Lemzlez

@Lemzlez@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily, it can mean disabling aircon, driving the lower speed limit, taking a flatter route, etc

  It’s not always about quality or performance, you want cars to be comfortable too, which is why you have to make tradeoffs. One thing hypermilers sometimes do is taping the seams on the hood, door, etc to improve aerodynamics. You could make a car from factory without seams in the body, but you won’t sell very many unless you can convince people to crawl in through a window.

  Other things may be prohibitively expensive, or not durable, so you make tradeoffs. As efficient as possible while staying within the chosen price class and providing a certain standard of comfort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a few diesel cars that can reach that distance on one tank (though it requires hypermiling)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree it’s safer to let them pass, but a medical (or personal) emergency does not give you the right to endanger other people on the road by driving fast and/or recklessly. That’s why they paint priority vehicles in bright colours and put flashing lights on them - to make it safer for everyone.

  If you have a medical emergency, you call an ambulance. Yes, they will have to drive to you first, but care starts when they arrive. If the emergency isn’t big enough to get an ambulance, there’s no reason to drive fast either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did a simple phone call become so problematic?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your body language can indicate you’re formulating a response, which makes people less impatient.

  On a call there’s no body language so if you don’t say anything for a bit people get annoyed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many such cases⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  iDEAL sounds a lot like Bancontact/Payconic in Belgium.

  Which doesn’t do everything Paypal does either. Others have mentioned the buyer protection, but there’s also multiple payment methods you can link to it, subscription management, and one-click payments (where it also enters your address for shipping) - and crucially: available worldwide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protect your PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure the gpu BIOS is limited by default, nothing the OS can do about that.

  Same for other parts like the cpu - core voltage is determined by the motherboard.

  I doubt the os can just go “2V vcore” and blow up hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cure has been found⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally