kbity

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[–] kbity@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I'd kind of hope everyone would know better than that after the disastrous Apollo I fire.

[–] kbity@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Backward-compatible Xbox 360 games will still be available for purchase on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S stores, Microsoft says.

So no, presumably Microsoft just doesn't want to deal with the tangle of close to 20-year-old code that holds up the Xbox 360's store interfaces.

[–] kbity@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

What an idiot. The Mouse does not forgive. The Mouse does not forget. DeSantis can't surely believe Disney are just going to give up and walk away after he threw down the gauntlet.

[–] kbity@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Kbin. Kbity. Like kitty but kbin. Kbity!

[–] kbity@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

Well, five times zero women checks out.

[–] kbity@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Before adding "@@*$redirect-rule" to uBlock Origin filters:

  • With uMatrix enabled: 99%, everything except ads-api.twitter.com and ads.youtube.com was blocked.
  • With uMatrix disabled: 83%, 125/150 blocked.

After adding "@@*$redirect-rule" to uBlock Origin filters:

  • With uMatrix enabled: 100%, 150/150 blocked.
  • With uMatrix disabled: 85%, 127/150 blocked.

Using Firefox with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and some others.

[–] kbity@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

On the Steam Deck? I've never heard anyone mention the amount of memory being the bottleneck on there.

[–] kbity@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The undocked Switch is in the same ballpark for raw power as the 360 and PS3, so as long as they've managed to sufficiently unfuck the game's nightmare spaghetti code, should be just fine.

[–] kbity@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The busiest core routes should be served with light rail, allowing an efficient high-frequency service for the most common journeys, and most parts of a city should ideally have some kind of connection to that rail system within a kilometre or two. But you can't just put rails and stations literally everywhere, so buses (or trolleybuses with batteries if you're so inclined) remain useful for less common routes, gaps between stations, the neighbouring areas of rail routes or last-mile connections from light rail to within a short walk of a person's final destination.

Buses are also necessary as a fallback during maintenance or unforeseen closures on the rail network. Even if it's just a temporary station closure, that one station will likely be the only one in walking distance for quite a few people (especially if we're talking about an interurban network where a small, outlying town or village might only have one station connecting it to the rest of its metro area), whereas that same area could have several bus stops, giving pretty much everyone there a way to continue getting around, perhaps even to get a bus to neighbouring stations.

And bus routes don't change that infrequently. Certainly, not infrequently enough that you'd want to tie them to placing or removing fixed infrastructure like tracks or wires. Diversions also happen sometimes. All of this isn't to argue against light rail, but to argue for a comprehensive multi-modal vision of public transport. Let passengers use the right combination of services for their particular journey's needs.

[–] kbity@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Tyres wear down and produce nasty pollutants, and metal-on-metal is more energy efficient.

[–] kbity@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, the ones based on Chromium aren't, anyway. I've heard some major criticisms of Safari in the last few years, for what that's worth.

[–] kbity@kbin.social 81 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

The NHS' virtual appointment service in the UK doesn't support Firefox either, only Chrome, Safari and Edge. The dark days of "please view this website in Internet Explorer 6" are creeping closer to the present again. I hate the modern internet.

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