lka1988
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- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 days ago:
The average car is 12 years old. Car makers start to drop support (making/stocking parts) when the car is about 10 years old. Come back and talk to me about that car when is is 25 years old and tell me how it is.
No need - I have two 46 year-old vehicles: 1980 Honda XR500 motorcycle from 08/79, and a 1980 Mercedes 240D from 12/79. The motorcycle is currently torn apart in the garage, undergoing a full restoration. Believe me, I know aaaaaaall about the frustrations of long-discontinued parts 😂😂
I have a 26 year old truck, the bed has holes, the frame is showing signs of rot - I’m trying to decide if it is worth trying to rebuild the transmission, my mechanic isn’t intersted in part because they are not sure if they can find the parts - they will be more than $1000 in labor in before they know wihch bearing it has and thus can check if it can be had.
Man I feel that so hard with the Mercedes. Poor thing has cancer and I’m not sure if it’s possible to save in its current condition. It’s got damn near half a million miles, but goddamn it drives so, so nice… I think it needs a clutch though. Luckily, since W123 cars are sought-after classics at this point, there are still options, but it’s gonna be a hell of a process if I decide to attempt a restoration. My dad (with help from me and my siblings, friends, and neighbors) somehow managed to save a pretty rusty 1963 VW Beetle almost 20 years ago, was about a 5 year process. That car recently went to a collector… I’m mad about it, but only in the “goddammit I wanted to inherit it” kinda way 😅
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 days ago:
Ah, the Detroit approach
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 days ago:
I mean, it’s just a single path, but at least it’s something.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 days ago:
Our 10 year-old Highlander still drives like new. It’s our newest vehicle, and one of Toyota’s last generation of vehicles without a cellular connection.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 days ago:
I live in the suburbs. The older kids can bike to the local Walmart (save it) as there is a pedestrian tunnel that crosses under the main road, providing a complete pedestrian/bike path from one end of the town to the other.
I’d prefer if we had more of those, but it’s something.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
That’s what drove me to switch my gaming PC to LMDE. I ran W11 for a couple months after it came out, then switched back to W10 because fuck W11, then when W10 got the EOL announcement I bit the bullet, backed everything up, and wiped Windows from my drive. No ragrets.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
Yeah it has. I don’t even bother looking at the supported operating systems for most games on Steam anymore. I also don’t play overhyped microtransaction-laden bullshit like cod or fortnite, either, so no loss there.
- Comment on The forgotten war on the Walkman 4 days ago:
I was being facetious. That’s the excuse these idiots use for every single “new” thing.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 4 days ago:
I rent a house. Our lease is explicit about no battery charging in the garage, including EVs. Yet they seemingly have no problem with my welder or RC cars…
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 4 days ago:
How about talking to the landlords who refuse to install EV chargers? Or maybe talk to manufacturers who won’t sell a basic EV that isn’t overpriced?
This is just “Am I out of touch? No it’s the children who are wrong!” again.
- Comment on Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? 4 days ago:
I run Proxmox in my small cluster. Proxmox runs multiple VMs that each run various groups of docker containers.
They don’t do the same thing.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 4 days ago:
My, uh, friend needs an explanation
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 4 days ago:
I’m mostly into protecting my data
Debian
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 4 days ago:
Glad I ditched Windows entirely on my personal devices.
- Comment on The forgotten war on the Walkman 4 days ago:
Like always, outrage over useful tech is driven by stubborn conservatives hellbent on making everyone else suffer.
- Comment on The Era of 'AI Psychosis' is Here. Are You a Possible Victim? 5 days ago:
AI chabots are terrible therapists. What the fuck are you even implying?
- Comment on The Era of 'AI Psychosis' is Here. Are You a Possible Victim? 5 days ago:
I put in an IT ticket the other day over the fucking Copilot button on my work-issued Surface laptop. They actually told me to install Powertoys. So I did. And disabled that fucking button.
- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 1 week ago:
AI can’t do my job.
I’m the guy they call when the machines go down.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 1 week ago:
I actually put in an IT ticket over it today right after I made that comment, because I accidentally hit that goddamn key again while typing up an email.
IT came back with - and I shit you not - “Open the Microsoft store and install Microsoft PowerToys”
For context, this company takes security extremely seriously. Just a few months before I started, they had recovered from a major ransomware attack, due to some moron that downloaded an attachment from the wrong email. They don’t even allow flash drives, except for Apricorn encrypted drives, but those you have to sign out directly from IT and the serial number is tracked.
So IT coming back with that was a pretty big surprise to me 😅
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 1 week ago:
“Buy him out, boys!”
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 1 week ago:
Corporate execs literally cum over MS’s next big thing. A lot of companies use MS-based infrastructure and applications.
My work just issued me a Surface 7 a few weeks ago, and while it’s nice, the fucking copilot key is driving me absolutely insane. I can’t disable it unless I turn on “Fn Lock” which switches it’s function to open up the Context menu (i.e. right-click menu). HOWEVER, if I do that, then the F1-F12 keys’ volume, brightness, and home/end/pgup/pgdn functions are disabled. I’m convinced this was an intentional decision by MS.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 week ago:
I think that’s a great idea. We shouldn’t turn away potential users, nor should we mock current YouTube users who might be willing but not have the knowledge to do so.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 week ago:
Most people don’t even know what Invidious is, let alone the fact that there are other video hosting sites that aren’t youtube (Vimeo, for one).
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 week ago:
Some of us made Gmail accounts long before Youtube even existed, and still rely on youtube for tutorials and other things of that nature that aren’t found anywhere else.
Don’t be a pretentious dick about it.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 week ago:
If they are technically inept, reduce their accounts to limited and lock down the admin account. That will prevent them from installing Chrome, and if the admin sets a shortcut on their desktop/s, they won’t be able to remove it. Install the necessary extensions, then change the desktop icon and text to “Chrome”.
Problem solved.
- Comment on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion 1 week ago:
VC funding, baybeeeee
- Comment on Intel collapsing? 1 week ago:
I would be absolutely shocked if Intel spun off their fabs. Having worked at an Intel site (Ocotillo), they are extremely controlling of everything going on inside the factory to their own detriment; so much so that if hopping on one foot while doing a specific task on a tool somehow improves yield by any metric, then it’s added to spec and never questioned again.
Hell, they were still running their 1272 process (14nm) on some tools when I left in 2022.
TL;DR - They need to spin off the fabs for their own survival. And its gonna take an act of god to do so.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
Hi welcome to Lemmy, we hate reddit here.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 2 weeks ago:
I mean, this is more-or-less how the Linux kernel is managed.
