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- Comment on Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset 1 week ago:
That is my current solution. Currently enjoying Factorio, which had the perfect monetization scheme: you buy the game.
- Comment on Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs? 2 weeks ago:
Solar panels on the roof and hood of a car are dubiously useful. This car has panels on the sides of the doors? Those aren’t going to get a fraction of the light the roof ones will. This just looks like someone tried to shove as many on as possible with zero thought into the efficacy of the idea.
- Comment on Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs? 2 weeks ago:
A few of them have. The core issue is it doesn’t add much range, while at the same time adding more cost, weight, and complexity. On a sunny sunny day you can expect to get single digit kilometers added to the range, while on a cloudy winter day you won’t get even a full kilometer added.
They do make some sense on hybrids, as they are lighter so the range increase is a bit more and people are less likely to charge a hybrid. But, they still suffer from not adding much range, while adding cost, weight, and complexity.
- Comment on Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone? 3 weeks ago:
Everyone simply saw the yellow ones them as neutral toned. It’s a nice contrasting color to show the emotion; they have always done a good job representing everyone while serving their goal: to convey emotion.
The push for skin-representation in emoji’s always struck me as weird since they already represented everyone. I rarely see people using them who aren’t a bit too focused on skin color in their day-to-day life.
- Comment on Why would the NA beer industry standardize on a bottle shape that's grotesquely inconvenient, topples with minimal force, and doubles the required volume to ship? 3 weeks ago:
This is the standard beer bottle shape in the US:
- Comment on ASUS reveal the ROG Ally X with more RAM, more storage, larger battery 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there is a reason everyone talks about the Steam Deck, it’s an actually good device that Valve put a bunch of effort into making soild. There is also the problem that many of these other handhelds, like the ASUS one, are running an OS full of background processes constantly sapping your battery. Again, Valve put a bunch of effort into making the Steam Deck good and it shows.
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 1 month ago:
From my experience, nothing. I’m not sure what the guy is complaining about.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 month ago:
You don’t get to do something shitty then expect everyone to be happy. If you want that, they shouldn’t have done the shitty thing in the first place.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Providing a decent vegan option is easy
Considering even a caesar salad (cheese) and Jell-O (gelatin) are not vegan, providing vegan options really isn’t particularly easy. Most events will have vegetarian options without even thinking about it. However, vegan options require very explicitly thinking about what is offered. Meanwhile, group event planning is already a PITA without such heavy restrictions.
- Comment on What 11in laptop do you suggest? 2 months ago:
If you are OK bumping up to 13", Framework makes extremely good laptops.
- Comment on Why bag the hydrant? 2 months ago:
My guess is to keep water from getting into the threads and freezing them shut.
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 2 months ago:
Kinda. IIRC, if it is fertilized it doesn’t really work as a drug.
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 2 months ago:
It’s also easier to make than cannabis. Alcohol will ferment in nature, you literally don’t have to do anything to make (crappy) alcohol. Good luck banning that, we tried once, went even worse than the war on drugs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
a country that pushed for independence partly on the basis of unfair taxation going on to establish a tax system that practically requires you to pay a fee to pay your tax is just chef kiss
There are many free federal filing options, such as filing directly to the IRS via the mail or by using a third party service like Free Tax USA.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Depends on what goes into your taxes. Turbotax forces fees on you if you need certain forms. An actual free federal tax service is something like Free Tax USA which simply has an optional state filing for $15.
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 5 months ago:
PS2 is STILL my only DVD player. Why fix what ain’t broken?
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I own some metal straws, they are pretty great to use. The main issue is cleaning them. You cannot just throw them in a dishwasher, you have to use a pipe cleaner. That’s a level of manual effort that restaurants probably don’t want to take on.
- Comment on Is there an imagehost like imgur or imgbb that supports avif or jxl files? 7 months ago:
I like them a lot (enough to donate). Just a simple place to upload direct links to files. Every other service puts some BS UI around the file link.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 7 months ago:
Supposedly in Spring 2024, Bolts will have their integration complete and you will be able to purchase a CCS2 to NACS adapter that will allow your Bolt to charge at a Tesla charger.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 7 months ago:
Tesla stations have the most reliable charging locations by a large margin. Unfortunately basically every other charging company has decided reliability isn’t important.
The good news is most cars will be able to work with Tesla chargers in the next year or so. Not sure what car you have, but look up when they are adding support for your vehicle.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
generally only gangsters had automatic weapons
Production of automatic weapons for civilians has been outlawed since ‘86. Very, very few civilians own automatic weapons.
- Comment on Will getting a digital bank account let my government track my online activity? 8 months ago:
That is broadly the case with any bank account, credit, or debit card. The ‘digital’ part of a digital bank account just means there isn’t a physical bank location to visit.
If you are worried about your government tracking the details of your financials, cash is the only option which cannot be surveilled easily.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 8 months ago:
To be fair, American is the most notable part of the United States of America’s country name. Calling them Unitedians would be silly, particularly with how prevalent ‘United’ is in full country names.
- Comment on Nowadays, on certain games and game launchers, you can play the game before its fully downloaded. How is possible? 8 months ago:
There are two main ways they accomplish this. The first is by downloading low resolution textures first. Games use low-res textures when you are far away from an object and use higher res textures as you get closer, which get swapped out in real time. By utilizing this system that is already in the game, they can simply not load the higher res texture if you don’t have it downloaded yet.
The second way is by not downloading assets that are only used in other maps. It can download the core assets for the game and not worry about assets that are used on maps you aren’t in. However, if you do enter one of those areas before the content there is downloaded, they need to add a system to either download that area’s assets first or tell you to run the downloader longer.
- Comment on What would it take to change an Internal Combustion Engine Car to an EV? 8 months ago:
The problem with batteries then was the only affordable ones were lead-acid, which just don’t have the energy density for such an application. Doing exactly what he did then, but now with lithium batteries, would yield 2x-3x the range.
- Comment on What would it take to change an Internal Combustion Engine Car to an EV? 8 months ago:
Adding a full rear axel with an electric motor and a simple “push while driving” setup.
This is probably the easiest way to turn an ICE into a plug-in hybrid. In addition to using much less petrol, it adds quite a bit of power for merging onto motorways.
- Comment on What would it take to change an Internal Combustion Engine Car to an EV? 8 months ago:
Aging Wheels is doing a video series on this exact question. He converts a Ford Escape to all wheel drive using two 450HP Tesla motors.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes? 9 months ago:
Gun manufacturers are also legally accountable to meet minimum safety standards for new guns. And they have been successfully sued when they have not met them. Guns must not fire when dropped, for example.
- Comment on What are some alternatives to bars that stay open late for folks that don't drink alcohol? 9 months ago:
Ain’t that the truth!
- Comment on What are some alternatives to bars that stay open late for folks that don't drink alcohol? 9 months ago:
Hanging out at your friend’s place with some board-games or movies. (cheaper too!)