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- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 5 days ago:
Meanwhile the fastest charger in my city is ~50kW and is often out of order, so you ha e to go slower because most others are 25kW… And it’s not better anywhere near, half hour drive gets me to no better chargers. This lack of infrastructre where I live is one of the reasons I still don’t have bev (also price).
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
Fuck no. Luckily it’s not even enabled in my cou try.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
I’m too old to learn vim escape game. I’m glad I can do
:q:-D - Comment on Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed 'dangerous and dumb' | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Terrorist children of terrorists! Now that’s complete.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
I have to live with Windows at work so that’s where I use Notpad++. I’m fine with Kate at home.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
Just from top of my head and from what I have to use at work:
- Dolphin vs. Explorer - Dolphin is sooo much better and useful it’s not evwn funny
- Notepad++ vs. Notepad - day and night, even though Notepad got an overhaul in W11 it’s still piece of shit compared to Notepad++
- literally any foss player vs. what MS offers - be it VLC, SMPlayer, MPV, anything is better than windows built in crap
- ImageGlass, Nomacs, Gwenview, etc. vs. MS Photos - same as above, windows picture viewer is now worse than ever while open source alternatives get better and better
- and plenty others, like Linux vs. Windows, lol
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 1 week ago:
I was looking at simple 2 bay home NAS and Synology was - quite logically - one of the contenders. Now I’m glad I ordered differently. Went with Asustor AS5402, which might be not as polished package as a Synology option, but they’re very open about it and say it’s just regular PC so you can instal e.g. TrueNAS if you want. This openness convinced me.
- Comment on Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed 'dangerous and dumb' | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Given how dumb current GOP is I’d say it’s gonna be terrorist children.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant 2 weeks ago:
I’m shocked!
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
It just stopped receiving updates, even security ones.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
Well, how’s it supported? This is usually what kills these phones. Even brand like Xiaomi dump their non-flagship model really soon. I have one, bought as a new model, was officially supported for like a year. Great.
- Comment on i took an iq test and it was nice and i took my time doing it but the answer was 86, is that bad?? 1 month ago:
86? That’s like the double of our entire company management combined! You’ll do good.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 month ago:
I’m no expert, but I’ll give you my two cents. I play bass guitar and there are two types of connectors between amplifier and speaker cabinet. First one is plain barrel jack, second one is Neutrik. I’ve been talking with local amp maker and he said something like this: "jack is fine with low wattage, but with more power you’d do better with neutrik - it has much larger contact area " So I believe this is similar problem. We were speaking like 400-600W of power where jack starts to be worse. How about vacuum cleaner or kettle? Or similar appliance that can do 2kW… Small contact and higher drain means more heat generated in that spot.
- Comment on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company is 'out of GPUs' to which I reply 'welcome to the party, pal' 1 month ago:
Planescape is awesome. The only game that came close to its story (and one I’ve played) is Disco Elysium, which is quite a feat. Given how DE is praised everywhere.
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 1 month ago:
Nobody recommended Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines yet. You should definitely try this one. It’s a bit like old Deus Ex in gameplay, has excellent atmosphere and soundtrack. One of my top recommendations.
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 2 months ago:
There’s still bundle on Fanatical, where you can get Prey and couple more games for like $5.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 months ago:
Do you drive it with family?
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 months ago:
If I was alone, this would be an option. With family, not so much. I’ve heard horrible stories, struggling to go uphill with 4 people on board, etc. And I live in a hilly area.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 months ago:
It’s a cool car, yes. Too small for me, but cool as fuck. Used ones are affordable, but it’s still 34k € new, which is not cheap at all.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 months ago:
Not a single one of them is available where I live. And once I checked them, they’re not really family cars I was hoping for.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 months ago:
Gimme cheap, simple and reliable EV with guaranteed 200km range and I’m sold. I don’t need bazillion of cameras inside and out, I don’t need glass roof, I don’t need always online maps for a subscription fee (obviously I have that on my phone for free already) and I don’t need 20" infotainment, neither I need 3 zone AC with ventilated seats and ballsack massage device, etc. I just want a Dacia of EV market.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I presemu you’re either not Japanese or you actually are Japanese outlaw.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m no genius, far from it to be honest. But I went through most parts of high school without studying because I somehow remembered stuff being talked about in class. I just recalled how the teacher said required thing and what they were connected with. It was enough to get average grades.
Uni was a bit different. I had huge problems with classes focused on just memorizing stuff. Lectures was not mandatory and most teachers were terrible at explaining stuff so I ended up missing most of those as it gave me zero benefit.
To pass the exams I had to really understand some basic procedures where applicable (math, economics, etc). And I mean really understand to what’s going on and why, not just memorizing equations. Once I grasped the basic concept it was often quite easy actually (I wasn’t aiming for As) because everything made sense out of sudden.
That’s why memorizing heavy classes were such a pain for me. There were usually no such “basics” where you can build upon. I had a classmate which was exact opposite of me. She could memorize a whole lecture book over night just by reading it once or twice. And I mean memorize like basically she could start to finish it word by word. Did she know what she was saying/writing? Often times not, but as long as the exam was written, she had straight As because she just wrote whatever the teacher wanted to be there. IDK if she had photographic memory or what, but it was completely mind boggling to me, exactly like your roommate is to you. Maybe they function the same?
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 3 months ago:
It always saddens me that Bethesda totally derailed past Morrowind. That was a masterpiece of a game, but ever since then it’s all just plain worse, dumbed down experience. Don’t get me wrong I still kind of like Oblivion, it’s not a bad game, but compared to Morrowind it’s just piece of shit. Haven’t even tried Skyrim as I fear it’s even more streamlined “experience for average Joe”…
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 3 months ago:
I finally got to Pillars of Eternity. (Not very surprisingly) It gives me strong Baldurs Gate 1 vibes, and it is pretty good so far.
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 3 months ago:
I played it this time of year last year, also first time. It’s pretty solid, much better than FO3 which felt too shallow…
- Comment on Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan 5 months ago:
It’s ugly AF and totally breaks the concept. At least that’s what I think about it.
- Comment on Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan 5 months ago:
Does it really have plexi/glass side/top? Why on Earth?
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 5 months ago:
Bitwarden client is FOSS same as Keepass, though. Why aren’t you afraid of Keepass having backdoor by “insert whatever big corporation sponsoring FOSS” giving said companies free access to your passwords you happily store in their clouds?
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 5 months ago:
Dude, how is bitwarden hosting your own, locally encrypted (in FOSS client) password database any different than using keypass and syncing it however you want?
I don’t even use Bitwarden myself, I’m using keepass too, but this attitude is … weird?