and you've got a lot of data that needs to be transferred.

10Mbps seems pretty fair for all of that.

Also terrain data is updated regularly, and you might not want to keep around old terrain in the first place. There are reasons like players only flying some routes once and never again, and if you save all of mozambique for someone who actually only flies around in the US that's bad too.

EDIT: Buildings of course cost extra. Airports take up a bit of bandwidth each time you take off or land, as they are probably custom modeled. Cities like NY or LA though will have a ton of custom modeled buildings and textures, and those cost a lot of bandwidth.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 100 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Surely that has to be a grift by an upvote farm owner to drive sales

I'm assuming "useful idiots continuing a harmful tradition"

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Do you have examples of DEI'd games? Do you have sources for saying devs don't want to do it anymore? So far I only know of guys that record videos of themselves screaming "fucking pronouns" being offended by the mere presence of pronouns, and that's not even "DEI". There's also that weird steam recommendation character who criticizes every game that has a woman who isn't meant to be a sex object, but these are all very fringe and often severely disturbed people, not at all representative of any real impactful opinions.

EDIT: Of course I don't mean to say that these anti-woke beliefs aren't dangerous in the right hand, or that anti-woke anti-justice warriors can't pose a danger to anyone, but their beliefs do not need to be discussed and argued with every time, and definitely not in good faith.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you just went with the most prominent and easily accessible download button it'll probably be ubuntu, but as i said, despite what some might say that's not necessarily a bad thing

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure the question was more about linux mint (ubuntu/default) vs. linux mint debian edition, as those can confidently be called different distros. Don't worry about it though, the issues with ubuntu are actually very small, they're just infinitely magnified on the internet by people who care a lot about the smallest things. There are also many advantages to using ubuntu or an ubuntu derivative. Also this question can be interpreted very humorously, so maybe do that if you like.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it seems like the kind of movie best watched under some kind of influence with a few friends, so I'm expecting great things

I'll gladly believe something else if they claim something else, but their claims are very dystopian

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

the active listening article is very vague and apart from fantasizing about 24/7 surveillance everywhere for everyone it doesn't say a whole lot directly, so in my mind it's best to assume the worst case scenario

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

cox media group "active listening" https://archive.is/pSBzD

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair there is chess evolved online with over 500 different pieces and chess piece lootboxes if you want a more modern take on the classic game

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