If you set it to run on startup it’ll start preloading all of that in the background at fairly minimal overhead. It’s literally the only app on my computer that runs on startup for that reason. Additionally, you can create customized library views that will persist, and anything in the view you’re on will get loaded…

Still strongly recommend people use GOG Galaxy as their PC games launcher. Aside from the nice parts about GOG as a platform/storefront itself, it also has integrations with every other major PC storefront, which makes it a lot easier to get games the place where it makes the most sense instead of just always going…

This isn’t rocket science: stop trying to replace physical HVAC controls with onscreen menus. Radio controls and nav maps are fine, those are easily navigated with steering wheel controls.
And knock it off with those stupid iPad sized center stack screens. I don’t need an iPad in my front seat, especially at the…

China became extra wary of the constellation after two Starlink satellites nearly crashed into China’s Tianhe space station on two separate occasions in 2021. On both occasions, the space station had to move out of the way with Chinese astronauts on board.

A Florida wildlife officer will put the bridge down. It has a taste for boaters now.

You’re maximizing value for my enjoyment of this thread with your comment. $60k well spent!

The actions (or inactions) of corporations make a lot more sense if you picture them as gigantic, emotionless AIs, driven by the same core programming directive:

‘Sex education’ for such young children is akin to child abuse. Well done Florida for standing up to this extremist mob.

A government official’s duty is what the government define as their duty. Sometimes teh duty is very narrow, other times it is very broad. I have no idea what is the environmental minister’s duty in this case. With that said, I would have assumed the ebvironmental minister’s duty is broad just by the nature of the…

When did they start adding “IA” to the end? Isn’t that the point of the “+”? Was some kinda referendum held and majority voted to amend IA to the acronym? Moreover, how much longer will the acronym get until people realize that trying to put something as complicated as human sexuality into neat little boxes is a…

And honestly, there’s a reason mdf gets used so often - wood loves to warp over time as it absorbs ambient moisture. Various joinery methods look nice, but if all that wood warps, swells and shrinks in different ways, you’ll end up with a lot of cracking.

The biggest problem that The Batman had was, well, obvious.

and once again everyone misses the obvious. Digital currency is BY FAR the biggest tech to fear. Once its rolled out, democracy, freedom are OVER. Once all currency is digital, then we are owned, you step out of line, your bank accounts frozen, you are screwed. Seen at a protest..locked. Cause any problem on the…

Except he was *never* badass.

The kiss of death for this show is that even the writers seem bored by the story they’re telling. They keep finding excuses to get away from it. Hey, let’s do three hours of flashbacks and justify it by saying Boba is dreaming in his healing tank! Okay, now let’s just turn this show into Mandolorian Season 3 and give…

Look, it’s not like there’s anything else they can be covering. We’re living in a genre dry spell, and Boba Fett is the only thing on TV that would remotely interest io9's audience. /s

Thing is, if this wasn’t Star Wars, just some random SyFy channel summer show: would it have been given half as much leeway as it has? I know YMMV, but I’m struggling to watch this show. It’s so badly written, dreadfully paced and just kinda boring overall. I can forgive “bad”, but “boring” is a killer

The sky is being privatized inch by inch, and as it happens externalities are dumped on all of us, as profits keep piling up in the same select number of bank accounts. Extractivism working its magic enhancing our environnement even further away: rogue rockets landing anywhere, astronomy fucked and tech needed to…

The issue with blockchain tokens to digital goods is that the digital goods don’t exist on the block chain and the tokens only have “value” if someone else agrees to recognize your token as conferring ownership of said digital good.

The problem with that is the same problem with all other proposed “good uses” of blockchains; you could do the same thing more efficiently with a distributed transactional database.