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If it comes to a contest between production capacity for weaponized drones between Taiwan and China, I think that Taiwan is going to be in trouble. China overwhelmingly dominates global drone production capacity.

If it came to a contest of that sort between the US and China, the US isn't, in 2026, going to be able to compete in mass either.

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https://www.auvsi.org/advocacy/advocacy-initiatives/partnership-for-drone-competitiveness/at-a-glance/

The drone market is unlike any other advanced technology sector. Companies based in China and subsidized by the Chinese government control 90% of the consumer drone market, 70% or more of the enterprise market, and 92% of the state and local first responder market. Chinese company DJI holds the vast majority of that market share.

That did not happen by accident. In 2015, China launched “Made in China 2025,” a ten-year, whole-of-society effort to invest in key industries, including drones, to ensure China’s world leadership and market dominance.

The US does have various projects to aim to counter that, but does not yet, as of 2026, have that sort of capability. If China started maximum production of weaponized drones right now, using existing civilian and military infrastructure, I don't think that we'd presently have a defensive-type counter. We'd probably have to go on offense, try to destroy their industrial capacity.

One project I recall some discussion about is Replicator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(United_States_military)

Replicator is the name of a United States Department of Defense program intended to pioneer ways to cheaply produce large amounts of weapons or systems for the U.S. military.

It was announced on Aug. 23, 2023, by Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks as a means of quickly producing weapons to deter and counter China. In her announcement, Hicks said the first type of weapons to be produced under Replicator were to be autonomous systems; she did not specify whether these would be, for example, aerial drones or unmanned vessels.[1]

The Replicator program announced its first batch of contracts on May 6, 2024; they included purchases of uncrewed watercraft, aerial drones, and anti-drone defenses "of various sizes and payloads from several traditional and non-traditional vendors." Some other contracts “remain classified, including others in the maritime domain and some in the counter-UAS portfolio”, a Defense Department release said.[2]

On September 30, 2024, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III announced a new phase of the program, dubbed Replicator 2, that would focus on anti-drone defensive systems.[3]

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One aspect of insurance is that it doesn't typically cover damages from war. Insurance normally tries to deal with uncorrelated risk

like, one person in an area has their car stolen, and spreads the large amount of harm to one person to be a small amount of harm over many people in an area. It doesn't really scale up to widespread destruction in an area where everyone is massively wiped out. War is one of the things that can cause correlated risk, so outside of exotic policies written specifically to deal with war, insurance policies normally won't cover damage resulting from war.

So if property damage occurs, it's generally going to be a loss to the owner even if they have fire insurance or such.

That sounds like something that Trump would say.

"Politicians who set standards for others must be measured by them too," said Marion Rosin, a Christian Democrat in Thuringia and part of the Women's Union. "If that credibility is gone, resignation is a matter of consequence."

Naturally. I imagine that if Marion Rosin could be shown to have purchased any product originating in another country with different labor laws than in Germany and operating in accordance with the labor laws of that country rather than German ones, that she would certainly herself resign and end her own political career. As a matter of principle, perhaps Ms. Rosin would care to show us, say, the tags on the items of her wardrobe?

Whatever Fallout Obsidian is doing is happening now, not after the next Elder Scrolls game is done.

Might not be Fallout 5

Obsidian's last Fallout game was Fallout: New Vegas, which I'd consider mainline, even if it fit between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 and didn't get a number.

Obsidian has done a mainline Fallout before, New Vegas, so there's precedent. And apparently Tim Cain (original Fallout, created the series) guy just showed back up in the last few months and is working at Obsidian and said that he plans to do one last game before re-retiring. And Josh Sawyer is there, and he directed New Vegas.

EDIT: And John Gonzales, the lead designer for New Vegas.

And Bethesda has said that they're gonna be contributing.

That's a lot of mainline Fallout head honchos in one place. First time I think that all of those have been together.

I mean, yeah, I guess it's not impossible that they're gonna do a spin-off, Fallout Shelter-like, but my money is that it's gonna be mainline.

EDIT2: By "mainline", I'm including Fallout: New Vegas, even if it didn't have a number, fit between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. I don't think that many people would call that a spin-off.

Do you also need to have power for the PC from USB-C, or can you live with wall power for that?

I went looking for PSUs that used USB-C a while back, and that's kind of limited.

If that isn't an issue, then I think all you need to look for is USB-C DisplayPort Alt mode for video. Everything else should just work if you have a USB-C connection, assuming that you've got the monitor side of things handled.

EDIT: If you have to have power via that USB-C connection, this is two years old, but:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniPCs/comments/1f9m7lv/mini_pc_with_usbc_power_and_display/

The only ones that I know that have both power delivery and display out using the same C cable are Minisforum EM680 and EM780.

I doubt that they're going to do a live service thing either, but at least part of the problem was, as I recall from postmortems, that they didn't have people with experience doing network games going into it and figured that multiplayer capability would be easy to retrofit in. That generally isn't the case

if you want to permit client-side prediction, to keep the game responsive, which you probably do, then your engine has to support rolling back all state in the event of a misprediction. Like, say my client predicts that another player character keeps walking straight, doesn't push any keys. Given that, it calculates that the rifle grenade I just fired sails past them and hits a monster and kills it, preventing it from afflicting me with a poisoned status.

Then it gets a new update. Actually, it turns out that a while back, that player veered to the right, right into the path of that rifle grenade, and it hit him and killed him. The player is no longer alive. The monster that my rifle grenade would have hit is not actually dead, and so it survived and afflicted me with poison. All of that world state needs to be rolled back and recalculated (and this rollback done efficiently). That means that you can't just leave any state about the world anywhere that doesn't get rolled back.

Plus, Fallout has a scripting engine, Papyrus, and if it has any state stored, that has to be rolled back too.

That's not so hard to do if you think about it from the get-go, and are careful about how you store state. But if you've been writing a purely-single-player game for decades and not thinking about any of this, it's easy to stick state somewhere that doesn't get rolled back. And that's gonna manifest in all kinds of unpleasant ways during runtime, when you occasionally hit corner cases.

IIRC, they had to bring in network game people to help out.

But my guess is that that's also something of a one-off effort to fix most of that. Like, I doubt that doing Fallout 76 2 would be as bad technically as Fallout 76.

That being said, I'm not really looking for a live service game myself, and I doubt that it's what they're doing. Plus, from a business standpoint, if you already have a live service game, I suspect that you're probably better off just extending the existing game and leveraging the existing player base than starting from scratch.

Batman isn't superpowered either.

That's true, and I remember that being a problem in a number of accidents for older drivers, but it sounds like this guy was just trying to drive quickly.

https://www.teslarati.com/ntsb-findings-on-fatal-tesla-crash-tell-a-very-different-story/

The driver, 44-year-old Michael Butler...

Not elderly.

Butler told authorities he had passed out at the wheel. But security camera footage obtained by the NTSB told a different story, and showed the car accelerating through an intersection before leaving the road entirely. Police also found that Butler’s phone had Google searches including the terms “Tesla FSD not aggressive enough 2026” and “Tesla FSD too timid,” raising serious questions about how he was using the system before the crash. Butler has since been charged with manslaughter. The victim’s family has filed a lawsuit against both Butler and Tesla, alleging negligence.

Those generally are there because someone has figured out a way to atack your computer. Like, get someome playing a Web game and slamming enter and then pop up a dialog right in the middle so that you inadvertently confirm doing something unpleasant to your computer. The secure setting is probably the right default for most users.

https://superuser.com/questions/1023643/firefox-disable-delay-on-download-dialog-buttons

Go to about:config (type into address bar) and set security.dialog_enable_delay setting to 0.

Note: disabling this delay may in theory open you to some pretty non-standard security attacks described in this article (as Otiel pointed out), but I wouldn't lose sleep about it.

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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1273640