Unless you’re a game by Bethesda, most people (and most reviewers) are going to assess you at release. If the release is shit, they’re going to stop playing and forget about the game. A patch 12 weeks later won’t help, because everyone has moved on.

I don’t think he know about Shires, Pip.

It’s a 3 year term. $1m per house.

Even if you turn them into townhouses at half that price, 30 houses Vs 400,000 new people doesn’t really shift the needle.

$44m over their term is about 15 houses per year. Considering they plan to bring in 400,000 new migrants per year, I’m not sure defunding women’s sports to build 15 houses is really going to make much of a dent in the housing market.

My EV still travels 200km for $1 of solar electricity.

Time to stop sucking on OPECs dick people.

B and H photography in New York? With their sales, I’ve found it cheaper to order from the other side of the world than to buy locally.

Also, if plex goes down so does your server. I love plex but if any of the 100% self hosted stuff catches up I’m absolutely jumping ship.

That’s only for authentication and some apps. You can set an IP whitelist so it doesn’t require auth from certain ranges - when I changed ISP a little while ago, I was still using Plex offline.

These ”gaming” companies are even worse than Casinos, because they’re unregulated and are studying the psychology of addiction to exploits peoples weaknesses to maximise their profits.

They use techniques such as an “early win” to hook people and override their common sense. (It’s illegal for Casinos to do this in most places.) Examples of other techniques are using artificial in-game currencies to dissociate it from real money; and soft-gating, where something is technically free but it has a delay, so you pay a little bit to skip the delay. It’s super predatory.

Also, exposing kids and teenagers to this is wiring their brain to crave gambling as an adult. It’s the same reason we don’t let 13 years olds smoke - by the time their brain has finished maturing, the desire for nicotine is hard-wired for life.

If you don’t already have a private tracker, this is a good one to start with. Easy to maintain ratio even without a Seedbox. I often download common torrents on DCC because it’s so easy to maintain ratio (I was over 100:1 for a while.

An easement is listed when you buy a property. It’s detailed on the property title, and has drawings showing where it is, and who has access.

These new laws were the complete opposite - as long as the property was larger than 1100m^2, it was assumed to be of cultural significance until proven otherwise. The landowner needs to notify aboriginal people (whoever that is?), then they take their feedback to apply for a permit from the government, then the government will notify aboriginal people (again, who?) then based on their feedback will issue a permit (or not). And this same process would apply wether you’re fixing the retic in your suburban backyard, or digging a billion tonne open cut mining pit in the Pilbara.

The new laws were so broad, that any homeowner whose house sits on more than 1100m^2 could be covered. And if you’re near a body of water, assessment becomes mandatory for anything ground disturbing. So the owner of a 3x1 on 1/3rd of an acre in Cannington would need to pay thousands of dollars for an assessment if they want to plant a tree in their backyard - does that seem reasonable?

A “free” VPN is worse than no VPN. They have to pay for the service somehow, and you’re not paying, so they are making money off you somehow.

TBF, it’s more likely just overconfidence/incompetence. Cracks are OFTEN flagged by AV, and it’s usually nothing malicious. The guys at 1337x aren’t dumb enough to think a crypto miner wouldn’t be found pretty quickly.

Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I’m on multiple private trackers, and they all hosted the infected version (they’ve been taken down now). Private doesn’t make it safe, especially when people are using automated tools to be the first to upload a torrent.

modern words ribbon-trash

Modern? The ribbon is 17 years old.

The Israeli ship going first is telling. Israel don’t fuck around. And considering they have Strike Eagles and Harpoons, I wouldn’t want to be on a Russian warship responsible for sinking an Israeli merchant ship.

Are you port forwarding? You’ll have more possible peers if you have a port open, so better speeds on average.

48V DC is the standard voltage in a bunch of industrial applications. At work I’ve installed sites with over 300kWh of storage, all at 48VDC. Back in the day it was strings of 24x 2V lead-acid batteries. Recently the industry is moving towards cells with 14x - 16x lithium cells, depending on the exact lithium chemistry.

You need an inverter to go from DC to AC anyway, changing the voltage at the same time doesn’t add much to the complexity. Some systems use 400V, but the actually batteries those systems use are usually 8x 48V batteries connected in series.

Why not give the user a choice? The last 3 games I’ve played all let me create my character. And now I think about it, I played as a girl in all 3.

I see more ads on Lemmy than I saw in Apollo.