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- Comment on Hungary’s Musical Road plays a melody through your car tyres as you drive—an amazing fusion of road design and sound engineering. 1 day ago:
The original is blocked in the US, but I found this and it seems to work: youtu.be/tDYjZ36IGfE
Definitely a pretty good representation! You know, as good as you can get when your instrument is grooved asphalt and rubber
- Comment on Hungary’s Musical Road plays a melody through your car tyres as you drive—an amazing fusion of road design and sound engineering. 2 days ago:
It’s a different song that I don’t recognize, but it does sound correct for whatever it’s trying to be, if that makes sense
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 2 days ago:
Congratulations. You did a great job ignoring the rest of what I had to say.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 days ago:
And tying it to the Bluesky system? Not sure the cost of that (I swear I saw it was a potential monetization they were looking into) but also the time to figure it out isn’t practical for everyone.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Must be 4/20 somewhere…
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 days ago:
That’s great for an organization like NPR which may have the resources to tie its own domain name into Bluesky. For some freelance reporter or otherwise verifiable person, I’m not sure it’s quite so practical.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 5 days ago:
If they are, and there isn’t anything to display it, how are were to know what’s been vetted and what’s slipped through the cracks? Especially on a new account?
- Comment on The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices. 6 days ago:
In my broken mind, it has been for years!
- Comment on Yesterday's mystery print revealed 1 week ago:
I thought the wire of the fence was just unrolled filament!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How much could it cost to have a handful of requested groceries for a few chefs, knowing some of whom won’t move further, compared to the entire cost of producing the show?
- Comment on [Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 2 weeks ago:
A good workspace is a thing of Zen. Enjoy your clean workbench, because that will change in a week and it will never be this clean again!
- Comment on [Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 2 weeks ago:
Couple photos before caulking. Too many soulless, sterile, monochromatic kitchens out there. I have some white/gray stuff, but only with some strategy involved. Gray counters hide food. White cabinets are timeless and easy to match. I was sure to add color where I could otherwise, and the backsplash was a great option!
- Comment on [Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 2 weeks ago:
Been working on a kitchen renovation, bit by bit. Floors, cabinets, counter… Basically everything except for appliances and general layout. The last big step was the tile backsplash, and my friend helped me with caulking it this past weekend (she said she has a pretty good touch with that, and I know I probably don’t). Turned out pretty good!
Normally my dad would help me with stuff like that, but he lives a few states away. He knows I’ve been working on it, but hasn’t seen any progress pictures in a long time. It’ll be fun to show him when my parents come to visit this week!
Down to some trim work (floor, cabinet toe kicks) and a few other odds and ends!
- Comment on It's no longer easy to play April Fool's jokes on Americans because their reality is so chaotic that it's no longer easy to tell what is real, funny, fake or sad. 3 weeks ago:
It’s more like pranking your granny in the nursing home. Still plenty easy to do, but sad and cruel.
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like you’re looking for something that only exists in the used market, which may be your plan anyway.
The Mitsubishi imiev never took off, but it’s probably the least-frilly EV you can buy. But as Doug Demuro will tell you, it’s a bit quirky. Assuming you’re American, yes, is was released in the States but no, you probably wouldn’t have heard of it. I’m not sure I’d recommend it necessarily, but it’s an option
That said, I have a Chevy Bolt. Pretty easy to find on the used market (and with that, get service if you need it) no dumb features nobody asked for. It does have Android Auto/Apple Car Play, which is actually pretty awesome (I believe it’s the 2022+ models with wireless car play). Their base models are pretty barebones (some don’t even have DC fast charging, watch out for that) but higher trims do have some nice features to them. It’s kind of a car you’ve seen on the road but didn’t know you actually wanted.
By the way, backup cameras became mandated a while ago. I’m not sure the screen size requirements (I’ve seen some cars put it in the rear view mirror, which was kinda cool actually) but since most cars need a screen now to support that, and higher trim levels will use that screen for other things, and making multiple pieces of hardware for the same car is an annoyance for car makers, you’ll probably see a screen on most cars. Just FYI.
- Comment on GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs 4 weeks ago:
Check out the used market! The 2022-23s had an awesome facelift, plus the EUV version is just a little bigger mostly in the back seats
- Comment on how is it to work everyday but Wednesdays and Thursdays? 4 weeks ago:
Split days off sounds pretty bad to be honest. Wednesday and Thursday doesn’t sound terrible and has its advantages, but as a M-F worker I would have a hard time meeting up with someone working a schedule like that.
I would suggest taking off Friday-Saturday or Sunday-Monday. Little bit of the best of both worlds, plus you can avoid some of what you mentioned earlier.
- Comment on GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs 4 weeks ago:
Ironically, the Chevy Bolt was a perfect car for that. Reasonably priced, no stupid gizmos like retracting door handles, Android Auto, actual buttons for controls… But of course GM killed it. A new version should come out eventually, but who knows if it’ll keep the spirit of their old Bolts. For now, the used market hit the sweet spot where it’s still a pretty modern car, but it’s gone through most of its depreciation from new so it’s pretty cheap. Especially with the tax credit.
Full disclosure: DC fast charging sucks on this car. On some pre-2022 models it’s non-existent. But it’s still excellent for commuting and medium-short trips!
- Comment on Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”. 4 weeks ago:
Now that you mention it, I want this too.
- Comment on Does not the constitution say something one should not be charged or something to vote? If so then why does my home state charge 50$ to get a regular id to vote? Is that no illegal? 5 weeks ago:
What state are you in? Some states have a free ID for voting purposes. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still shitty that you have to go through that but see if yours is one of them
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 weeks ago:
Looking around Roku’s site, I found this email address: AdsPR@roku.com
I’m planning on giving them a brief but firm “oh hell no” letter. I wonder how many others will do the same 🤔
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’. 1 month ago:
Triangulation of what, exactly? GPS already triangulates your position based on what it receives from multiple satellites, yeah?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This sounds like the work of a developer. If you want to take a plot of land and sell it for $2x/m², it’s entirely possible… But it may take $3x/m² worth of improvements if you’re not careful.
Frankly, if you have to ask these kinds of questions Lemmy is not the place to get the answers. You can get a college degree in this kind of thing, and it seems like you’d need to start at the very basic level.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s a basic economics thing that doesn’t have an easy answer. But basically, at lower prices, people generally demand a higher quantity of something. Raise the price, and people start to think twice and consider other options. Supply is the opposite: at a higher price, more of a product will be produced (or in the case of pre-owned land, landowners are more likely to cash out). At lower prices, people won’t bother.
So in the case of land, price is affected by what people want, but also what’s available. If there is a lot of open space and that’s what everyone wants, groovy! But if people want limited amounts of tree land, prices are going to skyrocket for that and people will look at open land as an alternative.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You’re putting your priority of beauty on others, who seem to prioritize function if they do hobby farming (in which case, trees could get in the way of whatever they’re trying to do with the land)
Neither preference is wrong. In theory prices should reflect supply and demand.
- Comment on Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction" 2 months ago:
normies
bragging with Windows supremacy
I don’t think that’s as common as you think it is. Most Windows users see Windows as part of the computer, a tool to get the job done. As a DIY’er (basically a tool normie) I don’t brag about the supremacy of my Kobalt tools, I just drill the damn hole
- Comment on what are “female jocks” called? 2 months ago:
Very similar time frame for me… I always thought that preps were more of an upper-class group. Maybe there’s a little overlap between those two groups though.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 2 months ago:
Soon to work on my kitchen backsplash as part of a total Reno. Have the “layering” figured out for height and need to get an idea of where to start the pattern horizontally so it looks nice against edges and windows and stuff
- Comment on Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles? 2 months ago:
Every other Nintendo console shakes things up pretty massively, the next one is mostly a horsepower upgrade with no major innovation
NES / SNES (home console gaming in general)
N64 / GameCube (viable 3D graphics)
Wii / Wii U (much different control. I have to admit I never really touched the Wii U but it follows the pattern of missing the major hype)
Switch / Switch 2 (mixing an honest console with honest portability)
- Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated 2 months ago:
For me it’s some kind of cartoon with the caption “Great comic funny 🤣” and sometimes “funny short film” (even though it’s a picture)
Like, Meta has to know this is happening. Do they really think this is what will keep their userbase? And nobody would think it’s just a little weird?
