limelight79
@limelight79@lemm.ee
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 week ago:
I prefer to cut the top off.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’ve used mine while cycling in freezing temperatures without an issue.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 week ago:
It might just be a joke. I use transitions in my cycling glasses, where I might be in shade or when it starts to get dark (but I’ll still have something protecting my eyes). I use regular sunglasses in the car, as transitions generally won’t work there.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 2 weeks ago:
SpaceX also has Starlink. I don’t know how it’s doing financially, but I do know it’s quite popular in places where wired internet isn’t available, and for people who are mobile. I’ve even seen pictures of cruise ships using it for internet access.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 weeks ago:
brands can tap into the rich, high-intent product conversations
What the hell is a high-intent product conversation?
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 2 months ago:
Why did they switch to laminated in the side and rear windows?
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 2 months ago:
It would help the boot time but also loading software. But I agree a Core 2 Duo is pretty much cooked at this point.
I just replaced a Core 2 Quad in my server, which mostly is a file server and database, that sort of thing. It was doing fine until I started trying to do virtual machines on it (running Home Assistant), and that just killed it. But as a machine I’d be using directly? Nah.
My desktop machine was an i5 from about 2015 and was fine, but I recently upgraded the desktop and put the guts of that in the server.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 3 months ago:
I was starting to wonder if Europe didn’t have insects, because the hotels I’ve stayed in (in Europe) that had them didn’t have screens for them.
- Comment on For real though, I think about this at least once a day 4 months ago:
Because they can’t find it? It’s tiny, it flew off into the distance…for all we know, there are a dozen science ships looking for it during the entire DS9 run.
- Comment on For real though, I think about this at least once a day 4 months ago:
It’s a huge universe, why would this particular entity have to show up in another episode? It could be off exploring the Gamma quadrant.
- Comment on For real though, I think about this at least once a day 4 months ago:
But season 7 was the last season of TNG. DS9 was busy with other things and Voyager was elsewhere.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals 4 months ago:
Reminds me of the guy that built that sub that got crushed. There are standards in place for good reasons and ignoring them is a bad idea.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
I have a Wen metal shear tool…it’s AMAZING. Slices through sheet aluminum and steel like they’re butter.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
My experience with Harbor Freight power tools is a (corded) circular saw that works extremely well. I put in a better blade, and it rocks. I’ve had it for years and it shows no signs of slowing down. I’m not a heavy user but I’ve used it for quite a few projects over the years, including an RV renovation I’m working on now.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
DeWalt for drills, etc… I used to work in a hardware store (a small town store, not a Lowes/HD big box place) and sold DeWalt, so that’s what I gravitated toward when I was buying tools for myself.
But for yard tools, 40v Ryobi.
- Comment on Happy Irish Unification year🎉 4 months ago:
Well, we also didn’t get the Eugenics wars or WWIII, both of which killed millions, so this time line isn’t all bad.
- Comment on TIL - Linux supports tilted monitors... apparently 22° is best 4 months ago:
With a high enough spin rate, it’d be like having a much larger monitor.
- Comment on Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too. 4 months ago:
Not arguing, but one thing I want to note: I’ve never had a new car cost more to insure than an old car (well maybe a few dollars, but not a significant change). Most of the time the premium is essentially the same, though one time it went down significantly because the safety features were better - that was going from a 2001 Saturn to a 2012 Honda. Going from a 2012 Honda to a 2020 Mazda did not significantly change our insurance premium.
Wish I still had that 2012 Honda. Alas, it was totaled in a crash. :(
- Comment on Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents 4 months ago:
We do, it’s just very limited. Actually in Austin I think you could have pulled it off. You could have taken the Texas Eagle to San Antonio, then the Sunset Limited to New Orleans. It would have taken 27 hours and the Sunset Limited only runs 3 times a week, so if you departed Monday at 6:30 pm you’d be in NO Tuesday at 9:40 pm. Bon Voyage!
Just kidding. As a rail fan, it bugs me, too. My wife and I spent two weeks in Germany, visiting multiple cities, and we used a private car once (a relative gave us a ride) and a taxi once. Otherwise it was all trains and the occasional city bus, plus one motorcoach that took us to Neuschwanstein. It was pretty nice.
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 4 months ago:
I use Instant Ink in the US, and I haven’t received an email about a price increase.
I know no one wants to hear this, based on past experience, but I’ll say it anyway: The plan has worked fine for us. Our ink costs went from $60-$80/year to $12. The printer works fine, too; we’ve not had any problems with it. Obviously we don’t print a ton, but we do print enough that we want to have a printer. If we did print a ton of stuff, I’d definitely go a different direction than Instant Ink, but for our light use, it works fine.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 4 months ago:
Yeah, and I need to get back to blocking people. The signal improved drastically when I was doing that a while back.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 4 months ago:
And you sound like a fucking asshole. Good day, blockee.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 4 months ago:
Pretty much. I’m looking through the replies I’ve received, and one says, “You sound like a forbes article” with two upvotes and only one downvote. Why would I continue to contribute to this community if that’s how people are going to act?
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 4 months ago:
I love that you were downvoted, for all we know your previous vehicle was a Daewoo or something. A Tesla is likely a better quality vehicle than a Daewoo.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 4 months ago:
When this was posted yesterday, I brought up issues with the sample selection (not random) and universe the “study” looked at (people using one of those sites to shop for insurance), and while I think most understood my point, some people got upset at me “defending Tesla drivers”…
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 4 months ago:
It’s not really loyalty, per se…it’s that they seem to be offering a reasonable price and good service, so I don’t see a reason to change. If some other company offered much better rates for the same coverage and service level, I’d switch. But I’m not spending hours and hours each year to find I might save $50/year either; that’s a waste of my time.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 4 months ago:
I’m not defending Tesla drivers or anyone else. In my very first sentence, I noted that own one of the vehicles (Ram) that is supposedly the second worst, and I also own one of the vehicles that is the best (Mercury).
I’m simply pointing out that this dataset may have serious flaws and shouldn’t be used to draw real conclusions.
Your obsession with Tesla is clouding your reading ability or something.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 4 months ago:
I have no idea where you’re getting Tesla from.
My comment was that there is likely bias in the data because it’s people applying to one of those sites that compare insurance costs. I think it’s likely most people who are doing that regularly are people in high risk groups - their insurance rates are high, so they’re looking for some other company. Their insurance rates are high because they are risky drivers.
The data are not based on crash statistics, which would be the most reliable indicator, or tickets issued, or any other similar results. The people using this tool are not randomly selected, either.
In other words, it’s anecdotal data at best, and possibly biased toward people with high premiums because of issues in their driving record.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 4 months ago:
I think you have my comment confused with another one, I didn’t mention Tesla at all.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 4 months ago:
Our latest analysis uses QuoteWizard by LendingTree insurance quote data…
I have no idea why you think that would only apply to Teslas.