There are no other frogs. This is the only one.

VR has the extra element of needing a suitable living space to play in, though. Other games I can do at my desk or in my tiny, cramped living room, but I have nowhere I can easily set up for VR that would allow for significant range of motion.

I own a VR headset, but I only really use it for games that allow you to be stationary and just use the headset as an immersive monitor with a standard controller. As one would expect, it doesn’t get much use, because not many VR games are made to play that way!

Just FYI for any curious: this is the same delay that was announced last month, no additional changes since then.

Same thoughts here.

Without fear of opposition becoming dominant, the ruling powers that be are not incentivised to placate the masses, and instead consolidate power and turn to self-enrichment. Similar to what is seen in autocratic or single-party states, eventually leading to some sort of collapse or revolution when the people reach a breaking point.

Capitalists currently control the world, and they’re not going to cede any of that control voluntarily unless they have something to be afraid of.

You’re not wrong but I’d also look at it from the perspective of “We’ve been making statements like this for years now and the situation has only gotten worse, so what else should we be doing?” Status quo isn’t really just the result of people giving up, it’s about things remaining the same (or worse) even after trying, so what else should be tried?

Normally I’d be the one to say this is an unfairly harsh take, but when BYD is continuing the proud Chinese tradition of using slave labor to make cheaper products than the competition, I’m inclined to say that maybe they should be off the table as well.

Maybe EVs shouldn’t be as affordable until the industry is actually sustainable. I’d rather buy a vehicle made by union workers who are paid fairly for their labor, even if it’s more expensive.

And with the global outcry against the company, I don’t think that day is far off. They know there’s going to be reduced demand for their products, because even those who don’t feel like they want to boycott Tesla out of principle might still reconsider buying one if they don’t want to deal with the shame/risk they’ll get from others.

I hate to come across as an Apple shill, but specifically for tablets, I may reconsider them and look for an affordable used iPad somewhere. From my own experience, theirs is the only OS that is designed tablet-first and they accordingly have a larger ecosystem of apps that are tailored to that experience. I don’t think you can find a more accessible tablet UX in the general consumer space.

Windows and Android tablets are fine, but you’re going to have a lot of compromises. In particular with Windows, you’re either going to get the x86 OS with short battery life, or the neutered ARM version that barely anything is compatible with but gives you a few hours more per charge. Android at least is more mobile-oriented and is built for ARM by default, but it makes no real distinction between phone apps and tablet apps, so most of what you’ll get is phone interfaces blown up/stretched into tablet ones. Both of these OSes are also privacy nightmares, so pick your poison there.

There are some Linux tablets out there, too, but they’ve got the same core problem as Windows, where for tablet-first experiences you’re looking at pretty small/specialized ecosystems unless you’re up for building something yourself. Starlabs makes a tablet that you can put just about any major distro of Linux on, but it’s also x86, and it ain’t cheap. There is probably cheaper out there, but you’re essentially getting what you pay for.

My man!

Same here.

South Korea’s government managed to successfully impeach and convict him first, though.

Trump has been impeached twice (which is already unprecedented for an American president), but it failed both times because the bar to pass is 2/3 of the senate voting to convict, which simply cannot happen while Republicans control half or more of the senate.

Kinda loses its sting given how many years Germans have been making floats of Trump like this, though. Good sentiment, but I wish it amounted to something.

Not to say it’s a waste of time or they shouldn’t do this, but I’m just tired, boss.

Ah, so this is why the news this morning was randomly reporting on Abercrombie’s “comeback” featuring totally real and not-at-all astroturfed Tiktokers talking about how hip the company is again while putting on makeup.

Gotta control the narrative however they can.

An unproven fighter jet made by fucking Boeing of all companies.

I don’t think VCs have “killed” value per se, more that they established conditions which were ultimately unsustainable and resulted in inevitable enshittification.

The 00’s and 10’s were absolutely riddled with tech companies that had seemingly limitless volumes of VC funding. They were not profitable in the slightest, but the funding kept coming because they got so big, they had potential, and everyone wanted a piece. The big companies wanted to use the advantage of basically “free” money to kill any and all competition before their VC funding was burned up, so they all offered “too good to be true” services that we all got used to which no one else could compete with.

Eventually the VC money began drying up as the economy got worse and firms began opting for safer investments. But the threshold has been crossed: the big players became entrenched and competition was eliminated wherever possible. No new competitors can grow because the same conditions fueled by VC funding in the 00’s and 10’s will likely not happen again. Meanwhile, the big companies that spent years operating in the red now need to turn a profit, so they start working on ways to further capitalize on their products and services. Hence we see rapidly rising subscription costs, paywalls, more ads than content, newer products that are worse than preceding ones in many ways, user data collection everywhere, mass layoffs/abusive working conditions, etc.

I’m just a bit worried about any potential schism among the Democrats because the electoral system in the US is still incredibly broken and will always gravitate towards a 2-party state.

To me, it seems easier for the Democrats to rebrand as more left-leaning than they currently are and try to remain a united front, rather than splinter into several competing parties.

If anything is to supplant the Democratic party, it would need to be one party supplanting the whole of the Democrats, or else Republicans will remain a plurality and retain control of the US government until the electoral process changes or their numbers diminish.

It’s just that we have to make space for our 5,358 partners and the telemetry data they need.

Depending on when in my life you ask me, “pancake” or “jianbing/zinbeng” (or just “pancake” pronounced in whatever regional accent you have because English loanwords are trendy)

There would be something ironic about an afterlife that detains members of ICE at the pearly gates and deports them back where they belong in hell.

Wouldn’t that simply create a bitmap circle, though? The advantage of shapes in Photoshop is that they are vectors.

The problem is that he still owns a huge chunk of the stock. Unless he sells it all for some reason (or dies (naturally), now that would be something), there is no way to hope that Tesla succeeds independent of Elon because he directly profits from their success.