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Shocking. Absolutely riveting outcome that wasn’t expected whatsoever. /s

That being said though, the weirder part for me is the fact that apparently they weren’t able to obtain the operatives behind the website. So this was essentially a court case that was filed, put into session and then given judgment without even ever identifying the defendants that are on trial.

That seems really weird to me.

Yea, which is a fair expectation, but it’s not a safe assumption. Verify it does before prolonged use. Make sure its well ventilated(heat is killer to batteries as well), and that some form of BMS is present on the system, and that it’s enabled because some have the system but have it disabled by default.

I can’t see reddit on my network(I blocked it to avoid using it) so I will take your word for it, I’m assuming its the store freezer/produce doors with ads.

Being said, there are reasons to technologicalize the process. those type of low level mini pc’s or controllers last generally years at a time, and are a setup once and done type operation. They are also super cheap and can be distributed across the entire chain once instead of needing to get material, print it, and ship it every time a new product or design is done. Sending stuff over the wire is cheap, shipping marketing material is not. It’s generally sent from a different company all-together, and either centralized into a distribution center to be shipped to the stores, or shipped directly to the store from the producer.

It also allows for video based distribution which allows for more info on the screen (for better or for worse because this also could be ads).

I think it’s dumb that it’s an individual system it seems for every screen, but I expect that HDMI matrix hardware is more expensive vs just having them separate, but regardless cost wise it’s a no brainer to make it digital over having physical inserts, even if its more wasteful.

it only works as a UPS if you periodically discharge the battery. My first “server” was a compaq laptop, I had used it for years and then reprovisioned it to Ubuntu Server, after 2 or 3 years of 24/7 if you unplugged it at all it just instant died because keeping it 100% charged all the time killed the battery.

I would assume that in most cases, they arent running a mid day update, they would give prior notice that over night X will happen so make sure product is what the label is in the morning.

Being said, I also assume there is some custom-ability to the screens, as in they are probably touch screens or have a a physical button behind the control to allow to cycle through available products to ensure the right product is displayed. That or there is a network controller somewhere on premise (potentially linked to their menu manager) that decides what screen displays what.

There is plenty of space under and around it to be able to have a old style septic/leach-field setup. We use that style at my house still since theres no public utility. Basically all a septic is is a big tank buried underground (although in some cases as long as you had some form of liner to prevent cave in you could use that) and then a outflow to send the liquids to a leach-field.

In a post apcolyptic scenario I expect that hardest part of that would be actually pumping or removing the solid waste when the tank is full, would likely need to be a manual pump.

getting water that high though is going to need a pump as well.

Oh, I fully understand that. But the everyday person isn’t going to affect the government to the extent where they want to not only issue a court order ordering a company to do this, but also issue a gag order to prevent the company from saying anything.

Political leaders, possibly. Terrorist organizers, definitely. But your typical protest, or right versus left debate, that’s not going to be enough for them to bother, let alone a court order forcing it.

I don’t think their intent is to have you go buy a PS5, I think their bigger intent is preventing it on Xbox hardware.

I think Xbox’s claims that all PC games will be available on the new system is a big reason for them to not allow it on PC, they have been a firm “We don’t want this on Xbox”, and they can’t uphold that with Project Helix’s claims that it runs PC games.

Is it safe enough to use vpns based out of the US?

yes, just be aware that the gov could require the company to log you without letting you know, even if they have a no log setup. For the everyday person this is a non-issue, but if you are doing shadey stuff or have ties that may make someone super interested in your activities, you may wanna choose elsewhere.

they don’t allow port forwarding which nerfs the effectiveness of seeding, seeding is still possible, just not as effective.

I agree with that, but I have noticed some topic areas have more hostility than others!

the users don’t start insulting you when you ask a perfectly legitimate question

I dont know about that one chief, on lemmy it defo depends on the question/topic Ive noticed lol

I read this as they learned it was far too difficult to moderate /all and that the easier thing corporate wise was just remove it.

I intentionally left addiction out of the equation as I don’t expect the everyday person is going to have that occur to them, and if it did occur that’s only going to make it /worse/ for the devs on the platform as it’s almost certainly going to favor rougelites and proc gen over story and action titles. I see no use of this.

as for my subs? I left the gaming sub field almost entirely. My only gaming sub I still have is humble bundle, because you own every game as long as you had choice the month it was released. I had gamepass ultimate for 2 years as part of the xbox X all access pass thing they did but, I found that there was very little actual decent “I want to play” games. I would play a few of them(like 6-8 of them) a month and then say “ok ill come back to them some day”, and then just not. For the price of a AAA title every 3 months (now a AAA title every other month) it wasn’t worth it for me.

From the consumer side, I feel the same way with this pass, I could take that same amount, and buy 1- 3 of the games listed on this and have them to keep, and be helping the devs way more money wise. It’s a no brainer.

Being said, I could see how this could be useful with the more expensive titles on the pass, but that is the case with normal GP as well.

I resound with the other commenters, this is a hard pass for me.

I got enough subscriptions to deal with than have a subscription for the cheaper style games.

This type of model isn’t even going to be helpful to the developers either, it may increase publicity but, the article says itself that it bases money earned on gametime and if people played a lot each dev is going to have diminishing returns… Nobody buys a subscription model with the expectation they are only going to play 1 or 2 games, people play as many games as they can, that way they can get the most out of the subscription. for 6.99 a month, even locking myself down to once a week only, if I played 3 inde titles a week, for an hour each, thats 12 games a month, which means that 6.99 is going to be less than 60 cents to each developer a month, and that is ignoring whatever cost they charge as a platform fee.

Sure the argument can be made that thats still money the dev wouldn’t be getting otherwise but, I see this as more of a disadvantage to inde studios. I think the example they used in the article is very optimistic and not super realistic to what will happen.

there was a wiki news?

it would need to be so much cheaper to be worth it. Like current GP ultimate already is a scam and a half unless you were essentially buying a AAA title every 2 months, unless the price of this subscription is at least a quarter the price of ultimate it wouldn’t be worth it imo.

it depends on the type of zip encryption, the default doesn’t encrypt metadata

edit: upon looking into it further, the other commenter is right, the zip format itself doesn’t actually support encrypting metadata at all, you would need to use a different format such as 7z to obtain it.

I forsee in the future Microsoft implementing a core electron service, one electron instance that is persistant and just runs, but sandboxes every app that calls it. so instead of an electron instance per app, its just an electron instance that has sandboxed pages that are only managable by the parent process.

it would still be pretty bloaty but, since core structure should only be present in the parent process, hopefully it would be less bloaty

I treat postgame content the same as I treat new game+

It’s super unlikely I will look into it unless the game rocked my world.

Many games treat post game content as a grindfest for people who really liked the game but didn’t want it to end, I usually have no interest in it.

The last games I looked into both NG+ and post game content on was final fantasy XV and God of War (the ps4 one), and I didn’t finish it on either of them.