That would bring the price of gas down here.

I’m doubtful of that. Oil is a globalized commodity, and international prices will still affect local sales, even if none of our oil actually comes through the strait of Hormuz.

I’m convinced the strait being closed is the whole point of this mess. It’s just an excuse to charge more despite local production costs not changing. If export were banned, I think they’d just lower production to keep their margins high.

Elections are run by each state, including registration. That means when they want to fuck with the registry they have to do it in a state by state basis, making specific lawsuits that target that state’s system. They want to make it federal so they can just drop whoever they want from the registry without having to go through state officials.

Besides being a blatant attempt to enable widespread disenfranchisement, it is also highly unconstitutional. The states run elections, following regulations set by Congress. The executive branch should have no power here, and the executive order should be struck down immediately, but who fucking knows at this point.

Good idea, but I 100% expect the bios to be locked down and force secure boot. Hopefully there would at least be a work around to enroll new keys, but don’t count on it.

I feel like we go through this every time Bethesda releases a game. Yes, every other engine is just as old. I’m sure there’s some ut99 code still in unreal, and maybe some quake code in source 2. The difference is those other engines already work pretty well, and have improved over time. The creation engine is still somehow just as janky every time, and somehow still has bugs dating back to skyrim or oblivion. I want to believe they can fix it, but their track record does not inspire confidence.

The GBA was region free, but Nintendo was region locking their consoles from the start. For example, the n64 is capable of playing games from any region, but the Japanese games had different tabs, and wouldn’t fit in a US console without modding the slot.

Well good news, you can still do bluetooth on a phone that has a headphone jack.

And it wasn’t made to be repairable.

And wireless earbuds are? How many earbud batteries crap out after less than a year? I really don’t think jamming tiny lithium batteries into everything is the more sustainable option here.

It started as minetest, an open source minecraft clone. It has since developed into a full voxel engine, supporting community made game modes and modpacks.

It can’t, but I’m sure that wouldn’t stop Spotify from raising a stink if they see it being bulk imported. I’d imagine this would be similar to OpenStreetMaps and Google Maps; they probably could scrape and bulk import missing info, but they restrict it to licensed sources and user edits to limit liability and enforce quality.

That’s exactly what they’re doing on the steam frame. I guess we’ll see how it works out there.

At this point I genuinely believe OpenAI knows they’re doomed. They are putting all their effort into these massive deals, trying to tie themselves to as many other companies as they can until they are “too big to fail”. Then when they go bankrupt, trump won’t allow the stock market to crash, so the government will step in and pay everyone out. Maybe these other companies are just trying to get in on the grift while they can.

https://fex-emu.com/

They are referring to FEX-Emu, which is already open source (MIT).

I think the idea is that they will adopt it and contribute some development, similar to what they did with proton.

I’m using Ting right now. Cheapest plan is $10 + 5 per gig. I stay on wifi mostly, so that’s fine for me, but there is an unlimited plan for 25. I switched to it because Google Fi had terrible service in my area. However, both services only lease access to the towers, and which towers they connect to has changed over the years, so YMMV.

Why is it scrambled? To keep people from copying it?

Yes. Common practice to hide your code from the user, or potential rivals. I think they’ve been obfuscating the whole time, even back in Notch days.

It was kinda pointless in this case, and was the reason why mod updates were slow between versions, even for simple mods.

They will both point to the bad door.

If asking the thruthful guard, he will point to the door the liar says is safe, which would be the bad door. If asking the liar, he would consider what the thruthful guard says is safe, then reverse that answer, still ending up on the bad door.

They cancel out, so whichever guard you ask doesn’t matter.

Looks like the house was right on the water. It’s possible their only escape from the house was onto the beach or into the water.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_over_Coax_Alliance

Similar idea to powerline adapters, except over coax lines instead.

Winner takes all only applies to presidential elections. In this case, they are redistricting for more congressional seats.

Tay 2.0?

Happy anniversary, and thank you for everything you do to keep this place running.

Looks like TrueNAS.