Some countries actually hold them accountable and have reasonable privacy laws/laws about how you can use the user’s data.

Running locally is the answer.

I think Bethesda didn’t have a choice but to partner with someone, as they don’t have the in-house experience with UE5.

I imagine part of why they’re even doing this with an old (and internally well-understood) game is so that they can use it as a good starting point to learn UE.

I actually think this is why Sony keeps remastering The Last of Us anytime there’s new hardware. It’s not so much they feel the game needs it and it’s the only way they can keep people playing the series, it’s a way for their developers to properly test new hardware and software, using assets they broadly already understand and have on hand.

At least it’s not Skyrim again, but god damn it, Morrowind is what we really need a remaster of.

I tried to play it recently and it’s just one of those games that was great at the time but has aged extremely poorly. It’s not even about the graphics, more how ‘clunky’ everything is.

UE5 is interesting. Obviously a big change with a lot of benefits, but modding will certainly be more difficult. Bethesda will actually have to put serious effort into this – pushing a game out and letting the community fix it only works if your game is extremely easy to modify.

I also feel somewhat bad for the people who’ve worked tirelessly on the Skyblivion project.

Certainly 3.

Lamarr!

This is such a misleading headline.

The Tories created NHS England in 2012, basically an independently ran management layer for the NHS. Labour is bringing it back under government control.

There was a lot of extra bureaucracy by adding this additional ‘NHS England’ layer, with a lot of nurses in particular hired to do it.

Yes, a lot of these people’s administrative/management jobs will no longer be needed, but it’s very likely a great deal of these people (who again are predominantly nurses) will be hired by the (government-ran) NHS.

I’m not surprised to see the Mail, Express, and Telegraph spin this news as Labour scrapping the NHS or mass sacking NHS workers, but I’m sad to see the Guardian doing the same.

Right now Manifest V2 is disabled on Chrome, but the code is still in the engine. MV2 will almost certainly only exist in Chromium browsers until Google gets rid of it entirely. That includes Edge.

The only browser committed to MV2 in the long run is Firefox. And it’s supported on Android and PC.

Facts are lefty propaganda now…

The far right are the people living in a bubble separate from reality.

And imagine being someone who likes star trek enough to have a reference to it in their username, yet be far right. Incredible lack of perspective.

Such a long stream of bullshit.

blame her for the pathetic 0.4% growth in December.

0.4% growth in a single month is not pathetic, that’s great. Do that every month and you have nearly 5% yearly growth - absolutely unheard of for a developed economy. On what planet is 0.4% in a month pathetic?!

She inherited the fastest growing economy in the G7

We had a temporary increase after a recession. That’s not sustained growth. Conservatives didn’t suddenly crack how to enable permanent explosive growth.

businesses are firing the lowest paid staff and curbing their new hires as a DIRECT RESULT of the disastrous budget

No they are not. The fabled mass unemployment after the budget never materialised.

Businesses rated the UK as the second best country to invest in after the budget. The facts don’t seem to be lining up with your opinion.

Not to mention pensioners going hungry to be able to afford to heat their homes

Nope. Not only are their pensions going up by a huge amount, the WFA is means tested. Poorer people still get it. The wealthy don’t.

They are planning on sending more SEND children to mainstream schools

Probably for the best. The current solution is rubbish. My nephew has to travel two hours each school day, in a private taxi, because that’s the only suitable SEND school for him. That’s an insane system. It would be much better to restructure the system for more local support.

They are removing our rights to free-speech.

Arresting people for inciting violence is a good thing.

God your whole comment is full of such nonsense misinformation. Stop. You’re not convincing anybody.

Imagine actually thinking that Labour are damaging the country more than the Tories did. Christ on a bike. If you put your brain in a cat’s body, you’d bark.

The UK is currently ranked by businesses as the second best economy to invest in.

https://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/research-commentary/2024/global-ceos-rank-uk-most-important-market-after-us---pwc-s-28th-.html

And if you’re ready to point at the 0.1% contraction in January and blame “Rachel from accounts”, you by extension must also believe that the 0.4% growth in December was also her doing.

Mazda is a physical dial by default, but if you want to you can go into the settings and enable the touch screen. Best of both worlds.

No it isn’t. Not even close.

While most people find things in windows annoying, they mostly also view using a PC altogether as a chore.

Viewed through that lense, telling them “well you can get rid of XYZ issues by investing some time in installing Linux” is like someone coming to you and saying “you can spend a few hours working on your washing machine to make it work a little faster and make the beeps less annoying”.

You’re probably not going to do it. Using a washing machine is a chore already, you don’t want to spend hours tinkering with your washing machine. You don’t want to think about washing machines at all. You just put up with any inconveniences, then go about thinking about stuff you actually care about.

I think this is a good direction. “NHS England” was a pointless layer of bureaucracy, and cynically I believe the primary reason the Tories introduced it was in the hope that bad news about the NHS would be blamed on the NHS England organisation, not the (technically separate but practically not) government. Which didn’t really work, people still blamed the Tories for waiting lists and such.

The only potential positive I see with the current system is that if there’s a change in government, the people running the NHS don’t change, so theoretically there’s not a sudden shift in how it operates that would interrupt plans and cause turmoil. In reality, though, the government affects a lot of what NHS-E do, so the government has a major effect either way.

Indeed.

The VW group trades places with the Toyota group for largest in the world.

VW is not Stellantis. VW is VW AG (often humourously called VAG).

It’s an excellent mod.

Worth noting that despite this, support is currently only 32%.

Does anybody expect them to say anything else? Web engine development is more costly than even OS development, we’re talking costs that often run into the hundreds of millions per year – it’s virtually impossible to fund unless you’re a giant like Google or being funded by someone with very deep pockets, like… er… Google.

Even MS bailed and ceded power to Google, because it simply didn’t make financial sense. Apple does it but they’re pretty meh in terms of implementing standards and such… there’s a reason 3rd party WebKit browsers are rare. They comparatively run it on a shoestring budget, and they’re Apple FFS - their wealth is practically limitless!

People aren’t going to start paying to use Firefox, and that money needs to come from somewhere. The community rejects giants paying Mozilla (understable sentiment), rejects paying for Firefox (also understandable), and rejects Mozilla selling data (definitely understandable). Some say donations, but be real, that won’t make hundreds of millions per year.

What is the solution here? I’m not trying to be contrarian I just don’t know what they can actually do. You’d hope that the Linux Foundation or something would chip in, but nope, they help Chromium instead. I worry for the future of web browsers.

That said, I’m also deeply uncomfortable with Google being able to pay to be default search on so many products. It gives them a huge advantage. I don’t want them to have that advantage. It’s anticompetitive and scummy as fuck.

Mozilla are definitely between a rock and a hard place here. I don’t like some of the decisions they make, but damn, I’m not sure I have the smarts to come up with better ones, given the position and market they’re in.