The original post on the hacker forum… was purporting to sell 89 million ‘accounts’… for $5000.
Thats uh… wildly underpriced, low balling themselves.
I believe that original post is removed now, but uh yeah, this was either a very incompetent hacker, or an attempt to scam people looking to do fraud/exploitation… or a bit of both.
Khajit has bathroom…
… if you have coin.
I think you mean thats the price they’d need to sell at for Tesla/Musk to cover production costs, cover the sunk costs of already made capital investments (Mexico Gigafactory, etc), cover the ongoing costs of ‘Full Self Drive’ development, cover the debt of the company, cover a significant chunk of Musk’s personal debt from his leveraged buyout of Twitter (he had to finance that), and/or also some actual profit margin, go toward future stock buybacks, etc etc…
The article says, and cites, that there are over 10k unsold CyberTrucks.
10k * 80k = 800m
80k being the MSRP for the base model.
(In the case of Tesla, they own and directly operate their own dealerships, unlike most other car dealerships which are owned independently… thus the MSRP just literally is the only price you can buy them at. Tesla also makes you sign contracts when you buy a CyberTruck that more or less make it legally near impossible to resell your purchased CT second hand.)
MSRP != Cost to Produce.
If that were the case… basically all companies that sell physical things… would be Non Profits.
If you have access to Tesla’s internal accounting and finance numbers that can actually show a CyberTruck’s actual cost to produce, not only would I personally love to see that, but so would the government of Canada, I suspect, as they are currently investigating Tesla for essentially accounting fraud.
If something can’t actually sell at MSRP…
… analagously, if a house sits on market for 6, 9, 12 months, and can’t sell at a too high price…
Then the person trying to sell the thing has not recieved any real countable money; the price is likely wildly unrealistic.
Ah.
Yes.
That… is a little bit more insane.
Welp.
I am no fan of this at all…
…but…
Hasn’t… basically every internet capable console been capable of hardware ID level banning itself, upon detecting being tampered with, at least to some extent?
Like I have no interest in a Switch as a gamer, but this basically reads as a gauntlet off the hand, thrown to the ground challenge to hardware hackers.
It doesn’t matter beyond the FOMO.
Chances are, no one will remember or care in a decade.
Assuming you are USAmerican?
Unfortunately, chances are also just a bit better than a coin flip you’ll be able to find a decent job anyway, so, it also doesn’t matter in that sense.
41% of recent grads are underemployed, 6% are unemployed, you thus have a 53% chance of finding a job that utilizes your degree.
… Assuming the economy does not get worse.
… Which it will.
Sorry man, happened to me as well. I graduated right out into the Great Recession… and now we’re looking at a 2nd Great Depression.
Good luck.
My FNV is through Steam… but… i think Limo does support GOG… I… would think you would, yes, have to set up your own filepaths, point it properly to where the game dir is, and it… should work?
You can launch a game from Limo, like, I do test runs of that in desktop mode on my Deck…
But the way the deployer system works is that you click deploy… and the even if you launch the game from some other way, like via Steam, in game mode on the deck, or… presumably via Heroic… it just now is the modded game. To revert, undeploy in Limo, and then either play vanilla, or swap to another modset profile and deploy that.
For NVSE, I just literally did the old school method of go into the real game dir, rename the main exe to .exe.old, and then rename the NVSE exe to the proper FONV game exe’s name.
That and manually install the dlls and other files that come with NVSE into the real dir.
This isn’t much of a problem with older games, but with newer games, that method would potentially be undone by ongoing update patches.
This is the kind of ‘some mods you just have to manually install’ thing… but in fairness… most of the time those mods are the same way on Windoes as well, unless some kind of mod manager goes far out of their way to specifically support that exact mod.
To add in about game modding on Linux:
https://github.com/limo-app/limo
https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.limo_app.limo
Limo is a universal mod manager that is linux native.
And I do mean universal. It’ll work with literally any game, you just have to take a bit of extra time to configure things for games that do not yet have a supported preset configuration out of the box… but at this point, that includes most games that are generally reliant on some kind of mod manager type program on Windows, to keep track of 10s or 100s of simultaneous mods.
It works very much along the same lines as something like Mod Organizer 2, though there are some differences, read the wiki.
It sets up a virtual file system that allows mods to be set up outside of the main game directory itself, and will override them such that the mods actually load, but they can be ‘undeployed’ to revert back to vanilla, you can set up different profiles of different mod configurations and deploy/undeploy what you like.
It can also manage load orders, supports formats such as fomod and similar for games like Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim, you can set up tags and category groupings, and it also shows you conflicts between mods down to the specific files, showing you a chain of overwrites to the final file from the final loaded mod.
It doesn’t support things like LOOT, which purport to autogenerate correct load orders… but frankly, thats fine, because shit like that doesn’t even work properly in situations you’d use it in on Windows 90% of the time.
EDIT: Wow, apparently it does support LOOT now, it did not a few updates ago.
…
I have successfully gotten FONV working using Limo to set up uh… there’s a variant of the Viva New Vegas mod setup guide aimed at Steam Deck users, but it tells you to set up Mod Organizer 2 on the Deck… which you can do, but its rather input laggy and there are other inconveniences…
Here it is, Mirelurked Viva New Vegas:
https://ashtonqlb.github.io/mirelurked-vnv/intro.html
I had to alter a few steps from this to get it working with Limo, but they were basically just… set up Limo instead of MO2, and you have to handle NVSE a bit differently, because it literally replaces/overrides the entire main game exe.
…
I have also used Limo to mod Cyberpunk 2077, works with more in depth frameworks like CET, RedExt, etc, as well as using the Decky Framegen plugin to insert FSR 3.1 Upscaling and Framegen into CP77, which gives better quality and fps than the official FSR 2 and 3 implementations that come with the vanilla game and are vanilla supported on a Deck.
You basically just have to launch the vanilla game via the normal launcher first, check the ‘enable mods’ switch, fully load the game…
Then you can set up the Framegen mod, which adds a custom command in steam to the launch parameters… and then you can also setup the ‘skip intro’ mod, which is reliant on both the mod being present, as well as additional command line parameters…
There are a bunch of reddit posts complaining that the FrameGen mod doesn’t allow other additional launch arguments, but they are wrong.
All you have to do is append those additional launch args … at the end of the FrameGen mod’s launch arg. This just doesn’t seem to be explicitly documented anywhere, by anyone… I may have been the first person to figure this out?
Anyway, after that bit of silliness, setting up other mods for CP 77 using Limo is fairly straightforward.
…
… I am doing all this on Bazzite on a Deck, but you could do it on… presumably any linux distro that supports flatpaks and proton (the translation layer that allows Windows games to run on Linux).
There will always be a few ‘weird’ mods that are just totally reliant on a whole bunch of Windows specific things to work, or just cannot be made to work without actually overwriting some core game files in the main, real directory itself…
And, some of these mods will require a windows component dependency, like vc_2017 or vc_2022, you set those up with something like ProtonTricks or SteamTinkerLaunch to modify the proton config per game, instead of trying to install the exe system wide as 99% of the windows oriented mods will tell you to do…
But so far, I have found either my own solutions for these cases, or someone else already has, or someone has just made basically a linux compatible equivalent for such a windows reliant mod.
… You can also just choose to run MO2 on Linux, it will work, its just… buggy, and overlycomplicated, imo, you’ve got to set up a custom wineprefix for the MO2 UI to not do dumbshit, give it thr dependencies it needs, and then you’ve got to do this for each different game you want to mod with MO2.
I found that Limo is sufficiently capable and much less hassle to use once you take the time to understand its differences from MO2.
EDIT:
Also, for anti virus, ClamAV exists. I… think it is literally the only AV for linux?
I mourn for the leopards.
Their digestive systems were not designed to digest LiON batteries =(
… Is… is that seriously … the origin of this phrase?
That does… at least make a basic level of sense…
Utterly tangential, but:
… wtf is the origin of the ‘waiting for the shoe to drop’ phrase … to indicate waiting for a twist in a plot, or a secret to be revealed, an impactful complication to be explained?
How… what is the metaphor here?
???
Its pronounced ‘About four thirds megabytes.’
Every ‘goal’ my family gave me and then forced me into pursuing?
Sure, they praised me when I accomplished those things.
Every goal I actually chose for myself, and achieved?
At best, absolutely no help of any kind when I’d ask them for help, general constant dissuasion and negging, and then after I achieve those goals, massive, massive passive aggressive jealously and constant belittling.
I now live several states away, don’t communicate with them, and have finally been able to establish a sense of self, and self-esteem, based around my own assesment of what are good traits and goals, instead of basing them on trying to please incompetent bullies.
…
If your goals are, as you say in another post, learning how to make a vidro game, learning to draw, learning basic programming/web design…
These are literally all goals that pretty much most people with sufficient spare time and diligence could figure out the basics of and even become decently competent at with a few years of time… not even in a formal education setting, though that could likely help.
Your goals are extremely reasonable, your family is being ridiculous.
Are you guaranteed to become wealthy via pursuit of these goals? No, of course not.
But you aren’t guaranteed that in most other careers or lines of work either.
If you don’t already have gobs of money and/or influential connections… chances are, you never will.
Unless you are like abadoning a fairly solid career path that you’re already significantly time/money invested in, and just completely abandoning all means of keeping yourself able to eat and sleep indoors for the full time pursuit of hobbies…
Then no, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to learn more skills.
Thats a good one, got me to the point of maximal efficiency on my Laffer curve!