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Eating and directly injecting in your bloodstream are not the same thing

I get this feeling too, but then again can we blame them? With all the locked down tech these days you really have to get out of your way to learn. And in most cases it works well enough. Whereas people growing up between lets say the 1970-2000s had to muck around with their tech to get it to work. Thus learning the intricacies while using it.

Surely this falls under free speech under the free speech absolutists in office, right? Right??

You can also solder a new one on (if the old one is too ripped up). They are pretty cheap. Even with a new soldering iron it's still much cheaper than possibly a new motherboard. But i don't know whether these are at all that important, so i don't know if it's worth it.

I've never really like the convoluted docker tooling. And I've been hit a few times with a docker image uodates just breaking everything (looking at you nginx reverse proxy manager...). Now I've converted everything to nixos services/containers. And i couldn't be happier with the ease of configuration and control. Backup is just.a matter of pushing my flake to github and I'm done.

I dont know what study it is or how they define general purpose technologies. But i do miss a few world changing discoveries in that list. Like modern medicine/vaccines and radio/telecommunications. Although that last one might fall under electricity? Though I feel like it should be it's own thing.

It kinda feels like a subjective arbitrary list

Sure its not perfect but if they can narrow it down from a few million people to just a few 100/1000's that makes fibding someone much easier .

No, they could pinpoint you just by dna of relatives. Hence why the whole 23andme is such a terrible idea.

My 10 year old machine can do that. No need for internet. Just set an end time. I would think basically every washing machine could do that unless you get the cheapest model around?

Getting strong Gone with the blastwave vibes

K so why not just include that with the initial installation, if you’re gonna need to store it locally anyways?

Do you want wait hours/days before you can actually play? Or only stream what you actually need when you play while you play?

Or allow users to decide what areas of the map they want to fly in and just download that subset when the user requests it?

Implicitly streaming that much data seems like a good way to piss off your users when they unknowingly saturate their bandwidth or bump up against their data cap.

You do that by, hear me out, playing! And the game figures out where exactly you want to play and what you need. Besides, it probably will be an option to preload anyway but I don't know enough about MSFS. And in the case of preloading, you would hit the exact same data cap.

No, but Google maps doesn’t potentially use gigabytes of data per hour, and isn’t something I use for hours on end multiple times a week like a video game, except in relatively rare occurrences like road trips/vacations.

Yes and you only don't fly everywhere in game that you would have to download in these preloaded chunks/regions you're so happy with. If you just intend to stay in the same location, the streaming will stop! Because, everything will be cached....

You pay for storage once and that’s it. You pay a subscription for bandwidth, plus fees if you go over your data cap. Bandwidth is absolutely more expensive than storage, and should be optimized for.

So you cancel your ISP subscription ever time you finished downloading a game, movie, whatever? No you keep paying so you might as well use it. And if you a data cap, I'm sorry for you. That's a real bummer. But, I don't know why i have to keep repeating this point, the amount of data is at worst the same! (if you have enough storage to keep it all in cache) If you don't want to use more data don't fly to regions you haven't downloaded yet... But this is the exact same as with preloading..