Metz

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[–] Metz 8 points 1 month ago

I wish there were some big story / quest updates. Exploring the galaxy was a fun for the 150 hours I put into it, but after the end of the storylines and relatively few sidequests it got boring pretty quickly. This whole “Explore a new galaxy!” thing didn't make sense to me either. What was I supposed to do that for? It looks practically the same everywhere. And there is nothing that would be actually new or surprising.

I mean, I could still do things like finish upgrading the freighter and the fleet, but for what? There is nothing to do with it.

Nevertheless, the purchase was definitely worth it. Games these days can rarely entertain me long enough to get that much time out of them.

[–] Metz 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Perhaps a greeting to the Polish neighbors who have already suffered under russia, hate russia and are very supportive of Ukraine.

[–] Metz 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

old enough to remember floppy swapping?

I'm old enough to remember floppy flipping.

[–] Metz 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is VoLTE not supported by default on GOS?

Yes and no. e.g. see https://grapheneos.org/usage#carrier-functionality

Wi-Fi Calling, VoLTE, Visual Voicemail, MMS, SMS, Calling and 5G (SA and NSA) all are supported, however some functionality may not be usable due to Google not supporting carriers on the stock OS officially or due to GrapheneOS not shipping proprietary apps required in order for this functionality to work on some carriers.

Generally 5G, SMS, MMS, Calls and VoLTE will work fine on GrapheneOS with officially supported carriers by Google.

Some carriers may restrict functionality, such as VoLTE, on imported Pixel devices as they only whitelist the IMEI ranges of Pixel device SKUs which were sold locally.

And https://grapheneos.org/usage#lte-only-mode

VoLTE / VoWi-Fi works on GrapheneOS for most carriers unless they restrict it to carrier phones.

So.. it depends

If your carrier is official supported by google, your carrier itself supports it and your device is not imported, it is likely to work.

[–] Metz 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I thought the idea of cassette futurism is to show fictitious retrofuturistic tech. Specifically how 70s and 80s tech would look like in the (far-) future. and not how the actual tech looked in that time period, no matter how futuristic it looked back then.

What i expected to see was Alien and Blade Runner aesthetics and not GameBoy and Commodore. As it is now, it is simply “pictures of old tech”.

[–] Metz 18 points 1 month ago (10 children)

My knowledge of Star Wars lore is extremely spotty, but I would guess through Palpatine, no? He seems like an "cheat death" expert.

[–] Metz 3 points 1 month ago

Well kinda. The Mozilla "Project" goes back to 1998. The Mozilla "Foundation" to 2003. As said, Phoenix was released in 2002 and then renamed to Firefox in 2004.

But in that 4 years they worked on the Netscape code to make Phoenix, they were as well funded by AOL, or not?

[–] Metz 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Is there even a "before"? The very first release of Firefox was in 2004. Google started paying Mozilla in 2004. The only time there was no funding from Google was 2014-2017. In that time Yahoo took over that part.

There was however the 2 year period from 2002 - 2004 when Firefox was still "Phoenix" which was mostly funded by AOL.

To my knowledge, there is not a single moment in the life of Firefox when it has had to get by completely without external funding. And 95% of that time, it was Google.

[–] Metz 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How the hell could i never notice that?! I watched that episode easely 30 times. I guess because they used different voice actors for Quark and Antaeus in germany and i only watched it in original a couple of times. Times for a rewatch then :)

[–] Metz 83 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

That reads as if the EU is just sitting on its hands and doing nothing. Please keep in mind that there is significant financial support coming from the EU:

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Source: https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

Where the EU cannot compete with the US is in the supply of military goods. For the simple reason that these do not exist to the extent that the US has them.


Edit: I have to correct myself in a detail. The graph of course shows Europe not the EU. So it includes e.g. the UK as well. The point still stands though looking on the rest of the data.

[–] Metz 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (19 children)

Unfortunately not entirely true. They have the largest Linux Community. To be precise, the big one.

ProgrammerHumor is there as well. The Open Source and Privacy communties are very bigs as well there. Completely dwaring their .world counterpart.

I'm not a fan of .ml either but you can't deny that they have this 3 parts (which very much represent the ideals behind lemmy) covered very well.

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