GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 day ago:
When that is the light in your day…
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 4 days ago:
The McDonalds point is in reference to inflation, which will certainly have an impact on the cost of vehicles. And I feel like you don’t grasp the concept of a luxury vehicle. By definition, it has more than the basics. This could be why my EV cost less than $20k used and a Model S costs $151k new. No ponytail, but I don’t expect having one would hinder my basic math, economics, or English comprehension skills.
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 5 days ago:
Tine to spin up some alts?
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 5 days ago:
Absolutely. If we had done so with batteries and solar, imagine where we could have been. Both technologies languished for far longer than they had to.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 5 days ago:
All good. I just keep seeing this all the time about batteries, simply because most of the technological advances are slow, cumulative, aggregate, and largely invisible to consumers. Then people complain about how none of these advances ever make it to market while ignoring, for example, how many pounds old, barely capable cell phones were compared to the functionality of smartphones these days that can run for a full day on a battery a fraction of the size we had for those old behemoths, all apparently without any of those breakthroughs making it to market. I mean, look at the first cell phone in this article. I suspect some advancements occurred in batteries between then and now.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 5 days ago:
The point is not about this particular article, but the general attitude of that comment, which boils down to “Why is there an article about a technological breakthrough that may never pan out in my community about technology?” I feel like these guys would have complained about Newton’s quaint ideas for a new way to use mathematics.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 5 days ago:
I’ll take out of context quotes for $100, Alex.
Those changes are over 40 years, only 13 years of which apply to your reference, and include only one component of a luxury vehicle. Also, the current base price for a Tesla Model S that it showed me was $150k. If we apply inflation to $140k since 2012 ($150k minus the $10k you said), we get a value of $197k. So, $47k cheaper in 2025 dollars.
I suppose you blame battery prices for why McDonalds costs more, too?
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 5 days ago:
The sub is about technology, not industry. Also, look at the advances in battery technology in the last 30 years. There have only been 3 notable technology advances in the last 40 years from a consumer perspective, but there have been significant advances within each of those major technology changes, resulting in Wh/kg increasing by 6 to 10 times and $/Wh dropping about 99%.
If you want to hear about things that could happen or are about to start happening in industry, this is the right community. If you want to know what you can buy tomorrow, try Amazon.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 week ago:
I had to do a variant of this with my now wife. She never wanted to pick restaurants, so I’d suggest something i was okay with but knew she hated. She got a lot more willing to give her opinions after a few years. Now we can discuss it like equals instead of me making the decision all the time.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 1 week ago:
I’ve driven by a few radar speed indicators in my car, and I’m consistently going 4 km/h less than what my digital speedometer says, regardless of speed. I find it difficult to believe this is an accident. So if I had your vehicle and it behaved like my speedometer does, I would still only be +1 over the limit. Also, I now drive with my speedometer +5 to +9 relative to the speed limit, which keeps me more in line with the traffic around me.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 1 week ago:
I saw a marketing blurb for the 2026 Nissan Leaf. They are also going with flush handles (hopefully a safer design) and claimed it for reduced drag to increase range. But, market, so could be just short of an outright lie.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 2 weeks ago:
I may have to start doing this. I’ve subscribed to enough that I see enough to keep me occupied, and if I don’t I go to All and add anything that I find particularly interesting. This mean I miss new things I might really enjoy unless I’m not as occupied with my current subscription list. This could be better.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 weeks ago:
Ah, okay. I saw some earlier speculation that RFK Jr. didn’t actually say this and thought yours was in the same vein. Crazy videos of people saying things we wouldn’t believe 10 years ago seems to be the norm these days…
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 weeks ago:
I would be equally unsurprised if RFK Jr. also said it, though.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
There is plenty of information on !selfhosted@lemmy.world and !homeassistant@lemmy.world if you’re looking for more than the most basic motion- or remote-controlled light switches.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
I’d far rather have a dumb TV/monitor and a cheap, easily upgradable smart device connected to it, but I’m on Lemmy so that shouldn’t come as a surprise.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
1.2m.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 4 weeks ago:
I do the majority of Steam browsing on my deck, with much of the rest being following links in Lemmy, etc. on my phone. I also expect I’m not their typical user.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 month ago:
Actually, due to some mod shenanigans, they tried to close the community to move it to a less trans-friendly instance, where the use of neopronouns would not be enforced. The community said no and formed a new community on their original instance, got new mods, hookers, and blackjack.
As for the Trek split, here’s a ling, detailed, long post about it…
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 month ago:
Onehundredninetysix and the Trek meme split.
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 Causing Circuit Breaker to Trip (Even when PSU is flipped off!) 1 month ago:
No one has said it yet, but the most common cause of a breaker being thrown is an overload or a short. It looks like you’ve determined it isn’t an overload since it happens when the device isn’t turned on. That indicates that you may have a short. The two likely places are the PSU (since it’s supposed to be turned off) and the cord (since the PSU wouldn’t matter). If the cord is replaceable, I’d try that first. After the cord I’d see about replacing the PSU. Hopefully it’s a standard part and not something you have to buy from Ender if they still carry it.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 1 month ago:
Those spoilers deserve an upvote.
- Comment on Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? 1 month ago:
Just watching that video I linked gave a lot more Inventor vibes than I recall from the last time I looked at it. Last time it still felt like trying to shoehorn a 3D modeler into AutoCAD.
- Comment on Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? 1 month ago:
Yeah, it explicitly states Ondsel is EOL in the article, as well as the theme they used (maybe?), which is in the video. The repack or whatever I heard about years ago, specifically mentioned in the description that it retooled non-standard workflow in FreeCAD. I keep thinking Tommy’s pack or something like that was the name, but it’s 5 minutes of my life from years ago when this field was just starting to be less important to me. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? 1 month ago:
I tried using FreeCAD 5 or 10 years ago, and it was painful. I had access to Inventor, so I used that for the limited work I was doing. Later, I heard of some build/pack/whatever that removed a lot of pain from the FreeCAD workflow, but i can’t remember what it was called and I wasn’t doing CAD work any more. Trying to find that led me to this, though:
Also, i found a video on YouTube that appears to go through the same steps. Here it is.
I’m not sure it that will solve your problems, but the 20 minute video should answer that question for you.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 1 month ago:
I’m pretty curious about the C2, as well, but don’t live in their market, and don’t want to pay 100% of the phone cost in shipping fees, etc. And after all that, I have no guarantee of support. As for the €60 per year, my latest phone is an S22 Ultra, half of whose features I no longer use due to the updated Samsung TOS. I can absorb that cost for the sake of updates, if they’d let me.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 1 month ago:
Well, yes, dumping irradiated water into the ocean was always an option. So long as the power-generating components aren’t the same as the desalination components, you’re good as far as the potable water is concerned. This isn’t much of a solution for the irradiated water, though, any more than just dumping it into the ocean was in the first place.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 1 month ago:
It really depends. Osmosis is a chemical process, so if the source of the radiation would be filtered, then it would remove the radioactive component. If the water is made with radioactive isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen, it would just flow through.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 1 month ago:
I think it’s more like:
(salty water + unpotable fresh water) → (salty water + potable fresh water + energy)
…with a few steps in between. Even if most of the power is used in running the plant, you end up with potable fresh water and no brine being dumped into the ocean, which is a net win.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 1 month ago:
Turning unpotable water into potable water with little or no additional cost, while not harming the environment, isn’t exactly a loss.