BartsBigBugBag
@BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf
- Comment on My outer walls are printing fine, but my infills are super wispy 1 year ago:
I think infill is just moving too quickly for the output of filament. You could try messing with the temperature to make it flow better, but since the outside looks okay, I would probably just try slowing down infill speeds, if it were me. Hope you get it sorted!
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 1 year ago:
I think you vastly overestimate how many people buy new cars. Most new cars are bought by the same group of people year after year. Almost 75% of cars purchased in America yearly are used. It’s really only a specific class of people who can afford to buy new cars. It is not the norm.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 1 year ago:
I mean, if you’re well off enough to buy a $30k car, you’re better off than most Americans anyway. What about those of us that couldn’t afford that, and instead are faced with the choice of taking out exploitative loans and paying for years, or keeping our high mileage, high MPG vehicles?
It seems there’s an assumption that everyone eventually has to buy a new car, but that’s not true. I can count the number of people in my life who have ever bought a new car on one hand. The rest rely on old junkers they replace every couple years because $2000/2yrs is significantly more affordable for someone in poverty than $30,000+ in one year, or $500/mo payments for 5.
Like for me, I spend $30/mo on gas. That’s it. I spend about $25/yr on oil changes, I spend $75/every 2 years on emissions. I’d have to save a hell of a lot more than just gas and upkeep costs to save even a single dollar, and even then I’m definitively losing money over just keeping my car because I will have to pay payments for years because I don’t have the money to buy a new car outright. Personally, I will never buy a new car, nor take a loan for Car, so that puts EVs even further out of my reach. Wheres the $5-10k EVs that are present in much of the world? I don’t want a 16” tv in my dash, or heated seats, or a vision system, or rain sensing windows. I want a bare bones car, with no luxuries, for as cheap as possible, that is as efficient as possible. My 15 year old Corolla is better than the majority of modern cars available in my country in nearly every respect that is meaningful to me than any EVs available for sale in my country, every way except emissions. Unfortunately, my economic security takes priority over individualist attempts to address climate change.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 1 year ago:
Man, I spend $30/month of gas. Electricity is gonna have to get a whoooole lot cheaper to justify at minimum $30,000 to purchase an EV. Maybe if we get rid of some of the protectionism and allow Chinese $10k EVs into the US I’d consider it.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 1 year ago:
What does a modern car get me over my 15 year old Corolla as far as reliability? Idk if I really need something that lasts longer, to be honest. I’ve put less than $1000 in this car other than wear items like tires in 15 years, and it cost less than $16k off the lot brand new. A new car would have to get like double the mileage or last a million miles without breaking down to be significantly better than mine.
- Comment on Can anyone explain "Good Burger 2" to me? why does anyone want to watch this? 1 year ago:
All That is pretty popular with my little brothers generation too, it’s on streaming and pretty funny. But I imagine it’s mostly nostalgia, for sure.
- Comment on The Analogue Pocket will soon come in eight Game Boy Pocket/Advance colors 1 year ago:
What is he shared?
- Comment on The Analogue Pocket will soon come in eight Game Boy Pocket/Advance colors 1 year ago:
Just because they’re both FPGA based products does not mean they’re equivalent. The Pocket can use its FPGAs to replicate dozens of different consoles and arcade units. It also has sleep mode and save states when using original cartridges.
Without adapters or OpenFPGA, the pocket can play GB, GBC, GBA original carts. With adapters, you can add in Neo Geo and Game Gear carts, and with open FPGA, you can add in NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, dozens of arcade units, and dozens more I’m just forgetting. I personally have DigDug, Q Bert, and all the ones I mention above on mine.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
D2R is very well done, definitely a great remaster.
- Comment on Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him — Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant 1 year ago:
Have you been in a South Korean plant? They famously have terrible working conditions, though they’re starting to fight back against that.
- Comment on TikTok permanently banned account for posting a few videos about the Israel- Palestine situation. 1 year ago:
Actually, part of the deal that allowed TikTok to stay in the US required their US branch to have US leadership. The leadership that was picked was mostly former intelligence agency people.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
Appreciate the book, I’ll give it a read, thank you!!
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
The US military hasn’t ever won an asymmetrical guerrilla war, so it’s not as absurd as you think. In that Instance, millions of people would likely die, but it’s still more likely that guerrillas survive for decades than it is the US wins.
- Comment on How System Shock's Reboot Wrestles With Adapting Its Legacy 1 year ago:
You can lean peek in Cyberpunk, it’s just not a well documented or advertised feature. That said, System Shock was definitely ahead of it’s time in many ways.
- Comment on lemmy.blahaj.zone has defederated from us - Lemmy NSFW 1 year ago:
Well it’s a good thing there’s already a place where you can do that!