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Apparently this is illegal to implement as of right now, but it’s not helping the feeling of technological doomerism I get whenever I think about this whole identity verification situation.

What an unnavigable website. I’ve been accosted by four popups and an auto playing video, trying to look at it on my phone.

I still didn’t quite understand the arc concept. Is it that the ground appears to dip slightly then go back up?

Also finding it hard to acknowledge quite what happened, especially since it’s such a nonchalant situation, but that power line in the background just crumpling is a scary sign that something has changed.

The best/worst part is that I was worried about battery life, and then I realized that I only have so much time as an adult and it doesn’t matter as much, for most games I’d want to play on it anyway.

A power bank for the exceptions. Not perfect but it’s okay.

Even if it’s not the intent of putting it there, that’s literally what it is now.

How does that change anything?

I got a cheap aliexpress board with LEDs that does this, at least the main protocols.

It’s definitely one of these things that make me wonder if I’m being too consumeristic. It’s nice to have a cable tester but I don’t really need one. Maybe if I had a shop that sold cables. But then again I can test my stuff “objectively”, possibly minimizing throwing out working cables. Idk

pray together for it to turn into reality

I guess you can say that, but I think what’s more important is that when he says something that goes against their presumptions they are forced to deal with it.

Francis’s low-bar acceptance of queer people really made a big difference in how many of his followers actually interact with them. Very, very far from perfect, but a huge number of people were forced to challenge their prejudices. Where I live, most people regarded the Venn diagram of gay people and child molesters to be a circle, and now while you’d still still be treated like shit, the idea that you can be gay without being the scum of the earth is much more common. The pope said they’re not bad people, so millions have to find it within themselves to follow what he said.

The Catholic Church will never be a beacon of progressivism. But they’ve been okay at giving stragglers a trustworthy lifeline to slightly more open minded positions.

I don’t think this excuses the bad stuff they’ve done (since this is always brought up any time anyone says anything positive about the church) but I don’t see the church disappearing anytime soon. I’ll take the good where I can find it. (Also the church is very influential where I live, so it’s important that they keep challenging the regressive ideas a lot of powerful and enfranchised people are holding on to. You don’t want to be challenging the pope by denying the atrocities in Gaza do you?)

Edit: just saw that you were replying to someone asking about the US. My comment is about Christians in the Middle East, both (Greek and Latin) Catholics and Maronites which are in communion with Rome. There’s spillover in attitude among the other, non-Catholic sects of Christianity, of course. And further, fainter spillover among others folks.

It’s already getting bad. It’s kind of heartbreaking. Around 2015 was the sweet spot where a lot of mods would be updated quickly, authors turned around compatibility patches for other mods very often, and the game was still a big enough part of the zeitgeist that you had a lot of people who were interested in DIY game dev putting time into the modding scene, with the expectation that so many people play Skyrim that surely your mod would appeal to someone.

I even have a little mod idea from 2012. I haven’t done it yet. Maybe I still will.

I played a fair bit at the time and then told myself I’ll go again in the future. About a year ago I tried to start setting up a new mod list and it was complicated by the versions and the need to manually port versions and that kind of thing. Frankly, it was laziness on my part, not trying hard enough to learn the new meta, not bothering to understand the porting process. It looked like so much effort and I quite frankly had way less time and patience for it.

My setup wasn’t great (laptop with a 4700MQ (I think!) and GT750 SLI. Not GTX, GT. Yeah.) but it was plenty to play at decently high settings in vanilla and high with a little bit of ultra after doing all the modded optimizations. Seriously, that one texture compression mod made the game playable at all during the summer months.

Those were the days huh. I still think modding peaked with Skyrim and Minecraft and every successive generation of people playing games is fighting for fewer and fewer scraps.

These charts are always suspect when they have a literal apartheid regime run by scores of howling fascists marked as democratic.

I guess as long as you accept their idea where democracy only applies to part of the population, then yes, part of the population can pretend they live in a democratic society. Nothing wrong with just not considering other people as people, no sir. Only freedom here.

(I don’t disagree that disinfo is usually discussed in the context of countries where people are more likely to affect policy)

If we’re gonna talk about actual implementation, you can probably stick a few simple waterblocks on both of the phone’s sides with some thermal pads and have water flowing through everything. Maybe two CPU sized blocks on each side. Not the fancy stuff, the questionable cheap ones.

I don’t even think you need a radiator, a phone will only dissipate so much heat. A loop sucking water out of a metal bucket and dumping it back in will probably radiate enough heat to keep everything relatively cool. Unless we’re doing 25W phone processors now.

If I remember correctly, there were mods that made the settings go below the lowest available ones.

Suddenly feeling like my Skyrim mod knowledge is some complex ancient fading lore in parts of my mind I haven’t used in years.