Vinny_93
@Vinny_93@lemmy.world
- Comment on Need for Speed: what is the best title of the series? 6 days ago:
Credit goes to some dude on r*ddit. It’s still useful sometimes
- Comment on Need for Speed: what is the best title of the series? 6 days ago:
I got it running in 1080p once, you can just do a custom resolution in some config file.
They should have never made a new Most Wanted, they should have taken the old one, added more recent cars and add better graphics. Instead they destroyed the whole vibe.
- Comment on If you owned your own nail salon, what would you name it ? 1 week ago:
Get nailed bitch
- Comment on It's a beautiful day out 1 week ago:
Sitting inside, admiring the not at all beautiful day
- Comment on Tiger Predators 1 week ago:
So, alligators?
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
Or better yet, New New New York’s!
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
I’m fairly certain there’s a Futurama episode on this topic
- Comment on Healthiest way to charge Lithium Ion 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s only in the A52s, not the A52.
- Comment on China's GNE develops lithium-sulfur battery with energy density of 700Wh/kg - Energy Storage 3 weeks ago:
While it is definitely true that China puts a lot of questionable electronics into the world, it is still a country with a huge amount of ‘independent’ tech researchers. Independent in the sense that they pretty much have to keep it all within Chinese circles.
If you compare it to South Korea, they are on the forefront of certain mainstay innovation tracks by cooperating narrowly with researchers from their target demographic, like the United States. The Chinese don’t have that luxury, yet they are conducting the research by buying products from Japan, the US, Korea and Europe, deconstructing and then reconstructing them. For Europe and the US, this is highly illegal due to patent law.
Thing is, though: there are loads of brilliant Chinese people due to its sheer size. It’s a numbers game, if you have a 1bn population, the top of the line folks are going to be numerous. Most of them get their education somewhere outside China and then bring all the knowledge back to their own unis and companies.
It’s really no surprise China has made one of the best electric car, how a company like Xiaomi is present virtually everywhere and Huawei got so far, the US and Europe really had to take a good look if their tech wasn’t just a massive spy program. Tencent is so huge, most telco and gaming companies have some collaboration with it. ByteDance is the supplier of the number one spyware app ever with over a billion users worldwide who are happy to provide them with tons of data.
This is without even mentioning that most of your electronics are made in China anyway, which has given them the edge of seeing exactly how the sausage is made, sausage in this case being lithium batteries. They have figured out long ago that if they can become the sole supplier of batteries, they will be in all devices around the world. They have been keeping an eye on Africa to get a foothold in the lithium mines and they have figured out cobalt is the difficult part. They don’t really care about the toxicity and the child labour, but the scarcity and mining difficulties are a concern. So they tried to replace it with all kinds of materials and sulfur seems to be a very promising alternative, and it is as abundant and easy as sand.
The Chinese know what they’re doing and if not for our ideological differences, they could have easily surpassed the United States as the de facto power that everyone follows blindly.
- Comment on China's GNE develops lithium-sulfur battery with energy density of 700Wh/kg - Energy Storage 3 weeks ago:
Dunno about this company specifically but Li-S shows a lot ff promise for energy density - there are just some complex hurdles. Article about Li-S
- Comment on Healthiest way to charge Lithium Ion 3 weeks ago:
My A52s has a built-in function to not let it charge above 80. I keep it on unless I need the extra 20% for instance when I’m away for a while.
- Comment on Climate change 1 month ago:
Oh good, they finally annexed Canada and Mexico
- Comment on Good PS5 controller? 1 month ago:
Because OP keeps breaking them, as stated. I’ve experienced drift after a year as well and Sony make it difficult to get it replaced.
- Comment on He's on a mission of knowledge 1 month ago:
The one that goes past Nyenrode, through Loenen
- Comment on He's on a mission of knowledge 1 month ago:
The world is pretty much all explored. ‘We’ are only relevant in supplying lithography machines to the chip industry. Oh and farmers.
- Comment on He's on a mission of knowledge 1 month ago:
I got my first covid shor in Breukelen because it was my only option. Later I would go through it to get to Utrecht because it is so much more beautiful than just taking the A2
- Comment on He's on a mission of knowledge 1 month ago:
Also Brooklyn is named after Breukelen. Vancouver was named after Van Coevorden. Tasmania was named after Abel Tasman.
It’s almost as if the Netherlands used to be relevant in world exploration
- Comment on He's on a mission of knowledge 1 month ago:
Zeeland still exists, it’s between Zuid-Holland and Belgium
- Comment on Could an American please prove me wrong? 2 months ago:
Maybe this is this Yugoslavia I’ve been hearing about. I can never find it on the map.
- Comment on What are your opionions on fortnite? 2 months ago:
Any free online game is gonna be ruined by its community. Do yourself a favour and look for a game you actually like and pay for it.
- Comment on How is Open Source developed paid? 2 months ago:
In my experience, the term FOSS as in FLOSS is only (incorrectly, as you pointed out) used for software that is free if charge.
But you are correct, the term says nothing about the pricing, they only say something about the licensing form.
- Comment on How is Open Source developed paid? 2 months ago:
FOSS is free, OSS doesn’t have to be. Very often open source software, of which the commercial fork is being maintained by a company, that company will profit from businesses using the software. Idk about VLC but Moodle, for instance, is open source and updates for it are based on a subscription model.
The license agreement for OSS will often state that you are free to use it in your own home, but if you start commercially using the software, they expect you to pay. Some open source projects can get resold by service providers this way to handle deployment of updates, provide support, et cetera.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Soldering is very hot soldering, the materials used in welding are different and the application is different.
- Comment on 'Perfect Lap' Is What Happens When Ridge Racer Type 4 And Auto Modellista Have A Baby | Time Extension 2 months ago:
Oh man I played RRT4 a LOT on my PSone. It was amazing
- Comment on Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC? 2 months ago:
Y… es. Yes. No. Yes
- Comment on Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC? 2 months ago:
Considering 1 percent of 12 million is 120k I guess that’s about right.
- Comment on Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC? 2 months ago:
Nick Kroll does not look impressed. Then again, he never does.
- Comment on A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor' 2 months ago:
In terms of healthcare and retirement I feel for you. The 30k down payment is also rough.
My government (Netherlands) gave starters the option to not pay tax on their first house purchase (2% of the sum). Also we have collective health insurance at around 150 a month. We have to pay 375 of all costs if we incur any. Part of our salary is put aside for a retirement premium. At my current employer, we get to decide how aggressively this premium is invested.
So all in all I needed about 6k for the pure costs of buying a house. I live half an hour (bike)/20mins (car) from a city with 200k citizens. The town I live in has about 10k people, three supermarkets, some pet stores, a vet, and some general purpose stores.
I am aware that my situation is actually pretty good, but in my country people my age are also complaining they cannot buy large luxury apartments in downtown Amsterdam or Utrecht with a salary of about 100k a year.
- Comment on A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor' 2 months ago:
It amazes me that some folks will just say ‘everything is more expensive, raise the minimum wage’. Salaries are going through the roof everywhere and cost is following suit.
If companies would stop counting 150-200% overhead on goods and services for employees’ salaries we wouldn’t need to all be millionaires in order to get by. If we were to source more stuff locally transport costs would be much lower. If we used our goods longer, tried to get by with less, we could do longer with our cash.
But we all see these hyper rich folks and we want to be like them, live like them, have what they have. It’s not a sustainable situation.
- Comment on A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor' 2 months ago:
I make just north of 50k a year and my wife just over half that and we bought a house. Yes it was built in 1962, it’s not large, it’s not in the middle of a large city. But 250k a year? I’d be able to clear my mortgage in under 10 years.
So either the housing market in the US is much more messed up than the one in Europe, or we aren’t taking into account that buying a house with compromise is better than no house at all.