Overspark
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- Comment on Jurassic World Evolution 3 | Announcement Trailer 5 days ago:
Elite Dangerous has been doing exceptionally well in the past year because FDev finally realised it’s a live service game and started to act like it in a way that actually aligned with what the user base wanted. So what you’re saying isn’t true any more.
- Comment on Console war, console war never changes 1 week ago:
Millions of Steam Decks and their ilk have been sold, and run games significantly better on SteamOS than their Windows counterparts, to the point that Microsoft is reportedly cancelling their own gaming handheld plans. Not a massive challenger to the Switch 2 for most ordinary people, but things are definitely changing.
- Comment on Fuck cars 1 week ago:
EVs are at their heart really simple machines. You have a battery, a battery controller, some kind of thermal management for the battery (can be passive but active is better), and an electric motor that isn’t much more complex than the one in your vacuum cleaner. All these parts are readily available, so you can easily convert an ICE car to an EV with parts you can buy yourself. For some popular cars there are even kits available these days, and conversions of old-timers are really taking off. If there’s a kit with clear instructions a conversion can sometimes even be done in a single day.
An ICE car is literally orders of magnitude more complex. There are far more parts, far more computers to control all those parts (in a modern car that is), far more cabling to connect all these computers and far more opportunities for things to go wrong. ICE cars even spontaneously catch fire more often because of all the cabling and complexity.
You’re probably thinking of a few specific brands, like Tesla, that are very hostile towards self-servicing, and in those specific cases you are right. But most EVs from established car manufacturers are just as proprietary or non-proprietary as their ICE brethren, just with less complexity and less parts. And of course older cars that don’t have any computers in them are immune to this specific kind of complexity as well.
- Comment on Fuck cars 1 week ago:
How is this different from any other modern car?
- Comment on Fuck cars 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s insane how much easier EV’s are to maintain. Almost no wear or consumables.
- Comment on Why would you suggest that?? 2 weeks ago:
I see an Akira screenshot, I upvote.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 2 weeks ago:
Steam downloads consistently saturate my 1 Gbps connection, but it’s still fast enough for me. Had it a year now, still not really used to things going that fast.
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 3 weeks ago:
I was using the cookie lists but I stopped using them due to the aforementioned problems.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 3 weeks ago:
Poorly. WSL is awesome but it’s I/O performance is not at a level which will make developers on bigger projects happy.
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 3 weeks ago:
Disabling uBO, dismissing the cookie pop-up and then re-enabling uBO usually works, but is a lot more work than just running Consent-O-Matic in the background.
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 3 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong, but in my experience those lists cause some sites to not work anymore, the whole site will stay dark waiting for the cookie pop-up for example, or you can’t scroll. I still use uBO to block ads but Consent-O-Matic gives me a better experience on those sites.
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 3 weeks ago:
github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic This can do it for you on most sites in most browsers.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t public data unfortunately, devs with a game on both platforms are the only ones who can tell us where they earn more. However, I did once read an article that claimed the effective cut from Steam is about half what it says on the tin IF the devs (or their publisher) put in enough effort themselves. Because that’s who decides this, Steam doesn’t have and doesn’t want any control over this.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 3 weeks ago:
Except that’s also a lie. Steam does keep a higher percentage of the sales price for itself than Epic does, but it also allows people to activate game keys without taking any money. Steam only makes money from games sold on Steam itself. So developers can sell games through other stores and even through their own website, and keep up to 100% of the sales price. Effectively, this means that Steam takes roughly the same amount of money that Epic does, or in some cases even less probably.
- Comment on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Delivers Best Performance On Linux Over Windows 11 - Even With Gaming 3 weeks ago:
It’s not released yet. And yeah, it’s standard ITX, Framework adheres to standards as much as possible.
- Comment on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Delivers Best Performance On Linux Over Windows 11 - Even With Gaming 3 weeks ago:
Framework Desktop contains an ITX board with a Strix Halo. It’s not cheap though, unless you compare it to an equivalent Mac Mini.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 3 weeks ago:
Twist and tuck inside the breadbox obviously.
- Comment on Cookie Clicker coming to Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S 3 weeks ago:
Also how are you going to mod it on those platforms.
- Comment on 'Wind theft': The mysterious effect plaguing wind farms 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like storm mitigation to me! 😄
- Comment on Fishing games? 1 month ago:
It is if you really want to git gud.
But what it also is is the nicest open sea sailing simulator, with awesome ambience and a fantastic world to just sail around in and do some relaxing things like fishing and just exploring all the islands. Especially in Safer Seas mode.
- Comment on Fishing games? 1 month ago:
Ah, yes, that’s what I meant with single player (or really single ship, since you can play with your friends) mode, couldn’t remember the name
- Comment on Fishing games? 1 month ago:
Sea of Thieves is amazing and has some decent fishing. Might want to stay in the single player world if you just want cozy, although a sense of (PvP) danger can definitely liven things up too.
- Comment on Forever Skies 1.0 out now 1 month ago:
Haven’t heard of it before, but it does look interesting
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 1 month ago:
Ah, that sounds better. My tumor was found when I was 30 and initially caused me lots of IBD problems, and then proceeded to blood in my stool. Butt probe then confirmed it even though my doctor was expecting something else because I was so young. A test like that might not have helped much in my case but I wasn’t the most average case anyway.
- Comment on AI slop farms are churning out fake heartwarming videos about Trump figures. 1 month ago:
Well the trade war isn’t going great for them…
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 1 month ago:
Is that a blood test? Those aren’t always effective. I kept testing negative even when I had a massive tumor in my bowels. The only thing that really works is going in there and taking a look, i.e. a colonoscopy.
- Comment on How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI? 2 months ago:
A 10 Gbps network is MUCH slower than even the smallest oldest PCIe slot you have. So cramming the GPUs in any old slot that’ll fit is a much better option than distributing it over multiple PCs.
- Comment on Without GPS: EU researchers develop satellite-independent navigation system 2 months ago:
Regarding the second point, militaries have a long history of using civilian products (see GPS in the gulf war for example) if they don’t have enough of the expensive stuff, which will lead to incentive to jam the civilian stuff as well. The article suggests that this system should be more resilient against simple jamming though.
- Comment on Definitely wasn't late to work making this 2 months ago:
4 looks like a wild ride
- Comment on One-handed games? 2 months ago:
If it’s more permanent show them an Azeron Cyro at www.azeron.eu It’s a mouse with a thumbstick, you can play almost any PC game with one hand. Comes in both right and left handed versions.