TheIllustrativeMan
@TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
I’m getting that same way.
Currently trying to chase down some automatic sun shades that don’t need an app to do time-based cycles. Shouldn’t be this hard, but every band wants you to use absolute garbage apps.
- Comment on Americans' refusal to keep paying higher prices may be dealing a final blow to US inflation spike 2 months ago:
There are zero (0) transit stops between where I live and where I work.
I considered taking the train to my last job, but like the other poster said, it was both slower and more expensive. Not to mention step 1 was drive to the nearest location, because walking for half an hour on a 4-lane divided highway where people do 70mph is not a great idea.
They could totally make mass transit work here, but you know, racism.
- Comment on Hyundai and Kia car thefts fall sharply after software upgrade, study finds 2 months ago:
There really isn’t a way to realistically shield against relay attacks. Most people say “just go back go physical keys”, but those are even less secure.
Phone-as-key and keycard systems are vulnerable in the same way.
- Comment on Hyundai and Kia car thefts fall sharply after software upgrade, study finds 2 months ago:
Ironically, I think Hyundai is the only company currently doing biometrics. They have a face unlock and fingerprint start on the GV60 in some markets iirc.
- Comment on Hyundai and Kia car thefts fall sharply after software upgrade, study finds 2 months ago:
That applies to every manufacturer, and no, there isn’t really a fix.
It’s also not really happening in any meaningful numbers, at least yet…
- Comment on Day one and done 6 months 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 7 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? 8 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? 8 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 8 months ago:
This post was jest in time.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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? 10 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? 10 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 10 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 10 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).