JohnEdwa

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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They've technically had autopilots for over a century, the first one was the oil tanker J.A Moffett in 1920. Though the main purpose of it is to keep the vessel going dead straight as otherwise wind and currents turn it, so using modern car terms I think it would be more accurate to say they have lane assist? Commercial ones can often do waypoint navigation, following a set route on a map, but I don't think that's very common on personal vessels.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Phone cameras have very good IR filters. They aren't perfect which is why they can still see the LEDs, but they aren't anywhere near as bright.

I have an old RasPi camera with the IR filter removed, a remote control looks like someone used an old-school camera flash in pitch darkness. Which is how you can control your TV sometimes even from the next room over - especially at night with no ir from the sun - shine the remote at the wall, and the wall blinks bright enough for the TV to see it, often even after a few reflections.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

And the opponents wait for 2 seconds after finishing their attacks. Soulslikes are all about learning the patterns and finding the opportunities to hit between dodges, not about mindlessly hack-n-slashing your way to victory.

And different weapons work for different people, I have some I'm absolutely useless with because I just can't work with their movesets.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nobody is expecting the cheapest GPU to be good, they expect it to be cheap. And when 55% of Steam users still use a 1080p monitor and over 60% have a GPU with 8GB or vram or less, it'll still work fine for a while.

But if you are thinking of buying a new monitor, definitely skip it.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 64 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And even ones that want kids take one look at the economy and their bank accounts, and decide to wait until both look better, because they want to be able to afford the kids a happy childhood. The worst thing for population growth is giving people the ability to choose when, if ever, to get kids, and an environment they don't want to have them in.

Two ways to fix that issue. Which one is used tells a lot.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It is a month old account with 275 posts, quickly scrolling all of them are news. Not sure where they post them, but that is still quite a few per day.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

And this is why the UK has separated hot and cold water taps.
Your hot water used to come from a rainwater tank on the roof, and it was illegal to pipe it to a mixing faucet because if something went wrong with the cold water site it could pull undrinkable hot water from these tanks and faucets and contaminate all the drinking water.

Works for these plug-in solar panels too - illegal here in Finland, because if the grid went down, these types of panels could keep feeding the house, out to the street, and electrocute a line worker.

(Also because installing solar panels is a well protected job over here, can't touch that occupation and their revenue stream)

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The same exception the UK had, didn't join it in 1992. Specifically they got an opt-out for those specific parts.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It wasn't. It is now.

It was one of the special exceptions that the UK had, gained in 1992 when the Maastricht Treaty was negotiated.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

There are a lot of requirements to be able to join the EU, and many of them are deal breakers for the UK that they never implemented - like having to switch to the Euro and joining Schengen. They would undoubtedly demand to get the same special exceptions they had before, and require every EU country to unanimously agree to give them, which almost certainly would never happen.

And even before that, one of the requirements is a "significant, stable and long-lasting majority public opinion in favour of rejoining". One interpretation of this was requiring a few years of at least 65% public approval for the join.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Blocking all 3rd party cookies tends to break quite a few things, as websites often use different domains to handle things like logins.

I've found addons like Cookie Autodelete to be a more functional option, it allows those cookies to exist until I close the tab, and if the domain isn't on a whitelist, they get deleted five minutes later. And it works for first party cookies too.
It does take a while to build that whitelist, and sometimes you forget to set it and wipe something you'd rather have kept, though.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You do not need to ask for consent to use functional cookies, only for ones that are used for tracking, which is why you'll still have some cookies left afterwards and why properly coded sites don't break from the rejection.

Most websites could strip out all of the 3rd party spyware and by doing so get rid of the popup entirely. They'll never do it because money, obviously, and sometimes instead cripple their site to blackmail you into accepting them.

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