2003 Cavalier. Good engine, awful everything else.

both

Correct. I am referring to the “what about” objection of not using banks because of debt collection

So, don’t ship boxes of money. Bank transfers or checks. If you’re getting garnished, I’m sorry to say, but pay your debts. (garnished =/= police confiscation)

I don’t agree with this civil forfeiture either, but what are you actually able to do about it? Legal fees will outpace recovering the money no matter what, especially since they’ll have you prove a negative by claiming it is drug money or something. Don’t mail boxes of cash.

AI consumes power, yes, it’s projected to triple its environmental impact, yes, but its environmental impact is much less than most other things. If anything, the AI hate train draws angry peoples’ focus off the big polluters that matter.

“Arrghle AI is in everything and modern cars track you, I’ll just drive a 30+ year old pickup truck because they don’t has no AI tracking nonsense”

Oil and gas companies: money

It’s a percent against the world’s emissions. Be concerned less with this. AI is the current hate train whipping boy, and takes the pressure of public focus off the biggest polluters.

Of all things, I’m reminded of Anchorman

Forza Horizon 5. Why 5? Because unlike 4, it doesn’t crash to desktop a lot… although 4 has more to do and a more interesting season system (the tropics has “seasons” but not the snow and scorch temprature swings like people in temperate latitudes are used to), 5 just has a bit more polish, and bold move with taking it to Mexico.

I also am watching the progression of Forza Motorsport 7, because the FM series is basically not-Gran-Turismo and I can play it on my gaming PC (no consoles here).

I used to be all about Gran Turismo back in the day, as well as the DiRT series and even Race Driver. Codemasters games, though, tended to be very arcadey. I need to get Dirt Rally 2, as I played a bit of 1 and it was pretty good.

I also remember Spintires and its spiritual successors Mudrunner and Snowrunner. Fun off-roading sandbox games with mud physics… because no offroading game has even attempted that in the level of detail ST/MR has. Also, the original publisher of ST is the worst, and they’ve broken the original game, just get Mudrunner or Snowrunner for a better experience.

Also, I am on the lookout for spacecraft racecraft games. I want to use my 4 axis stick for something other than Airbus landing challenges.

Also the 1-2 combination of Automation (car company simulator) and BeamNG.drive. You can build a car in Automation and export it to BeamNG to drive around in. Bonus props to BeamNG being the only car sim I know of that has decided to actually model the physics of an automatic transmission. This is something I wished other games like Forza Horizon and Gran Turismo would do, as a lot of modern cars are Automatic only and in every case they just turn the auto into a stick… and it’s terrible, as automatic gear ratios don’t work for manual transmission driving. If we can upgrade the transmission, then we can have a better incentive to replace the slushbox with a crashbox if it’s worth the upgrade, considering that torque converter transmissions are used in offroad racing due to having better resilience against the shock forces from bumps and jumps.

Shoutout to Live For Speed, the surprisingly detailed car racing sim by three bros that even takes clutch temperatures into account. Their latest updates added workshop-style modded cars into the game.

GT7 going back to its roots… most races in GT2 would vomit up a car at you… and also you had a 100 garage limit due to a hardware limitation.

I had to scroll far to find this…

Extreme-G and G-2

aka Cyberpunk F-Zero but with Tron Lightcycles

And that’s why I’m the one that fixes the PC when it breaks… because even good programmers may even consider the pc to be magicboxes if they’ve never turned a screwdriver in their life…

From the article:

A report from Morgan Stanley suggests the datacenter industry is on track to emit 2.5 billion tons by 2030, which is three times higher than the predictions if generative AI had not come into play.

The extra demand from GenAI will reportedly lead to a rise in emissions from 200 million tons this year to 600 million tons by 2030, thanks largely to the construction of more data centers to keep up with the demand for cloud services.

So the increase is a projection of going from 200m now to 600m/yr in 2030, mostly from construction.

It’s significant, but still a projection. We can cut that down with better construction methods and more efficient systems. Also, the world carbon emissions is 35 billion / yr. Saying 2.5bn is slightly misleading as that is a total over the next 5 years. For context, if we flatline emissions around the world over the next 5 years, we will have added 175bn tons of carbon… 2.5 against 175 is barely over 1 percent.

Not saying this is a good thing, but it’s not as much of a bad thing as the article makes it out to be. We can still do better.

That was the Philips Respironics machines, if you were to use the SoClean or other “activated oxygen” style cleaning systems, it would disintegrate the noise suppression foam, which was placed where it would enter the airstream. The foam particles aren’t good for your lungs, and Philips recalled all their machines because of it.

And a spelling mistake on an ai research paper (papercloppers instead of paperclippers) spawns an entire mlp fanfiction where a game dev accidentally makes an AGI to run an MMO that ends up turning the world into a singularity. Friendship is Optimal, after all.

Factorio is always the same price… and the big 2.0 update is next month… with a paid DLC Expansion coming.

The cats are an SCP

Or just straight up install https://ollama.com

If only there was a conveniently placed security camera nearby that could show us these accidents…

I understood that reference.

Yep, the Tesla Semi has been in limited production, and in use as a hauler. It’s got up to a 500 mile range on its massive battery bank (with real world loads clocking at least 375) and it way outperforms diesel in the performance category.

Of course, you still have to charge it, so that bit has to be sorted out first before long haul is viable with these.