I’m fairly certain I get Peacock free with my Internet subscription. I haven’t even bothered to make an account. Do they actually have any interesting content, besides older shows that used to stream on other services but are now exclusive to Peacock?
The amount of profit and money in the oil industry will ensure that it’s product remains relevant for as long as possible. If it’s not through gasoline, it will be something else.
Meanwhile they’ll be doing their best to sabotage and lobby against any competition to make it harder for individuals to even have the opportunity to do the right thing. The change has to come from the top (government mandates) in order for it to have any meaningful impact any time soon.
I think the point is not that the individual should abandon efforts to modify their own habits. The point is that we should also be focusing just as much if not more energy on efforts to regulate and/or change industries that are responsible for more emissions by orders of magnitude. Some small but significant subset of the population going vegan, buying electric cars, or biking to work isn’t going to offset the biggest offenders.
The biggest offenders are fighting tooth and nail to be as profitable as possible at literally any cost. You can be damn sure that if what they produce becomes less desirable in one industry, they will try their hardest to get picked up in some other industry. They’ll have scientists finding some way to be useful somewhere and demonstrating it with research and lobbyists that will then get the government to mandate/subsidize it so that they make as much money as possible.
I’ve personally tried to “vote with my wallet” but industries have found ways to green-wash their products to give the impression that choosing their products would be the responsible choice when in reality it is not. Ensuring that your spending only goes to companies making an honest effort to do all they can to be carbon neutral or environmentally friendly is more than a full time job at this point. The only way is to ensure that governing bodies dictate the behavior of these organizations and even individuals so that it is no longer up to the organization/individual to “do the right thing”.
Without proactive, strong government intervention we will be well, well, well beyond the point of no return by the time “voting with our wallets” and “modifying our behaviors” changes industries and society enough to have a significant impact.
The riot be the rhyme of the unheard.
I’m not a game developer, but I honestly most of these settings are more or less taking a constant from a config file and putting in some UI to explain what they do and allowing the user to edit the values themselves. That doesn’t take much time and frankly is something the most junior dev could do during some downtime.
Sure, they might need to do some testing of the use of different values but I imagine they already spend a good bit of time tweaking these constants when determining their optimal values. I’d really like an example of an accessibility feature that the OP thinks has absorbed a lot of development time to implement.
I honestly feel strongly in the opposite direction. This specific is thing my absolute favorite trend in gaming.