Can’t afford a car? That’s ok, you don’t have to buy one.

Better make sure you can afford a spot to park one if you want a place to live tho.

It was probably said as a joke at some point, and just became normal.

The same way I’ve started using irradiate. It’s technically accurate, but normally a word used in much more concerning context.

Hence, funny :D

I’ve also used “nuke” but recently “irradiate” has been funnier.

Uuh. That is exactly how games work.

And that’s completely normal. Every modern game has multiple versions of the same asset at various detail levels, all of which are used. And when you choose between “low, medium, high” that doesn’t mean there’s a giant pile of assets that go un-used. The game will use them all, rendering a different version of an asset depending on how close to something you are. The settings often just change how far away the game will render at the highest quality, before it starts to drop down to the lower LODs (level of detail).

That’s why the games aren’t much smaller on console, for exanple. They’re not including all the unnecessary assets for different graphics settings from PC. They are all part of how modern game work.

“Handling that in the code” would still involve storing it all somewhere after “generation”, same way shaders are better generated in advance, lest you get a stuttery mess.

And it isn’t how most game do things even today. Such code does not exist. Not yet at least. Human artists produce better results, and hence games ship with every version of every asset.

Finally automating this is what Unreals nanite system has only recently promised to do, but it has run into snags.

CSAM is against their terms of use. Afaik they remove it both using some automated systems, as well as manually.

Games can’t really compress their assets much.

Stuff like textures generally use a lossless bitmap format. The compression artefacts you get with lossy formats, while unnoticable to the human eye, can cause much more visible rendering artefacts once the game engine goes to calculate how light should interact with the material.

That’s not to say devs couldn’t be more efficient, but it does explain why games don’t really compress that well.

Aren’t a lot of the 2.5" ones already empty space?

How big, and how expensive, would a 3.5" SSD be, if it actually filled enough of the space with NAND chips for the form factor to be warranted?

I feel like you must have said something dumb online, and gotten absolutely dogpiled for it, to draw this comic.

Ah. Beans.

What do you mean “but”?

This doesn’t produce anything. It removes jobs instead of creating them. And by the end there is one less company in the system.

I wrote in response to you saying this is what they “should” be doing. That it would either work, or not.

But this is working sustainable businesses being butchered for their value on the meat market, rather than operated long term.

It most certainly isn’t what they “should” be doing.

If this is the best way to make money, the rich will continue to do it instead of starting new companies. That is not going to have pleasant long-term effects on the world.

Then you need to look into how private equity works.

They buy mature companies, often with borrowed capital, and then place the debt on the purchased company. They essentially make companies take on a massive loan to buy themselves from themselves, except the private equity firm ends up the owner.

The company then goes into overdrive trying to pay off the debt, while the firm makes changes intended to make the company “more efficient”. All while paying themselves “consulting fees” and “bonuses” for stepping in and “helping” the company do better.

This usually means mass layoffs, dumping assets, paycuts, restructuring…

Best case scenario, the company was already failing, and now it fails faster.

Worst case… The company was doing perfectly fine, making a sustainable living for its employees. And then it gets purchased by a private equity firm.

Suddenly everything is on fire. Not a single penny can go unpiched, workplace comfort unsacrificed, or employee unoverworked. And that that is the new norm, is the good ending.

Private equity makes money by killing the golden goose, and then finding another. And then another. And then another.

YouTube isn’t a piece of software. It’s a web service.

You can’t “crack” it to trick it into thinking you have a license to use all of its features. The authentication required to access the paid content is a lot more complex than a program running on hardware you can control.

You’re essentially asking the same question as people who want to access netflix for free.

The answer is no. But someone else might’ve ripped the content you want to see and made it available as a torrent.

You can delete uploaded media since v.19 iirc.

There’s a media tab in your profile on supported clients where you can see and remove uploaded media files.

What the money in our pocket allows us to afford is not the same as what our health and planet can afford.

Causing that disconnect by supplanting secular consideration with economic consideration is one the reasons so much evil is done and accepted in the name of profit.

What are you on about?

Unless you’re the admin, using nextcloud involves nothing more complicated than google drive or dropbox.

I have half a dozen “normies” on my instance as users, and they figure it out just fine.

I realize you’re making a joke, but it’s a false dichotomy.

It’s not one or the other. We absolutely can, and should, move people around to where they need to go both safely and on schedule.

Communities cannot be fully “deleted”.

They can only be “deleted” in the sense that they disappear for everyone.

You, as a mod, can still see and restore the community. To get rid of it from your list, you’d have to be unassigned as a mod. I don’t think that’s possible if you’re the only mod in a community.

And if they’ll eat it.

Mine slurps up half of the gravy, and then shows absolutely no interest in the solid food.

He was a rescue, so I didn’t get decide what he got used to eating.

Edit: I was not asking for advice. You are not giving me new ideas. The boy is over 10 years old at this point, the transition to wet food has been attempted a couple times, with veterinary advice.

He was diagnosed with chronic kidney failure in december, when he stopped eating even dry food. He is now on a veterinary diet to extend and make the remainder of his life comfortable. As such even fewer options are available. The wet versions of the special foods were tried, but especially considering his condition, he must eat, and do so regularly.

Stalk active users and see where they post.

They are right about the drama. Making the toy act like it’s trying to hide/run for its life makes my cat immediately interested.