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ch00f , (edited )

Yeah, but the same is true for .kkrieger which is more impressive imo.

ch00f ,

Thx

ch00f ,

I just want an EV company to make the equivalent of a shitty Toyota Prius.

ch00f ,

How did you feel about the L3 charging rate? 50kW isn’t super fast.

ch00f ,

If you want to spite this guy, ride a bus.

ch00f ,

Techbros love reinventing trains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5M7Oq1PCz4

ch00f ,

Yeah, but he’s right about that part. Hybrid cars are just BEVs with more steps that can’t be recharged at home. Maybe useful for planes and other specific applications. Dumb for cars.

ch00f ,

What a coincidence that the best broadcaster who ever lived or will ever live happened to be alive in time for us to record him and immortalize his voice to use for generations to come.

That's why we're doing this, right? Because there's no other human alive who is capable of reading a script as well?

ch00f ,

You could even use one from the 1940s if you want!

Assuming your tuner was manufactured later than around 2005 and supports ATSC digital broadcasts. Also makes me wonder when you got your TiVo. I thought they were dead long before everything went digital.

ch00f ,

Huh. Didn’t know TiVo was still around.

We use a Tabo at home. Like TiVo, but primarily for network access from phones/media streamers. Has a similar lifetime subscription too.

ch00f ,

Handling a pet peeve of mine. 3 seconds into the video, he talks about induction stovetops and shows a picture of a glass top radiant stove.

Radiant stoves are just slightly better than electric resistive stoves. They are not induction though they can look similar. People try them and hate them and assume induction is terrible when it isn't.

ch00f ,

Yeah, mine can boil a liter of water in 101 seconds at 450ft altitude.

I had a unique opportunity to directly compare my infrared cooktop (which I mislabeled as resistive) and my new induction cook top, so I did a little experiment to compare them: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/seaint/for_anyone_contemplating_upgrading_from_an/

TLDR: It boiled water in half the time using roughly half as much energy. Part of that may be due to the test pot being smaller than the burner, but this was the case for both stoves. It's just the induction doesn't heat the space around the pot.

ch00f ,

They should have aimed at the non-stainless steel portion. Pretty sure you could wipe this up easy with some acetone or gasoline as a solvent.

ch00f ,

Wasn’t there a bounty out like 10 years ago for writing an open source alternative to the video drivers? I remember reading about that.

ch00f ,

You can also request all of your posts on Reddit in a neat little csv. Takes about a month to get though.

ch00f ,

Took a looong time, but I eventually got mine. I think it might have even been more than a month. They are certainly in no rush.

ch00f ,

When the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift first came out, the rift didn’t yet have full-room support. You had to sit facing the base station and use a video game controller. Meanwhile, on Vive, you could stand up, walk around, and manipulate the world with two tracked remotes.

One pro-con comparison I read at the time actually listed needing to walk around the room as a con against HTC. That is the whole point of VR.

I think the core issue is that every piece of new technology so far has helped us get lazier. People used to walk around an office, then they sat at a computer, now they carry their computer with them and do things from the couch.

Nobody wants to get up to do things if they can avoid it, and that’s the only real benefit VR/AR provides.

ch00f , (edited )

Issue is that if I remember correctly the vive was an outside-in concept that required base stations to be setup

But that wasn't the complaint levied. They were literally complaining about needing to walk around.

And for many of that it is just fine to sit on a couch and still have a benefit from the technology.

But everyone knows the people watching at home on traditional 2D TV get the best view. Zooms on the players/performers, slow-mo recap, etc. I can't imagine the nausea of having your entire field of view warped across the court to see every special angle. Not to mention, until whatever VR app has a plug in for every thing you'd want to do on your phone while you're watching the game, you're stuck paying 100% of your attention to the sport.

Hell, even the people at the concert or sporting event spend half their time on their phone.

ch00f ,

If you are really super deep into the ecosystem and the AR pass through is that good, then I can see it working. On Oculus, I often find myself peering through the gap by my nose to see whatever notification or whatnot on my phone. Apple Vision can fix that.

Though you still have to contend with the comfort factor. It’s a lot to wear on your face when you’re supposed to be casually enjoying content for hours at a time. Heaven forbid you care about how your hair looks.

ch00f ,

Does anybody remember back in 2005 when Google had a plugin for windows xp that would index your entire hard drive and give you quick search for your files?

How things have changed.

ch00f OP ,

Don’t worry. The next paragraph provided an email address where you can send reports of inaccuracies for them to review.

ch00f OP ,

I think these companies enforce compliance by hiding behind the fact that insurance fraud is a felony most places.

ch00f OP ,

Yeah, but good luck filing a claim when you haven’t logged in for months.

ch00f OP ,

Let me rephrase: “good luck having your accident claim accepted when they’ve been billing you for the zero miles you’ve allegedly been driving.”

ch00f OP ,

Well most of the suggestions in this thread constitute malice.

I think it’d be pretty easy to argue that something is fishy when the phone that’s supposed to be tracking your driving wasn’t with you on the date of your accident and hasn’t moved since you started your policy.

ch00f ,

I don’t understand! Where do you think the train is going to go? They don’t exactly come out of nowhere.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8a06de68-906c-41cd-b028-367d88d3f5b6.jpeg

ch00f ,

She was actually made up to be pretty ugly for most of the first season, but they hotted her up at the end as the result of some magic shit.

I watched it once four years ago, so don’t remember the details.

ch00f ,

Most aunts I know primarily use an iPad or phone to manage email.

ch00f ,

We ship a $50k instrument product running Windows, and everyone hates it.

As the only EE on staff, I got to spend a portion of covid soldering TPM chips to motherboards. Fun times.

ch00f ,

I loathe to be the BestBuy employee who sells a Linux box to a customer who only cares about the price difference.

ch00f ,

Also helps that Valve isn’t porting source to Apple silicon.

ch00f ,

Yeah, they were tssop, so not hard. It was only necessary because the parts shortage crunch had the vendor shipping them without the chips installed.

ch00f ,

Walked into Target today. It was the least gay Target I’ve ever seen. Wondering if they’re reacting to the feedback.

ch00f ,

I’m in Seattle, so nobody’s boycotting Target here.

ch00f ,

Yeah but that actually works tho

ch00f ,

Apple released a native x86 version of Tiger with their first Intel Macs.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

ch00f ,

What’s funny is that’s how it started. Apple sold movies as early as 2007 before Netflix or Amazon video or whatever and expected you to host the files locally either on your computer or your AppleTV (which had a hard disk drive at the time) and stream it locally over iTunes. If you lost the file, that was supposed to be it.

Of course, you still had to authenticate your files with the DRM service, and eventually they moved libraries online and gave you streaming access to any files you had purchased.

ch00f ,

Nope. Destroying currency in a manner that does not constitute fraud is not illegal in America.

ch00f ,

When it comes to things that are trivial to include but locked behind exorbitant paywalls (i.e. heated seats), I agree.

However, range/battery capacity is the primary price differentiator for EVs and also the primary cost for manufacturing. Finding a way to offer options that suit the needs of different people at varying prices just allows more people to enter the market.

to become the de facto standard

I feel like it might be nice to have a sliding scale of ranges available for people who have a sliding scale of needs. If I need a second car strictly for my 20 mile commute, it might be nice to have an option to pay less for 100 miles of range over 200. And I assume if a market is established for low-range EVs, manufacturers will compete with each other on how to deliver that for the best price. Perhaps if the market is large enough, Tesla will find it better to actually remove the extra batteries and put them in other cars.

ch00f ,

You are not required to purchase your vehicle from Tesla. I mean, we're butting up against the primary tenets of capitalism here. I'm a socialist personally, but if there's one thing that capitalism is supposed to do well in theory, it's find market efficiencies. Tesla appears to have found one here. If anybody else could sell a non-software locked smaller-battery version of a similar vehicle for a lower price, people would buy that one instead.

ch00f ,

Sure:

It's cheaper to manufacture and maintain a single version of a product. It's cheaper to ship and store a single version of a product. It's also easier to adapt to quickly changing market needs if you don't need to spend six months spinning up a production line for a different version of a product.

Also, the existing market for low-range EVs might not be large enough to justify the expense of maintaining a separate line.

If there is competition in the space, it's safe to assume that some portion of these savings are passed on to the customer to better edge out competitors over price.

If you want to be very charitable: wealthier people who can afford the full-range version are partially subsidizing the lower range (tighter margin) version for more budget-conscious consumers.

Edit: Especially when talking about the structural battery of the Model Y, it may help to understand how these packs are made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozesI3OZEG0

The batteries themselves maintain the rigidity of the pack. If they removed some, they'd have to slide some dead weight in there. Also, once the packs are sealed, it's impossible to remove a portion of the batteries without destroying the pack. These are designed features developed to reduce the overall weight and cost of manufacturing the pack.

ch00f ,

proprietary software gives the developer power over their users.

Agree here, but that's a much larger issue than just this particular pricing structure.

ch00f ,

I mean, they can just give the batteries away for free too, but most businesses have a vested interest in making money. In Tesla's case, they also have an interest in paying back the massive investment it took to get the first car off the lot.

Saying "they can sell the same battery" is ignoring the fact that they would not be able to sell the limited capacity version of the battery if nobody was buying the full capacity version.

ch00f ,

That just means they could be selling the full range version cheaper.

No. The additional price of the full-range version is partially subsidizing the lower priced version. People are willing to pay the current price for the longer range version, why would they lower the price?

ch00f ,

Why does that make it worse?

ch00f ,

Because there is no inherent link between the cost of manufacturing a product and the price at which it’s sold.

If they can sell it cheaper then do so. If they can't don't.

So if Tesla develops new technology that allows them to produce cars cheaper, should they be required to lower the sale price of their vehicles?

ch00f ,

They’re not destroying anything. The car can still be upgraded by either the current owner or the next one.

Ironically, you’re advocating for going through the effort of physically removing batteries to sell at a lower price. That’s closer to your headlight analogy. The car was designed to have a specific battery size, and the equipment is already built to make that size. It is not easy to physically alter the batteries at scale.

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