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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard good things about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll keep an eye out, but yeah looks like I shouldn’t get in line quite yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If they had made an event Tacoma I would have bought that instantly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a common argument, but the vast majority of people at home do not carry gravel or sand on a weekly basis. What they need is a rental truck for those items. The cost of 100k is ludicrous. Comparing to a rental truck you would need to be carrying raw material like that on average 2x a week to even break even with the payments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What I wanted was a nice little ranger style truck - 2 seater, can pick up some lumber, decent sized bed, for in my garage. What they made was a giant crew cab monstrosity that takes up 2 parking spaces and costs 2x what I would have spent.

  Car companies keep trying to tell us customers what we want then are surprised when we don’t buy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Another on the list for “no marketers, I refuse to get hyped about anything when your company is probably just going to kill the project”

• [LTT / YouTube Drama] "What happened to Linus Tech Tips with followup in description
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapflation: The Kroger brand "shake and bake" seasoning no longer comes with the bag to shake it in 😠⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing those seasoning crumbs are a pretty standard mixture, one that is easily googled, and can be bought for pennies compared to that bag. Some olive oil, that seasoning, and a bug bowl and you could have weeks of it ready to go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapflation: The Kroger brand "shake and bake" seasoning no longer comes with the bag to shake it in 😠⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve lived long enough where I definitely see this as the reason.

  It starts with one person saying “hey wait, if we do this thing we waste a little less!”. Good intentions and idea. It grows and catches on. Companies see that and see the triple hitter: they can

  • reduce overhead costs by not doing the wasteful thing
  • go on a PR blitz making it look like they’re doing amazing things, people clapping all the way
  • continue charging the same amount.

  Happens all the time. Tipping is the best example. You feel bad for the driver or server so you tip a little more. Companies see this and make it easier for you to tip, saying they really value their workers and want to let you tell them. Meanwhile they do nothing for actual pay, screwing you and the employees at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is that they’ve completely bent over to shareholders and shareholders are both A) non tech people and B) believe AI will print money for them.

  A company with a backbone would say “No you know what, this is insane and it’s clear customers aren’t biting. We will win long run if we make quality products people want”. Instead they bend over to shareholders and, from my understanding they say something like “deeper plz”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latitudes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many colors on a map looks busy, as long as none are touching with the same color then it’s good. In fact, the fewest number of colors you can use without any touching is usually the best

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Very high resolution indeed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Recognize that anywhere. From Pink Floyd’s P.U.L.S.E. live show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not crying, you are!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These were always sweet, especially having friends in the military and being there for a couple.

  Then influencers caught on and started taking them. I swear to God I’ve seen AI ones now. Absolutely ruined the heartfelt videos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen way way way too many marketers try to fluff up https as “encrypted”. They clearly heard a keyword and they go off the walls like they’re the most secure company that ever existed. Usually just a single follow up question like “is it encrypted at rest” or “is my data encrypted with a different key than other users”, or even “does your company have the ability to decrypt it” falls flat on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ostris/Z-Image-De-Turbo · A De-distilled Z-Image-Turbo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ostris/Z-Image-De-Turbo · A De-distilled Z-Image-Turbo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for explaining!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ostris/Z-Image-De-Turbo · A De-distilled Z-Image-Turbo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupid question, what is a distilled model?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk if I’d say nosedived. It dipped for sure, but it hasn’t cratered. It’s not a GoT season 8, that was a nosedive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s more just how I discovered him, the YT algo pushed him to me for quite a while which made me really skeptical of him. His content is decent like you said, but I’m always wary of people the algo pushes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨India is ordering Apple and Android phone makers to preinstall a state-owned app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thought is good, but if life has taught me anything it’s that it’s only a matter of time until someone new takes over and uses it for their nefarious purposes. Forcing it is never a good option, it should be opt in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m always on the fenc with Drew Gooden, but this is a good one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Busted box inside of a pristine Amazon box⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an aside, I have that coffee maker and love it! See if there’s a local coffee shop, here in my city it was stocked and they even let me try a cup from there

  Oh as an aside, the coffee comes out SUPER weak at the beginning, where I thought it was broken. Give it 20-30 shots/cups and it’ll start tasting more normal. I’ve had mine for 3 years now and love it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly they all suck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ostris/ai-toolkit: Added support for Training LoRAs for Z-lmage Turbo With De-Distill Training Adapter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  holy shit, that’s really good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posts about storage being removed from /c/selfhosted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Torn about this one. The rules do explicitly say about selfhosting, the software specifically. So, yeah against the rules. However, I think that’s pretty pedantic when we’re talking about an average of 6 posts a day, quite a ways from spam. Storage is a natural issue when it comes to selfhosting, choosing which storage can have large ramifications on how your services run above.

  It’d be nice if they at least removed it with a suggestion, like where to post it instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ostris/ai-toolkit: Added support for Training LoRAs for Z-lmage Turbo With De-Distill Training Adapter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll have to keep an eye on it, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ostris/ai-toolkit: Added support for Training LoRAs for Z-lmage Turbo With De-Distill Training Adapter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought we couldn’t do training until the base model was released?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creator of Original Thomas the Tank Engine Mod for Skyrim Puts Thomas in Morrowind in Defiance of 'Legal Threats'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lawyers and marketers who refuse to see nuance and view everything as a potential threat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Create Art for a Book?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A big note that it’s nigh impossible to put two separate characters in one image, as the model has no idea who you are referencing. You can see this in all image models how they usually only have one central person, or two people who look oddly alike. Only way to get two or more characters would be with complex workflows to inpaint certain characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, other companies have thought the same and they’re sheepishly realizing that’s not realistic. Let us know how it goes