Psn bullshit update: even though I own a physical copy of DS3, all my save files are locked out because they used the DLC and the DLC was purchased in PSN
What.
What.
Jesus that's obnoxious shit
Yeah if you don't set the console as your primary device it is going to really limit what you can do offline. It is weirdly restrictive considering how little PS3 games were pirated. But every since The PSP Sony has been ridiculous about that sort of thing.
yes, for some reason neither of my PS4's is the "prime" and thus both are disabled even though I've used and played everything on them before when I had internet. this feels like something Xbox probably does better, if for no reason other than it can't possibly be done worse
Psn bullshit update: even though I own a physical copy of DS3, all my save files are locked out because they used the DLC and the DLC was purchased in PSN
What.
What.
Jesus that's obnoxious shit
Yeah if you don't set the console as your primary device it is going to really limit what you can do offline. It is weirdly restrictive considering how little PS3 games were pirated. But every since The PSP Sony has been ridiculous about that sort of thing.
yes, for some reason neither of my PS4's is the "prime" and thus both are disabled even though I've used and played everything on them before when I had internet. this feels like something Xbox probably does better, if for no reason other than it can't possibly be done worse
how annoying
Microsoft were going to release the Xbox One as having to be connected to the internet or nothing would work.
They rolled back on that pretty hard after the avalanche of protest. I'm surprised Sony snuck this feature out. Or didn't put instructions on how to make your PS4 the prime device on the box.
It's the only one I own, I'm boned if I lose the internet
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The first time you sign in to PlayStation™Network, you normally choose to activate your system. To activate your system after you first sign in, select (Settings) > [PlayStation Network/Account Management] > [Activate as Your Primary PS4] > [Activate].
It's the only one I own, I'm boned if I lose the internet
It's only really important if you buy all your games digitally as the PS4 needs to contact the PS shop to make sure you've bought a legit copy. Same goes for DLC.
My SD card problem solved itself. I'd been trying to transfer files on my Mac, where I was having problems. I tried on my work laptop running Windows and everything "just worked". No hassle.
Anyone have experience hooking up a newish console to a pc monitor? I don't think I have hdmi on my monitor and I might be borrowing this wiiu soon and don't want to juggle dozens cables in my living room where the TV lives and get it mixed up with my brothers wiiu.
Anyone have experience hooking up a newish console to a pc monitor? I don't think I have hdmi on my monitor and I might be borrowing this wiiu soon and don't want to juggle dozens cables in my living room where the TV lives and get it mixed up with my brothers wiiu.
If you're trying to use analog connections you'll need adapters and will probably have a less than fun time getting everything to look good. Not sure if you'll need an active converter or if a simple input-to-input converter will work.
It doesn't need to look good really just be playable and listenable.
I'm going to destroy my neck playing on the game pad screen I think.
I wish I could look at the back of my monitor right now. I'm pretty sure it has just vga and dvi but it might have hdmi I just bought it a year or two ago.
It doesn't need to look good really just be playable and listenable.
I'm going to destroy my neck playing on the game pad screen I think.
I wish I could look at the back of my monitor right now. I'm pretty sure it has just vga and dvi but it might have hdmi I just bought it a year or two ago.
Most monitors have HDMI these days so I'd advise checking before making any big decisions. Could save you a lot of hassle.
It doesn't need to look good really just be playable and listenable.
I'm going to destroy my neck playing on the game pad screen I think.
I wish I could look at the back of my monitor right now. I'm pretty sure it has just vga and dvi but it might have hdmi I just bought it a year or two ago.
The DVI doesn't have audio output, so you'd have to connect the RCA cables for audio somehow with stereo RCA to stereo 3.5mm or something, depending on your speaker hookup.
It doesn't need to look good really just be playable and listenable.
I'm going to destroy my neck playing on the game pad screen I think.
I wish I could look at the back of my monitor right now. I'm pretty sure it has just vga and dvi but it might have hdmi I just bought it a year or two ago.
The DVI doesn't have audio output, so you'd have to connect the RCA cables for audio somehow with stereo RCA to stereo 3.5mm or something, depending on your speaker hookup.
Depending on the signal those may or may not work. A lot of stuff needs active conversion, not passive, which gets spendier.
For audio conversion you'll probably need a 2F/1M RCA cable to plug into followed by a 3.5mm adapter. Those look like small bronze cylinders that have 2F for adapters. I used the same setup when I hooked my PS3 up to my monitor and it's really easy to accomplish. All told it'd cost you maybe $10, maybe $15 depending on where you get it (I got it in person. Amazon and newegg probably sell them for a hell of a lot cheaper).
HDMI to DVI-D is easy: HDMI uses the same physical layer, etc., for video so you can use a passive cable. Read: cheap.
Downside: if you don't have separate audio out from the device (that stays active when the HDMI cable is talking), you have to split the audio out from HDMI separately which requires a little bit of electronics. Read: a few bucks more expensive. You can buy a cheap converter dongle for maybe $30.
Possible downside: not all DVI inputs will talk HDCP (the stupid content encryption that HDMI sometimes uses to "protect" you from copying movies, etc.). Old old DVI monitors will likely be problematic. Newer monitors will likely just work.
I have an HDMI switch that will seperate the audio out of the signal, so something like that might be an option too. It wasn't terribly expensive from memory.
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It be nice, but it will never happen (in our lifetimes). Even if the technological problems of it being unusable in most places are solved, people will legislate/price it it into uselessness.
I don't know if you're, like, super old, but I'd wager self-driving cars will be commonplace in about 10 years, maybe a round 13 for 2030.
The technology will certainly be there, but itll likely vary by region. Lots of industrialized nations have been actively fighting against automation, due to not knowing how to handle the resulting unemployment.
And that's just one issue. Like most things people are the problem.
Will they run someone down to avoid an accident? That alone will keep it tied up for decades.
As autonomous car technology advances, I think this scenario becomes less and less of a consideration. There are a number of accidents that happen because people overcorrect or make the wrong decision under pressure when avoiding a different potential accident. An autonomous car has a data-driven view of the situation and should be able to make the most correct decision possible in the moment, applying the right amount of throttle/brakes/steering input to avoid any potential accident. You shouldn't have autonomous cars overreacting or making obviously incorrect decisions based on the data coming into their sensors.
Well, I mean, there is a most right answer, whichever one results in the least likely instance of a fatality. Even if it's a miniscule chance that anyone makes it out alive in a given scenario, there's pretty much always going to be an option that is less lethal.
Like, hitting a pedestrian at >5mph should really never be an option, the safety features of modern vehicles will likely assure that wrecking the car against another car or a wall or a lake or whatever has at least a very slight chance of being less lethal.
People distrust technology enough where, even if a machine-run mistake happens every, say, one in five million instances, they'll be staunchly against it, even if a person-led mistake happens every five thousand.
People fuck up, yeah. But so do computers. The first few generations of "street legal" self driving cars.... I bet they will have some kinks to work out.
An example that comes to my mind is from my job: there are a fuck load of PID controllers regulating things like pressures, temperatures, etc. Most of the time, I leave these things on Auto. Sometimes there are conditions where the controllers go out of whack. Systems could be on nonstandard states, there could be malfunctions, or maybe conditions are just weird for more complicated reasons and the controllers can't handle it. So I need to take manual control. Self driving vehicles will essentially be glorified PID controllers will they not?
I guess as long as the human still has full ability to assume control of the vehicle, and is actually competent enough to do so, it should be fine. I wonder how long it will take for the average person to almost totally forget how to drive properly when self driving cars become standard. Ten years? Twenty?
Most of the time I actually enjoy driving too. I like having a manual transmission, for example. I could definitely deal with having a self driving car in stop and go traffic after a night shift, though.
I work in IT security, so I have related but different concerns about this sort of thing. Frankly I don't trust the engineers to build the systems in a secure fashion, meaning it's just a matter of time before you wake up to find your car is locked down and held to ransom of a few bitcoins by some jerk.. or worse.
What's going to happen is they're going to roll out human-supervised automated cars (which are already on the road, by the way, just not available for commercial purchase), and those will be on the road for a few years while everyone says it can drive itself but it MUST be supervised. Then in 5-7 years, there will be fully-automated vehicles and enough test-cases to swing one way or the other, but full automation is inevitable and I'm certain it'll be sooner rather than later, the only thing that will vary is rate of adoption. Asia will probably get it first, then Europe and Canada, then the US, then everywhere else.
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yes, for some reason neither of my PS4's is the "prime" and thus both are disabled even though I've used and played everything on them before when I had internet. this feels like something Xbox probably does better, if for no reason other than it can't possibly be done worse
how annoying
Microsoft were going to release the Xbox One as having to be connected to the internet or nothing would work.
They rolled back on that pretty hard after the avalanche of protest. I'm surprised Sony snuck this feature out. Or didn't put instructions on how to make your PS4 the prime device on the box.
because holy shit that is terrible.
How do I make my PS4 my primary console
It's the only one I own, I'm boned if I lose the internet
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It's only really important if you buy all your games digitally as the PS4 needs to contact the PS shop to make sure you've bought a legit copy. Same goes for DLC.
Thanks for your help, thread
If you're trying to use analog connections you'll need adapters and will probably have a less than fun time getting everything to look good. Not sure if you'll need an active converter or if a simple input-to-input converter will work.
The former: https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-107113-Component-YpbPr-Converter/dp/B009GUQYBO
The latter: https://www.amazon.com/VGA-RGB-Cable-Male-1-8m/dp/B0096TTOHG
My gut says probably the former.
I'm going to destroy my neck playing on the game pad screen I think.
I wish I could look at the back of my monitor right now. I'm pretty sure it has just vga and dvi but it might have hdmi I just bought it a year or two ago.
Most monitors have HDMI these days so I'd advise checking before making any big decisions. Could save you a lot of hassle.
If you're hooking consoles up to a monitor, you can get HDMI to VGA/DVI adapters pretty inexpensively.
VGA: https://www.amazon.com/Rankie-Gold-Plated-Active-Adapter-Converter/dp/B00ZMV7RL2
DVI: https://www.amazon.com/Generic-GC2080-Adapter-Plated-Connector/dp/B000FUVNX8
The DVI doesn't have audio output, so you'd have to connect the RCA cables for audio somehow with stereo RCA to stereo 3.5mm or something, depending on your speaker hookup.
Depending on the signal those may or may not work. A lot of stuff needs active conversion, not passive, which gets spendier.
Downside: if you don't have separate audio out from the device (that stays active when the HDMI cable is talking), you have to split the audio out from HDMI separately which requires a little bit of electronics. Read: a few bucks more expensive. You can buy a cheap converter dongle for maybe $30.
Possible downside: not all DVI inputs will talk HDCP (the stupid content encryption that HDMI sometimes uses to "protect" you from copying movies, etc.). Old old DVI monitors will likely be problematic. Newer monitors will likely just work.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/03/volkswagen-unveils-sedric-its-first-fully-autonomous-vehicle/
It looks kinda grumpy.
This is how the robot uprising starts
so basically this is the worst thing on the planet to me
I basically want them to look like this, but slightly more modern:
I love the bubble.
How can you hate self-driving cars? How could having an automated chauffeur be anything but incredible?
I'm looking about possibly getting one for the TV in my living room to replace my current 2.1 system and make things a little less cluttered.
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Big fan of The Wire Cutter's reviews and they recommend the Vizio SB3851-D0 SmartCast 38″ 5.1 Sound Bar System in the $200 range.
But we can dream.
The technology will certainly be there, but itll likely vary by region. Lots of industrialized nations have been actively fighting against automation, due to not knowing how to handle the resulting unemployment.
Will they run someone down to avoid an accident? That alone will keep it tied up for decades.
As autonomous car technology advances, I think this scenario becomes less and less of a consideration. There are a number of accidents that happen because people overcorrect or make the wrong decision under pressure when avoiding a different potential accident. An autonomous car has a data-driven view of the situation and should be able to make the most correct decision possible in the moment, applying the right amount of throttle/brakes/steering input to avoid any potential accident. You shouldn't have autonomous cars overreacting or making obviously incorrect decisions based on the data coming into their sensors.
Like, hitting a pedestrian at >5mph should really never be an option, the safety features of modern vehicles will likely assure that wrecking the car against another car or a wall or a lake or whatever has at least a very slight chance of being less lethal.
People fuck up, yeah. But so do computers. The first few generations of "street legal" self driving cars.... I bet they will have some kinks to work out.
An example that comes to my mind is from my job: there are a fuck load of PID controllers regulating things like pressures, temperatures, etc. Most of the time, I leave these things on Auto. Sometimes there are conditions where the controllers go out of whack. Systems could be on nonstandard states, there could be malfunctions, or maybe conditions are just weird for more complicated reasons and the controllers can't handle it. So I need to take manual control. Self driving vehicles will essentially be glorified PID controllers will they not?
I guess as long as the human still has full ability to assume control of the vehicle, and is actually competent enough to do so, it should be fine. I wonder how long it will take for the average person to almost totally forget how to drive properly when self driving cars become standard. Ten years? Twenty?
Most of the time I actually enjoy driving too. I like having a manual transmission, for example. I could definitely deal with having a self driving car in stop and go traffic after a night shift, though.