deadcream

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[–] deadcream@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Manned lunar lander is a mich complex piece of technology which needs to be developed from scratch. It also needs a much more powerful rocket which Russia don't have either. It's at least a decade of extra R&D time even if they get all the funding they need and magically get rid of corruption (which obviously won't happen).

It's unmanned not because they chose it but because they are literally incapable of making a manned mission (at the very least for a couple of generations).

[–] deadcream@kbin.social 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

It's also the home of people being drafted (even more so than for political elite of the country). If some of them want to get the fuck out (yes, from their home) then those thay have elected shouldn't have the right to force them to stay and die.

[–] deadcream@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Most people won't even notice this exists because they use Chrome without extensions (and you can't even install extension in Android's Chrome).

[–] deadcream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

They already did (I'm not sure if it is already released to user but code is in Chromium).

[–] deadcream@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm sure shit bags are someone's kink too.

[–] deadcream@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Not only standard itself, but also low quality implementations both in hardware and software. And while major OSes' BT stacks continue to gradually improve over time they won't help you if you Bluetooth hardware or device you are trying to connect to (again both hardware and software) are trash. It's a curse of every open standard, no matter how good or bad it is by itself - there always will be shitty implementations. And if there are a lot of them (like in case of BT) then majority of them will be shitty.

[–] deadcream@kbin.social 35 points 2 years ago

Microsoft fights very hard to keep governments across the planet use Windows and other Microsoft products (it's very lucrative market because of corruption and the fact that government regulations on what their employees must use are slow to change once established). And they have very close relationship with USA government specifically.

[–] deadcream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Morrowind remaster won't sell. It's one of those "hybrid" RPGs similar to KOTOR games - it has a gameplay elements of isometric RPGs: RNG combat, very few voiced dialogs - while looking like 3D action RPG. This just won't work for modern gamers. Its theoretical devs would need to either turn it into isometric CRPG or completely rework its gameplay to make modern action RPG out of it (as well as do it in the new engine to improve graphics and everything else). Both choices mean a complete remake, not remaster.

I don't know whether this leak means "true" remake of Oblivion, but that seems unlikely. Oblivion is relatively modern and you can definitely remaster it for new hardware without complete rebuilding.

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

Not only Google services. If you want to make a phone you need to buy SoC from Qualcomm or MediaTek and all the drivers for it are proprietary (often including Linux kernel modifications). Sure you can technically make your own but it's impossible for 99% of phone makers.

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

Some apps can't even be disabled (including via adb).

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

I don't know.

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