Jiral
@Jiral@lemmy.world
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 6 days ago:
The car share can be replaced with self driving cars, however if you make self driving cars more attractive than cars now, you’ll shift the balance and are heading towards more car centric and therefore more hostile and less attractive places again.
It is a nice fairy tale hat self driving cars are more space efficient. Real service patterns have shown that they fill up road infrastructure more than regular cars as they will do either fill up trips or need to drive everything twice. Also, making use of these fancy advantages (higher speeds, shorter breaking distance, dynamic crissings without traffic lights) make roads much more pedstrian hostile, more highway like.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 1 week ago:
And self driving cars will do nothing to change anything. I you push for them, more than for cars currently, cities in the Netherlands will be much worse places and traffic will get much worse as well.
Cars are of course part of the mobility equation, especially in rural regions with small settlements. 1 hour connections can still be perfectly fine for commuting but it can only be a supporting service there. The story is completely different one as soon as you get anywhere close to any major city. In the Netherlands, most people live in such locations.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 1 week ago:
A city built for cars (no matter if “self driving” or not) has to be built much more spread out. Distances for everything multiply. At the same time that spread out infrastructure leads to heavily mono-directional traffic, making rush hour load much worse.
That is why people in car only cities aren’t any faster than cities well designed for public transit.
- Comment on OG Console wars 2 weeks ago:
joke aside, the Hippodrome was your common low key football game, with betting and people going crazy. The Colloseum on the other side was a special occasion where you better looked your best and behaved. Hollywood never got the memo.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 2 weeks ago:
I thought it was pretty much general knowledge that Belgium was one of the most terrible colinial powers in europe?
I do see the lack of relevance of that for that football game though. It is like talking about the genocide(s) the US was built upon, just because of a football game.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 weeks ago:
This has absolutely nothing to do with wind power in France. The US pays a French company a lot of money to not build wind power in the US. Not France’s or Europe’s strategic problem.
France has massively increased renewable sources and is also in good position regarding EV transition.
No matter how you turn it, there is no reason to make oneself dependent on gas or oil from an openly hostile dictatorship in Moscow.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 3 weeks ago:
You should readjust your irony detector.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 weeks ago:
Personal traffic is currently shifted to electricity, so is home heating. Heavy rood traffic is currently the implementation of vehicles that can cover everything up to mid range. China is already getting into transition in that market too. Europe would be irresponsible not to follow.
What is left is rather small in volume. Making oneself reliant on an openly hostile Russian dictatorship which won’t waste a second to use that dependency as a weapon against France or Europe, is not necessay than anymore.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 weeks ago:
That’s exactly Russian propaganda. France doesn’t need “cheap energy” ftom Russia. It needs a sovereign reliable energy supply, one that pnly renewable energy (and possibly nuclear under certain conditions) can enable. France is working on this.
“Cheap energy” from Russia is also a lie. Putin’s vassal Orban didn’t get cheap energy either. Hungary did have higher energy prices abd much higher inflation than other EU member states.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 weeks ago:
His views go beyond dislike. He wants the EU functionally dismantled and that is why Putin doesn’t care if he or Le Pen make it to power.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 weeks ago:
Putin doesn’t really care if European countries ard governed by communists, fascists or whoever, as long as they are nationalists, working towards the balkanisation of Europe and the functional destruction of the EU because this is tge precondition to enable the next steos of Russian conquest and dlmination of Europe.
There are not only right Putinist parties in the EU. In Germany Wagenknecht is openly pro Russian and pretends to be left as well.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 weeks ago:
Left nationalist, if that makes any sense.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 weeks ago:
He also has opinions on the EU and those happen to be quite of the kind Putin approves.
- Comment on It's always the ones you expect 4 weeks ago:
It always happens that all those super correct and honest politicians get corrupted by corrupt and evil Brussels. Happened to the former interior minister of Austria as well, as soon as he became an MEP. /s
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 4 weeks ago:
It really depends where you are and also if you are in a dense city or on the countryside. Climate Change has made an impact on that as well.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 4 weeks ago:
Because they can. It really is just a cartell. Especially institutions pay a fortune for bundled access.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 4 weeks ago:
Welcome to the world of scientific publishing, long before AI. Except authors even have to pay g free or creating “content”, and reviewers are expected to work for free.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It has to be shipped to the US as well. Shipping isn’t a meaningful extra cost. But you have to compare netto prices with US prices. The Euro price is lower than the USD price.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
AAA totles work just fine at 1080p, possibly even on 1440p at optimised settings (and games come with optimised settings on Stream). The 4k claim was a lie.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
A 5070ti mobile is not a 5070ti. the makor thing is 4GB more VRAM, performance wise hiw much stronger is it at 60W GPU TDP? Maybe 25%?
That laptop is also 25% more expensive with an inferior and louder cooling system. The screen is redundant for the living room, 16GB RAM on Linux are still ok for gaming, this isn’t Windows. SSD capacity is inconcenience but not a oerformance issue.
So yeah, I would say, the laptop is certainly comoetitive performance wise but it is not a rrpkacement for a compact silent living room PC.
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 4 weeks ago:
Weather forecast currently is 12-18C in a week ;p
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 4 weeks ago:
I am going to fly to Finland ;)
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 4 weeks ago:
What off the shelf part is less expensive and can deliver that performance at 110 W TDP (CPU+GPU) in this form actor?
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 4 weeks ago:
A system with CPU+GPU TDP of 110W at comparable (or better) performance, at this size, at comparable silence under full load? This thing is designed for the living room so these things matter to more than a few.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t really a mass product like a (subsidised) PS5. Have a look at what a Ryzen Max 385 with 32 GB board costs. RAM is only a part of that SSD is another one (both went through the roof). They aren’t doubling the price but they certainly pushed it beyond 1000 USD/ EUR. They are also probably the reason why much less of the thing will be available than planned. Before the madness started, maybe Valve targeted 700-800 USD or so.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 5 weeks ago:
Full price at 0 EUR shipment on 1EUR order? By which magic can that cover shipment across the world, no matter how it is done?
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 5 weeks ago:
Wrong. The micro orders via Ali Express standard shipping to Austria are sent by the Austrian post, the same company sending any other letter.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 5 weeks ago:
I am talking about Austria because to compare it with other parliamentary democracies it helps to chose one concrete example, you can chose another one if you like. How about Germany, the largest member state. There Parliament’s position in this regard is actually weaker than in Austria.
I have no idea where you are coming from but you seem to lack knowledge how parliamentary democracies work if you hold the completely outlandish view that they are on the same level as the Chinese system in terms of democracy.
Back to the EU Commission. Its election is obviously a system where both, the Council / member states and the EP hold power. (“election” is the word in the treaties btw) This is by design. Power is not centralised. It is common in parliamentary democracies that parliaments elect/consent on members of the government but don’t choose them. However government with members that are not to the liking of a majority in Parliament won’t be elected/voted into power. The same is the case in the EU and there is precedent for that as well. The vote on VdL yielded a paper thin majority im the EP and only because VdL was giving the EP concessions in return. If the EP targets candidates as not acceptable they will not make it into the Commission. Again, there is precedent for that.
If that sounds like Chinese dictatorship to you, half the democracies (ie all parliamentary democracies) on earth are in reality a Chinese style dictatorship. Seriously?
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 5 weeks ago:
The EU commission is elected by the directly elected European Parliament based on suggestions by the Council/member states. The Commission can be voted out of office anytime when it loses support in the European Parliament.
The Austrian government is elected by Parliament based on suggestions by the Chancelor candidate (the latter chosen by the President). The parliament can vote the government out of office anytime.
According to you the one thing is utterly undemocratic while the other is not. ok.
The EU Commission is not the EU, but it is its executive and administration. I f you just kill that, you let everthing derail. Bureaucracy is a dirty word but there without it political entities implode.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 5 weeks ago:
“Materially speaking is more expensive to send a letter next town than a packet from something like aliexpress.”
That is wrong. The microdeliveries are sent as letters. So they are literally a letter from next town (just even longer distance) + a consolidated flight freight from the other side of the globe. The last leg alone creates more costs than the entire product plus shipment is purchased for.