Cargon

Cargon , 21 days ago

Better multimonitor support, VRR, and HDR are some of the promises I think. I want all of these things but not enough to switch away from Linux Mint. I'll be happy when Wayland makes its way in over the next couple of years.

Cargon , 23 days ago

Gets drenched in liquid nitrogen

Cargon , 21 days ago

If only MS used DuckDB then they wouldn't have such a huge PR disaster on their hands.

Cargon , 1 month ago

They definitely could have phrased this better. I think what they mean is that their level of confidentiality meets or exceeds local laws.

Cargon , 1 month ago

The Matrix

Cargon , 3 months ago

Who needs frames per second when we can have seconds per frame?

Cargon , 4 months ago

Wendy's arbitrage was not on my Bingo card.

Cargon , 4 months ago

This is ChatGPT to me:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/307cd38b-20aa-4a86-8024-736a784c0b62.jpeg

Cargon , 5 months ago

Realistically, I wouldn't soil my body with their taint. But pigs and chickens gotta eat too.

Cargon , 6 months ago

Another interesting contributing factor are safety regulations and their knock-on effects, which weren't immediately obvious when they were implemented.

For instance, in an effort to reduce pedestrian fatalities from frontal collisions, vehicles in the US were mandated to have at least three inches of crumple space between the hood of the car and the engine block. The thinking being that more crumple depth would help prevent fatalities and serious injuries that occurred when a pedestrian hit the hood of the vehicle, which would deflect, allowing those soft human bits to continue right into the (not soft at all) engine block.

Well increasing the height of the hood of the vehicle meant that they had to raise the A-pillar, which raised the height of the window opening on the doors, since the bottom of the side windows generally lines up with the hood on passenger vehicles. This meant that the side body panels of the vehicle just generally increased in size, and in an effort to maintain a proportional look, the wheels also had to increase in size otherwise they would look weirdly small. And to maintain a comparable amount of visibility out the windshield and side windows, the roof of the vehicle had to be raised to compensate for the new position of the window sill in the doors.

So something that was intended to just add an inch or two of height to the hoods of existing passenger vehicles to satisfy a safety need, ended scaling up the entire vehicle.