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Isn’t the Beaverton supposed to be a satire website?

I ate the onion. Assumed it was “just” bad timing, but still.

I’m sure Carney would be happy to, so long as by “protect Canada’s ‘digital sovereignty’” you mean giving up sovereignty to the US and Trump.

So far as I know, there aren’t a lot of 8-player local multiplayer games. The only obvious answer is the Jackbox games, using your phones as controllers.

Beyond that, I did find this Steam curator, who seems to specialize in 8-player games. From thier list, I recognize Gang Beasts, and Pico Park: Classic Edition. Party Golf, Screen Cheat, and Cobalt also all looked interesting, but I’ve never seen anyone play them.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think Boomerang Fu or Overcooked support 8 players?

be paid a living wage

Not that you’re wrong, but the strike doesn’t even go that far. They not even getting paid for a large portion of their work, at all, so they’re asking to be paid for time at work that is currently unpaid.

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At this point, the Liberals have bowed to Trump (and got nothing for it), made largely symbolic genstures to limit immigrantion blocking primary those who are paying to be here while ignoring the workers we effectively enslave with the TFW program, done nothing about housing, and has blocked unions. At this point, might have well voted for Polieve (or, you know, someone sane).

At this point, its mostly just a few software giants like Microsoft, which do have alternatives available. Everything else is just companies owned by Americans, but doing all their design and manufacturing in Taiwan or other parts of Asia. Intel is the only exception I know of, but they’re rapidly shrinking at this point and show no signs of ever being competitve again.

The economy is terrible with both hardware and software becoming more expensive, theres a good selection of free and long-lifetime games (be it live-service or just very long and replayable), and a lot of the newer paid games have become worse.

I’d be significantly more suprised if this wasn’t the case.

Mastercard? Yes, but then they’d have to admit that they were in the wromg.

Tl;dr: Mastercard says they didn’t “force” Valve to remove nsfw games. They just told them that if they didn’t remove the games that were complained about by Collective Shout, they’ll block them.

And I’m guessing the most we can expect in response from Carney, is that he might not immediately bow to Trump again.

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In my opinion Luanti is a living proof that top-down extensibility aka “we make monolithic engine in C++ and then provide some APIs for scripting via bindings for some scripting language on the side” doesn’t work well. You can’t change main menu, you can’t fix player controller (and the default one sucks), you can’t write your own renderer, etc. Because developers didn’t imagine someone would want that (actually they probably did, but they simply don’t have capacity to provide this). Good extensibility/modability should be automatic, on binary level. Like what you get by developing in bytecode/JIT-compiled languages like Java/C# or in old Unreal Engines where everything was done in bytecode-(de)compilable special language called Unreal Script.

Assuming you’d have to re-buy Minecraft, I’d.say at least give Luanti a try. At the very least, Its free, so you can switch if you don’t like it.

That said, personally, I had too many issues with it. Specifically, I had performance issues, found that the graphics that looked worse (subjectively) and were much harder to modify, and kept running into roadblocks that were annoying to fix, like having to figure out how to grant myself permissions for a bunch of different actions.

While Luanti is much more accessible for modding, isn’t it more limitted? Maybe the documentation was just out of date or that, but I was trying to look into custom shaders as well as optimization mods (since I was getting suttering on block updates) a year ago or so, but from what I saw at the time, there wasn’t any way to modify these.

Edit: Was trying to find any information to confirm this, or see if its changed. I did find a couple recemt refrences to custom shaders (although they seemed very limitted). That said, there was no official documentation, nor refrences to it on any official page, so I have no idea how functional or supported it is. I found nothing at all about other methods of modifying rendering.

Theres a solid foundation, but there just isn’t the userbase. For example, I still have to go to Reddit if I want to discuss Dota, CS2, or War Thunder theorycrafting. These are massive, internationally popular games with compex mechanics and shifting metas that encourgae constant discussion, and yet there is barely a post a month across all three communities combined, nonetheless meaningful discussion. If we can’t even manage a baseline pulse for popular and dedicated niches that appeal to the Fediverse’s nerdy userbase, what could we offer for regular users, looking for smaller niches, nonetheless local topics.

Don’t get me wrong, I hope the Fediverse succeeds. I am still here, and contributing to the best of my ability, but not everyone wants to try and kickstart a new platform in their spare time. For most users, Lemmy will need to grow tenfold before it can even compete with Reddit, nonetheless replace it.

To be fair, the encouraging diversification away from American services, even those you don’t directly give money to is still good practice. We don’t want America controlling our communication and culture any more than our economy.

That said, its obviously not an easy process since, as it stands, there isn’t a viable alternative to Reddit for normal users.

Am I missing something? The only time the article mentions cost is in trying to explain why fewer women drive EVs. They say the reason its popular is that suburbs can home-charge whereas urban areas don’t have charging infrastructure for most residents.

Not that I think you’re wrong, but its not what the article says.

Let me guess: Ontario, Québec, BC? The provinces with the most urban and suburban areas.

Edit: Yep, exactly as predicted for the obviois reasons. Not exactly news.

Tl;dr: EVs are good for the climate. People with shorter distances to travel and more infrastructure like EVs, those who have less infrastructure or are required to travel more have mixed feelings.