TheDubh

@TheDubh@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I shop around to an extent and look at reviews for the area. I have to fly to an airport near family and then drive another couple hundred to get to some family. I’ll admit there’s a gambit in quality of the cars, but I don’t have a preferred. And seems like because a brand in x is good doesn’t mean their station in y won’t suck. Hence just hope in reviews being a good indicator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your rental experience sounds worse than any I’ve ever had. I have to rent a few times a year.

  Also generally I like the idea of renting and having the rental insurance on a long road trip so if something happens then my personal car isn’t totaled or put into a body shop somewhere far away. I’ve hit a deer hours away from home before on a road trip that was WAY worse. If it had been a rental I could have just walked away saying I have insurance so your problem, I need a new car. Where as it became an ordeal of the car being in the body shop 4 hrs away, still needing a rental to get home, since it was far away couldn’t check in on it and the repairs were bad, had to get a ride to get the car, ended up having to drop it off again somewhere local to fix the bad repair job, and get another rental.

  I also had range anxiety for EVs on long trips and then I remembered that experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Voice controls are great, unless you have a strong accent it doesn’t understand, a speech impediment, or mute. Which are all things that normally wouldn’t disqualify you from driving a car. Which I feel like should disqualify them from the discussion of physical vs tablets myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Resurgence Giveaway⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Trek: Away Team was fun kind of xcom type game. Which I still enjoy those games.

  Star Trek: Armada like others. Mainly because of my love of RTS and trek.

  Star Trek: Legacy I’ve always enjoyed strategy games. Im fairly sure it was this game where I had a bug or Easter egg. Trying to beam up Thomas Riker in the middle of a fight I had two ships lock on. In the end I ended up with two of him, which felt kind of fitting so never could tell if Easter egg or not.

  There was one online texted I think java based game online in 95/96, where you can control a ship and could meet other players. I was really really bad that.

  Also a “Star Trek” game that I’m fairly sure was a rip off of EGA Star Trek that came in one of those bundle boxes that were like 30 games for $10 on cd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US ad revenue at Musk's X declined each month since takeover -data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. That’s why I really dislike the theory it’s some 4D chess. More prof of that is if he wanted it to burn he wouldn’t have renamed it his precious X.com. He wants to still show the world what PayPal would have been if they hadn’t removed him. The same reason he wanted to review all of the code and be in charge of development at X, he still is holding onto the image he’s a rockstar dev and everyone else just doesn’t know what they’re doing.

  The sad fact is he may be intelligent in some stuff, but he also lucked out. And as you said he’s increasingly got surrounded by “yes men”, and let go of the people that had tried to mitigate some of tendencies. Not realizing they helped get him to where he was. Even in the original x.com days he had someone help manage and buffer him because he had the tendency to scare off investors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also didn’t they mention it’s basically untested. So no point rolling out weapons in mass till you have a chance to verify they work. It’s just cause false hope, or risk additional lives if they don’t work.