www.microsoft.com/…/windows-11-specifications
Minimum system requirements for Copilot+ PCs
RAM: 16 GB DDR5/LPDDR5
I think that OpenAI has probably kind of bashed a hole in the bottom of Microsoft’s boat on the local AI stuff, if 8GB is going to be midrange.
The lemmy.world admins also run a PieFed instance, if you specifically want the lemmy.world admin team but want to use PieFed instead of Lemmy.
I can see them.
One current post: feddit.org/post/23365206
Has:
feddit.org/…/9b0b902a-b626-4e26-aed1-341f2ff9cd5c…
If you can’t see that, then it’s most-likely some sort of content-blocking firewall on your end (which your ability to see the thing via VPN would support).
EDIT: Lemmy home instances can be set to act to proxy images; lemmy.today, which I use, does this. For me, the image is also visible proxied at:
lemmy.today/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2F…
This is intended to provide users with that home instance with privacy from having their IP visible to whoever is serving images. However, a side effect: if you have an account on that as your home instance, it should download the image, then serve it to you, and if you can view images served by your home instance, then you should be able to see images originating from feddit.org; as far as your ISP knows, you’re just talking to lemmy.today.
It looks like lemmy.world isn’t presently proxying images for its users; it does require some bandwidth and storage space on the home instance, so not all Lemmy home instances do that. If you pick a home instance that does have proxying of images available, that may work around the problem without requiring VPN use (unless your ISP/business/whatever starts blocking images on this new home instance).
mid-range laptops to 8GB
My not-terribly-new phone has 12GB of memory, and I’m pretty sure that Android is a lot lighter on memory than the Windows 11 that I suspect a lot of these are going to be running.
I don’t know about that.
You probably don’t want a near-retirement-age person hauling a rifle on the front lines, but something like 90% of a modern military doesn’t directly engage in combat. If you can drive a truck to keep the logistics chain moving or something…shrug
- Frequently, you get extreme CCP shills falsely accusing you of Sinophobia, and simultaneously some are actually some closeted Sinophobes.
Let me guess. You went to one of the .ml instances and got accused of being “Orientalist” after saying something that someone politically disagreed with?
Yeah, I still don’t completely understand that crowd. I don’t think that they’re actually shilling, because then they wouldn’t be advocating for North Korea. But there are a lot of people there who are clearly not interested in good-faith discussion. I just decided that it’s not worth dealing with them very early on.
The !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works crowd is determined to keep plunging in, though.
I knew what this was before even clicking on it. :-)
- !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org is VERY unique both in content and in what gets posted.
- Almost everyone running Linux (or at least it seems like it 😉)
I believe that the unix_surrealism guy is a BSD person.
My outsider impression is that this is just a long-standing hard-left tradition in general. Not really specific to anything on the Fediverse.
I remember going through the list of UK socialist and/or communist political parties. Lots of tiny, fragmented groups, many of which had split off from others over various disagreements.
Do they actually have horses?
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Apparently yes, though it’s not huge either and it sounds like they’re being dissolved too:
en.wikipedia.org/…/1st_Cavalry_Division_Horse_Cav…
The 40-soldier unit is equipped with 33 dark bay horses with minimal white markings which are outfitted with Model 1885 McClellan riding saddles that are hand-made by cavalry troopers in an on-site leather shop maintained at the unit’s stables.
On 2 July 2025 the Army announced that the Military Working Equid program that includes the 1st Cavalry Division Horse Cavalry Detachment will cease operations and associated assets (MWEs) will be transferred, adopted, or donated within one year.
It’s a very small unit, though, from memory.
Also, occasionally US special forces have used horses in unusual, rugged terrain. There was some unit in Afghanistan that had some technical claim to being the most-recent cavalry charge in history.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Mazar-i-Sharif
Photo showing U.S. Army Special Forces and U.S. Air Force Combat Controllers in “the first American cavalry charge of the 21st century”[19] with General Dostum and his forces (Taken October 2001)
Russia Continues Using Cavalry in Failed Assault, OSINT-Shared Video Reveals
Footage shared by the OSINT community shows Russian forces attempting to storm a Ukrainian position using a horse for transport, an assault that was ultimately halted by a Ukrainian drone strike, according to video published by Exilenova+ on December 22.
While unusual at first glance, the incident aligns with earlier reports indicating that Russian frontline units have increasingly relied on animals as substitutes for destroyed or unavailable military vehicles.
The Napoleonic era is coming back, baby.
That battleship appears to have no large guns, a stealthy hull, a helicopter platform, and I doubt armor, given the superstructure.
This kind of comes off to me like some of Japan’s “destroyers”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo-class_destroyer
I’m wondering if what happened here is that the Navy wanted a cruiser and Trump wanted more honors.
EDIT: I’d also add that tradition is almost always to name the class after the lead ship, but the “Trump class”, assuming the artist rendition there is of the lead ship, appears to be of a USS Defiant, not the USS Donald J. Trump. Not that I’m complaining — I’ve long prefered the old British Navy style use of names like HMS Invincible or HMS Glorious or whatnot stuff. The USS Enterprise for the US, etc.
EDIT2: Apparently, based on other articles, the hull classification symbol is “BBG”, which has never been used, but would theoretically refer to a guided missile battleship, so it could have a bunch of VLS cells for armament. I’m a little hazy on what would distinguish it from a guided missile cruiser (CG), though.
For ANC, Sony’s WH-1000XM6. I’ve had people complain that I occasionally sound muffled when using it as a headset, though. The only other circumaural ANC headphones I’ve used are Sennheiser Momentum 4s, which have a lot of problems and I wasn’t happy with for other reasons. No complaints about being muffled, though. Other than that, all my ANC experiences have been on various earbuds, not headphones.
For non-ANC, just a passive closed-back circumaural, my favorite so far is a Beyerdynamic DT 770. It’s an old design, first got one back maybe in 2000, but it’s been comfortable and durable, and has decent passive isolation. I picked up another pair a year or two back, and that’s what I typically use at home, where I don’t need ANC, if I’m seated at my computer. It doesn’t have a detachable cord, but that’s really the only thing I’d complain about.
Can’t exactly use the DT 770 as an example of technology advancing, though, given context of the discussion here. :-)
I can see that. I don’t like how they make the music sound though and much prefer open room speakers or open back headphones.
I get that and I do have some open back headphones too. That’s fine for a quiet environment. But if you’re wanting to listen to something in a noisy environment, your options are basically some form of isolation or trying to drown out everything else.
Biometrics are irrevocable. If you’re worried about stolen personal data, they are not what I would be moving to.
Virtual keyboards have never been great
I’m actually surprised that nobody ever fundamentally reinvented text input for touchscreens in a way that caught on.
I’d like to be able to get touchpads with physical buttons on laptops. Very few manufacturers do them, especially if you want three.
I bet that the goal here is to try to abuse trademark law to sue anyone who makes compatible bits because it’s embedding the trademarked BMW logo. I also bet that courts won’t buy into it.
EDIT: Well, I bet that US courts won’t buy into it. Dunno about other jurisdictions, what case law is there.
Back in the 1990s, you had Sega v. Accolade, where Sega tried making their consoles not work with a game unless that game had copyrighted and trademarked content at the beginning, with the idea that nobody could legally make games compatible with their consoles without Sega’s approval, and a court said “nice try, but no”.
EDIT2:
The court then went on to cite Anti-Monopoly v. General Mills Fun Group, which states in reference to the Lanham Act, “The trademark is misused if it serves to limit competition in the manufacture and sales of a product. That is the special province of the limited monopolies provided pursuant to the patent laws.”[9] The judges in the case had decided that Sega had violated this provision of the act by utilizing its trademark to limit competition for software for its console.
EDIT3: Oh, BMW patented it, too. I still bet that that’s going to run into anti-trust law.
I consider it worthwhile. It’s as much mainline Fallout as you’re going to get until Fallout 5, at any rate.
But it’s not Fallout 5.
Graphically, it’s not much fancier than Fallout 4.
The main questline is okay. It’s definitely less dramatic than Fallout 4, though I think that the characters are more-believeable, have more human motivations. You get to run around in a big open world and explore, but I didn’t have many “oh, wow” moments, like when the Brotherhood of Steel show up in their airships in Fallout 4 or Liberty Prime does his thing in 3 and 4.
In the Fallout series, you can generally dramatically affect the world. In 76, by virtue of it being multiplayer, you really can’t. You can just affect stuff in instanced areas. That has a real impact.
Aside from some multiplayer events, you can basically ignore essentially the entire multiplayer aspect if you want. I was really going into 76 with a bias against it because I didn’t want to interact with people, didn’t want to deal with people being jerks. In practice, I found that that was a complete non-problem. For whatever reason, despite being a community centered around a brutal, post-apocalyptic wasteland, the Fallout 76 community is really nice, and most of the limited interaction is people trying to give newbies stuff. The occasional “trap” CAMP where someone will try to build a building with a door that opens out a cliff and see if people will fall out of it.
The multiplayer aspect is mostly if you have a friend or spouse or whatever that you want to play with and run around the Fallout universe with. Can be in a group of up to 4. Not required for most of the game, though being in a group does enable some useful benefits, so a common convention is for players on a server to join a “casual” group of 4, whichever has a slot open, share one of their perk card benefits with the other players in the group, and then ignore each other from then on.
If you’re playing effectively single-player, you’ll rarely see anyone else other than in towns and multiplayer events, if you choose to do them.
For me, at least, the main drawback to the multiplayer turned out not to be having to interact with players, but that it impacted the immersion. Other characters don’t dress or name thenselves or act in character to the world. The game will throw up notifications that multiplayer events are occurring. The way the incentives system worked last time I played was that one got to the point that the multiplayer events were easy, but optimal play for most involved having as many players as possible doing a small amount of damage to each enemy, which was pretty bad for immersion. Did not feel like we were desperately trying to survive and accomplish the goal, but to try to max out the event’s return in unrealistic ways.
The game encourages you to do in-app purchases, but it’s not much pressure. I never bought anything. The major benefit is an ability to store an unlimited amount of scrap (building materials), which doesn’t really do much in the game, the ability to create private servers with your own settings, thr ability to store an unlimited amount of scrap (building material) and a survival tent (more on that below).
Some aspects of the game feel pretty vestigial to me — there’s a survival aspect that got hugely nerfed, for example, because players didn’t want to keep hunting for food and water. Most players didn’t like the PvP aspect either, and so it got minimized, wirh there being little practical point to taking and holding points on the map or fighting other characters.
My experience was that load times didn’t increase as one played the game, a problem that had plagued all prior titles in the series.
The endgame is mostly aimed around grinding repetitive multiplayer event stuff and IMHO isn’t all that intriguing. I’d play it until you’ve done the mainline quest stuff.
I really wanted more to be done with building in Fallout 4. Basically, you had the “defend The Castle against the Mirelurk Queen” quest, which let you configure defenses. Then you could configure settlements to be a little more resillient to attacks, but most of the building was just about having fun making cosmetically-appealing settlements.
Fallout 76 lets you establish a CAMP, which is like a small settlement that can go pretty much anywhere on the map. It provides some minor benefits: you can put defenses on it, put crafting stations there teleport to it for free, store stuff there, put up some items you don’t want for sale to other players there. You also get to set up an “underground” portion to the thing claled a “shelter”. You can have multiple CAMPs, though only one up at once.
You can buy stuff from other players at their CAMPs. There’s also a “survival tent” for players who have a subscription. It’s like an extra, tiny, prebuilt CAMP of various themes. Some players will help out other players on a server by placing theirs near an area where other players are doing multiplayer events, to give those players easier access to their stash to drop off loot.
There’s some minor modding, but the online aspect mostly prevents any serious modding, so if you’re into playing modded Fallout: New Vegas or Fallout 4, there’s not going to be much potential to do that.
Monsters didn’t get all that much new stuff from 4. You have Scorchbeasts, which are basically repurposed dragons from the Elder Scroll series. Enemies can get kinda bullet-spongy late game, but IME it wasn’t nearly as bad as very late-game Fallout 4.
I liked most of the biomes on the world map. Did not like the Ash Heap, which is a kind of dreary gray without much variety.
Managing weight and inventory is a more-significant part of the game than earlier titles, as you have limited storage, and you can’t just hoard everything.
Summary: As a singleplayer, mainline item in the series, I’d call it a weak entry but worth the cost of admission (even at regular price). If you have friends that you want to play multiplayer Fallout with, it’s the only way to do that, so a no-brainer. If you’re into building, decorating, and showing off your created CAMPs to other players (I am not) you might really like that aspect, as few games let you do that. It’s much better than when it was initially released, when it was a trainwreck.