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- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 hour ago:
Every car I’ve owned has had a way to change the speedometer from freedom units to ✨ metric ✨ .
For knowing what speed I should be going, I roughly follow these numbers. (Note, these are not equivalent.)
- 35mph -> 50km/h
- 60mph -> 100km/h
- 70mph ->110km/h
Also, very roughly 10km ≈ 5mi.
However, most of the time I just follow the flow of traffic.
I voluntarily switched to metric like 10 years ago, so meters, celsius, grams, etc make more sense to me now.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 3 days ago:
Yeah, 145km/h might be a liiitle under powered. I drive between 120km/h to 130km/h on the US interstates.
- Comment on why are posts from my Egyptian chat getting downvoted? 3 days ago:
Wait, huh?
Users can adjust from their profile settings which language they want to see … posts are marked as English despite being Egyptian, so these posts get forwarded to English speakers
TIL!
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 4 days ago:
A buddy of mine got his Tacoma tailgate stolen in broad daylight during a kid’s football game… I hope any really valuable parts are secured…
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 4 days ago:
not equipped for actual utility
Doesn’t that guy know?! He’s not getting any actual utility from this truck! 😱
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 4 days ago:
what if cars don’t have be ridicules in size
Then you may be interested in this vehicle. It’s about as long as the Kia Niro at 4.4m.
carrying dead weight
I mean, even in a 5 seater sedan, you’re gonna be carrying dead weight. Are you suggesting everyone ride bikes or motorcycles instead?
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 4 days ago:
Whoops! I did mean the Toyota Pickup. Thanks!
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 5 days ago:
One thing that makes me nervous is that there are so many screws exposed. It seems like it would be really easy for thieves to just walk up with a hex key and steal your bumper or panels… 🤔
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- Comment on What are the best options for computers that explicitly support linux operating systems? 1 week ago:
All of the apps I use play very nice with scaling … with the exception of apps…
Sssssssssoooo… it sounds like not all of the apps you use work with scaling?
- Comment on What are the best options for computers that explicitly support linux operating systems? 2 weeks ago:
I’m typing this message on my Dell XPS 13 9310. I’m really happy with it, specifically the 9310 model, not other models.
- The volume, screen brightness, and keyboard brightness buttons all work great.
- Bluetooth and wifi work great.
- Touchpad and touchpad gestures work great. It’s also a decent size.
- The FHD display has no scaling issues with any apps or any distros.
- The keyboard and overall build quality feel nice.
The one thing that doesn’t work great is the webcam. It turns on and captures video… except it’s really dark. Although, I haven’t tried running Wangblows on this, so maybe it’s Dell’s fault for picking bad hardware. Anyway, I just use an Opal Tadpole webcam and that works great. Happy to answer any questions about this laptop! I use Arch, btw, with GNOME. Zoom, Google Meet, Discord video calls and screen sharing all work as well.
If you’re serious about this requirement:
DPI/screen resolution doesn’t cause scaling issues
then I would avoid Framework. I recently sold mine after daily driving it for about 1 year. My biggest complaint was the high DPI display. It will 100% cause scaling issues. You will have blurry apps and/or tiny text, 100%. People will suggest that you add a ton of config, switch distros, or use different apps. If you want to use arbitrary software like hexchat which is GTK2, DO NOT buy a Framework laptop. 🙅
- Comment on Every non US market could impose their will, simply by banning imports of products that use, or reference SAE instead of metric. 2 weeks ago:
In the digital age, you still have to talk with humans. What did my coworker tell me again? The wheels need to be torqued to 150 Nm or ftlb or lbft? Shoot. He’s busy helping other customers now… uhh… I’ll just wing it.
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 4 weeks ago:
Holy moly, I did not know this existed! Thanks! Just turned this on!
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 4 weeks ago:
Aby resources you’d recommend?
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 4 weeks ago:
I suspect that it goes down and stays down whenever there is an app update, but I haven’t confirmed it yet.
Does the plain wireguard app stay up during updates?
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 4 weeks ago:
if the cameras don’t load, open Tailscale and make sure it’s connected
I’ve been using Tailscale for a few months now and this is my only complaint. On Android and macOS, the Tailscale client gets randomly killed. So it’s an extra thing you have to manage.
It’s almost annoying enough to make me want to host my services on the actual internet… almost… but not yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The American dream is an all time amazing piece of propaganda that has left every American imagining that one day, through hard work, they will become the oppressor
Wow, yeah. Well put. This is why they only care about “winning”.
- Comment on I found a nice gem 1 month ago:
Neat. I’ve been getting more curious about WebDAV recently. Also, great website! Thanks for posting!
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 1 month ago:
Oooooooh. Kagi added this lens! Since you can add custom lenses, I thought I added this to my own account. Cool!
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 1 month ago:
At one point in my career I cared about what I did and who I worked for I felt pride over my product and my team, and all I feel now is shame to be associated with my company, I feel disgusted with myself that I work not for my customers but for shareholder value.
This tracks with my experience here as well.
keep my job and not get layed off.
For me, it seems like falling in line and kissing the ring is more important than showing ability, if you want to avoid being laid off. At a previous job, I got laid off before my very noob coworker who took months to complete PRs because I wouldn’t shut my mouth about RTO.
a meritocracy
🌎🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀 Never has been.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 2 months ago:
Yeah! It’s been great for me. No detection issues or weird bugs. The mobile and TV apps are also great!
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 months ago:
My wife heavily uses her smartphone. Like, she’ll work on spreadsheets on her phone instead of grabbing her laptop.
- Comment on All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days 2 months ago:
I mean, the R1 was $200, came with a year of Perplexity, and didn’t require a subscription.
The Pin started at $500 and required a subscription, along with a new phone number.
Not that surprised.
- Comment on All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days 2 months ago:
HP, which is buying the company’s intellectual property for $116 million… Humane was seeking a $1 billion buyout
🤣 🤣 🤣
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 2 months ago:
I walk through my day and most people’s demeanor hasn’t changed in the slightest
I’m unhappy and angry at the situation. But, am I supposed to mope around all day or have depressing conversations with everyone I meet? Should I start fighting every Trump supporter in my small town?
- Comment on How to mute posts containing certain keywords on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Ghost blog adding activitypub 2 months ago:
Ah, ok. I was barking up the wrong tree.
- Comment on Ghost blog adding activitypub 2 months ago:
I tried a random Writefreely instance and it was extremely barebones and had poor markdown styling. It gave me the impression that Writefreely is more for publishing short stories, rather than technical content.
(Is that the point of Writefreely?)
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 months ago:
A MAGA I know told me this is all worth it because he doesn’t want his son to know gay people exist and wants revenge on the people who told him he can’t say “Merry Christmas” anymore…
