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- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 15 hours ago:
Just producing EV versions of Honda Fit or Ford Fiesta like what the Chinese EV makers do is enough. Instead, they keep producing EVs with luxury features (and high price tags) then surprised people won’t buy them without subsidy.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 1 day ago:
A car as cheap as a moped. Amazing!
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 3 days ago:
It’s sad that you can’t replace the infotainment unit in a new car with an aftermarket unit anymore. I imagine 10 years from now we’ll have a fleet of cars with outdated infotainment systems that can’t connect with whatever future version of bluetooth/carplay/android auto anymore. Imagine driving cars with giant but useless infotainment screens that can’t do anything but playing mp3 off a USB stick because its outdated system can’t connect to your new phone.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 4 days ago:
If you’re one of a tribe living in the jungle of West Papua, then yeah, it’s basically survival of the fittest there with no electricity or modern amenities. If you’re living in a city then it’s no different than the rest of the region, but with small risks of armed conflict with the separatist group.
- Comment on Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works 4 days ago:
Speedrunners must be able to speedrunning irl.
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 5 days ago:
The amount of junk polluting the internet is growing exponentially. I won’t be surprised if future historians have trouble separating the truth from fiction, shit posts and LLM craps.
- Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website 6 days ago:
Just for some perspective, if you want to know how little reach the fedi post with the link to this blog post got: the first post in this thread already has more likes and boosts after less than a hour since posting it than my blog post ever did that he felt the need to confront me over.
The author probably wasn’t aware that their blog post has a huge engagement in hacker news just the day before and the CEO got roasted there, so the CEO probably felt the need to contact the author to “correct” their post.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 week ago:
Steam is available in 237 countries, while PSN is only available in 69 countries. Some people are going to be locked out from the game they bought.
- Comment on Sprocket: Tank Design is such a fun game! 1 week ago:
Hmm, what do you mean when a tank game has a tankies reputation?
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 1 week ago:
I’m more of a Space Impact guy
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 1 week ago:
Coincidence or not, it must’ve caused a chilling effect to other whistleblowers.
- Comment on What's a good budget home server? 1 week ago:
Power scaling for these old CPU is not great though. Mine is slightly newer and on idle it still uses 50% of the TDP.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 1 week ago:
The term “Android” itself is trademarked and can’t be used by hardware manufacturers without passing certification and paying Google.
- Comment on What's a good budget home server? 1 week ago:
Xeon E5-2670, with 115W TDP, which means 2x115=230W for the processor alone. with 8 ram modules @ ~3W each, it’ll going to guzzle ~250W when under some loads, while screaming like a jet engine.
Would be great if you have an isolated server room to contain the noise and cheap electricity, but more modern workstation should use at least 1/4 of electricity or even less.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 1 week ago:
Technically you can’t call it “Android” without paying Google for certification and play store/gapps license. It’s AOSP.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 1 week ago:
You’d be surprised how many companies ignore GPL. Providing broken links to the source code tarballs, telling you to send an email request to get the code then proceed to ignore the requests, etc. Only the most famous case got sued, the rest simply got away with it.
- Comment on Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads 1 week ago:
Everything will cost so much less that Universal Basic Income wouldn’t need to be anywhere near as high as it is right now to be “living wage”.
Assuming companies would pass the saving to their customers, which is usually not the case these days.
- Comment on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours 1 week ago:
When self-driving cars finally become a reality (working reliably on any condition without constant supervision), I suspect many people would skip buying house and buy these cars instead because it’ll be so much cheaper. After work, you hop into your car and take a nap, then wake up in a diner’s parking lot. Go back to the car again after eating to sleep, and wake up in the morning already in your office’s parking lot. Basically homeless but never need to worry about cop because the car constantly moves while you’re sleeping, making circuit around the city until it finally take you back to your office’s parking lot.
- Comment on Google Feed alternative 1 week ago:
Google Reader was the best. Not sure why Google killed it, but it was really good at both content discovery and keeping up with sites you’re interested in. I tried several alternatives but nothing came close, so I gave up and hung out more on forums / link aggregators like slashdot, hacker news, reddit and now lemmy for content discovery.
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 1 week ago:
You can always install an EV conversion kit to old cars.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 1 week ago:
Google, who was famous for employing Guido van Rossum (creator of Python) is now firing their python team. Guido van Rossum is now working at Microsoft now.
- Comment on Is it greener to just burn plastic? 1 week ago:
Using high temperature incinerators, yes. IIRC you’ll need at least 1000°C to reduce toxic fumes production when burning plastics.
- Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 1 week ago:
I thought they were using natural materials like ground coffee. Did some of them actually use plastic beads?
- Comment on What existing platforms do you wish were federated? 1 week ago:
FBI would arrest jellyfin devs so fast before can hit the release button.
- Comment on Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues 1 week ago:
Being a successful politician in China may allow you to control large companies. Being a successful businessman in US may allow you to control political parties. I guess the endgame is the same for powerful people in both countries.
- Comment on Ever notice mammals never seem to come in green? 1 week ago:
Do you mean my cats are actually green in the eyes of it’s potential prey?
- Comment on Fake job interviews target developers with new Python backdoor 1 week ago:
This is low. Imagine if you’re unemployed, doing rounds of job interviews and got hit with this mess.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi storybook uses AI to create stories with pictures on its eInk display 1 week ago:
I mean, have you checked kids videos on YouTube? I remember getting dumbfounded when I watched some of the “stories”. LLM would fit right in.
- Comment on Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues 1 week ago:
I thought DJI has an R&D office in California? Is that just for show and the actual R&D is done in Shenzhen?
- Comment on How do I use uBlock to hide threads with certain urls? 1 week ago:
Lucky you! Just install one right now and experience a less annoying, faster loading web!