That it's not named after one of the locations. Tamriel was pretty obviously cut up the way it was specifically to make it so they could make games like that and kind of have you going on a sort of virtual tour of their world. Then again Oblivion wasn't named after one of the locations. But then again it was kind of the weakest of the three games so...

I'm cautiously optimistic. I hope they don't AI slopify it. I want my freakish nightmares made in the character creator to be 100% human nightmares :)

No, as I said you can select it in the GUI as well.

Only because your jurisdiction has crap privacy laws. Vizeo is a US brand that doesn't sell into Europe, because if they did this would be a massive GDPR violation and they would be looking at a hefty fine.

People have reported that simply removing the WiFi modem from LG sets has no ill effects.

Google Calendar and Outlook both seem to handle getting things like meeting requests in different timezones. They adjust to UTC when displaying on my machine, or JST when I'm travelling.

Not to mention that cellular works because the cells are relatively small. With satellite cell service, each vehicle serves a much larger area, but the radio spectrum is the same and can only service a limited number of devices.

If an area becomes overloaded a terrestrial provider can just add more cell towers and reduce the cell size. If a large area covered by one satellite becomes overloaded, SpaceX is screwed.

Recently they have been introducing limits on their "unlimited" satellite internet product, because it is getting over-subscribed. So you are absolutely right, they have already hit their capacity limits in some areas and are trying to wring as much revenue out of them as possible by enshittifying the service now.

Windows does support UTC. I use it myself. You can set it in the GUI, or with Powershell:
Set-TimeZone -Id "UTC"

Because it's cheaper to suffer some cyber attacks than it is to employ people to go and manually adjust the temperature. The supermarkets save a lot of money with these automatic controls, because they pay the spot price for electricity. The prices are announced 24 hours in advance, so they drop the thermostat a degree or two when electricity is cheap, and then up a degree or two when it's expensive, to keep within the legal limits.

This loss is insured and will cost them far, far less than they save.

Car manufacturing is massively subsidized in the West too.

The Chinese are winning at manufacturing because they just do it better. Their supply chains are unrivalled, and that makes them extremely agile.

We can compete in Europe. Manufacturers here are now starting to offer cars that compete with Chinese models on price, which suggests that they were just ripping us off before.

I wouldn't buy a Liberty Phone because I'm European, but we do have Fairphone and I wouldn't buy one of those either because I need top tier cameras. I know a couple of people who have them and they are pretty good, except for the cameras which are mid tier at best.

The Model Y isn't a very good car anyway. No physical controls for most functions, including things like gear selection and headlights. The automatic systems don't work very well (they don't in most cars, e.g. the auto high beams tend to blind other people because they react too slowly, and Teslas are some of the worst for it). It's uncomfortable and you have to deal with frequent software updates and in-car monetization.

Right, we can learn about longer term habitation on other worlds in low gravity, and about collecting resources. The Moon has water and H3 and other stuff.

This time the effort of getting there will probably be more sustainable, because China is unlikely to give up even if the US somehow gets back there first, and because the whole industry is more sustainable now.

You can just not connect these screens to the internet. Some of the more annoying ones that are really cheap will give you a bit of nagging when you boot them up before switching to your video.

Don't get me wrong we should properly regulate businesses but this is way down on the list of crimes a company might commit or laws that we refuse to enforce.

Every single TV manufacturer is doing this. If you have a problem with it just buy a really really huge PC monitor I guess. It'll cost you about $1,500 instead of $300 though.

And there is no point to getting angry at companies for doing what companies do. Not when people on this forum refused to vote for the kind of politicians that would properly regulate them. I guarantee you some of the people reading this will vote Republican on Tuesday. Even though the Republicans refuse to enforce laws against what Vizio is doing here.

So using AI to write a little bit of boilerplate code for you isn't what most people are talking about when they say using AI.

There isn't a single game publisher on the planet that is thinking about AI like that. They want AI to build the entire game so they can fire their staff.

Almost all of the cost of making these big AAA games is the staff that make the game because well of course it is it's art.

We all know the goal is to replace all the artists with bots that generate slop for us to pay for. With enough subsidies and with enough electrical bill and water bill increases the slop generators will be cheaper than employees. Especially artists. You can't really offshore too much of your artists because if you try to the different cultural barriers create games that don't translate well. Just like how Bollywood movies have a fan base in America but it's not the general public. American movies managed to do well overseas but that's because of the overwhelmingly high budgets. Take away the spectacle and make the movie without it and they would bomb.

So realistically when we are talking about AI in this context we're talking about games that were built almost entirely with it. Because that's the current goal of the industry. Get rid of the art but keep all the profits