philpo

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, no issues so far, but it’s new enough to already have received the new units directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The small Renault’s are actually more than decent EVs and can be compared to the Hyundai Inster.

  If you are filthy rich the Porsches are decent, same goes for some of the BMW. The Nissan Arya is also okayish, so are Mercedes.

  But yeah, Korea has the absolute king of the hill atm. I drive an EV6 (pre facelift). And honestly? It’s the most “fun” and “comfortable” car I ever had - and I used to have lots of expensive company cars in the past (Audi A4,A5,A6, BMW 5, Volvo), often with "lights and sirens " installed and drove Seat,Skoda,Hyundai, Volvo privately.

  None of them were as fun. None of fhem were as versatile and comfortable. And funny enough I safe enormous amounts of money.

  And all the downsides people worry about? So far I didn’t have any.

  Charging? Absolutely no issue - beside the fact that my sparky is shit and I still don’t have a home box (but a 200 bucks mobile box off Amazon helps). Even with long distances it’s no issue - even in remote locations I had a chance to charge,often easier to find than petrol. And on regular trips it takes as much time to go to the toilet and get me a coffee. Which I would also do with petrol… So in fact I save a few minutes. Even under these circumstances I pay half compared to what I payed for petrol.

  Battery issues? The car is used. So far: Zero degradation. We had it assessed by a professional company recently.

  The only two issues it has: Preconditioning is somewhat random (which has been solved with the facelift) and the fact that the drivers profile is not based on the key sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the wireless charging is a no-go for me as well. I understand that it costs licensing and wastes energy. But the environmental impact of all the useless/lost cables is also a point,especially when you get your energy fully renewable/self produced. And in a lot of areas (airline lounges,etc.) it has become widely adopted/the norm.

  They could easily have offered a “swap” battery that has a little less capacity but includes wireless charging - give people a fucking choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Budget-friendly Sovol SV08 Max redefines large-format 3D printing with Insane 700 mm/s speeds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I fully agree. Sadly currently printer reviews tend to enshitify themselves everywhere, at least from my perspective. It’s really hard to find reviews that are actually more or less objective and don’t just try to give you a few “alibi downsides”.

  Which is bad, both for the community but also for the whole market,because it pushes people into the hands of the few brands that actually at least deliver a product that is working mostly - Bambu is the best example Their support is shit, their company policy is shit,but a buyer can at least hope they “do the trick”. So they knowingly or unknowingly buy into the walled garden.

  Not a good perspective for the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which hype? Matrix as a protocol is used for a decade now, especially by various big governments (French, Luxembourg and German governmental messenger, various German states, German and Polish armed forces, German healthcare messenger, various smaller projects in Latin America), is bridgeable (I currently have it bridged to Whatsapp and Signal amongst others) but I really don’t see a hype - on the contrary I only see people predicting me the immediate apocalypse of Matrix for 5 years now, currently due to matrix.org (one of a hundred instances) introducing a premium account model for the most cost intensive (heavily media sharing)users. (See below for that).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Overdramatic blog post,sorry. I can’t stand the whole “fremmium” crybabies that then literally recommend the next freemium or “non transparent funding model” service… And don’t understand the fundamental difference between the Protocol and one of its implementations.

  Matrix as a protocol is solid and is used far beyond the Matrix messenger. (e.g. the French and German governmental messenger, the German healthcare messenger,various armies,etc.) With a lot of commits coming from there - but not enough funding,that is definitely an issue.

  The current issue with Freemium is solely limited to the matrix.org instance. There are hundreds of federated instances out there that aren’t Freemium and won’t have the need to go that way as they are funded differently.(e.g. the Lemmy Instance I am currently writing from, feddit - we are financed through other means) As they are federated it doesn’t matter - and honestly, I personally tend to see this as a good thing - it will lead users away from matrix.org towards other instances, making the whole network more reliable and decentralized.

  There are two other issues that are relevant, though: The way the foundation is run is not ideal, definitely - there are and were issues and I am not happy with some management decisions, but at least they are getting somewhat better recently (government board). The whole protocol does not evolve as fast as it should be and this is an issue,especially as a it also affects bug fixing. As an executive for a (much smaller) company myself I see management issues and infighting due to lack of leadership within the foundation and I am not happy with that. The second issue is Element as a company that does things companies do - focus on making money. This in theory would be a good thing if Element would send enough money AND effort upstream to seriously bring the whole project forward. For a long time this seemed to be the case,but licensing issues and the “stale” development off Element X(Matrix 2.0) has me questioning that as well - but recent changes show us hope in that regard. We also need to carefully reconsider if element is keeping too much"closed" source code for monetized features and what influence VC really has. In conclusion: We need better leadership for Matrix,more transparency and more funding.

  The good news is: It doesn’t mattter too much - if the current foundation fucks up and goes belly up it is not the end of Matrix - the protocol is decentralized enough and the licencing of the core components permissive enough for another (better?) foundation to start over. There are dozends of clients available and we have alternative servers available by now.

  The funding part nevertheless is my major pet peeve here. All around Europe governments try to get rid of US tech - and use Matrix protocol based products. But they hardly if ever fund that. If Germany, France, Poland and Luxembourg (the big users) would give 5€ per year for each client they implement all issues with funding would be gone, Matrix 2.0 would be available in a few months, VC could be pushed out of elements AND they could mandate more transparency.

  The issue with funding is relevant for all NGOs and especially in tech. Running servers costs a fuckton of money.

  Signal has a respectable amount of backers but is a centralized protocol and when Trump does something shady moneywise their infrastructure,money and possibly even people will be gone within 24 hours.

  Threema has a more sustainable business model but Switzerland is,well, difficult, in terms of privacy and intelligence services overreach, especially towards traffic pointing to foreign servers or hosts.

  Revolt is a centralized service with no federation,limited selfhosting capabilities,with unclear funding(we are waiting for a financial transparency report for ages now).

  Polyproto is still not quite there feature wise and funding, etc. is unclear.

  Delta Chat is indeed an option but has massive technical limitations.

  That leaves XMPP as the sole big competition if you want non-centralised, non-US based, privacy friendly, messaging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And Switzerlands records in terms of privacy sadly is far worse than most people think - even with the last attack being repelled.

  Matrix (preferably on a non-matrix.org instance) currently is the preferable non US and privacy friendly way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Budget-friendly Sovol SV08 Max redefines large-format 3D printing with Insane 700 mm/s speeds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That surely was a nice ad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT researchers crack 3D printing with glass — new technique enables inorganic composite glass printed at low temperatures⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Centauri Carbon: Around 300 bucks Bambu Lab A1 mini: Around 200 bucks

  How much more entry level can you get? That’s below most Voron builds, btw.

  You came in here with a claim that was simply not valid. The most likely explanation is that your printer is misconfigured. But you keep on generalising your subjective experience towards everyone else,even though you have been disproven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Satisfactory] 222 hours in, I have built a factory that makes 20 heavy modular frames per minute. (more pictures and details in description)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now make it 60! That’s the only number that counts! One per second!

  (And yes, that’s doable,done that,but won’t do it again…it wasn’t pretty,it wasn’t fun)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT researchers crack 3D printing with glass — new technique enables inorganic composite glass printed at low temperatures⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Whut? Basically every 3D printer does print way above that (300°+X is the industrial norm for more advanced new printers now e.g. Centauri Carbon, Artillery M1 Pro, BL, etc.). 250° is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary these days and can be achieved by basically every 3D printer a major brand brought out in the last two years. Even the A1mini can do so.

  Polymaker’s ASA is recommended to be printed at 250° and Formfuturas ASA, BL ABS, Formfutura ABS(reTitan), Fiberology, For Polymakers ABS the lowest temp recommended starts at 245°C, goes up to 265.

  Most Nylons, PCTG start above 250°C as well. And let’s not even start about proper high Temperature materials like PEEK,ULTEM,PEI.

  Don’t get me wrong,but maybe your temp sensor is off(not unheard off in Vorons) or your settings are off. I have yet to see someone get ASA printed well with settings well below the recommendations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get the Kobo,it works only mediocre with Calibre Web and other “web based” “personal librarys” - and Kobo is forcing Kepub down users throat more and more. Kobo only looks good if you come from the hellhole that Kindle has become,tbh.

  I would highly recommend looking into Pocketbook and especially Onyx if your goal is a more “free” approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ARMA 3 Recieves Surprise Performance Update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The learning curve isn’t that step anymore, especially for Singleplayer - even for more experienced Arma Players the main frustration there is the “trial and error” factor in the missions. Online it’s a bit different - if you don’t play full on MILSIM and focus on infantry combat you will be good there as well. It’s all manageable these days. And still great fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, my bad, the later. Sorry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As we are looking at the company expenditures here, it’s the former.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aukus will cost Australia $368bn. What if there was a better, cheaper defence strategy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have a massive misconception about the current capabilities of Diesel powered subs. They have a range of 8000nm +x (most sources give a range of 12000nm for next generation subs), can stay submerged for 30+ days and are far quieter than Nuclear subs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aukus will cost Australia $368bn. What if there was a better, cheaper defence strategy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern Diesel-Fuel Cell subs like the German/Italian Class 212 have a (minimum) range of 8000nm, can stay submerged for 30 days and are far quieter, which becomes especially relevant in areas with low depth, as you cannot hide in favourable temperature layers that easy there. There is also an option for a “longe version” available which seems to be able to stay submerged even longer and there is always the updated Dolphin class Israel uses as well as the Drakar class or Singapores 218SG. They have been specifically designed to operate in conditions that are very similar to the ones in the yellow sea (that’s why SK bought them). There are also alternatives from Sweden(Gotland&Blekinhe class), the updated Soryu from Japan (which is specifically built for a mission profile similar to the Australian one), Spain, South Korea (they even have a nice mixture of hunter-ballistic sub available)etc.

  There is a reason that every nation that has a mission profile in the South Chinese sea, the straight or Malacca and the yellow sea has decided to use a non nuclear sub - even nuclear friendly Japan doesn’t.

  The only good reason beyond Cronyism and bribes for Australia to use nuclear US subs is that OZ might want to use them in support of future US conflicts e.g. in the Gulf of Oman, off the Pakistani shores, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I never understood how they could choose Apotheker. He was literally fired from SAP in less than a year and yet HP got him as a CEO.

  WebOS had its flaws,but it could have made HP market leader - at that time Apple was far from “enterprise ready”, Android even less so, so if they had done it right they would have every CIO in their pocket within 4 years.

  But of course that doesn’t count for the next quarterly shareholder report. And Apotheker had to go “all in” on Software, because that’s what he, the salesman he is, sold them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And a 80k$ salary in France amounts to around 125k$ cost for the employer. So 170k$ isn’t that much - I actually know French developers and network engineers that make similar money. The French ITsec architect I interviewed last year would have cost me (converted) around 150k$.

  So 170k$ is absolutely not out of the normal range here.

  Talking about France: The French government could start to properly support matrix.org as they use it for tChap. The same goes for Germany with the “Behördenmessenger”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst spy ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, I read that there were multiple Stasi Agents faking exactly that type of personality. If you can’t keep a secret besides that one important secret… Everyone will think you can’t keep a secret. … which means you couldn’t be a spy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a out of the box product for that available,btw: The UCS@school environment does exactly what they want, using only Open source products. It basically joins OpenLDAP,Samba,Keycloak,etc. together. Works both with Windows as well as Linux clients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Elegoo Centauri Carbon, Artillery M1 Pro, Qidi Plus4, Prusa Core One

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Difference⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah,that post wasn’t even funny by 4chan standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Old PCs often have that problem. My “NAS” is more a full on proxmox server with an AM5 CPU, 64GB ECC and yet it halved my power consumption compared to its predecessors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Easiest way is to use a tasmota based power plug. They need to calibrated once,but then are pretty reliable and can be found for 15 bucks.

  Nous A1T (or similar nous,but watch out for the T at the end, Z is zigbee) is popular in central europe. They are well built and cheap as fuck. But again,they need to be calibrated once which you need a steady user (e.g an old incandescent light bulb ) and a multimeter for… It’s easy and only needs to be done once.

  Another option are the Inter-Tech PDUs, they costs around a 100 Bucks, are fully IP, can switch channels but only measure the consumption of the whole strip. If you have a more advanced USV they often have a total power consumption measurement.

  If you want to go all in you need to look for “switched and metered” PDUs, but they are fucking expensive. The Cyberpower PDU81005 is the cheapest “good” one and is over 400 bucks here . So… Most people won’t do that,even in a professional setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The admin basically ran it as a one man show with only one other admin who had very limited privileges. He then went on a “business trip” or workaction or longterm vacation - there were different stories. Anyway, the database went belly up, the other admin couldn’t do a thing and none could contact the admin. There are some rumours that he wasn’t who he claimed he was and actually was a Chinese national who simply returned home, but who knows that. As a matter of fact none had any meaningful contact with him for months then and it appears he did not return. (But is alive)

  A Austrian NGO who amongst others does host some mastodon instances,etc. took over and now feddit.org is on a very productive, professional and transparent level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t pull a feddit.de on people, alright?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Healthcare professional with some experience in mental health and emergency medicine here: This is the way to go . Your problem is NOT the noise. The noise is a nuisance but not dangerous. The fixation on your brother is. Because there is a high risk here,that once “noise” doesn’t cut it from the point of view of the patient, he will resolve to other means.

  As said before:

  • Document everything, make a detailed protocol about everything he does or says towards you.

  • Call the police, especially when he threatens you or your brother or claims he is intruding. Make sure that every member of your household is as polite as possible to the officers. If they refuse to do something accept this but kindly ask for their names or collar numbers and the name of their chief constable. Then write a very polite letter to the CC making it clear that you understand the difficulties the officers face but how you feel threatened and miserable and ask for help and advice to resolve this. (Why being polite? Because then it is nearly impossible for any copper to frame this as a *neighbours dispute" or anything - and coppers in the UK are far more inclined to help “members of the public” they see as pure victims themselves)

  • Depending on where in the UK you live contact your “Single Point of Access” mental health team. They are, well, the single point of access for mental health and by definition also are the contact points for friends,family,etc. of mental health patients.There is a good chance of them already knowing him, so that might help. Also,if your mom gets sicker from the whole ordeal, call her an ambulance - more freely than normal, to get that on the file. (And yes,I know this is a moral grey zone)

  • Call your council both in terms of mental health and nuisance laws. Be nice,but pressure them to do something.

  • Find out who the landlord of the neighbour is (if he doesn’t own) and contact him as well as your own landlord.

  Again,let me repeat: The noise is not your problem. The noise is just a symptom of your problem and when the noise goes away and the problem is not resolved something else will come up - very likely something worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Project resource management? Gantt charts, timelines, etc⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah,the most open source solutions atm. Sadly development slowed down a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, the current ones are pretty fantastic - and I find 100€ for the B/W verso and 140€ for the colour one still “reasonably cheap”.

  So far they have eaten anything I gave them to read, work with calibre web (sadly only for download,not sync, but that’s not PBs fault), support the German Onleihe (public library ebooks… fantastic system getting you hundred thousand of books,often for less than 20€/year or even free) and the battery is rock solid.

  So,I don’t really understand the point of the discussion. I am an absolute early adopter with E-readers and can’t remember any cheaper offers on readers that weren’t Amazon’s “bait” ads to sell you kindle unlimited,etc.