Lasherz12
@Lasherz12@lemmy.world
- Comment on Using licence plate readers to track ICE 2 hours ago:
It should be pretty easy to pick out federal government plates, but I’m not unconvinced that they use rental cars to do the kidnapping.
- Comment on This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care? 2 days ago:
Don’t really see a major disagreement here other than the direction of primary exposure, belts some how being protected behind a fan when the main exposure is from the sides, etc. Puddles have a lot more corrosion potential than rain/snow. Point isn’t to seal, that’s unrealistic, but rather to deflect enough that every puddle isn’t pressure washing your engine bay with salt water. An example car where this was a major issue was a 97 galant, which had the crank shaft low and in alignment with the water jet from the driver side tire. There was a splash shield that directly intercepted the inner spray. I would classify that case as more than nominal protection.
- Comment on This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care? 2 days ago:
Understandable. Civics are quite well made, so I wouldn’t expect it to immediately become a rust trap from some short term splashes. Generally, mechanics will tell you other stuff is wrong, but it only matters if it’s adjacent to what they’re working on for liability. They may find some problems like a glazed dipstick from going too long between changes, but it’s just informational.
If you’re interested in putting that plate back on, my guess is that they used plastic zip ties on a metal shield. Usually, manufacturers will only use more expensive metal guards if it gets hot in that location. You can buy metal cable ties real cheap that will hold up much better. Fasteners are also cheap if you can figure out which one, but I dunno if I’d bother on a car that’s on its way out in my mind.
Recommendation is just to prioritize it before Winter weather.
Sorry your money situation is so dire. Credit can be the hell that keeps on giving.
- Comment on This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care? 2 days ago:
Seems to be about money. Belts, rust damage, and engine internals cost more in the long run. Do they have to pay their credit card bill? “For the record, they don’t…”
- Comment on Are some people too stupid to feel depressed? 2 days ago:
I think that question implies the misunderstanding of depression being sad or caused by a bad conclusion that’s been reached. Being depressed is a symptom of a chemical underdose of most commonly dopamine and seratonin, which robs synapses of signal integrity. The reason SSRI’s both work and take a while to improve the cycle of depression is that they “inhibit” the “reuptake” of these chemicals, resulting in more abundance and better signal transmission between neurons.
That all being said, no stress because too stupid may mean people who are depressed won’t know it unless they have a severe case. I imagine getting hurt is still pretty stressful for most stupid people though, so don’t bet on it.
- Comment on This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care? 2 days ago:
Depends where it came from. It’s worth going down to take a peak. You do not want water splashing against your belts. As others have said, if you live in Salt brine weather, you really don’t want that stuff anywhere near stuff that isn’t protected.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Stay in power forever.
Move all of the resources away from those they don’t like to those they do.
Subjugate women into sex objects owned by men who don’t view them as valuable outside of that framework.
Fortify their survival in luxury escape zones while dictating orders to those that made their money for them.
Start micropenis wars.
Maximize the safety of pedophiles.
- Comment on Is it true that femboys are "fetishized" by right-wingers or something like that? Or is my friend(who told me this) tripping balls? 5 weeks ago:
They definitely are, although the most fetishized thing by them is black bulls cucking white men. Seems easy enough to see their criteria is things that flare up their enormous sexual insecurity. Femboys stuff fits that criteria for some of them.
- Comment on Can iPhones receive files via Bluetooth? 1 month ago:
At work we do a lot of transfers between android and iPhone and vice versa. We use Verizon Content Transfer installed on both phones because it plays nice between brands and offers bluetooth/wifi transfer reliably. Verizon affiliation not required.
- Comment on What if Apple / other brands sold desktop chips? 2 months ago:
Do you have a source for AMD chips being especially energy efficient? I don’t consider them to be even close. M3 is 190 cinebench points per watt whereas Ryzen 7 7840U is 100. My ppw data doesn’t contain snapdragon x yet, but it’s generally considered to be a multithreading king on the market and it runs as signifcantly lower tdp than AMD. SoCs are inherently more energy efficient. My memory of why is the instruction sets on x86 allow for more complicated process but ARM is hard restricted to using less complicated processes as building blocks if complexity is required.
Like I mentioned though, there are tasks that x86 cannot be beat on but it’s because they use ASICs on-chip for hardware accelerated encoding/decoding and nothing is more efficient at a task than an ASIC /FPGA.
- Comment on What if Apple / other brands sold desktop chips? 2 months ago:
Dell is already releasing Qualcomm SoC Latitudes. There are bound to be compatibility issues, but performance wise it’s kinda undeniable that this is where the market is going. It is far more energy efficient than an Intel or AMD x86 CPU and holds up just fine. The main downsides you’ll see could likely be resolved with ASICs, which is how Intel keeps 4k video from being choppy on low end APUs for example. Compared to M4, Qualcomm’s offering is slightly better at multithreaded performance and slightly worse at single thread. The real downside to them is really the reliance on raw throughput for tasks that both brands of CPUs have purpose built daughter chips for.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 2 months ago:
Presumably the president saying that it’s going to use the entire federal executive to boost a single failing company’s shortcomings is good for buyer confidence. At this point it should be nationalized for as much money has been handed to that company from our pockets.
- Comment on Is there any negative consequence to wearing socks inside out? 2 months ago:
The outside would make less skin contact than the fuzzy inside. I imagine you’d have more stinky feet at the end of the day.
- Comment on Is there a better way to search for/sort mechanical keyboards? 2 months ago:
I believe for the best side by sides you’d want something like rtings.com, they’re most known for monitors but have good neutral data about mechanical keyboards too.
- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 2 months ago:
The last round of tariffs were paid almost uniformly and directly to large farming conglomerates to keep them silent on the matter. The amount actually left over after paying farmers wasn’t much, certainly not enough to cover the damage it did in other industries. There’s no doubt in my mind that it will be turned into a market manipulation scheme wherein they will invest in the subsidized markets after buying stocks in the relevant corporations once the market settles to its new low state.
- Comment on Why are entertainers paid so much? 2 months ago:
Products that scale indefinitely to the masses earn indefinitely scaled pay as well. What’s far grosser is what the studios and their greedy CEOs earn off the backs of production staff who aren’t paid on the same model and are treated like props with no job security.
- Comment on Is there a better way to search for/sort mechanical keyboards? 2 months ago:
The amount of obsessive culture around mechanical keyboards has created a boon of great side by side comparison youtube channels. Hippo Tech is one of the most obsessive that I’ve seen.
I personally found myself going crazy with information and decided to go to best buy and just try some floor models. I never would have chosen Steelseries Apex pro and Logi g915 clicky as my favorites online, but they stood out dramatically in the side by side. Once you narrow down your switch type it’s easy to find compatible hitswappable platforms. I like Keychrons personally, but there’s many options especially for TKL