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- Comment on First Android considering an S22. I have some questions. 7 months ago:
I don’t even know what you could do to make the battery that awful that quickly and not be physically damaged. Like I’m legitimately baffled.
Maybe someone left it baking in the sun it’s entire life? I’ve never tried leaving batteries at like 140f (60c) all day. Honestly I’d really like to know how it’s physically possible.
- Comment on First Android considering an S22. I have some questions. 7 months ago:
32% battery health is impressive. I have phones that have kept on a charger for 4 years straight with better battery health. How the hell did they manage that?
- Comment on Does more knowledge/awareness have a tendency to reduce enthusiasm for some subjects/activities? 8 months ago:
How much knowledge?
- Comment on Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there? 8 months ago:
Uh… NPR absolutely gets into the politics of things. Maybe not a deep dive, but 90% of what I hear that isn’t music I’d describe 100% as politics.
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 8 months ago:
Because of the security update part of things.
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 8 months ago:
14.4 wasn’t that major of an update, it was mostly the security updates.
- Comment on What's the real world connection speed from your residential IP to your Server? 8 months ago:
1 gbit because google fiber is 1gbit but I typically get 1.2 because they overprovision it so much.
- Comment on Owners of a domain, which domain registrar did you choose and why? 8 months ago:
(Numbers).xyz
I only use it for stuff for me. If you do a real name it’s more.
- Comment on Owners of a domain, which domain registrar did you choose and why? 8 months ago:
Namecheap because I pay 88 cents a year for my domain.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 8 months ago:
Owning one or more guns doesn’t magically make you right wing. Nor does homicidal.
- Comment on Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits 8 months ago:
How old is your machine? If it’s new enough to run windows 11 then it probably also supports modern standby (aka S0 standby). When plugged in during “sleep” it’s actually on, and should be doing the updates for you.
That said my work laptop only gets used during work hours and it almost always gets it’s updates done while I’m doing stuff throughout the day, and it just needs a quick reboot to finish.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 8 months ago:
I think every old Ranger is begging to be put out of it’s misery. Those cars were piles of shit when new, and even bigger piles of shit now that they’re old.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 8 months ago:
The mic needs active power. If you ignore the mic a simple pig tail adapter works without cutting up your cars cabling.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 8 months ago:
pro.bloomberglaw.com/…/privacy-laws-us-vs-eu-gdpr…
GDPR is opt out, so you wouldn’t get any benefit until you complain. Plus:
(GDPR) excludes “pseudonymised” data
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 8 months ago:
Low 0-60 times are inherent to EVs. There’s no transmission and the motor has a wide efficiency area. It’s basically hard to make a non dual motor EV accelerate slowly. Single motor ones aren’t quick, but you won’t get AWD if that’s a thing you desire.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 8 months ago:
But the battery pack is far and away more expensive than the engine. Shit far and away more expensive than the engine AND transmission. Shit like half an EVs price is the battery.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 8 months ago:
Basically all modern car body panels are held together with basically a really strong glue.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 8 months ago:
Laminated*
They’re used for noise insulation not theft. In theft it’s just a minor inconvenience. Shatter the window with a rock, then punch the floppy laminated shards in.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 8 months ago:
I’m sure insurance is gonna stop caring as soon as they get a notice saying that the person sold the car.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 8 months ago:
In my Subaru it’s a seperate box under the radio. It intercepts the front speakers and microphone from the radio, so with a custom harness I can bypass it. Obviously that varies by make, model, and trim.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 8 months ago:
What about being an EU citizens prevents from from collecting any data on you? They’re still able to collect a lot of data.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
The power draw is being limited, but not because the CPU or GPU are running too hot (they’ll be in the mid 80s or even 70s). It’s when the power delivery parts (inside the laptop) get too hot to keep up and it can’t keep up. You can override those with programs like throttlestop, but the battery will drop MUCH quicker. When it’s hot the PL1 and PL2 drop to about 25 watts which is basically unusable on 11th gen i9, but it easily has the head room for 45-55 watts. GPU is largely unaffected which is weird. I’ve seen it get limited to around 60 watts, but the 3080 mobile below 80 watts is also awful.
For monitoring power usage I use hwinfo 64 in windows, I’m not sure if the portable version would work.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
P1 gen 4 with the i9 and rtx 3080. Pay close attention to the power levels under heavy load. It will drop massively under long term heavy loads to try to prevent the battery from discharging. My machine only takes in a little over 170 watts from the power supply, but with a laptop cooling pad it can easily sustain over that 170 watt mark. It doesn’t happen instantly, it starts when the laptop is fully heat soaked (takes 30+ minutes with the cooling pad). You won’t notice it until about an hour or two in, but once it starts it will start accelerating as the battery heats up. Shorter loads that the laptop is more designed for it handles it just fine. It’s only when you push it for too long and too hard.
Also whats the power consumption of the mobile 4090 like sitting on but idle? Random programs trigger my 3080 for no reason and that GPU draws about 20 watts minimum. I want to upgrade, but I’d lose vram if I got anything less than the 4090 and I don’t know if I want all of that excess power draw when the system can barely benefit from it, and it makes using it as a laptop awful.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
Well I hope you don’t like ThinkPads…
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
There’s nothing wrong with the device, Lenovo has confirmed this, and both motherboards my laptop has had have the same “problem”. This isn’t my only machine like this either, 16" Intel MacBook Pros are also known to discharge under full load, but that’s because they’re limited to 100 watt USB C.
There’s a reason why those devices run at minimum clock speeds when their battery is sub 5%.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
It even happens with power efficient devices. All Macbooks will run at their lowest clock speed with a dead/low battery (even my M1), My Thinkpad T14 with an ULV CPU and it’s odd. It tries to limit total system power to around 25 watts, even though I have a 100 watt power supply connected. My theory is that since 30 watts is the lowest power supply it will run off of it’s trying to keep that 5 watt buffer. Unfortunately that means my CPU runs at 800mhz doing anything but idling. Laptops with dGPUs often just wont work at all, or are so far limited they’re unusable.
Some older laptops like my Thinkpad X220 will run at 800mhz on a 65 watt charger, but on a 90 watt charger it will run at full speed. But unfortunately in the days of USB C that makes things a lot more difficult.
- Comment on Physical or Digital? 8 months ago:
PC? All digital.
Consoles? All physical
I do t play games on console all that often so I’d rather the option to pick up a cheap used copy. Plus I could play that game any number of years down the road when the servers are long shut down. But on PC I just want to click the button and the game installs and opens.
- Comment on A DisplayPort Port That You Can Plug HDMI Into 8 months ago:
I used esata back in the day and I loved it. I had a second hard drive that I could plug into my laptop with all my games on it. This was back when SSDs were $1 per GB on a good day so 120GB SSDs were typical.
And even in the early days of USB 3 external HDDs were slow. It wasn’t until uasp became a thing that they didn’t suck outside of backing up large files.
- Comment on Portable monitor recommendations? 8 months ago:
Sub 120 puts you in a kinda tight spot. Not too much more than 120 will take you from a garbage second display, to something extremely nice in no time.
Should the display be driven by USB c alone, or is a separate power brick taking up space acceptable? You say work related so I assume 60hz is fine, but are you looking for 14” 1080p, 16” 1080p, or something g higher res?
For $170 I got a 16” 2560x1600 120hz IPS display and I love it. Sadly they downgraded the model to 1440p but my friend has one and it’s still great.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
Power consumption. Especially with turbo boost power consumption can easily spike well above what the power brick can deliver, so the battery is used like a capacitor. Or shit even without the spikes chargers can’t keep up. My laptop will actually discharge under full load with the full 240 watt charger.
It’s not normally an issue on REALLY low end devices (sub core i, like pentiums or atoms), but anything high end will reduce it’s power consumption without a batter installed.
