Zron

@Zron@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The drama is that this is an entirely unnecessary step that adds extra work for the technician/owner that wants to change rear brake pads/rotors, which are a wear item.

  I’ve been doing brakes on mine and my family’s cars for over a decade. It’s dramatically cheaper to buy pads and rotors and swap them myself, and if I do it myself I know that it was done right and there’s antiseize everywhere it should be. So now in addition to all the work of jacking the car up, removing tires, removing the calipers, depressing the caliper, cleaning the hub, coating the hub with antiseize, cleaning the guide pins, reinstalling and torquing everything to spec, I now have to get a battery/transformer/charger and wire into a sensor to tell the stupid fucking computer that the pads and rotors are new. Why can’t the computer use a position sensor to just detect that there’s now thicker material there? Why isn’t there just an option in the maintenance settings that you can press to say that you’ve done the work and to reset the maintenance interval? Fuck this shit, doing brakes is already a time sink if you live in the rust belt, and this system adds nothing but an extra cost or extra work to the person performing the work. There’s no safety gain from it existing, it’s fucking stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m of the opinion that manufactures should be required to supply parts for appliances and equipment for a minimum of 10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What have you run into that sticks out to you?

  I’m curious because I’ve been on Linux full-time for 2 years now and an avid user for years before, but my friend is thinking of switching and I want to know what he might need help with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very strange.

  Most games will just launch, no problems. But then you’ll get one title like the above poster has, that just refuses to launch no matter what you do.

  Most of the times there’s a work around on ProtonDB that will get you running in a few minutes. But sometimes it feels like, or is the case, where the developers actively prevent the game from launching on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  False positives implies the people will be real.

  It’ll probably just invent people to hunt down and waste a bunch of tax dollars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fml lmao⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Investing is only a risk if you’re poor.

  That little disclaimer your financial institution gives you that investing is risky and you may lose all your money? That only applies to the poors. When the rich and banks invest in bad businesses or loans, they can cry to the government that they’re about to lose everything and won’t Uncle Sam pretty please open up his wallet and give us a small loan of a few billion dollars.

  I say let em go broke. We should have broken up the banks in 2008, fired the whole C suite of chase and all the other banks, and set up smaller banks that now know if they fuck up they’ll get dissolved. Instead we gave them a slap on the wrist and trillions of dollars to fix their own fuckup. This only taught them that they can continue to make massively risky investments with no downsides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now trump is black bagging US citizens in broad daylight, and Musk is an immigrant who fully admitted that he originally entered the country illegally. The danger must have creeped its way through his ketamine addled brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking idiots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because you’re too stupid to understand how something works doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

  Doubt you know how a car engine works either, yet there are a whole lot of cars out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “If we don’t let you leave you might forget you were mad at us and keep giving us money”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quiet place⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern weapons notoriously good at killing.

  You telling me those things could take out predator drones too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨makes more sense than this shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In that universe, humans also have FTL travel and colonies on hundreds of planets, yet have mysteriously lost the arcane technology known as “email” and require everything to be done in person.

  Also most of the colonies are either one family living alone on a distant space rock, or abandoned military outposts full of an inexplicable amount of space pirates, and somehow the two rarely interact.

  And humans didn’t destroy earth with climate change, instead the FTL drives they invented blew away the atmosphere… somehow. Yet this is a secret protected by big engine or some shit, because every other habitable planet still lets everyone use their FTL drives near the planet anyway.

  God that game sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All MBAs and CEOs are like puppies chasing their own tails.

  They want the growth because number go up good. They’ll do anything for number go up. And when number go up, they get the good and then they need to focus on next number go up.

  They have no long term plan other than number go up. For the next few quarters, they can slap AI on anything and number go up. What happens if AI takes all the non manual labor jobs? Or if it turns out AI is useless and they wasted billions on snake oil? They don’t know, cause they were thinking about number go up right now, not number go up later.

  Our economy is a farce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Accessibility to a service is just as important as continuity of service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Show me 20 people with 3d printers and I’ll show you 20 other people with 3d printers that match the fingerprints of the first 20.

  This isn’t like paper printers where companies were forced by the government to encode the serial numbers of the printer into every piece of paper that comes out. There’s no way you could hide identifying information in molten plastic like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s entirely possible that there are no aliens in the “New York City” part of the universe.

  Dense regions of space will have much more interactions between stellar systems and may not be stable enough for life to evolve. It could be why we haven’t seen anyone else, they’re all in their own little pockets of peace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that we evaluate the health of the economy by the growth in the stock market.

  The stock market would continue growing until the power grid failed if every human on earth just evaporated into mist.

  Actually it would probably break before that when one of 6 people’s two factor authentication timed out and the computer no longer had access to their accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved? Poll inside⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the waitress likes that I’m alone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved? Poll inside⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I simply unhinge my jaw and let it slide down my throats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't ask.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We are the ferengi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What about the civilian right to repair.

  Why can’t we all just be allowed to fix all of our shit. Sell me parts, let me open up things and poke around without illegals saying I violated the warranty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I’ll edit your latex

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech journalists don’t know a damn thing. They’re people that liked computers and could also bullshit an essay in college. That doesn’t make them an expert on anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  international VPNs are not immune from US subpoena

  And condoms are only 98% effective.

  A condom and VPN work on the same principle: a layer of protection. No protection is ever 100% effective, but you can at least try.

  Remember, they’re already building the camps. It’s only a matter of time before “helping illegals” is a crime that gets you sent to the camps. I’d rather make the fascists work for it at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve still got to connect to their servers and they can monitor who connects to what.

  I wouldn’t trust it without a non-US based VPN. We should assume anything in the US is compromised by the fed, and that they are watching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it’s been like 5 months and we’re already here, so maybe another 6 months to a year?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask the crickets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s but how math works, doesn’t matter if you use the American or metric formula

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask the crickets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How did you hear negative chirps?

  Can I learn this power?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV Is Spying On You⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing a jumper wire can’t fix

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The awful Trump branding might be laser engraved in America.

  Everything else is guaranteed made in Taiwan or china. The US was just barely getting its semiconductor industry back under Biden.

  If these things ever ship, I can’t wait for someone to crack one open just to find a bunch of Chinese parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a good question⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only assume you’re human, so that still counts as a man made religion.

  Sounds relaxing though, I’d pray to that.