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SeaJ OP ,

Most gas stations do not even really make much money on the gas. They more operate as convenience stores but offer gas too. The need for convenience stores won't change much around freeway exits. You will still need to charge going long distances and stop for a toilet break and snacks. But a good amount will close in cities. Over half the people will not need to be going to a charging station 99.5% of the time. People in apartments will likely still need to do fast charging for a while until apartment complexes are properly incentivized to install chargers.

SeaJ OP ,

I feel like people overestimate how much they actually drive most days and think that a simple level 1 charger could not possibly work for them. The average person drives a little over 30 miles per day. I know there are a myriad of people who will say they totally drive way more than that and their commute is more than that. K. A level 1 charger will charge a car 3-5 miles of range per hour it is plugged in. Overnight that is likely around 30-50 miles of range. That is kind of the idea behind this and the creator even said he made this because he lost a bet (almost certainly a lie but it gets the point across) where he was bet that he could easily go 6 months charging on a level 1 charger without having to visit a fast charge station (ignoring long weekend outings). The vast priory of people would only need to visit a fast charger once in a blue moon.

Sure, if you are the 1% of people having some crazy commute of 50+ miles, invest in a level two charger. And then with the money you are saving by not spending so much on gas, move closer to your work. But damn near everyone will be perfectly fine with simple level 1 charging. No need to spend a couple thousand to get a 240v line run. Plug it into an exterior outlet and call it a day. If you're in an apartment, send your landlord information on this. And in the meantime, charge up at fast charge stations once every few weeks.

SeaJ OP ,

I'm wondering how much this will help the handheld scene. N64 emulation is pretty notoriously shitty on many handhelds.

SeaJ OP ,

Yes, that was kind of my point. N64 emulation on handhelds often sucks. So being able to have games recompiled to be better optimized on something like the Miyoo Mini would be great. While it is cool for the PC because it can allow for enhancements much more easily, just getting games up and running at a minimum is not an issue for any PC made in the last decade or two.

SeaJ OP ,

I was actually going to pay for NSO solely to be able to play OoT on the Switch. Then I saw that it was a pile of emulated muddied crap.

SeaJ OP ,

It would also be great at something above 20 fps.

SeaJ ,

If you got it over antenna, it most definitely was not cable.

SeaJ ,

Mine ends in July. There are definitely some decent shows on Prime but I'm not going to spend an extra 25% to get the same shit and I'm not going to watch their ads. Products on Amazon are near worthless so there is not much value there.

SeaJ ,

Cue DeSantis banning this for being woke.

SeaJ OP ,

Just what I want from a platform designed for networking and job seeking: games.

SeaJ OP ,

Boss: Why are you on LinkedIn?

Me: I'm just checking up on my Farmville.

Boss: Oh okay. Carry on.

SeaJ ,

Fine them múltiples of whatever money they made from this. The only way companies stop doing things like this is if fine multiplied by the probability of being caught is more than what they stand to gain. Otherwise it is just a cost of doing business.

SeaJ OP ,

Who wants to go in with me on this?

SeaJ OP ,

Pop up a solar farm and you are good to go, baby!

SeaJ ,

You can find HP Proliant dl360 G8s and G9s for about that price if you want enterprise grade.

SeaJ ,

You can usually find HPs for cheaper although they are pretty picky on what they work with. For some reason, HP decided that it will work with stuff they have not certified but the fans will constantly be at 100%.

SeaJ ,

If they are up for that, I'd be happy to part with mine for cheap. They'd need to get an E5-2650 (v2) to meet their 16 core requirement but a pair of those are pretty cheap.

Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals (www.404media.co)

“Life-and-death decisions relating to patient acuity, treatment decisions, and staffing levels cannot be made without the assessment skills and critical thinking of registered nurses,” the union wrote in the post. “For example, tell-tale signs of a patient’s condition, such as the smell of a patient’s breath and their...

SeaJ ,

It really depends on how optimized the dataset is for the AI. If it is shitty, it will amplify biases or hallucinate. An AI might be able to give a patient more attention but if it is providing incorrect information, no attention is better than a lot of attention.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

SeaJ ,

I switched to Pop OS a year ago and the Nvidia drivers are fine. There are definitely some things that are a pain in the ass. My fingerprint scanner won't work even though it is in the list of ones that work in fprintd and I don't feel like going through the process of submitting a ticket and troubleshoot it. Getting some games to run properly in WINE can also be a pain. Overall though, I'm fine with it.

SeaJ ,

Alternatives would be Nutanix, Xen, CloudStack, Hyper-V, Proxmox, and moving more quickly to containers.

SeaJ ,

Why didn't they just put a dress and a wig on it if they are going to have it move like M3GAN?

SeaJ ,

Shitty products get shittier reviews. One bad review, even if it is by a big influencer is not going to kill a company. If a company has all of their eggs in one shit filled basket, reviewers are going to point out the shit and the company is not going to sell its eggs.

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images (www.bloomberg.com)

When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software last year, the company said the artificial intelligence model was trained mainly on Adobe Stock, its database of hundreds of millions of licensed images. Firefly, Adobe said, was a “commercially safe” alternative to competitors like Midjourney, which learned by...

SeaJ ,

I've seen Multiplicity enough times to know how this turns out.

SeaJ ,

You literally can. They are called signage TVs.

SeaJ ,

Because they are not getting any money off selling your data.

SeaJ ,

Then you will have to deal with their shitty, laggy UI. Signage TVs are not more expensive from what I have seen. They often have less features though like only 60 Hz and fewer inputs (mine only has two).

SeaJ ,

The prices are not bad on signage TVs and they sure as hell are not similar to Black Friday TVs. Black Friday TVs are known to have garbage parts. Companies are not going to put up with TVs that die quickly.

SeaJ ,

Can't find one with an OLED screen and I doubt there are any since that would likely lead to burn in. I can't see a use case for low latency (assuming for gaming) on a signage TV so likely no. But for watching content, they work fine.

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

SeaJ ,

Get a signage TV instead of a smart TV. Then you also don't have to deal with the slow ass UI.

SeaJ ,

Not sure I would call myself a power user. While I did have a few posts over 50k, I was not exactly creating a ton of content. Still got an email though and decided against investing.

SeaJ , (edited )

Well the Brave Twitter account is likely a bit biased toward the Brave browser. 🙂

I'm sure the others were impacted too.

Edit: Firefox installs jumped 50%.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/13/24100066/firefox-saw-an-increase-in-users-following-apples-default-browser-changes-in-the-eu

SeaJ ,

Don't worry, Firefox downloads in the EU have also skyrocketed.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/13/24100066/firefox-saw-an-increase-in-users-following-apples-default-browser-changes-in-the-eu

SeaJ ,

I have very few issues with Firefox. I fine across a site that does not render properly maybe once every other month. I did have some resource issues with it in Windows 10 with it using too much RAM (regularly using 3-4GB) but that has been fixed since I switch to Linux.

SeaJ ,

Link:

http://warrior.archiveteam.org/

Or if you want a container instead:

https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile

SeaJ ,

Windscribe has a free version that gives you 10GB/month worth of data. Some sites do block their IP addresses though but it is worth a shot.

SeaJ ,

If you have a spare drive, install Pop_OS! on it. Don't let people let you think that everything is a piece of cake. It can be a little frustrating. A lot of guides jump to "the rest of the fucking owl" or are made on older versions of software. Steam does make it easy but most games are not a matter of simply hitting install because they do not have a native Linux version. You have to right-click on the game, go to Manage, and then set compatibility to Proton (generally although some games need other settings added which you can often find in protondb.com). Is it worth? I like it. There are some basic things that can be annoying like my fingerprint reader not working even though fprintd supports it but I'm too lazy to make a bug report.

SeaJ , (edited )

Would you say it is about 1/365th the the distance of a light year? I wonder if there is a term for that...

SeaJ ,

Because SQLite is slow as balls. Use MariaDB and redis:

https://markontech.com/posts/setup-nextcloud-with-redis-using-docker/

Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there's been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...

SeaJ ,

The increase in Linux is actually from Apple. Both Linux and Windows usage increased while MacOS decreased.

SeaJ ,

Novaspirit Tech did a decent video on setup. He is using Proxmox but there should be the same settings in KVM.

https://youtu.be/LEyElt_yP50?si=KunfaO39wYYEgryL

SeaJ ,

That's more than Mint's unlimited plan. Are you only using 3GB of data? You could switch to Mint's 5GB/month plan for $180/year which is less than half of what you pay. The speed should be similar since they are both on T-Mobile's network. It might even be better since T-Mobile owns Mint now.

SeaJ ,

Does that also work in other countries in the EU?

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