TheIllustrativeMan
@TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Day one and done 1 month ago:
I mean, depends on the frozen pizza. 99% of them are worse, but there’s one brand I get at wally world for like $7 a pizza that is better than 99% of the pizza I can order (and we have some pretty solid pizza joints around here).
Had to quit getting them though because they’re like 6000 kcal.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 3 months ago:
You also need to be careful when deleting your account - when you do, they’ll send you a “there was an issue with your request” email that tries to get you to register again by prompting you to “log in” to fix it. The log in is creating a password for a new account.
- Comment on How many times will I tell you? 3 months ago:
I mean you could kinda do that yourself with UV ink and an appropriate flashlight. Put some in the bowl and some in the tank, maybe even different colors to see which portion contributes more.
- Comment on How many times will I tell you? 3 months ago:
I hate soft close lids because they close too slow. The flush is over before it’s half down, which defeats the whole point of a lid. Sure, I could wait an extra 30 seconds, but at that point why not just do the soft close with my own hand?
- Comment on A sequel to jants 3 months ago:
This post was jest in time.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
It’s funny because if Linux was where it is now, 10ish years ago, I probably would have stuck with it. All I cared about then was basic computering and gaming, both of which are well handled at this point.
Problem is now I’ve spent a decade honing my skills on specialized programs that don’t have good replacements, and realistically even if they did, compatibility and years of learning specific programs have locked me in to Windows.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web 4 months ago:
I think it was only 3 when I first signed up, so that’s an improvement. They probably hit the ones most likely to honor takedown requests, but yeah 190 sites is more than 10. $9 is more than $0 too though, so it’s a balance.
I wonder how many sites like this actually exist. Probably over a thousand would be my guess.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web 4 months ago:
Sounds like you’re looking at their identity theft bullshit? The data removal is free, but only for 10 sites.
- Comment on Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built 4 months ago:
Wind is finite, and there has actually been research done to estimate the impact slower winds would have (a few degrees iirc), it’s just that this is massively offset by the pros of using wind.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web 4 months ago:
Discover does it for free, but they only do so on a handful of sites.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 4 months ago:
many houses these days are built too air tight,
No such thing. You just have to make sure you use a proper ERV setup.
- Comment on More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices 4 months ago:
Yeah, don’t buy anything on Amazon that you want to be legit.
I need some SD cards, but I’m waiting until I can make a trip to MicroCenter. No way in hell I’d risk ordering on Amazon.
- Comment on GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids 4 months ago:
UltiFi, the software on all GM EVs, is Android Automotive with an icon pack. All of the services are Google’s (Maps, assistant, app store, etc). All GM does is change some graphics. Nothing about it is in-house.
- Comment on GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids 4 months ago:
Is Android Automotive really an “in-house” strategy?
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 5 months ago:
I know. But this YouTube channel, Out of Spec, runs this exact same 70mph loop in every EV. A large number of them exceed their EPA rated range in this test. I mentioned the EV9 because it’s similar to the Cybertruck in many ways (a brick…), and I had just watched that range test this week.
Also worth noting the guy is a Tesla fanboy, so he’s not going to deliberately make the CT look bad.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 5 months ago:
The gearing in the Taycan/E-Tron GT aren’t for efficiency, but for speed. Electric motors don’t really lose efficiency as they spin faster, but they do start to lose the ability to move the car faster against the exponentially increasing wind resistance. This isn’t an issue for most cars (they top out around 110mph), but for something like the Taycan it’s important (tops out around 155mph).
The 70mph situation is more that manufacturers de-rate their cars. Both the Taycan and the Lyriq (a SUV brick) are well-known for demolishing their EPA ranges in 70mph cruising tests. Even the EV9 (the brickiest brick) exceeded the EPA range in this same test.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 5 months ago:
Most EVs he’s tested hit or exceed the EPA range on this test. Even bricks like the EV9 exceed their EPA range in similar temps.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 5 months ago:
So does the EV9, but it exceeded the EPA range in the same test.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 5 months ago:
Because a lot of other EVs that he’s run on the same test exceed the EPA numbers, some by a quite considerable margin. The Taycan for example is well-known for exceeding the EPA estimates by as much as 50%. He recently tested the EV9 (a brick) on the same test in similar temperatures, and it also exceeded the EPA numbers.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 5 months ago:
He ran his standard test. Most other EVs in this test exceed the EPA range, most notably he recently tested the EV9 (a literal brick) in similar temperatures.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 5 months ago:
It’s worth noting that he recently did the same test, with similar temps, in the EV9 (which is also super inefficient on the highway), and got over the EPA range. IIRC most of his range tests exceed EPA numbers.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 5 months ago:
It’ll never happen, even if there was the will to do it the city doesn’t have the money (or the tax base to bring in that kind of money).
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 5 months ago:
That’s what I’m saying though, we got rid of those regulations, and it still doesn’t matter. Banks want parking. Banks limit height. Banks limit unit counts.
The only solution is for the city to finance and build themselves.
- Comment on Australian woman used her BYD electric car to power her son's dialysis machine during a blackout 5 months ago:
The big problem is V2L/V2H isn’t a part of the CCS or NACS standards, so each manufacturer is out doing their own thing that doesn’t work with anyone else’s thing. Makes it more expensive (specialized hardware/software), and complicates changes down the road.
- Comment on Australian woman used her BYD electric car to power her son's dialysis machine during a blackout 5 months ago:
I’d be surprised if they really try to push the BYD brand in the US. I think Geely is probably taking the right approach in using brands with varying degrees of establishment (Volvo, Lotus, Polestar).
- Comment on Australian woman used her BYD electric car to power her son's dialysis machine during a blackout 5 months ago:
I mean they sell a shit-ton of cars, so I don’t think it’s that surprising. Telsa also gets posted like crazy. Less bots, and more people who are excessively attached to the brand probably.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 5 months ago:
1: change zoning laws to allow more multifamily construction
Our city did this and it hasn’t helped at all, because banks won’t finance it. No minimum parking, no height limit, no maximum FAR, no maximum unit count.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 5 months ago:
this shortage is entirely caused by cities preventing construction of everything but single family homes So I work in a field closely related to this, and the issue is less cities and more banks. The regulations in my city are basically: “if it’s housing, no regulations”. No minimum parking, no maximum density, no height limit, etc etc. But the banks? Won’t finance over ~22 stories. Or over ~200 units. Or parked less than 2:1. So we end up with only these short towers that are 50% parking podiums, where units are expensive AF because they have to pay for $100,000+ of parking per unit, not to mention the astronomical land prices being less diluted.
The only solution is for the city itself to start financing construction (and realistically doing the development themselves too), but that’s never going to happen.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 5 months ago:
Most real estate is owned by “123 street LLC”, meaning each LLC owns a single house/building. I’m not even sure how you would get around that realistically, and it’s not just companies that do that. If I ever get to the position of buying a house (…yeah right lol), I intend to do the same thing.
On top of that it gets weird with multiple houses because they’re in different locations with different tax rates and AHJs. Even within the same city you can be paying taxes to different counties. I’d like to see something like owning 2 houses = 2x taxes, 3 = 3x, etc. But then people could game it based on different tax rates, so you’d have to have a system to apply it to each AHJ equally.
- Comment on Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail 5 months ago:
Not so much with OLED being a thing. They do make OLED TVs now, but they’re just buying LG panels, so it comes down to is their image processing worth twice as much for the same screen.
Their industrial design is still top-tier throughout their portfolio though.