I can’t believe people were buying into their “franchise”. They approached me in 2020 when they were trying to expand into the town I live and I had a downtown warehouse to operate out of. After they got done explaining everything, I laughed until they hung up.

You had to buy the scooters from them at around $600 each, you were responsible for all the recovery/batteries/maintenance/damage/theft caused by customers, warranty was non-existent (“call our chinese supplier and they will totally hook you up”), and after that they took 20% off the top. Some quick math put it at over 6 months before each scooter became profitable IF nothing happened to it in that time. Someone throws it in the canal just to be a dick? Sucks to be you, you’re out $600 + whatever else you’ve put into it every time it happens.

Really came off to me that they were making their money selling to suckers who thought they were going to be entrepreneurs.

Edit: They did apparently did get someone here into it because I saw them around for a few months before disappearing completely.

Suppressors do exist. And are commonly used in close quarters combat. Especially by well funded combatants like the IDF.

I doubt he’s broke. Far more likely that he’s just a bigot.

it’s interesting to see the drone’s perspective for a change.

The Russia/Ukraine conflict has really shown the drone’s place on the battlefield. It’s awesome; and terrifying.

What a convenient find.

Thanks for explaining that. I’ve been using links like the above to test if one instance is available from another rather than looking through the /instances list. I guess it’s a poor test (and probably not any less work than just checking the lists).

Not blocked for me. https://beehaw.org/c/[email protected] works just fine. And it wouldn’t if it were defederated.

And it’s being bankrolled by Tencent.

I figured it was something like that since auto expand and open in a new tab were new options. I only noticed when NSFW stuff wasn’t blurred anymore and just wanted to bring it up in case no one had noticed.

Absolutely no bother. Appreciate all ya’ll do.

Not that I can tell. I cleared the console and repeated the process and nothing showed up.

Just tried it on Edge and it does the same thing.

Edit: and tried it on a laptop running linux but also Firefox 116.0.2 and the settings don’t work there either.

We already have the tech to let signal lights at intersections know emergency vehicles are approaching so they can direct traffic accordingly. No reason this couldn’t be adopted to autonomous vehicles.

I’ve been hoping Everspace 2 turns out to be a worthy successor. The first one was fun but didn’t scratch the Freelancer itch. I haven’t played the second yet.

Same here. You can get it off archive.org
https://archive.org/details/Freelancer_201807
https://www.moddb.com/mods/freelancer-hd-edition/downloads/freelancer-hd-edition-v06

I just recently learned there was a HD remake for Freelancer. So I’ve been taking a nostalgia trip all weekend. Still such a good game. And free/abandonware now!

Edit: Game can be found here: https://archive.org/details/Freelancer_201807

HD Edition mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/freelancer-hd-edition/downloads/freelancer-hd-edition-v06

I’ve never used youtube music, how are the suggestions? I use spotify at work for background music. I want to be able to give it an artist or genre and get 3-4 hours of music I know and some I may not have heard of. But it needs to match my tastes close enough that I don’t have to keep stopping what I’m doing, walk over and hit skip when it plays something horrible. Spotifys daily mixes do this pretty well. Does youtube have something similar?

Mediocre successors?

When I just installed it, the second or third option that came up was “Restore purchases: Restore your previous in-app purchases made in Sync”.

This is my first time using sync so I don’t have anything to test it with.

Maybe. But I’ve donated to this instance (and this one only) solely for the community and moderation policies. I can hop over to another instance or start my own if I feel like barebacking the fediverse.

I liked on Postal where if you saved too often it would announce “My grandmother could beat the game if she saved as much as you do”

Thank you for your service. Those really were the days.

Edit: not dismissing your current work. This place is pretty nice too :)