OminousOrange

OminousOrange, 3 days ago

I had FS2020 working well with yoke and pedals and a streamdeck, but it just didn’t feel like a complete sim. Many airports just weren’t there or had incorrectly labeled taxiways, which threw off taxi instructions and obviously made real world charts useless. Tailwheel aircraft didn’t really work properly at all.

Sure, it was a beautiful sim, but was quite lacking on the technical side. I’m doubtful a whole new product is going to solve any of those issues.

OminousOrange, 3 days ago

I perhaps haven’t played since the ground handling update, but tailwheel aircraft never behaved like actual tailwheel aircraft. Their steering seemed coupled to the rudder, similar to nose wheel aircraft, instead of having any of the momentum effects of a tailwheel with just a loose steering influence.

I believe the airport was a mid-sized towered airport in Idaho. I forget exactly which though. I selected it as my home base for Neofly because of the scenery and was disappointed when it seemed rather incomplete.

I feel it would’ve been ahead of where it was if it took the aviation side of FSX and paired it with the scenery, weather, and online features of MSFS.

OminousOrange, 22 days ago

The cost of doing business.

Income-based fines should really be more commonplace.

OminousOrange, 1 month ago

I was driving in this area on Thursday. Definitely wouldn’t recommend anything other than a truck or Subaru. Had a full inch of mud in the wheels when I got home.

And of course, as soon as you cross the MB border, nice, reasonably well maintained pavement.

OminousOrange, 1 month ago

Jeremy Harrison is little more than a middleschool bully, and his antics continually demonstrate that, despite him being a 46 year old man. One of my favourite is when Donna Harpauer, Finance Minister, blamed high gas prices on the Saskatchewan NDP in 2023 (yeah, try to figure that one out), and ol Jer was sitting right behind her cheering so fervently he might as well had been in a skirt waving pom poms around.

OminousOrange, 1 month ago

I think it’d be a stretch to call some of those provincial ‘health insurance’ programs functional in several aspects.

OminousOrange, 1 month ago

The $34.95/hr average is stated as the average for permanent positions. I doubt many of the service industry jobs are permanent positions.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

The underlying plot of this article is rather obnoxious. This Smith guy’s 2016 Hyundai hybrid broke and the dealer gave him a $15k quote to fix it, which was then resolved by Hyundai corporate. The headline statement is one small paragraph, and irrelevant to this random story.

To discuss the headline, though, I think it all stems from misinformation more than anything. I have an EV in the charging desert of north east Saskatchewan. It’s a fantastic car and I wouldn’t hesitate to buy one again. Yes, you do have to plan ahead a bit if you’re going longer distances, but the slight inconvenience is well worth the savings in fuel. Winter range can be reduced by around 50% at -30, but again, you plan around that. ICE vehicles don’t perform well at those temperatures either.

Even then, the trips the vast majority of people make are well within typical EV ranges and there are often several charging option wherever the vehicle is parked.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

Even just rent one for a day. They’re so simple and just work.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

And those professionals often aren’t getting the majority of their income from capital gains.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

I’d say that’s kind of expected in an industry that’s created essentially out of nothing. It was a weed rush, some are winners, but many are losers. Sure there’s regulatory burden, but that was known going into it.

I feel like weed shops will soon go the way of the many frozen yogurt shops of a decade ago.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

“Common sense Conservatives will listen to the common sense of the common people, not Justin Trudeau’s so-called ‘experts,’” a spokesperson for Poilievre told the Canadian Press.

Translation: we, Conservatives, prefer to ignore any information, no matter how well researched or sourced, that goes against our own opinion, which in all cases, is simply the opposite opinion of the governing party. In fact, we prefer the opinion of those with much to gain from us opposing these opinions, such as oil and gas companies, Christian groups, and really any person likely to receive personal monetary gain which can then be shared with us.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

My comment was more on the wanton discount of expert opinion, not of the particular thoughts raised in this article. Broadly discounting expert opinion with preference to the common person, as this “spokesperson” has, is an incredibly dangerous paradigm to push.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

There is a bit missing with auto discovery on these frontends, which makes sense…if it doesn’t track what you watch, it can’t recommend things. Most have related videos though, so you’re not just stuck with your subscriptions.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

Perhaps, but there are often related videos which provide a similar sort of discovery. One of the main points of these frontends is that they don’t track what you watch. If they don’t do that, they can’t recommend videos.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

Oh, I think I misunderstood what you meant by queue function. I get it now, the ability to pick a bunch of videos and have them play through, not a recommendations queue.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

Would a passcode (different from phone, of course) or biometric unlock for the 2FA app count? For example, I have bitwarden and Aegis, both have fingerprint unlock when opened with a reasonably short timeout. So, even if my phone pin was compromised, both would still require biometric unlock to access.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

Right, so fingerprint on everything wouldn’t be the best practice, because it’s all in one category and everything can be unlocked by a compromise of that one thing.

That’s a good point. I might look at removing that from my totp app and using a passcode instead.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

There are controls in the case of Casinos, though. The most relevant being no minors.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

One hockey puck topped with ketchup, please.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

You’re right, using electric heat (yes, even with a heat pump) does emit more GHGs than heating with natural gas in SK. The balance point is when Saskpower can get around 3-400 tCO2e/GWh (with heat pump and backup resistive heat), which is their goal for 2030, and the trend is promising.

The issue is that fuel source is discussed much more than demand reduction. The first step of any design focusing on energy efficiency or GHG reduction is reducing the demand for heating (and cooling). Only after that does it make sense to improve heating efficiency. In other words, you can throw a heater in a bunnyhug and go out at -30, but it would make much more sense to just wear an appropriate jacket.

Another consideration is that you can actually make carbon neutral power. Natural gas can never be that way.

Of course, you don’t have many options for improvement in your apartment, but at least we’re seeing improvements to the building code so new buildings will be slightly less than garbage.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

More efficient, yes. Less GHG, not in Saskatchewan at the moment.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Please elaborate. I’ve done a rough calculation here, and I have several energy models that support my claim, so I’m curious where all that work may have gone wrong.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

Likely very few if they’re not from Saskatchewan.

A bunnyhug is a hoodie, for those wonderieg.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

Anyone installing a heat pump in cold climates will often have a backup heat source. If you don’t have access to natural gas, heat pumps can save considerable amounts of energy compared to only resistive heat.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

You are able to edit titles on Lemmy, if you’d like.

OminousOrange, 4 months ago

75% off at the moment too. Guess I’ll be adding that to the library.

OminousOrange, 4 months ago

Move to Texas, you only have to pay for yourself.

OminousOrange, 4 months ago

Perhaps they’ll make a sequel, A Slightly Longer Hike.

OminousOrange, 4 months ago

Hmm, seems like residents of Ottawa should sue this guy under those same pretenses.

OminousOrange, 4 months ago

“BuT I dOn’t WanT to pUt uNknOwN CheMiCaLs iNtO my boDy.” they say as they smoke two packs a day and are on several prescriptions.

OminousOrange, 4 months ago

There’s likely substantial infrastructure upgrades needed to provide this power, and, as the article says, very little economic benefit to the community and is very much the opposite of energy conservation.

“Just have them…” is often not enforceable nor realistic.

OminousOrange, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Saskatchewan having being run by conservative dolts for a number of years, at least we’ve been able to keep our crown corporations. We enjoy some of the lowest prices in the country for mobile plans and auto insurance. Power and natural gas are quite reasonable as well.

Whoda thunk that when you remove the drive for profit, a business can be both sustainable and beneficial to the people, in that they are both customers and owners.

OminousOrange, 4 months ago

Addictions Minister Tim McLeod said sending pipes and instructions on how to use illicit drugs sends the wrong message.

“Instead, the message coming from the health care system should be that there is hope for recovery, and help is available through treatment,” he said.

That’s great, Tim, but where the hell are the resources for treatment?

OminousOrange, 5 months ago

Subs of which they can often take 50% commission on.

OminousOrange, 6 months ago

Until there’s no financial incentive to do so, this will continue.

OminousOrange, 7 months ago

Any of the main games by Quantic Dream are of similar artful quality I’d say. Really a playable story with choices impacting the plot and twists and discovery that keeps you hooked. I liked Beyond: Two Souls the best, but Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human aren’t far behind.

Life is Strange is great in that same vein too.

OminousOrange, 7 months ago

That’s COD skins in a nutshell. Either that or the skin is broken and it’s pay to win. If you watch any ranked play from the last game, 90% of people had the Groot skin.

OminousOrange, 8 months ago

Recently played this on recommendation from a friend and it ended up on my top all time list. I’d highly recommend grabbing it a giving it a go at this price.

OminousOrange, 8 months ago

This is a symptom of a twofold problem. First, additional staffing and resources for ERs would help to reduce wait times, but I think the more important issue is lack of primary care, which would help patients avoid needing to go to the ER in the first place.

I’m not much of a fan of the way the article is written. Of course there are going to be some cases where a LWBS has serious complications, but locally (and anecdotally), our ER seems to operate more as a walk in clinic at times, and doctors will often see more patients there than they would in a typical clinic day. I feel like the non-emergent visits are likely a considerable part of the 6.8% LWBS rate, and could be offset by a better supply of family physicians. Unfortunately, at least in Saskatchewan, that would require a government willing to do anything whatsoever to help the healthcare system.

OminousOrange, 9 months ago

I’d recommended PC part picker to determine compatibility with all your upgrades. You can tinker with different setups fairly easily and have the costs easily accessible. I believe there are also tools to determine likely bottlenecks, but I haven’t searched for many lately.

GPU will definitely be the biggest cost, but also likely the most noticeable improvement. RAM is fairly cheap, so you can bump up to 32 Gb without much expense. Not too familiar with Intel CPUs but it’s possible you might create a bottleneck with a GPU upgrade. Not the end of the world if you’re fine with upgrading that later too.

OminousOrange, 10 months ago

It’s a very noticeable improvement in realism in games that do this. Quantic Dream games have also done this, even in Heavy Rain from 2010, and it really goes a long way in making a game into a story.

OminousOrange, 10 months ago

If quitting the game is more complicated than alt+F4, I often just alt+F4 after saving.

OminousOrange, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I would be very interested in those Tarkov modes/mods you have, OP. I got into it a bit but would just get mangled by well geared groups of players too often that it made it quite frustrating.

E: disregard, I found your other comment with the details.

As for memorable games, I played all the Quantic Dream games recently after seeing someone play Detroit: Become Human on stream. The story(s) in each one are amazing and unique in their own ways. They make you feel emotion and you’re immersed in the character’s experience. Their facial mocap really takes the games to the next level. The emotions just feel so real, which I find many games fail to do with only janky animated expressions.