Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: jordicoma- Sorry boss, I cannot go to work because I have no battery left after playing all day.
No, the car has to be a car, not a gaming pc. I prefer having less technology at the car and having more battery life.

i doubt it use thaat much battery.
maybe you lose 1km , but if you didnt prepared yourself to refill the battery in a long driving session to the point that 1km was an issue, then you cant blame the car really.

Heat and AC will use up a LOT more battery than the onboard processors ever will.

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I don't like Musk one little bit. His flaws are legion, his ego is incredible, and his primary skills are in self-promotion and not being tied down by the truth in doing so. He's famously over-promised in every single business he's been involved in, including Tesla. And his Twitter antics, before and after buying it, have revealed a lot about him.

But that said, and this is important, he doesn't design or build the cars. He pays people to do that. What he is and is not like has little, if anything, to do with this decision or the quality of the vehicles (which, if my housemate's Model 3 is anything to go by, is actually very good (full self-driving is pretty half-baked though)).

As to the games, a LOT of the use case for those is when you're charging the vehicle. Refuelling an EV isn't a five minute process like with a gas-powered car, you might be sitting there 15-20 minutes easily, depending on a number of things. So it's great to have something to occupy yourself with in the meantime. They used to allow games while driving, saying it's "for passenger use only", but disabled it a year ago following bad press about it. Dumb oversight not to disable it to start with, which I chalk up to engineers often assuming everyone else is like them, and since they wouldn't do that....

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I haven't even unlocked all the content in the *base* game, nevermind even considering DLC.

I mean I only got to the [really trippy place] last night.

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Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: denyasisPS, nice to see a fellow Methodist!

Well met! Wesley brothers (Plus their mother: people forget that Susanna was instrumental in John and Charles' formative years. Her work reads pretty well too.) fan club unite! (Yes, that pun was terrible.)

Gotta admit I don't really understand how Method acting could become an actual religion. :tongue:

Well, it *is* based on faith rather than facts...

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Quoting: 1xokThe main problem of Mineclone are bugs. There is Mineclone2 and Mineclone5. The latter implements Minecraft rather more freely and offers more content (and more bugs). Mineclone2 focuses mainly on version 12.2. The world generation is sometimes much more impressive than in Minecraft due to the world size of 65536 blocks in all directions.

As I understand it, that's no longer the case. MineClone2 is not focusing on any particular version now, having pretty much hit their baseline for parity, but they are more interested in stability over frequent releases.

For instance, from the current update, Beehives are a 1.14 element and Axolotls are 1.17.

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Luna's Fishing Garden is, surprisingly, a big temptation. It's got very good reviews.

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They say the road to atheism is littered with Bibles read cover-to-cover, so I guess now that saying will need to be amended to include Bibles where all of the endings are unlocked.

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I'm reminded, at least conceptually, of Starbound, which took a one-world sandbox game aesthetic and took it into a larger universe where you could do the same thing on multiple planets, with new story elements, NPCs and such.

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Quoting: denyasisSo, uhh getting back to the topic at hand...

How do you guys using Mastodon feel about it? Likes? Dislikes?

I'm very torn about having social media (I don't really have/maintain any), but I looked around Matadon a bit. It seems interesting, but navigating is a little confusing for me. It seems like a chunk of what I saw was, umm headlines? Like people just yelling things into the void but not a lot of discussion? Or maybe I couldn't see the conversations as I wasn't logged in?

I feel more biased toward Discord at the moment. I get they are different, but as a chat room, for some reason, it feels more, I dunno, real?

Thoughts?

I've been on Mastodon for years, and it's a very comfortable place. A lot more low-key than Twitter, a lot less interaction with brands and celebrities (although Liam and Cheeseness are there, so maybe there is star power!). However, I find that the amount and quality of interactions is much, much higher. There was a post the other day by the curator of the Mastodon dot Art instance where they explain that they have more engagement, and more sales, off Mastodon than Twitter, Facebook and Instagram combined, even with a much lower follower count.

There really are a lot of interesting people, although it may take some digging to find the ones you're interested in.

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Here's what I think is most likely:

Over the next year, monetization of the platform will go absolutely batshit. Musk has roughly a billion per year to service the loans he took out for the purchase, and currently Twitter doesn't make anywhere near that. And other than selling more stock, it's unclear where else he'd get it from.

Expect foreign governments to be all over this. China has wanted to make serious inroads on Twitter for a while, and they have leverage over Musk due to him wanting to manufacture and sell Teslas there. They're already publicly asking to stop having their government news services tagged as such. Apply the same to other countries where Tesla or Starlink operate.

There's going to be a very delicate dance between making the "Freeze Peach" crowd happy and able to say awful shit without consequence, and keeping brands and celebrities from feeling like the place is too hostile and bailing. And remember, their presence is one of the big draws of the platform. And Musk is NOT a delicate dancer.

Musk also has to navigate a lot of contractual and international law stuff which he normally likes to pretend doesn't exist. Which is one reason his wave of firings is going to net him (as sole CEO) a hell of a lot of lawsuits, which, well....we saw how he handled himself when he tried to back out of the deal. And he, like Trump, is supremely bad at damage control or keeping his damn mouth shut, even when it's definitely not in his own best interest.

Musk and his friends, as we saw in the texts released during the legal proceedings, have a lot of really dumb ideas on how to run the place. They are going to try to implement those ideas. Probably all at once. It'll be a confusing mess.

Going back to the monetization thing, experience tells us that when a company (we see it a lot with game companies) either fail at monetization, or worse, succeed at monetization, they will in both cases double down on that monetization. The only difference really is that in the former case, it'll tend to be more gimmicky and slapped together in a hurry.

None of this even gets into the misinformation, harassment, slur-throwing, conspiracy theorizing, and all the other ills that are already there but about to get worse. This is only based on the capabilities, or more notably the lack of same, of Musk himself, amply demonstrated in public many times.

tl;dr Start looking for alternative social networks/advertising platforms/announcement spaces, because this one's gonna get self-sabotaged by an idiot who bought his own "genius" marketing.

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