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Check out this video. I know this is about South Korea, and it’s Kurzgesagt which I understand there are some issues with, but the stuff laid out in this video applies to Japan, too. Not quite as badly or as soon, but it’s a grim picture.

I’m not sure the analogy works, because the movie’s message is pretty xenophobic and xenophobia is contributing to the terrifying population decline of Japan.

Wankpanzer is good, but I prefer Deplorean.

That’s the make, not the model. I know people who have been plenty happy with their Swasticar Model 3.

Why you would want a Swasticar Deplorean though is completely beyond me.

It sucks when the devs fail to catch that an early side-quest reward makes the game too easy, or on the flip-side insanely difficult for failing to complete it.

But then Diablo 4 comes out and people complain that everything levels with you because “It DoEsN’t FeEl LiKe I’vE mAdE aNy PrOgReSs If ThE EnEmIeS gEt StRoNgEr.”

If your level is the only thing making you stronger in a Diablo game you’re doing it wrong.

Finally in the overhaul with the recent expansion they just removed levels from enemies. Problem still exists for these people, because all areas are just as difficult as others. But that means the endgame is playable, and that’s the real goal of a game like Diablo.

I’m not sure I follow. This doesn’t seem “obviously botted” to me. Is it not possible that different people find different things funny and we don’t all share one common sense of humor?

(Or, I suppose, that comic strips can have value beyond humor.)

Noooo I though I escaped this shit.

…which shit? You’re in a community called comicstrips and it’s a comic strip.

Mentour Pilot did a video about the CFM RISE open fan engines a few months ago, they’re somewhere between a turboprop and a geared turbofan. Able to cruise at turbofan speeds, but much higher bypass ratios like turboprops. They’re not technically new, but they’re possible now due to material advances. Pretty cool concept.

Mentour Pilot did a great video on these open fan engines a few months ago. They’re somewhere between a turboprop and a turbofan. They’re better than traditional turboprops in that they’re able to handle higher cruise speeds like a turbofan, and they’re more efficient than turbofans due to a higher effective bypass ratio like a turboprop.

Ugh…

Inventing your own “standard” and forcing everyone to use it (lightning and webkit)

It’s like people don’t remember history anymore. WebKit was a joint venture between many groups. It wasn’t “inventing your own standard” any more than any web browser engine. The restriction to WebKit on iOS devices can be frustrating, but this practice is anti-competitive.

And Lightning replaced another proprietary port, the iPod 30-pin connector. That 30-pin connector was born in a time when standards for device-side connections were not very often utilized. Many devices used proprietary connectors. When Apple transitioned away from the 30-pin, the industry at large was operating with both Mini-USB and Micro-USB, which were both straight-up inferior to Lightning.

The problem with Apple and Lightning is that they didn’t drop it when they should’ve. When USB-C became the clear de facto standard, and they began transitioning all of their other devices to it, they should’ve moved the iPhone over and bit the bullet then. Not doing so, and continuing to charge for MFi certification was, again, anti-competitive. But the existence of Lightning wasn’t anti-consumer.

preventing consumers from having their device repaired from anyone else than a “certified technician” at 4x the markup

Right-to-repair is an important issue and Apple are really shitty about it. I agree. They are not unique, and this also needs to be addressed.

Google pixels are not OEM-locked and I can easiely install graphene or any other operating system on them. In the smartphone category, google is the only good vendor, ironically.

Like I said, “in many respects.” For your use-case, one that you must admit is infrequently utilized, statistically speaking, Google makes a better product that fits your needs. The vast, vast majority of smartphone users are not flashing alternate ROMs to their devices. Most people aren’t power-users, and even most power-users don’t bother. That’s not to say your use-case isn’t meaningful; I’m glad there are still solid options available for a world I used to be a part of!

People can damn well choose to not buy an apple device.

Sure, but does that mean Apple should be allowed to get away with anti-competitive behavior? With practices that seek to force others to use their systems, or to keep users they have from exploring other options? I don’t think so. Bad business practices need to be addressed regardless of whether users have an option to look elsewhere. Especially when the company has a sufficiently large percentage of the smartphone market to force developers to work within their walled garden to hit target audiences.

a device that is known to be anti-consumer.

Anti-competitive and monopolistic, sure. Anti-consumer? Eh.

Don’t get me wrong, Apple is just as evil as the next guy. Their practices reinforce their market position in an insidious way. But in many respects Apple performs better on the consumer front than, say, their primary competitor Google. Not in every way, but I wouldn’t call their devices “anti-consumer.”

If one of your primary concerns as a consumer is an open platform then yeah, I can see you rejecting outright Apple devices. This could in turn lead to being dismissive of the concerns of those whose priorities differ from yours, though I would strongly advise against such a lack of empathy over something as insignificant as a platform choice. Regardless, curtailing their practices is still important.

If we don’t stop bad behavior because it doesn’t affect us directly, we set bad precedents. Regulatory actions are an important tool.

If we talk about restricting stuff like rent, food prices etc, so essentials, I’m on board. But Apple? Nah.

Fallacy of relative privation. “X is worse than Y, so Y doesn’t matter.” Rent and food prices are important, too, but regulatory bodies don’t operate on a zero sum system. Multiple things can be addressed with multiple efforts. It’s not like the EU is saying “we can ignore starvation and homelessness because at least we cracked down on Apple.”

But I don’t need this kind of use case as much anymore and have moved to Joplin

My first thought reading this was, “Why does moving to Joplin, MO have anything to do with note-taking?”

There was a “don’t use Amazon for a week” boycott thing at the beginning of March. It shocked me how quickly I lost the urge to just go order stuff the moment I thought of it. After the week was over I just kept not ordering stuff (with the exception of a subscription that came through).

Definitely at least helped me cut back.

I’ve been impressed by how quickly gen-AI 3D models have become somewhat useful. I expected that with the significantly lower training data than text and images it would take longer, but maybe 3D files have a lot more tagging and metadata by virtue of being “new” compared to text and images, making them more useful for training AI?

As much as I enjoy modeling, I must admit I’m somewhat excited about a future where I can think up something to 3D print and not have to spend hours in Blender.

LIDAR certainly has enough distance (airplanes use it too)

As I understand it, this is uncommon and mostly used for topological mapping.

Most commercial aircraft use a radar, augmented with a GPS-based terrain map, for their ground proximity warning (EGPWS, “Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System”).

I could be wrong though, I’m not a pilot.

Nah man. There are uses for touchscreens in cars. Just don’t put everything there, and especially don’t put anything you’d need to use while actively driving in there.

But being able to have dynamic user interfaces is very useful for plenty of non-directly-driving-related features.

More accurately at conception everyone is sexless. No one has reproductive organs at conception.

Crematoriums don’t use the body as fuel. They burn way hotter. Otherwise you wouldn’t have everything becoming ash.

Don’t take my word for it, you can read what they said about it here. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.