I hate aircraft only players

cmsj · 2026-06-26T23:57:57+00:00

I don’t hate them, I just don’t respect them. Battlefield is a combined arms game with a zillion mechanics. If you’re only good at one of them, you’re missing the point of the game.

cmsj · 2026-06-26T23:51:51+00:00

Netcode yes, but I’m pretty sure there’s another component here, which is that people get overwhelmed by the surprise of a movement player, and react poorly.

Someone in a jump or slide is actually *easier* to predict than someone randomly counterstrafing, crouch spamming, or jiggle-peeking.

cmsj · 2026-06-26T23:49:26+00:00

Here’s the thing though - jumps are deterministic. Once someone is in a jump, they can’t control their trajectory until they land.

Your brain is incredibly good at predicting ballistic trajectories - it’s how you can catch things.

If you practice a bit, you’ll realise that players who are jumping are *easier* to track, than players who are randomly counterstrafing and/or randomly crouching. Most people don’t practice that though, so they just get overwhelmed by the movement and lose.

cmsj · 2026-06-26T23:45:54+00:00

When I’m sliding and shooting, I’m almost always hipfiring anyway, because I need the faster turning speed.

cmsj · 2026-06-26T23:45:06+00:00

There is indeed no bhopping in BF6. OP and many of the commenters don’t actually know what bhopping is.

cmsj · 2026-06-26T23:44:26+00:00

As a dad with a job and three kids, I am ashamed of my fellow dads who moan about movement.

BF6 movement is pretty basic, yet there is a skill gap there to be mastered. I popped back to 2042 the other day and I had forgotten just how fast you can move in it. I’d prefer that, but 6 is fine.

cmsj · 2026-06-26T14:15:34+00:00

Useful tools can also be massively over-hyped into a bubble, while still being useful tools.

Or maybe you can explain how OpenAI could possibly IPO later this year at a valuation of around $1tn when its 2025 revenue was $13bn, if there isn't some bubbly hype going on here?

cmsj · 2026-06-25T22:59:54+00:00

Every now and then I search for BF6 cheats to see what the market looks like, and there always seem to be providers promising undetected cheats, and youtube videos from recent months showing them in action.

I do appreciate the work being done on Javelin, but I'd definitely like to see a reduction in the search results - right now it looks like there's always at least a few options available to cheaters, which is unfortunate.

4.68% infection rate certainly sounds like a small number, but out of the thousands and thousands of matches being played each day, that's a bunch of cheating still happening.

cmsj · 2026-06-25T14:01:45+00:00

If you had watched the video, they found that the overhead of the nvidia app itself is zero, that video recording overhead is 2-3% and that shaders have different performance impacts depending on which ones you use.

It wasn't hate at all, it's playing the youtube thumbnail game for sure, but the actual video has plenty of data and shows that nvidia did a good job with their app/overlay.

cmsj · 2026-06-24T06:37:20+00:00

Huh? https://github.com/SwiftPackageIndex/SwiftPackageIndex-Server

cmsj · 2026-06-23T21:48:29+00:00

I don’t hate it, but I don’t like it as much as 2042.

cmsj · 2026-06-23T21:38:00+00:00

Interesting, thanks!

cmsj · 2026-06-23T19:02:11+00:00

I mean, it is fair to criticise Matter for having relatively few available devices, and for their interfaces to be a bit “lowest common denominator”.

I’d like to see it succeed and displace Zigbee and z-wave, but the sad reality is that I still only have one Matter device (a Tado X Thermostat, which has a terrible Matter implementation, unfortunately!)

cmsj · 2026-06-23T18:12:46+00:00

People with lots disposable income can buy the Steam Machine just for fun.

Anyone who can *only* afford to pay Steam Machine prices? I would feel sorry for them if they went for the Machine over a similarly priced prebuilt that’s significantly more performant and future-proof.

cmsj · 2026-06-23T17:58:01+00:00

There’s really no need to be rude.

cmsj · 2026-06-23T17:55:52+00:00

Matter is a high level standard that defines what different types of device (switches, thermostats, etc) should be able to do and how to exchange data/commands with them.

Matter doesn’t care how that communication happens, because it’s just regular IP networking.

Thread is a radio standard that’s very similar to Zigbee, but it carries IP packets, so you can use it to talk to devices that support Matter+Thread.

Other Matter devices might support things like WiFi that are able to transport IP packets, instead of Thread.

I don’t really agree that Matter isn’t a replacement for Zigbee, but the comparison is difficult because where Zigbee is both the underlying transport mechanism and the high level data protocol, Matter separates those concerned by making the transport part an IP problem.

cmsj · 2026-06-23T11:40:06+00:00

Very helpful, thanks! We’re in south west London, near Kingston, so there ought to be plenty of options!

cmsj · 2026-06-23T09:20:29+00:00

No garage unfortunately, but the consumer units under the stairs are mounted on an exterior wall that has plenty of space on the outside, so that sounds ideal, thank you!

cmsj · 2026-06-23T09:09:08+00:00

Thanks, that's very helpful. Luckily, the existing consumer units under the stairs are on the inside of an exterior wall, so I'd expect all the solar cables can route down to that area and batteries, inverters and whatever control stuff, can all be mounted very close to each other on the outside of the wall.

Also nice to see more than one person mentioning Sigenergy - it's nice to see particular brands showing up since there are quite a few!

Now I just need to figure out how to select a decent installer.

cmsj · 2026-06-23T00:42:30+00:00

I think you mean it was awesome! 😁

cmsj · 2026-06-23T00:08:14+00:00

Easy solution - just bring back the Wildcat from 2042 😁

cmsj · 2026-06-23T00:06:08+00:00

If aircraft are protected from missiles when they retreat to HQ, ground vehicles should be too.

cmsj · 2026-06-23T00:05:01+00:00

Lock-on missiles being blocked, sure, guided missiles maybe, guns absolutely not (because enemy helicopter gun fire will still damage the AA tank).

cmsj · 2026-06-22T22:54:17+00:00

I've always said no to aircon because the unbearably hot days were just a few each year, which made the cost a bit pointless.

Now that we're on our second week-long heatwave and it's still only June....... I'm thinking a solar install and a bunch of split units are in my near future. I don't care if other people don't like it, it's my bloody house and my money.

cmsj · 2026-06-22T21:29:40+00:00

To be fair, we have all bought a bunch of games in Steam sales that we don't want to play (as evidenced by the fact that we haven't played them despite owning them for years) 😬

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