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  • For most US drivers, electric vehicles offer emissions benefits and cost savings, according to a new study by MIT researchers

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  • Trucks are still tricky, but new EVs cars are about the same cost as new ICE cars. Used EVs are basically entirely reasonable and in some cases cheaper than used ICE.

    Nothing new is going to beat a paid off car for affordability, but that's a pretty apple to oranges comparison no matter how you slice it.

  • Rocket League will get updated to Unreal Engine 6 with new teaser shown

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  • I have it working without issue just via steam now. Deleting the game and enabling "proton experimental" in the games comparability settings downloaded the modern game. On start, it opened a browser tab and had me link my steam/epic accounts, and bobs your uncle.

    I have heroic launcher installed for gog/epic, but its not involved with this. Its good to know there is an alternative install path possible if I need it.

  • The circle of life

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  • Because they believe that AI will replace payroll, which is generally a businesses highest expense. The more AI usage, the more likely they can eliminate jobs and give themselves bonuses.

    They are excited the way a farmer is excited when his pigs are gorging themselves on grain and getting really, really fat. The farmer is glad to pay for grain because its much cheaper than the money he makes from selling them for meat.

    They are giddy because its almost time for payday.

  • Rocket League will get updated to Unreal Engine 6 with new teaser shown

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  • Which version of proton? I can start the game and play bots, but the multiplayer is not availble for steam/epic friends. Literally no multiplayer browser loads at all.

    EDIT: Jesus. I'm still testing, but it looks like steam installs the defunct "Linux" build of rocket league that has not been updated for 6 years. You need to install the proton version instead by enabling proton experimental in the comparability mode.

  • Bambu Lab’s Bind: Company Stands By Its Position in Open Source License Fight

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  • There is not a "broad, international consensus" on digital locks. This was strictly the US using its trade and soft power to bully other nations into ratifying DMCA-like treatises or risk losing easy trade.

    That's all been blown up now due to Trump and his "tariff all the time" idiocy.

    Cory Doctorow has been pointing out very explicitly recently that with the threat of tariffs gone, that other counties should drop these stupid US prompted laws and instead encourage literal hackery in order to make home grown, billion dollar industries circumventing stupid bullshit:

    https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa

  • The circle of life

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  • Subscriptions are moving to usage based. Ain't gonna be $200/month/Dev soon. Gonna be $3-4k/month/Dev.

  • Music 🎶

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  • This is the way?

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  • Extremely. No leverage at all with a shaft that short. Might as well have rounded punch knives, which is not how punch knives work. This is like trying to kill someone with a rocker pizza knife in each hand.

    The hammer on the reverse is also just for show, because the finger guard prevents you from flipping your grip.

  • The Mandalorian and Grogu has lowest box office opening for a Star Wars film in Disney era

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  • The Simpsons movie had stakes and emotional impact. The Alaskan scene with Marge leaving Homer? Nothing in Mando comes anywhere close to it.

    I'd say most of the star trek movies did as well. The first one, while being the strangest of the bunch, hit you several times. The Wrath of Khan is rife with it, the nature of family. Even when they retconned Spock back in the next movie, there was weight there.

    Mando by all accounts was placid, shapeless pew pew nothing, with some cute scences and some bright flashing action scences, but with near zero growth or conflict for the titualar characters. They could have pushed the show forward, given Grogu more independence, really redefined the relationship that shows how kids grow from and away from their parents, but no. They split up, have a cute thing, have am action thing, then nothing of impact happens and it just resets to "man and baby go about their day."

    If you want to take your media to another medium, it should be to do something with it, something that matters, even if its only for a couple of hours. It should have some impact when it shirks its everyday bonds. That did not happen here.

  • 19-Year-Old Running for Seattle City Council Says Seattle Has "99 Problems But My Age Ain't One"

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  • Sounds like he hasent been anywhere downtown or near any light rail stops in years if he never sees anyone riding bikes/scooters. They are all over.

  • 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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  • That was such a wildly stupid move. They lost a hundred million dollar lawsuit, and also inspired the hardware hacker geohot to breach the PS3s DRM for the first time. The same DRM they had crowed about for 3 years for being "unbreakable." I'm pretty sure he breached it in a week.

    Turns out all the nerds just left the PS3 alone because the "other OS" option that shipped Linux with it let them do all the things they wanted to do with the PS3 already, things they bought the $800 console for. Things that sold more consoles!

    They burned goodwill, lost hundreds of millions in a lawsuit, lost console sales, lost their anti-piracy talking point, and all for what? To remove easy Linux access for a few thousand niche users who were doing cool shit like making clustered super computers.

    Sony had people turning their gaming consoles into SUPER COMPUTERS and instead of shouting to the rafters about how rad they were and basking in some reflected glory, they decided to fuck with them instead.

    Idiots, but not a big surprise from the "let's hide rootkits on audio CDs" people.

  • Has there ever been an industry that's been "enshittified" and then un-"enshittified"?

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  • Barnes and Noble is another book store example that's following a similar arc. They were on a severe downward trend for years, but new leadership let each store set its own content and suddenly they opening stores instead of closing them.

  • It's worth a try

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  • I can repeat the same refrain as above, but instead I'll say that if the wide cultural impulse is to keep times loose, then there is no disrespect of peoples time. Casual starts and stops for an event that everyone understand are very respectful, as they grant everyone full autonomy.

    You may not enjoy a loose time table, but that dosent make the trait "shitty." It makes it something you dont like is all.

  • Planetary Annihilation: TITANS gets Steam P2P multiplayer and more content to come

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  • I'm still waiting for "human resources" from the same devs.

    Hell, bring back super Monday night combat even.

  • [Help] Hissing sound from fanless Raspberry Pi 4 [SOLVED]

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  • Any used SFF PC will blow away a pi5, even something with like a 4th gen Intel chip. Form factor is roughly the size of a DVD case instead of a deck of cards like a pi, but as long as that not an issue you should be fine getting something cheap and used.

  • Cybertruck Driver Tests “Wade Mode” in Grapevine Lake, Test Ends with Bricked Truck & Driver in Jail.

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  • Submersibles always float, even when above the water line. They retain their state as submarines regardless of where and whence they float.

    Even in dry dock, where they "float" in the air due to steel beams, they are still submarines.

  • He’s an animal, Jon [ToothyBj]

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  • Objection!!!

    You can be a fat, lazy fuck. That means gluttony, sloth and lust are all compatible your honor.

  • Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans

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  • Society Needs Billionaires [PizzaCake]

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  • Not enough pouches.

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    rainwall @piefed.social

    Proton CEOs favored US antitrust chief Gail Slater ousted from Trump justice department

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/feb/12/us-antitrust-gail-slater-ousted-trump-administration