MrSpArkle
@MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Has Bluesky’s moment arrived? 4 days ago:
Nope. It’s over. Threads only had momentum from it automatically creating accounts for Meta users. Bluesky is organic.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
Is the 5 watts on an M series Mac?
- Comment on Atari Jaguar Emulation Is Coming To iPhone | Time Extension 1 month ago:
This is how I find out I missed retro gaming con AGAIN.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 1 month ago:
Unfortunately LG makes the best panels, and many other brands use LG panels(not as good as what LG puts in their own units).
The solution here is to buy their ad subsidized tv and never connect it to the internet.
- Comment on Elon Musk destroys astronomy 2 months ago:
Elon is a nazi but this was always bound to happen as we expand our presence in space.
Imagine the radio signature of any of the hundreds of orbital megastructures in sci fi.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 2 months ago:
If you have other Apple devices the Apple TV is the best option.
Plex makes an app for it, and infuse makes a fantastic media server client.
Also enables all kinds of useful home automation integration, and FaceTime via your television(this is a game changer).
- Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump? 3 months ago:
How does it feel to always be the smartest person in the room?
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 4 months ago:
Excellent would be a stretch. They will be a variation on a Haldex system, and you’d have to look up which variation your particular model has.
I’ve yet to see a haldex type system(the type typical on FWD platforms) consistently outperform Subaru.
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 4 months ago:
Nissan fans like you and I are the hardest hit by their fall.
Always buy certified used. The Subaru CPO program with gold warranty is a great deal and you can save thousands.
If you don’t buy Subaru, still buy used if the CPO warranty is good and cheap.
What is your budget?
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 4 months ago:
Subaru CVTs drive like shit but not near as unreliable as Nissan units. Different manufacturers. I don’t know what chickens they sacrificed but it works.
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 4 months ago:
I’m just here to chime in and tell you Nissans are trash now, and are a shadow of what they were.
Also none of their AWD systems are any good outside the GTR and their trucks. Their CVT transmissions are fragile and the computer will protect it at all costs. They’ll disengage drive wheels and pull power if any threshold is reached(temp, load, etc)
If AWD is a priority, the only logical choice is an EV. No ICE passenger vehicle AWD system can compare to having a motor per axle, or a motor per wheel. Unfortunately Nissan evs are a joke too.
My short summary is that if you’re serious about wanting awd and want an ice car, get a Subaru. If you’re serious about awd and want an rv, plenty of dual and some tri/quad motor options out there.
If you stick with fwd ice just buy anything but a Nissan or Mitsubishi.
- Comment on Heritage Auctions Will Auction The Prototype Controller Of The Nintendo PlayStation | Retro Gaming News 24/7 4 months ago:
You understand it’s historically significant, but don’t know why anyone would pay for it?
Not an inkling?
If your empathy isn’t broken, this is a good troll.
- Comment on Jaw-Dropping SNES Mod Fixes One Of The Console's Biggest Problems | Time Extension 4 months ago:
Yeah, hard agree. There are likely technical benefits to being able to extract a pure image from a real snes, but art-wise it’s not for the best.
- Comment on NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks 4 months ago:
It’s a weird moral grey zone. Everyone has forgotten the hundreds of people Boeing murdered as a result of their desire to skirt modern safety regulations. I just flew my family across the country yesterday on one of these end-stage-capitalism products for lack of any other option.
Were I to be ash this morning, I would be forgotten too.
But if astronauts were killed, maybe the outrage would finally be enough for all the greased palms to be sheepishly shoved in pockets just long enough to get justice, ground all those affronts to safety, and jail enough executives to maybe make Boeing stop being a global safety risk and a national security concern.
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
Apple couldn’t get the carriers to do shit. They blocked eSIMs for years on iPhones, meanwhile the iPad eSIM implementation was happily allowed.
Even up to the iPhone launch nobody wanted to collaborate with Apple(especially for the voicemail) except Cingular.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 6 months ago:
This is unhelpful and reductive.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 6 months ago:
Get a Porsche Maccan.
- Comment on Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown: Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls 6 months ago:
Nothing you’ve linked shows that most of the deaths were inflicted by friendly fire, let alone helicopters.
You’re not worth engaging with.
- Comment on Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM 6 months ago:
Crossplane has also had internal providers in development for 3 years. Bottom line is unless the actual cloud provider is devoting developer resources to a provider(like they do for the TF providers), it’s unlikely to happen.
- Comment on Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown: Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls 6 months ago:
Show me a link of helicopters gunning down “most” of the Oct victims and you’re not a loon. Otherwise, you a loon. Don’t make shit up.
- Comment on Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown: Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls 6 months ago:
Yeah and fire can’t melt steel beams. I’d buy a few friendly fire incidents, but “most”? You’re a loon.
- Comment on Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM 6 months ago:
They wish. Nobody is gonna replicate that effort successfully any time soon.
You’d sooner get the cloud providers to standardize on an api.
- Comment on Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown: Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls 6 months ago:
Eh, I’ve seen people on here claiming Oct 7 was a valid act of resistance. That’s supporting the Iranian government by proxy.
- Comment on 'Everyone in the world needs to see this': An Israeli army drone pursued four unarmed youth civilians attempting to reach their destroyed homes and killed them with missiles 7 months ago:
Whether they are armed or not is less important than whether they were legitimate Hamas-related targets. This footage has no context in that regard.
Drone strikes are expensive, why not reserve them for gatherings of dozens of Gazans? Why take out small groups like this? Why release the video?
- Comment on ‘Bewildering’ to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate plan 8 months ago:
Honestly this might just self resolve. As the climate zones shift north there’s gonna be catastrophic herd losses. Meat will just get too expensive.
- Comment on 23-year-old Nintendo interview shows how little things have changed in gaming 8 months ago:
I wouldn’t say always. The Super Nintendo, N64, and GameCube were more advanced in terms of graphical capabilities compared to many of their competitors.
- Comment on US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program 8 months ago:
China has privately held space companies, yes. They are funding them, yes.
- Comment on US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program 8 months ago:
If you look at the Artemis mission and think starship is the weakest part of the plan, you are simply not being objective.
- Comment on US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program 8 months ago:
Unfortunately that company is the best hope we have to stay ahead. With their low cost they can monopolize the worldwide launch market(except Russia and China). So that funding, strategically, must continue.
What should also happen is funding spacex competitors, so we stay on the bleeding edge.
- Comment on So glad I'm ditching these fucking idiots 8 months ago:
It’s a Faustian bargain.