GreenCrunch

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[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 12 points 2 weeks ago

It's been reported that a lot of cuts to Xbox studios were due to losses in MS's AI business.

I had always viewed Xbox game studios and game pass as a platform dominance thing. Like, keeping players on Windows/Xbox products and keeping a large amount of the games industry under their control.

In general, just trying to keep players on the Windows ecosystem.

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Spaceship Georg, whose body is 5.7×10⁹ miles from Earth, is an outlier and should not be counted.

(A portion of Clyde Tombaugh's remains are on the New Horizons spacecraft about this far from Earth). Edit: but this of course is useless for place of death statistics.

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

Scooters definitely need more regulations. My experience as someone walking in a city with them hasn't been very positive.

They've been frequently tossed on the ground after their use. It's a rental, and people don't care what happens to it because it's not their problem.

They frequently block curb ramps for wheelchairs. Sometimes it's even the company putting them there (all lined up nicely, just to block the way). Sometimes it's just people tossing a scooter there after use.

My partner uses a wheelchair so scooters have been a pain in the ass for them.

Safety wise there are problems. The scooter app will tell you to wear a helmet and never ride on the sidewalk (to cover their asses) but no one wears a helmet on them.

A scooter rider hit my partner, then a stationary car once. At another time a scooter hit me and knocked me over (they were speeding down the sidewalk late at night).

But "stupid drivers" also applies to bikes, and cars. And the potential for harm with an F-150 is a lot greater than a scooter

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Those World War 2 movies as well - like, we already had millions die during the war, and now we're doing it again to make a movie out of it? (/s)

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 14 points 2 weeks ago

Since you're in a roundabout, you just need a large funnel into the gas tank. Every time around, someone standing at the side pours a bit of fuel in while you pass, so you get a splash of fuel per lap!

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Based on the few hours I have in this game, I feel like this conversation would be right after the player steals Kim's shrimp fried rice. Like he's waited for you several days, then you emerge, steal his food, and start joking about how a shrimp fried the rice and he's just very patiently waiting for you to investigate the body.

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

+2 to Mosquito Perception, for a MOSPER of 6 total!

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 34 points 2 weeks ago

Or, if you're more fun, a giant wall of lava lamps! The coolest randomness in town!

(Cloudflare does this)

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Even USB-C is a nightmare. There's 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2, which were rebranded as "3.2 Gen X" with some stupid stuff there as far as what speed it supports.

Then it can do DisplayPort as well. There used to be an HDMI alt mode too!

An Intel computer might have Thunderbolt over the same cable, and can send PCIe signals over the cable to plug in a graphics card or other devices.

Then there's USB 4 which works like Thunderbolt but isn't restricted to Intel devices.

Then there's the extended power profile which lets you push 240 W through a USB C port.

For a while, the USB-C connector was on graphics cards as Virtualink, which was supposed to be a one-cable standardized solution to plugging in VR headsets. Except that no headsets used it.

Then there's Nintendo. The Switch has a Type-C port, but does its own stupid thing for video, so it can't work with a normal dock because it's a freak.

So you pick up a random USB C cable and have no information on what it may be capable of, plug it into a port where you again don't know the capabilities. Its speed may be anywhere between 1.5 MBit/s (USB 1.0 low speed) and 80 GBit/s (USB 4 2.0) and it may provide between 5 and 240 W of power.

Every charger has a different power output, and sometimes it leads to a stupid situation like the Dell 130 W laptop charger. In theory, 130 W is way more than what most phones will charge at. But it only offers that at I think 20 V, which my phone can't take. So in practice, your phone will charge at the base 5W over it.

Dell also has a laptop dock for one of their laptops that uses TWO Type-C ports, for more gooderness or something, I don't know. Meaning it will only fit that laptop with ports exactly that far apart.

The USB chaos does lead to fun discoveries, such as when I plugged a Chromecast with Google TV's power port into a laptop dock and discovered that it actually supports USB inputs, which is cool.

And Logitech still can't make a USB-C dongle for their mouse.

At least it's not a bunch of proprietary barrel chargers. My parents have a whole box of orphaned chargers with oddly specific voltages from random devices.

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

The scalp bird takes advantage of this by nesting in people's hair and consuming the fruit. This causes another symbiotic relationship as it spreads the fruit seeds.

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 19 points 2 weeks ago

The deafening "USB device connected" sound from the house bothered my neighbors.

Then I learned my house had mouse aiming when I tripped over the mouse, ripping it from its foundation and spinning it wildly.

Unfortunately, the house did not save prior to its excursion. The insurance company is really mad.

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 14 points 2 weeks ago

Definitely be careful though! There's plenty of rail that's overgrown, horribly maintained, looks like it hasn't been touched in 20 years but gets a train every few weeks or something. You'll want to be very sure that it's impossible for a train to be on the same track.

(There's a town in my state that has some rail that is physically cut off from the railroad it used to be part of, so something like that would be the safest)

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