ocassionallyaduck

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[–] ocassionallyaduck 3 points 5 hours ago

Flipside of this coin: this results in repair monopolies because users cannot repair their own vehicles and equipment and manufactures use this exact excuse to claim they HAVE to run a monopoly cause the EPA. Literally John Deere has said this.

In truth, illegal vehicle mods have been and will always be a thing. Manufacturers should still provide all the tools to users to repair, and emissions checks on trucks will have to be smarter to catch cheaters. Make the penalty for a deliberate violation (willful not accidental) so egregious that no one would consider it, even if it saved 50k+ per truck.

[–] ocassionallyaduck 1 points 5 hours ago

Easily. Read my other comment, but this would pay for itself in a single afternoon if you didn't maintain your vehicle and would otherwise get shutdown due to an exhaust failure.

Or if you drive a truck in stop and go traffic, and the filters clogged up early, causing you to delay and let the exhaist system do a cleaning cycle (take 1hr, requires engine running and high throttle.) Etc etc.

[–] ocassionallyaduck 5 points 5 hours ago

When you run out of DEF or the DPF is clogged, you can't run your truck for more than a brief while. You get half output in a limp-mode to go refill your DEF or have the DPF serviced. DEF is the reactant for the exhaust that makes diesel burn cleaner, but means modern trucks have 2 tanks now. Users hate it, but it cuts emissions massively. Also adds a few grand to the vehicle exhaust system in hardware and sensors and control units. Anyways:

Time = money.

For a commercial or even semi private vehicle if you bypass even one indicent of downtime by doing this is paid for itself.

That said, the DPF is a filter, and can physically clog and cause an exhaust fire if there is no monitoring software. I hope at least this guy had it wait till it was almost critical and then stop, not entirely disable the stop signal. Otherwise there is a serious risk to the vehicle and passengers.

[–] ocassionallyaduck 8 points 6 hours ago

For low res, no.

Hi res, sure. Make it optional, or let players download the region they like. Or just the airports with much lower res landscapes, etc etc.

Or just, let them have it all and make these choices. Memory is CHEAP nowadays. If you're a flight sim enthusiast, a few terabytes for the map data is the least expensive part of your setup by far.

[–] ocassionallyaduck 3 points 10 hours ago

They need to make sharing controller presets easier. Like MASSIVELY easier.

I cannot emphasize this enough. Let users send controller profiles and attach them to forum posts, etc.

This is needed desperately because navigating presets is straight up busted. Currently it just promotes whatever has the most users, which is whoever published first.

Doesn't matter if there is an objectively brilliant control scheme for Resident Evil 5 or something, nope, you're using the first layout published by GoonerMaster69 in 2014 or whatever.

Both these factors make using the steam controller a chore. It's incredibly powerful, but setup is a fucking CHORE. I love it, but making it work well is always me tweaking for way too long, or using g the suboptimal poorly named presets at the top of the list.

The RE5 example is real. RE5 is amazing with the steam controller if you have a trigger full pull mode shift to mouse input so you can have perfect accuracy with no acceleration. But try finding this in the preset list.

[–] ocassionallyaduck 40 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

God I love having a future where my ability to play a fucking flight simulator depends on both internet access and server reliability.

Completely unnecessary to boot. Store a low res copy locally, offer the high res as regional packs. 0 reason to stream this data in.

[–] ocassionallyaduck 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kadokawa is a massive publisher of books and media in Japan.

For that reason alone I hope this is blocked. It would make Sony too huge in Japan to reasonably compete with outside of Shueisha and directly incentivize brand exclusivity deals.

[–] ocassionallyaduck 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The iPod. Most I've seen on resale online have been crazy marked up.

[–] ocassionallyaduck 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Any advice where to find one of these cheap?

[–] ocassionallyaduck 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not gonna argue this point because both candidates for President were staunchly pro Israel.

So they vote for the non-genocide down-ballot, and different, even more vocal, genocide support on the top?

That's what doesn't compute. It 100% would make sense if they said to hell with it and switched party affiliation across the board, that would be consistent even if you argue their logic. But this is internally inconsistent.

[–] ocassionallyaduck 61 points 1 week ago (21 children)

I'm only wondering about the statistically improbable break between the state where they voted all Dems downballot but then swapped to Trump just for President.

This is so statistically unlikely, having one or two states this way would be improbable as hell, but (I am not claiming this is true) there are apparently many instances where this happened.

I'm not sharing any of this stuff I see but so far this is the one that got my eyebrow raised.

[–] ocassionallyaduck 2 points 1 week ago

"AI" cannot make rational choices.

It is a giant word association machine.

For the love of god this should never be involved in military applications.

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