stoy
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- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 17 hours ago:
Correct
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 18 hours ago:
Yes, it is a common expression here, it makes you slow down your pedal movements to be slow, light and careful, just what you need when driving on slippery roads.
An egg can take quite a bit of force, if you apply it carefully.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 1 day ago:
Swede here, when driving, drive as if there is a raw egg between your foot and the pedals.
Also, winter tires makes a huge difference, here they are mandatory, but you should get/use them as well even if they are not.
Do brake tests! Make sure you have a clear road ahead and no one behind you, break hardish, and remember how far you slid.
If you know you need to stop just after a hidden bend in the road, make sure to start braking before the curve, this is to light up your brake lights, giving other, less attentive drivers the chance to stop earlier.
Remember that you don’t HAVE to drive the speed limit, you should adjust your speed to suit the conditions.
Unless in an emergency, never ever make a quick, sharp turn when driving in snow
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Based on this evidence, I’d counter that he has ONLY done shit.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 2 days ago:
I mean it is the gun lobby who called it “the fight of our lives”…
Also, farms can own ten guns according to the limit.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 2 days ago:
Cool, I have zero guns, and can still survive just fine.
My point is that being limited to four guns is not an existential issue.
- Comment on Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know 3 days ago:
If you can’t survive without four guns, I have to ask…
What the hell is wrong with you?
- Comment on 'The finest in the world': Why the US is buying icebreakers from Finland 4 days ago:
Well obviously we need a centralized mission management that is run in the cloud, together with a comprehensive monitoring solution.
We need to assure our partners that their product is safe and that it will achieve mission success before departing port.
Letting an icebreaker depart port without doing this would just be inviting disaster.
- Comment on Laser based charging system aims to keep drones airborne indefinitely 4 days ago:
Cool tech, but the issue with this in warfare is that you paint a shiny line through the air between your recharge point and your drone, giving away the position of both.
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 5 days ago:
Sure, but that only seems to apply to Americans, and in some parts Brits.
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 5 days ago:
Just as most Americans who have moved to other countries refuse to call themselves immigrants, and default to calling themselves “expats”, most don’t seem to get that, no.
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on nations that don’t back US takeover of Greenland 5 days ago:
Murdoch
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on nations that don’t back US takeover of Greenland 5 days ago:
Trump, Putin, Musk, Murdoch, Orban, The Bottle of the unnamed bad guy
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on nations that don’t back US takeover of Greenland 6 days ago:
I am ready for it or if other other similar dickheads decide to go first.
- Comment on Australians could soon live and work in EU freely, with the same rules applying for EU citizens in Australia, as part of long-awaited trade deal 1 week ago:
Sweet, welcome Oz!
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6's release date was briefly accidentally leaked in Forza Horizon 5 1 week ago:
I did, but I can’t read Arabic text.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6's release date was briefly accidentally leaked in Forza Horizon 5 1 week ago:
I don’t see a date?
- Comment on Opinions 1 week ago:
Swede here, Taco Bell recently opened here, and I went to try it last weekend.
It was disgusting, I had their recommended meal, some flat soft tortilla with minced meat, corn, cheese, salad and some sauce, with a side order of nacho crisps, and a Fanta thing from the machine.
The Fanta was ok, but tasted too much of sweetener, the nacho crisps were disappointing, and the wrap was just disgusting.
The cheese had a taste/smell similar to that of acid reflux, the meat was tasteless, the salad was basically non existant, the corn was there, I saw them, didn’t taste them at all.
The whole texture was like a soggy mess in a tortilla wrap.
For the rest of the day, I would feel sick at random times after eating it.
Sorry for the rant I have been wanting to complain for about a week now and when ai saw the logo I just had to.
For me, it is back to the Swedish classic, Taco Bar.
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
12h clocks are 24h clocks if you just keep counting.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 1 week ago:
Depends on if you have analog cabled headphones, like the Meze Empyrians or the Philips X2HR Fidelio, then they are analog, but wireless or even digital headphones with USB/Lightning has ram.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 week ago:
Remember that watch history has the largest impact on what recommended videos will appear in his feed.
Curating the watch history is insanely effective, I have done it for a decade and it has helped me keep my feed 92% politics free, and 98% toxic masculinity free, I never knew about Tate until I started seeing reddit posts about what a terrible person he is.
I would actually show him this when he is old enough.
My strategy about this was to remove any content I don’t specifically want recommendations from, but has shifted to a more permissive stance where I will focus on removing videos that specifically harms my recommendations.
- Comment on life hack 1 week ago:
I think Helvetesgränd sounds far more dramatic than “hells alley”, mostly due to it containing the letter “r” so you can roll it in your mouth for added effect.
- Comment on "The trolley made me fear for my life" 1 week ago:
This is unrealistic, dead man switches has been a common part of trains and trams since the 1930s or so, it is therefore highly improbable that any tram operating would lack that critical piece of safety equipment.
Thus it is ridiculous to assume that the tram would continue on after the driver has been killed.
I refuse to participate further with this preposterous charade.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 2 weeks ago:
Exactly!
I could even see the cards having ram slots, so you can add dedicated ram to the NPU to remove the need for sharing ram with the system
- Comment on Xbox 360 superfan amasses all 1,353 North American discs after two‑decade collection spree 2 weeks ago:
I would imagine that there are way more 360 discs out there in America
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 2 weeks ago:
I’d much rather have a more powerful generic CPU than a less powerful generic CPU with an added NPU.
There are very few people who would benefit from an added NPU, ok I hear you say what about local AI?
Ok, what about it?
Would you trust a commercial local AI tool to not be sharing data?
Would your grandmother be able to install an open source AI tool?
What about having enough RAM for the AI tool to run?
Look at the average computer user, if you are on lemmy, chances are very high that you are far more advanced than the average computer user.
I am talking about those users who don’t run Adblocker, don’t notice the YT ad skip button and who in the past would have installed a minimum of of five toolbars in IE, yet wouldn’t have noticed the reduced view of the actual page.
These people are closer to the average users than any of us.
Why do they need local AI?
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t there a bug that made XP unable to hit even 4GB, I seem to recall a limit of 3,5GB ram…
- Comment on Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, it is a threat to everyone
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 2 weeks ago:
I can see two reasons to pick an AIO over an air cooler, none of which has been a concern for me.
- Using a small case. In a small case you may not be able to fit an air cooler large enough to cool the CPU, an AIO is more flexible and is a great alternative in these cases.
- Needing to move your computer from place to place. The traditional tower air cooler puts a LOT of strain on the motherboard, this is fine for when the computer is in a static place, but when moving a computer, especially if you are driving, any bumps can cause the cooler to pull on the motherboard, possibly cracking the motherboard. An AIO with it’s smaller footprint is far less susceptible to that. I have a Noctua D15s as my cooler, and if I had to transport my computer in my car I would either remove the cooler and GPU before loading the computer in my car, or lay it down flat.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want water in my computer, simple as that.
