I’ll admit I haven’t played much (or possibly even any?) online MSFS stuff and am generally just a fart around in a Cessna in a random city type of player so I don’t even necessarily know what the online features are, other than the Install New Locations minigame wherein you spend hours downloading shit, heh.

I prefer the chummer variety of future cyberpunk-y dystopia.

It has dragons!

Leveraging something they already run makes a lot more sense than building a bespoke thing for streaming the data for just MSFS. (In my defense, it is a game and game devs have done much sillier things than doing something like that.)

I just have begun to accept that I’m not the market for games anymore, because I’m unwilling to buy something that is most probably going to end up broken some point in the future once there’s no more money to be squeezed out of it.

I’m just very opposed to renting entertainment because everything is temporary.

(Thankfully there’s ~30 years of games to play that don’t suffer from any of this live-service-ness so I’m not exactly short of things to spend time on.)

It’s just living up to their part of the deal: if I’m going to get the dystopia part, I damn well better also get the cyberpunk part.

That’s exactly what they’re doing: the assets are going to be streamed and then probably cached in RAM, thus you need a lot of RAM.

Of course this makes me think that FS2024 is going to get live-serviced and killed at some point when they decide to stop hosting all that data and welp so much for your game you bought, too bad.

The main problem I’d have accepting crypto from my boss is that every crypto I’ve seen that’s not explicitly a stable coin means I could be making my salary, or you know, 80% or of my salary depending on the mood of the market on the aforementioned card game and breakfast food sites.

And before anyone goes ‘oh your boss would clearly just pay you more crypto to equal your value in USD’, uh, that would mean that we’re still not really using crypto as a currency but as a thing that’s only worth anything because it’s tied to a USD value and thus what’s the point? Also lmao at a boss paying you more because of a currency fluctuation that’s in their favor.

We’re still in the speculation phase and not the stable currency phase, outside of some stable coins, which are even harder to get into or out of, because now you have to change your crypto for the other crypto to use it somewhere that maybe takes it. And of course, transacting between different cryptos is hardly free, so it’s… not just there yet.

I kinda agree, but think the current generation of crypto is all pretty much 1st generation early adopter stuff that’s never going to scale into anything useful.

It’s still too compute intensive, too slow, requires too much trust in very sketchy 3rd parties (see: every exchange ever).

Make it not use so much power it breaks the grid and becomes a race between it and AI as to who is wasting the most power to do the least useful work, build it to scale to millions of transactions, and don’t make me trust people who name their websites after card games or breakfast foods in order to use it, and I’ll be much more interested.

(Also monero has the right approach to privacy, so do that too.)

Yeah, I’ve read about that. But, then again, the legal industry was probably exceedingly low on the likely-to-change-to-Linux probability list in 1999, as well. I’ve worked for some lawyers in the past and they’re a shockingly traditional dont-change-anything-ever group. (Not particularly shocking.)

Lol, they’re just renaming Remote Desktop to Windows.

So I can use Windows to connect to Windows, and run my Windows.

Truly a moment of marketing brilliance.

As someone who has gigabit, basically the only service that can reliably saturate that is Steam.

Realistically, the right math to do is a ‘how many people are here, and how many 4k streams are going to be watched at once, and how many megabits is that’ since almost nothing else you do is likely to do a sustained saturated use of your throughput for most (read: non-super-nerdy types) people.

Also if you have to ask, then you’ve never noticed and are in that ‘don’t really care’ zone, and you can probably get whatever you want and be fine.

As usual, the American tourist causes endless problems for their host country.

(I’m American but you have to admit that we suck as tourists.)

Linux was the NFT or Blockchain or AI of 1999, so every tech company was jumping on board.

The sales pitch, as I remember, was that you could run your Wordperfect or CorelDraw shit on it, and not need to have Windows to use it and instead could join the future, which was Linux. Though, amusingly, their version of the future was running Windows binaries via Wine on Linux which, eh, okay but…

Of course, nobody used Wordperfect or CorelDraw at that point in history so I’m not entirely sure how that was supposed to sell you on buying not-Word and not-Photoshop.

Didn’t .net core depreciate the older .net framework stuff, and by extension Mono, and the target you should be looking at going forward is the new .net core stuff?

(I’m more a janitor than a mechanic, so my understanding of what framework is or isn’t dead this week is probably lacking, but I recall seeing an awful lot of chatter going on about that.)

Make sure you come back and update me when you try it, and then find out that the cables are all stapled to the studs.

That’s always extra fun to discover once you start running cabling.

Though, if you have good coax everywhere, MOCA is a legitimate option you should be considering, as it’ll do gigabit (more than, even) and the adapters aren’t particularly expensive compared to dealing with having to pull cabling through everywhere.

It’s such a reasonable a policy I’m finding it hard to believe, unless there’s a clause that they get a kidney, or are allowed to show up and break your ankles, or are taking ownership of your first born child or something.

As someone who lived through that era, I can assure you that throughput is no deterrence to shitheads, morons, asshattery, and annoyance.

(Also, if you think Fediverse or even Reddit mods are bad, let me introduce you to the 1988 BBS Sysop.)

That’s been my take on the whole ‘use gopher/gemini!’ bandwagon. Nice idea, but the solution to the problem leads to more problems that need solutions, and we’ve come up with solutions to those, but on other protocols.

And I mean, if I stab someone in the face with a screwdriver, the misuse of the screwdriver isn’t in some way specific to the screwdriver and thus nobody should use screwdrivers.

Same thing with all the nonsense a modern website does: HTTP is fine, it’s just being used by shitheads. You could make a prviacy-respecting website that’s not tracking you or engaging in any sort of shifty bullshit, but someone at some point decided that was the only way to make money on the Internet, and here we are.

Yeah, now you get mean people, a drive-by malware installer, AI generated ads, and 4mb of JS that tries to scrape every detail about you so they can make a profile they can sell to (dis)information brokers.

Truly, an improvement.

(People have always sucked, the Internet just lets you interact with more people so…)

Their whole writeup is somewhwere between “trust me bro” and “enough holes you can legally sell it as swiss cheese”.

I’m utterly confused as to who the target market for this is since their current userbase clearly does not care if shits encrypted or not, and any even remotely privacy oriented person is going to have the exact same take you did.

I’ve never liked web UIs that have that level of permissions to screw around with the OS it’s hosted on.

Maybe that’s just some grumpy greybeard thing, but I’d really rather not have a single management plane that has full access to EVERYTHING, since that just feels like you’re one configuration oopsie away from some guy in Albania (<3 you, Albania) uploading all his hentai to your server and then trying to hack the FBI or some shit. (Or, you know, the much more boring oops-i’m-a-zombie-now outcome.)