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Valve is now reversing VAC bans due to AMD drivers in CS2, according to patch notes
  • Yeah, nowadays I think it only affects that game, but older valve titles handed out instant bans on othet titles that used the same engine.

    Cheating in one of the following Source games or a Source mod will result in a VAC ban for all games in the list below: Counter-Strike: Source Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Day of Defeat: Source Team Fortress 2

    Similarly, cheating in one of the following Gold Source games will result in a VAC ban for all games in the list below:

    Counter-Strike Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Ricochet Day of Defeat Team Fortress Classic Half-Life: Deathmatch Deathmatch Classic

    https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/647C-5CC1-7EA9-3C29#application

  • Delta is fourth major U.S. airline to find fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company
  • All regulation is written in blood. If there was no regulation, everyone would be cutting corners and we'd get daily titan submersible-like situations.

    Do you want a piece of suspension up your ass because a cab driver hit a road bump too hard?

    Do you want your legs amputated? Because we can make bumpers go lower and more pointy to improve fuel efficiency.

    If manufacturers could, they'd drop the catalytic converter and we'd be back to seeing/breathing cars spewing thick black smoke.

    All that and they would still charge you the same as now.

  • Bike Riders of lemmy, you okay with me riding my eScooter in the bike lane?
  • Do you have a computer telling you that speed or are you just making a guess? Because I find it unrealistic to be +30 kph on flat ground with a mountain bike for 30 minutes.

    I say this because I have a gravel bike and can only keep +30kph for long periods if I'm on a slight incline and I'm pedaling with a purpose (not full sprint, but you wouldn't see a commuter pedal that hard)

    On average people in commuting bikes will most likely be at around 15kph, low 20s on descents.

  • Phones should have FM radio again
  • Only a couple of the final pod nanos had built-in radio, the other iPods all required additional hardware to be plugged in. I found that the hard way with an iPod classic... Even my shitty flip phone had built-in radio with an earpiece connected lol.

  • Starlink lost another 43 satellites last night. Over 300 satellites have burned up since July 16th. NOAA has 3 job openings for space forecaster.
  • [Not OP]

    I have not followed space launches in a few years, but in the past they did carry multiple payloads, in what they call "rideshare" launches. Some times, even with confidential cargo where the release of the main mission payload would be 40 minutes later offstream. But I have no clue of the frequency of those.

    The wikipedia page indicates some of those launches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_and_Starshield_launches

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  • RCS is a carrier-side standard (the sucessor to SMS) that is older than iMessage (circa 2008 iirc).

    Some phone manufacturers started to implement it when iMessages was released, but it didn't really become a big thing until Google pushed it to become the standard messaging way in 2017.

    The message of this video is that Apple has maliciously held back implementing the standard for years because they'd lose some of the selling points of the iDevices and would also end the narrative that "androids are trash, can't text them properly and look at how pixelated the videos are".

  • What games have the best mining/smelting/forging components?
  • Don't know about the best, but I detest games around crafting and I absolutely loved Subnautica. The whole experience become one of my video games.

    Found it to be intuitive and streamlined. They tell you everything through the menus, so you don't need to run to the wiki for recipes (albeit I did use the wiki for coordinates on where to find certain things) and it has a story/events that push you further.

    The gatekeeping isn't just to pad out the game, but it actually makes sense narratively (i.e. you need to go deeper and deeper as the game progresses so you'll be needing new material occasionally. You can't just avoid the crafting and complete the story.

    You'll be constantly building a stock of raw materials and transformed ones as you need to improve your things but also produce fuel/energy, build/improve your base and there's even gardening (the latter is optional).

    They also offer multiple modes. I played the one where you don't need to eat or drink, but otherwise is the same experience. But they also have a survival one where you need to eat and drink and another where if you die, it's game over. Adicionally there's also a creative/sandbox mode.

  • How I imagine people who say their TV is just the same as a 70 foot high theatre screen.
  • Well, unless you are watching the special format most films are still finished/screened at 2k. Sure, the cinema DCP will be way higher bitrate, but depending on the title, you'll hardly notice it.

    Having a big oled playing blu-rays a couple meters in front of you will definitely beat out going to a random theater because of the freedom you have + HDR.

    I make sure to catch re-releases of classics or films I adore in the silver screen. But being aware of how things are run backstage (cinemas playing streams or small files), we're long past the era of there being a gap between home and cinemas.

  • Can you drive a manual transmission?
  • A couple meters, you say? Sounds like a great way to trash your transmission.

    It drives (pun intended) me nuts, but they don't listen to reason. And the worst of all, is that they got their license in a hilly town and say they weren't taught that. While I learned in a flatter place and was taught this.

  • Can you drive a manual transmission?
  • Just pull the parking brake and accelerate until you feel the car slightly raising and then drop the parking brake.

    Eventually you get a feeling for it and drop the parking brake before it's "fighting" the accelerator.

    This might sound trivial to some, but I know several people that never use the parking brake in these situations and instead do a manic race with their feet and the car drops a couple meters back and they over accelerate to compensate.

  • 200,000 users abandon Netflix after crackdown backfires
  • Not to mention that they did start with the narrative that they start enforcing this on a certain date, but it took me 2 months over that to receive the warning/being locked out. I remember seeing people from Canada (one of the countries in the first wave) that still had not been forced off 4 months into the date they had set.

    They appear to be taking it slow (not booting off everyone at the same time) to build this narrative that it's working fantastically so to not get a massive drop off in users (stock price drop) and waiting out for their competition to also move forward with this change. All of this while also adding more markets, dropping the prices in others and removing the cheaper plans.

  • Putin breaks silence on Wagner boss Prigozhin, presumed dead in plane crash
  • Not OP, but you can skim a news article in 10/20 seconds.

    Why should people watch videos that take 10x more time and, more often than not, don't offer anything besides narration since most just use recycled footage anyways?

    You've gotta read anyways what he says since we don't understand Russian, but now we don't have as much control over the content.

    Accessibility aside, I really dislike the video-centric internet.