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- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 10 months ago:
Btw I use Arch
- Comment on Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines. 11 months ago:
Better solution: leave their platform
- Comment on The origin of starfleet combat training. 11 months ago:
Omg that Gorn fight cracks me up every time - it’s like they forgot to speed up the tape in post-production youtu.be/4SK0cUNMnMM
- Comment on Oh hey, I heard Star Trek got mentioned on the news! Let's just go check and- 11 months ago:
And my Sync! Image
- Comment on Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake 11 months ago:
Android & IOS have an emergency alert system that the government can use if they want to.
- Comment on UK firm develops jet fuel made from human poo | The starting material is generated in excess and available in plenty. It is a win-win for everyone that the waste is repurposed. 1 year ago:
You certainly can, with proper carbon emissions taxation. But you can’t stop said people from voting for parties that advocate unrealistic pipe-dream technological solutions like poop jets and full-scale CCS, rather than parties who make them take the red pill and face reality and the consequences of their actions.
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 1 year ago:
Ok it sounds like what you experienced was caused by something completely different than detecting an audible difference between Spotify’s 320 kbps AAC encoding and lossless encoding, encoded over a 256 kbps AAC BT codec, but if you actually want to do a true A/B blind test of 320 kbps vs. lossless on your setup, here’s the place to do it:
abx.digitalfeed.net (select the first link - “The statistically valid Tidal test to make”)
- Comment on Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma 1 year ago:
Adobe XD got AXD xD
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 1 year ago:
Do you realize AirPods Max/iPhone is capped at AAC/356 kbps over BT, and needs DAC -> ADC -> DAC to use a wired connection?
- Comment on the best feeling 1 year ago:
The format is that of a skewed aspect ratio.
- Comment on Japanese experimental nuclear fusion reactor inaugurated 1 year ago:
IAEA’s estimate is that Nuclear fusion, if successfully researched and demonstrated at full capacity within 2036 at ITER (which is already lagging behind schedule) will result in commercial availability in 2050. So yes, we are still decades away from putting it to use.
- Comment on You guys need to stop 1 year ago:
Totally made up claim, the average passenger car age is 12.2 years in the US, and 12 years in Europe. BMW market share is 2.4% in the U.S., 6.7% in Europe. Similar figures for Mercedes are 2.5% U.S. vs. 5% Europe.
- Comment on Solar energy storage breakthrough could make European households self-sufficient 1 year ago:
Yeah and what does that have to do with the Hydrogen being stored in gas form? The fuel cell converts it, it isn’t a storage mechanism. Hydrogen has a boiling point of -253C, are you saying that Hydrogen powered cars are fitted with a power hungry cryo chamber to cool down the fuel to a liquid form?
- Comment on Solar energy storage breakthrough could make European households self-sufficient 1 year ago:
They don’t? When the Toyota hydrogen cars were introduced here around 2015, one of the issues were that a full tank of gas would dilute through the tank walls within a week. From the marketing material of the latest Toyota Mirage, it seems that they still use Hydrogen stored in gas form, boasting improvements in a 3-layer tank that is tested for 235% of the pressure that the gas is stored at, compared to 150% for regular gas containers.
- Comment on Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM 1 year ago:
PHEV’s are getting reclassified/re-regulated by the EU, because:
- The stated average emissions are based on actually plugging in to charge, which most owners don’t bother with, considering electric propulsion only accounts for like 1/15 of the cars total range
- It has been regulated in a way that gave the manufacturer only small emissions penalty for increasing the motor size & weight of the car - because it was still considered to be electrically powered.
- The design itself leads to a heavier car (having 2 propulsion systems)
Meanwhile, the full EV market has been more self-regulating in the sense that they have kept the weight/energy requirements down in order be competitive on range.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years 1 year ago:
Why do I need to install Linux in order to install a WYSIWYG word document editor of my choice?
- Comment on meanwhile electron 1 year ago:
While I love it and use it wherever I can, TBF it’s mainly a frontend technology for people who are stronger in the .NET stack than the JS/TS ecosystem. The latter is miles ahead on tooling, size of the ecosystem and the pace of innovation/improvement.
- Comment on People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit... 1 year ago:
Yeah it’s a great car apart from the infotainment and related buttons, really firm handling and build quality like most other VW models.
- Comment on People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit... 1 year ago:
Try having an infotainment system that will just randomly disconnect and crash Android Auto every ~10 minutes. I don’t own a car myself, but instead use a non-profit car rental service, so I’ve tried my fair share of different manufacturers and models. The worst of them all is the one in Skoda Superb (VW group company), if you put it back from reverse into drive, it would normally just freeze the entire screen while still on rear camera, and the front sensors wouldn’t work. Then it would reboot the whole infotainment system after some minutes.
The worst physical interface can also be found in VW group cars, both VW ID3 and Cupra Born have a completely horrible capacitive touch button setup, which makes you unintendedly touch them when just holding the steering wheel, doing things like disabling lane control, changing cruise control etc. They said they chose them because they wanted to give a “premium feel”, which indicates they basically did zero user testing. At least they are changing to physical buttons for new models. The software is pretty bad as well, laggy and unintuitive menus. Their CEO recently resigned, and they’ve put $9 billion into increasing their developer team past 10k people, so I assume it has been acknowledged and will get better in newer models.
