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People can share differing opinions without immediately being on the reverse side. Avoid looking at things as black and white. You can like both waffles and pancakes, just like you can hate both waffles and pancakes.

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  • My honest opinion is that I would never play a game that tried that. It’s too much genre diversity in one game.

    I think extraction is oversaturated at the moment/too heavily competed. As do I think the 5v5 team based shooters are.

    I also think that at the point of adding survival ontop of it, you are trying to advertise to too broad of an audience. Your survival open world mode would be significantly different mechanics wise than your extraction mode, so you would essentially need to make an entire different game just for that mode. They are two polar opposite game styles. Extraction style is a fast paced perma death style mode with no real intent outside collection to increase char strength and skills, where survival is slow paced by norm and would need some form of driving factor to keep people interested in playing the mode, as the primary reason to play it (get shit and get out) is no longer in play.

    if its a passion project/not expecting any return out of it. I would say go for it but, I think that if you intended to make it a monetization thing and have it take off, its a bit ambitious and I think you should start with one or the other.


  • As others have stated, if your model is able to have the battery removed and have it still run off power, no problem, do so.

    You should be using a dedicated UPS for something like that if you’re concerned about power going out , For a power input that a laptop requires, you could very easily find a $30 or $40 one at your closest big box retail store.

    If you must keep the battery in it be careful to monitor it. I ran a laptop as a server for almost four years. It does work really nice. But depending on model, they may be prone to having the battery expand if it’s on 24-7. And even if it doesn’t, that battery is going to be shot after two or three years of constant use anyway.

    You can mitigate the battery health issue by making sure you have some form of battery management software running where it stops charging the battery once it hits like 80-85%. and allows it to discharge on its own. But realistically using a laptop battery as a backup power source isn’t super recommended.

    Plus with a UPS, you could also hook your router and modem/ONT up to it, which means that not only is your laptop going to remain on, but usually your network will remain up as well since communication lines are quite a bit more durable and generally stay alive even if the power goes down


  • I’ve never personally had any issues with the bot, but I’ve also never really needed to look at the bot either to see what the acronyms meant, but I’ve appreciated that someone’s trying to help if someone didn’t know what the acronyms were.

    Being said, I do have to agree with what others have stated. It would be nice, if possible, to have it so the definitions link to hyperlinks to persistent pages such as Wikipedia. Even more so on technical style terms like DNS, for example, because that’s one of those terms that if someone doesn’t know the acronym to it, chances are they don’t know the full name to it either.


  • The amount of people in this thread that are arguing that steam is fully within the right here due to the fact that they have a restriction on steam key pricing blows my mind.

    for example with the UbiSoft case, It’s clear they have never actually opened or used Uplay because if they had they would realize that Uplay does not use Steam keys period at all. They are their own distribution platform that distributes off of uplay servers.

    The entire point of the lawsuits is going one step further, which is that despite steam having a policy that says it’s for keys only, they unilaterally enforce it on all platforms regardless of the usage of the keys.

    Now whether that’s actually true or not is what the lawsuits have to determine. But that is what the claim is. Personally I’m leaning towards it’s true because I’ve seen some screenshots posted about customer service saying that’s how it worked and threatening to delist steam games for cheaper first party distribution pricing elsewhere.

    I’ll be curious where these cases go.




  • I do have to say, electricity is much cheaper than gas which was why I was thinking about it(but I wouldn’t actually break even as I don’t drive constantly), being said people keep giving the huge price differences on the models, but when I look into them I never seem to see the price actually hold up. Like for example the BYD website gives price ranges of what they think the difference is converted to USD (although I question how accurate that conversion is because their estimates don’t seem to follow conversion rate). When doing my research on US ev’s I usually see vehicles in the 28-45k range which I agree is a large range but the cost range is sporadic on models. I have not seen any vehicles significantly cheaper than that on the market anywhere

    That being said, I’m against blocks in the first place, If they do end up coming in, and they do end up being 10k less than the rest of the competition, I would be super happy for that and jump on it so fast, realistically even if they were allowed in I don’t think we are seeing those prices level prices. Like even looking at the cost of said vehicles in other countries and converting the value to USD and trying to account for taxes, I don’t see anything mindblowingly different.

    I hope you end up being right though, it would be nice for the market to get blindsided. I know the last time i did my calculations on it it would take close to 6 years for me to break even after needing to install a charging station and the increase in price from the ICE to the EV.

    Being said, I also noticed that companies in the US are starting to phase EV’s into their normal lineup more, which im also happy with. my current chevy model was discontinued for an EV. So EV’s are going to be the future regardless, so eventually I will have to join


  • even if all of them were, its unlikely many would want to get them sadly. at least in the current state of things

    Especially considering the current congress bipartisan support for an eventual 150$ annual registration fee tacked onto the yearly registration costs as an apparent attempt to combat the lack of the fuel tax.

    Or at least thats what it’s being claimed it’s for. I personally see it to be a dissuasion tactic from EV’s as if you compare it to the standard fuel tax which is 18¢ per gallon so you would need an insane amount of miles in order to break even with a standard ICE vehicle. (a little more than 722 gallons of fuel to save anyone some math. If you would like to see it with your vehicle you can take your average MPG and times it by 722.22 and you would get how many miles at the theoretical max it would take to break even with this fee. mine is EPA certified at 29 mpg which would be 20,944.44 miles a year to break even)

    Being said, at current fuel prices you would need to calculate the savings annually you would make per charge vs the same mileage on fill up, then remember to add 130$ to it. Since gas price has gone up a bit it could be, but I lack the numbers to really be able to calculate that.






  • the word “Global” in “Global Domain Takedown” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

    The only domains taken down are going to be registrars that either fall in US juristiction, or voluntarily take it down. A US court order has no teeth outside of the US. I expect they are right in their response “we’re chill, we’re used to it.”. The operators are clearly not concerned about it, because at the end of the day it holds no bearing outside of the US and there are always going to be domains that don’t care about a US court order.

    This court order is going to have an uphill battle in getting non-us juristictions to want to comply as well. I expect that they will be forced to go through local courts for it, but even then it’s hit or miss whether a non-us court is going to care about a us companies damages.




  • Some people are here because they don’t want to be on reddit, either due to issues with the platform or otherwise. But that doesn’t mean the content posted is bad, nor does it mean that it shouldn’t be shared. By that logic any external links or content shouldn’t be allowed on lemmy either. At the end of the day, lemmy is a federated link aggregator. That is it’s purpose to allow for aggregation of content. You can take that entire argument and apply any other external website and it would be equally valid

    Even moreso with this community to be honest, where most content is opinionated, its hard to argue that someones opinion isn’t valid, so if they share the same opinion? I don’t see why that is a bad thing to share it.