CmdrShepard49
@CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops 1 day ago:
Until someone can do it cheaper and then they take over. This has already happened many, many times as chinese quality increased and wages and thus prices increased.
Unless some other nation finds a stockpile of rare earth minerals, slave labor, and bottomless government subsidies, I don’t see this happening with EVs. Currently nobody else on the planet is able to sell them anywhere near the price China is and that’s not because of simple cost cutting and business efficiency.
- Comment on Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops 1 day ago:
This is probably some agreement witn the Chinese government to give good press in other parts of the world in order to get benefits on vehicles sold in China. Ford’s CEO put out a nearly identical article a few months ago.
- Comment on Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops 1 day ago:
No it’s definitely their monopoly on the rare earth mineral market.
- Comment on Supercharger pulley 1 day ago:
Looks sick! And even sicker that it’s on a motorcycle!
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 2 days ago:
Change it to WingDings and sit back while the world burns around you.
- Comment on Guide recommendation for absolute newbies? 3 days ago:
P2S definitely has some nice upgrades but AFAIK isn’t available for sale yet. Between the two I’d get the P2S but if you want to take advantage of the sale the P1S is still a good choice. $399 is less than I paid for my old bed slinger printer that needed constant tinkering and hundreds worth of upgrades after buying the printer. I currently have the X1C and just saw that I’ve hit 2800 hours of print time and apart from one repair at no cost to me has been totally rock solid with the number of failed prints countable on one hand.
- Comment on Guide recommendation for absolute newbies? 3 days ago:
Whatever you decide, I would highly recommend you get a CoreXY printer as the standard old “bed slinger” style of printer, where the bed moves back and forth along the Y axis, is now quite dated, slow and leads to lots of print issues especially for beginners. With a CoryXY construction, the bed is stationary apart from moving up and down along the Z axis and the nozzle moves on the X and Y axis.
For Prusa, this would be the CORE One. For Bambu this is the P1/P2, X1, or H2 series. Bambu is actually offering a sale starting today with the P1S at $399 USD or $549 USD with the AMS system (multi material).
- Comment on Why would a company force you to use a rental car instead of your own for a drive to the office/Christmas party? 3 days ago:
In the US they only reimburse around $0.50/mile (last I knew from several years ago) so it’d have to be a killer deal to be cheaper for rentals than reimbursement. OP did reference kilometers, but I imagine the reimbursement rate is similar wherever you are.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 3 days ago:
Now they can breathe down your neck from the comfort of their own home!
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 3 days ago:
Dont forget the constant shuffling of buttons and menus so that you are constantly learning everything for the first time and can never become proficient at using their software.
- Comment on Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism. 1 week ago:
Or that morning sunrise cigarette on the porch with fresh coffee.
- Comment on Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? 1 week ago:
The Irish version would also work here.
“Take it with a grain of craic”
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Buying used movies at a garage sale fuels the retail market? If that were the case then why can’t you buy used movies at any retail store? Another falsehood.
I’ve spent thousands on hardware and software for my media server, so it seems that piracy does fuel the retail market in ways that buying second hand doesn’t. Perhaps you’re right and they’re not the same. I think piracy generates more revenue than buying second hand, elevating it well above buying used copies, which is now the most harmful way to consume media.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Sure it is. Its their content and you’re not paying them for it which is the same as stealing, right?
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Tell that to all the people who’ve purchased digital copies of movies and TV to own only to have these companies later pull those licenses and leave them with nothing.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Nope, buying things second hand should be considered just as bad as pirating as you’re depriving the creators of their entitlements, just to take your argument to its logical conclusion.
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 1 week ago:
You tell them “it’s not 12” but it smells like a foot" and then get ready to fight them off with a stick.
- Comment on Star Trek Collectibles Roundup — TOS Toys Return, Academy Boots, 23rd Century Adventures, and EXO-6 Enters the Kelvin Timeline 1 week ago:
I just wish their merch were as sexy as Star Wars merch so that fans could better show their appreciation for the franchise. Currently everything is still quite “nerdy” while “normies” walk around happily in Star Wars t-shirts
- Comment on Star Trek Collectibles Roundup — TOS Toys Return, Academy Boots, 23rd Century Adventures, and EXO-6 Enters the Kelvin Timeline 1 week ago:
How about those rumors of a LEGO Enterprise??? Nobody wants action figures anymore, and I can’t see the average person wanting Starfleet Academy cosplay attire. Why has Star Trek historically had the absolute worst merchandise available?
- Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA? 1 week ago:
They’re sweeter because they use high fructose corn syrup where as other places like Mexico still use cane sugar. To get a good Coke in the US, you have to go to a Mexican market or taco truck and get it in a glass bottle. We have a gluttony of corn here so it gets forced into everything from plastic to gasoline to soda.
- Comment on Internet upload speeds on self-hosted Jellyfin/Plex Servers? 2 weeks ago:
Comcast recently upgraded their internet in our area to give us better upload speeds (from 16mbps to 200mbps) but I’d previously been sharing Linux ISOs with friends and family with a bitrate cap on Plex of 3mbps. With this, I was sometimes able to have 5 concurrent remote streams. Quality certainly wasn’t the best but nobody really even seemed to notice when I asked about it. I don’t charge anyone for anything but several have offered money or bribes of beer or food over the years.
- Comment on Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription? 2 weeks ago:
You want to host a PvP game server but not if it requires an internet connection? Who would you be playing against without an internet connection?
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 3 weeks ago:
Good point. This makes the entire rest of Lemmy the “shitter thoughts” umbrella community as thats where everyone is posting and commenting from.
- Comment on Alien (1979) predates Predator (1987) 3 weeks ago:
Surely this is hyper-bole?
- Comment on Must my Jellyfin server be able to AV1 videos? 3 weeks ago:
Consider any future clients you might have or if you decide to share with other people the clients they have. I personally think it’s worth spending a few extra bucks now to ensure compatibility in the future.
- Comment on Nobody who complains about video games costing more than $60 ever considers inflation 4 weeks ago:
I dont think this really holds water either as those cartridges couldnt have cost more than a few dollars to make, and while things aren’t distributed physically as much anymore, there are still costs associated with distributing games digitally too.
- Comment on Has anyone Pooped in the shower? 4 weeks ago:
That’s why you keep a shit bucket by the back door for when it’s too frigid to get to the outhouse.
- Comment on Has anyone Pooped in the shower? 4 weeks ago:
What kind of emergency would there be where you’re in a shower but can’t make it to a toilet? They’re almost universally right next to each other.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Im running a similar setup (ZFS pool, Cockpit, portainer x2, and a few LXCs for Plex, Frigate, etc) and it’s been great. Before building it early this year, I’d been running everything on Windows for the decade prior because I was unfamiliar with Linux and struggled like OP when problems arose, but after following a guide to get everything setup it’s been rock solid and if I screw anything up I can just load a backup. I’d also looked into TrueNAS and Unraid but this gives me a more flexible setup without any extra cost and the ability to tinker without affecting anything else like you said.
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 4 weeks ago:
Seems like they’re also using two different Intel chips in their testing for some reason.