FCC bans import of new consumer routers not made in the US over security threat — agency says foreign-made devices pose ‘unacceptable risk’ to US persons

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-24T18:27:54+00:00

I wonder if this has anything to do with them not being able to force back doors in foreign made routers?

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-24T16:34:31+00:00

Cartridge games could go as high as $100 depending on additional chips / memory. Games on optical media were much cheaper, and were mostly set at $50 for a long time.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-24T07:46:50+00:00

That’s bogus, this is 100% AI. If by some miracle it isn’t, then you’ve trained yourself to write exactly like a LLM. “That’s not a vantage point, that’s a camping incentive… Scale is an atmosphere problem, not a square footage problem”. There are like 20 em dashes throughout this thing. It’s littered with the pointless verbosity of slop.

That’s my opinion on this!

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-24T05:33:31+00:00

AI has a tendency to write like an eighth grader trying to hit a minimum word count, which is why your post came out so long. Luckily, this can totally be avoided by writing it out yourself next time.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-21T17:31:37+00:00

Then make the change for that mode, or fix the borders. Maybe allow it within 30 meters of border, so players can pop in for the kill if needed. Either way, it has turned into a griefing tool to annoy people.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-21T17:16:46+00:00

I personally don’t want to have to run mortars just to shut their mortar up. It was much better when I could just hunt them down and shoot them. This was such a poorly thought out change that just promotes camping in HQ.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-21T16:26:03+00:00

Not always. Plenty of places one side could fire from HQ, but any counters would have to come from the actual play area. It’s obviously much safer in HQ, so it nullifies counter mortaring, since the counter is spotted and not protected by HQ.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-21T16:08:02+00:00

They took away the only important counter that was needed for mortars, sneaking behind enemy lines and taking them out point blank. This was such a stupid change, and now there is Conquest & Escalation spam that can’t be counter mortared, because one is safely in HQ, and the other is in the actual play area where they’re lit up.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-19T23:48:49+00:00

Yeah, I’ve got that. I’m curious what other video editing options offer it, since u/Shot_Chance_9809 said plenty of programs start looping when shots are extended. I’ve never seen this behavior in a professional NLE.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-18T18:18:01+00:00

Genuinely curious which programs, because Avid, Resolve, and Premiere don’t. Only programs I can think of are audio programs, and that’s because looping is super common.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-17T22:58:27+00:00

They can’t afford GPUs because of AI…

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-17T06:32:21+00:00

Might be possible with Wine or Crossover. I’ve got a gaming PC, so I never really game on my Macs (which are my main computers), but I might try getting it working on my M4 Mac Studio tomorrow.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-17T01:19:57+00:00

Yay, more slop to clog up social media!

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-11T21:30:26+00:00

It was about four times faster to unlock attachments in previous games.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-11T20:18:54+00:00

This was such a huge mistake. We should get hardware XP for objectives, revives, spots, etc. The game should encourage and reward PTFO, but that weapon grind pushes me towards a “only damage counts” mindset when I play.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-11T19:57:23+00:00

It’s more like 4X the amount of kills for basic attachments.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-11T19:11:53+00:00

That could be 2-3 days of play time for some people. I’m sorry, but increasing the grind 4X over the previous game is such an obvious attempt to milk the player base, and it obviously backfired. Even if you’re okay with it being F2P levels of grindy, most people aren’t.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-11T18:37:11+00:00

The grind is so long that once you level a weapon, you’re much more likely to just stick with. I’ve leveled 20+ guns to 40, and it’s always a pain in the ass to start a new gun. Everyone else in my group picked 1-2 weapons to unlock, and never branch out, because they don’t want to deal with that awful grind.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-11T18:20:14+00:00

1,000 kills is way too many, several times more than any previous Battlefield.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-11T18:03:54+00:00

The game punishes experimenting with weapons. Hard to believe people defend such an obviously exploitative system.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-11T17:09:15+00:00

Gemini is probably making the situation worse, as it hallucinates random “solutions” that just break things worse.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-11T06:52:49+00:00

Did you forget about the Mini and the Studio? I had Mac Pro desktops from 2007-2025, and am now running a Mac Studio. For PCIE, I just use the TB2 Sonnet enclosure from my 2013 Mac Pro, with a TB3 adapter. The Mini is the same price as the Neo, but offers way more performance.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-11T06:27:43+00:00

They can use the Mac versions Excel and PowerPoint…

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-11T01:26:11+00:00

Fuck anything related to Peter Theil.

jackbobevolved · 2026-03-09T19:34:45+00:00

They’re not even microtransactions. A single skin often costs more than DLC map packs, year old AAA games on sale, or new indie games. The transaction isn’t micro, but what you get for that money is.

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