and in professional sports (at the top end) athletes have hit both their bodily limits (where you cannot just train more or harder, and where sustaining that state of maxed stats all by itself might slowly damage your body, and where any slight mistake in your technique could mean huge damage to your body and an early end to your career) and their equipment must also be top notch each year.

all three filter lists are fetched once and kept in memory when the extension is initialized (from what i can tell this happens when the browser starts), and then that local copy is used to match URLs.

You even get a free steam key for each purchase on factorio.com, no need to repurchase

why not use steam? I know steam has drm and isn’t free as in free speech, but it’s many times more practical. 2.0.8 is out now, and presumably there will be many updates a week for the foreseeable future, and updating by hand or with a script just to get a drm-free version in nixos seems a bit impractical to me.

It is detailed terrain for an entire planet, and figures are at around 10Mbps for just terrain without buildings.

Assuming you’re flying at 800kmh in something like an airbus A380, you’re flying 13.3km each minute, uncovering a large part of a new circle/sphere of terrain with a radius of 13km (half of it overlaps with old already-downloaded terrain). That’s half of 555km squared of terrain. That’s a lot of terrain. If you want that terrain to be fairly accurate, you’ll want to see at least meter accuracy near the plane (if you’re near the ground you’ll want to see one datapoint of terrain per meter or more), with lower levels of detail as you get further away. Add onto that things like the placement of trees, bushes, rocks, and all the texture data of the terrain (probably an index into existing possibly procedural textures), and you’ve got a lot of data that needs to be transferred.

10Mbps seems pretty fair for all of that.

Also terrain data is updated regularly, and you might not want to keep around old terrain in the first place. There are reasons like players only flying some routes once and never again, and if you save all of mozambique for someone who actually only flies around in the US that’s bad too.

EDIT: Buildings of course cost extra. Airports take up a bit of bandwidth each time you take off or land, as they are probably custom modeled. Cities like NY or LA though will have a ton of custom modeled buildings and textures, and those cost a lot of bandwidth.

Surely that has to be a grift by an upvote farm owner to drive sales

If you just went with the most prominent and easily accessible download button it’ll probably be ubuntu, but as i said, despite what some might say that’s not necessarily a bad thing

I’m pretty sure the question was more about linux mint (ubuntu/default) vs. linux mint debian edition, as those can confidently be called different distros. Don’t worry about it though, the issues with ubuntu are actually very small, they’re just infinitely magnified on the internet by people who care a lot about the smallest things. There are also many advantages to using ubuntu or an ubuntu derivative. Also this question can be interpreted very humorously, so maybe do that if you like.

it seems like the kind of movie best watched under some kind of influence with a few friends, so I’m expecting great things

I’ll gladly believe something else if they claim something else, but their claims are very dystopian

the active listening article is very vague and apart from fantasizing about 24/7 surveillance everywhere for everyone it doesn’t say a whole lot directly, so in my mind it’s best to assume the worst case scenario

cox media group “active listening” https://archive.is/pSBzD

there is a lot of kopi luwak fraud, so it’s possible you drank any old coffee and paid out the ass for it. an idea why kopi luwak presumably tastes so good is also that these civets have a very varied diet that enriches the coffee a lot, but caged civets are fed exclusively coffee beans and therefore the coffee won’t even taste very good, so even if you did have real kopi luwak it’d probably taste underwhelming.

To be fair there is chess evolved online with over 500 different pieces and chess piece lootboxes if you want a more modern take on the classic game

sure, but what if they didn’t stand behind you before torture either? I’m not really into torture in general, but maybe this poster has tried all other options already

tfw “rules-based international order” means we’re allowed to break those rules whenever we want but our enemies aren’t allowed to do the same

Entertainment to uplift the spirit? For free? Think of the children!

(Apparently not free at all, $10/month.)

they don’t think it be like it is but it do

i gave you an internet point as validation and i hope that will cheer you up

embedded marketplaces, user-friendly wallets and seamless NFT purchases all essential to attracting a mainstream gaming audience

i happen to think that a gaming audience actually might want a good game, but who i am to judge when the people responsible for the game are crypto bros