GrindingGears
@GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Yahoo is selling TechCrunch 4 days ago:
It’s borderline unusable at this point. No one serious uses it.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X obtains $44bn valuation in sharp turnaround 1 week ago:
A fool and their money is easily parted. Whoever paid out these kinds of dollars for equity, the rest of the street is lolz at them
- Comment on Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Tesla ‘is the worst in the world’ at improving its technology for drivers 1 week ago:
Don’t disagree. Their direction as of late is confusing and seems pretty muddled. But that’s what happens when you have a sigma male at the forfront, who kneejerks their directions around like a toddler with ADD. They need to throw the morons and their board full of grifters overboard, and get back to it. There’s pretty clearly some smart people in that company, that is if they are still there, and probably not likely at this point.
- Comment on Tesla's latest decline could be one for the history books - $795 billion since Dec 17 or 53.7 percent 1 week ago:
Even before all of this, with that pay package. WTAF?
Apparently there’s quite the revolt brewing for their AGM. They probably can’t remove him before hand, because they need to turf the board here as well. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen something like this, arguably if even ever? It’s happened with lots of companies in the past, but not with one this high profile. At least that I can think of.
- Comment on Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Tesla ‘is the worst in the world’ at improving its technology for drivers 1 week ago:
They are going down the toilet, because they are distracted. Look, they were the most reliable EV, and they were at the forefront of the EV revolution. They built the most robust and reliable charging network (one of the key reasons we went with Tesla over Hyundai or other options), and flipped the automotive retail marketplace on their head.
But they also unfortunately have their hard work and progress overshadowed by a complete narcissistic manchild of a CEO. Who somehow controls the company with only 17% of shares held, who has a corrupt and compromised board on his side that will cater to his every little whims. A CEO who gets distracted, first with this Cybertruck nonsense, then X, then SpaceX, who then derails all innovation and future development with everyone focused on this autopilot distraction, and now all this. If I was a shareholder, I’d be furious. As a customer, I’m not sure I can rely on them anymore (could I ever?), so my future purchasing decisions will be made with that in mind.
What goes up, must come down I guess. Sigh.
- Comment on Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Tesla ‘is the worst in the world’ at improving its technology for drivers 2 weeks ago:
It’s nice of you to assume that everyone is as rich as all these virtue signalling celebrities. Yes musk is a piece of shit, no I’m not buying another one until they torpedo his ass, yes autopilot is a scam. But I also happen to like the car, it suits our lifestyle the best, it has a five star safety rating and I’m not a Nazi just because I bought a certain kind of car a couple of years ago. Do what you want to the dealers, go after the corporate people, but leave the innocent consumers alone. None of us asked for this shit either.
- Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO 4 weeks ago:
Inflation’s “sticky”. It took 5 years to get rid of COVID-related inflation, and it went up for quite a while before starting to go down. This is quite a bit more substantial, and it will take a long time for the effects on the overall broader economy to recede. The inflation itself will take about 1.5 years to fully work it’s way through the system, but there’s also going to be a larger scale contraction on GDP, which will very likely put the US and many of it’s trade countries into recession as well. This will likely have a negative impact on wages. The US is also very much going to have a supply problem, which is going to then also put upward inflationary pressures on a lot of products.
Anytime a government interferes or puts in measures that affect trade, positively or negatively, it throws everything out of whack.
- Comment on GameStop selling 500+ stores because of "woke". 4 weeks ago:
Nothing to do with the fact there’s three Funko pops to every game for sale, and they price their used games pretty much as high as new ones. Not to mention every time I’ve tried to buy a new game there, they then try to sell it to me without the wrapper taking the disc from who knows where.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding 4 weeks ago:
Facts, amiright!?
- Comment on Don't forget to undervolt your gpu and change fan curve 5 weeks ago:
I undervolted my 5800x3d (each core individually) and it cut the temps by quite a bit, without affecting performance. Actually if anything you could say the performance arguably increased because it was no longer the hot little hog it was ootb.
- Comment on Apple to use Chinese giant Alibaba’s AI in iPhones 5 weeks ago:
Ah so this is why ol Tim was greasing Trump up. I’m sure this will be a hit. What is he going to tarriff next, iPhones?
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 1 month ago:
It’s pretty gimmicky for sure. The electronic setup on my road bike is pretty finicky too, id rather cables to be honest, but it’s just the way everything is going. It especially sucks when you are at the door all geared up and ready to go, and realize that one of your batteries is dead.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 1 month ago:
Hell it takes me the rightful owner a fair bit of careful maneuvering to get that thing off the bars (my mount needs to be both twisted while having the release latch pressed). Someone would surely be getting a few smacks upside the head as they were trying to do that. A MIPS powered headbutt or two, as well.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 1 month ago:
Wait’ll you find out about ebikes!
I mean it’s all e-waste at this point. My bikes are all carbon, which ain’t recyclable, plus the shifting is all electronic, and yeah my eMTB is a ticking timebomb that will be otherwise useless if either the battery or motor quits.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 1 month ago:
Honestly with the way the cycling industry has brainwashed most of the bicycle enthusiasts, they will have bought six different bicycles in the time this takes to break.
Otherwise, your point stands. I’m more of a Garmin Edge guy though, personally.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 2nd 1 month ago:
I got super into it in the days after my daughter was born a couple years ago. I had a few weeks off work, so I was letting my wife get some sleep at night and I’d stay up playing Cyberpunk until the baby woke up and needed fed. I’m actually on the last mission on the main campaign, but for some reason still haven’t finished it.
- Comment on Apple reportedly excited to power Apple Intelligence with DeepSeek 1 month ago:
“I’m so excited!”
-The Boomers.
“Meh”
-Everyone else.
- Comment on Video game publishers are starting to use "anti-DEI" as a marketing meme 2 months ago:
Nothing screams, “I’m a piece of shit”, like basically putting on blast you are a piece of shit. I, too, never fully agreed with DEI as a whole. But I understand and appreciate the context and the point, and the necessity. It’s nothing to be mocked.
I also don’t look at the video game industry for inspiration though. Somehow the video game industry has a more rape-y and toxic culture than even the grimiest hockey dressing room. All that incel rage, I suppose.
- Comment on Best version of Pandemic boardgame on Android? 2 months ago:
You might be able to find the APK somewhere for pandemic. Might not work for the modern android builds, that’s likely what it is. That game was hard a f___.
- Comment on Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes 2 months ago:
I was a Bluesky fan, until it was announced they took money from Bain Capital last week. They’ll quickly be forced into monetization, and enshitification, thanks to their new corporate overlords. Who just happen to be one of the greasiest PE firms in existence.
Don’t put your blinders on folks.
- Comment on Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South 2 months ago:
Praise be. By his hand. May the Lord open.
Gilead voted for this…
- Comment on Sega considering Netflix-like game subscription service 2 months ago:
I would personally advise them not to, but Sega was never known as an astute business decision maker.
- Comment on favourite gameboy family games? 2 months ago:
I always had a soft spot for Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land. Also Tiny Tunes: Babs Big Break. The Final Fantasy Legends games are good too, I particularly liked the second one. The Pokemon games are clutch too. These are all original Gameboy games.
- Comment on Billionaire Waits Outside Supermarket To Fight Call Of Duty Fan 3 months ago:
I tried to read this article, but omg has Kotaku gotten awful. No thanks.
- Comment on Windows 11 takes a break on updates until 2025 | Digital Trends 4 months ago:
AI is the replacement for the paperless society.
Here we are all these years later of AI changing our lives, yet Google Assistant/Gemini still tells me it’s now streaming Madonna’s Vogue on Spotify, when I ask it to turn the lights on. AI’s chats are still a mix of commonly achievable search results (that you’d have just as quick if you typed it in yourself) and a bunch of mumbo jumbo that’s often quite wrong or misleading. Ask it to spit out a bunch of code, and that code is about as useful as peanut butter on a pile of vomit. Maybe you’ll get it to create a picture of people eating at McDonald’s, except they have beetlejuiced sized heads, Picasso expressions on the faces of the people in the background, and everyone’s got six toes and foot long fingers.
It’s still quite impressive, don’t get me wrong, but we need to tell the boomers and the stock market that it’s time to take the excitement from a ten, to a two.
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 4 months ago:
Just one thing I’d like to point out, it looks like that, sure. Notice how it’s missing the entire B pillar? That didn’t burn off, they had to do extensive cutting.
Also this is how it looked from a side view: toronto.citynews.ca/2024/10/24/…/amp/
The accident was at high speed. That car is mangled. This is the press making a very big deal out of facts that aren’t entirely straight (there’s no way to open the doors manually! - when there is), and it’s heavily reliant on the words of a 74 year old man who’s feeding into this. It’s definitely food for thought, but it’s also a lot of hysteria.
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 4 months ago:
There’s a lot of cars that use this same design, which I agree is annoying. I also have a Mini Cooper and it’s the exact same damn problem. It’s always a bugger to wash them too because water gets inside the window trim and then every time you open the door it smears water along the bottom and the top, because the window recesses to be closed.
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 4 months ago:
Make sure you tell them that the hammer probably won’t work great at first, as the windows are laminated, so they are a bitch to break. You have to keep at it, in the exact same spot. I don’t love the laminated windows, it’s a gift (when broke, they stick together and dont shower the passengers with glass + they have sound/noise advantages), and a curse (they are a bastard to break when you need them to break).
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 4 months ago:
It’s sort of changed. There’s a big bend in the rubber now (which the passengers strangely think is a door handle), and it is an obvious grab point. Underneath is the panel, but it’s not one that you have to grab with your fingernails anymore, it’s got a big red tab that pops right off with the littlest pressure, exposing the wire. To me it’s fairly obvious, but I still think there should be a mandatory sticker on the panel. It’s not the greatest system either, but it exists whereas these news articles are trying to shape the narrative that it doesn’t (just like when that lady drunk drove into the pond). Probably isn’t the worst idea to ditch the rubber in the pocket over the override, that part is pretty stupid and doesn’t really serve a purpose anyways.
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 4 months ago:
It definitely needs to be marked better. The latches are definitely there, but I think the thing that sucks with them, is the owners generally understand where this stuff is, but the passengers often don’t. I’m not denying that’s not an issue, it is. Especially when everyone else is dead. It also doesn’t help that everyone often stuffs rubber mats in the backdoors that cover over the mechanical switches. I feel like this could be pretty easily solved with a sticker on the door panel, pointing to the latch, but then everyone would probably complain how it looks and some would likely would peel it off. These are the exact same folks that can’t be bothered to read a manual either.
Mechanical latches can break in accidents too though, especially ones that operate on rods, which is lost in the hysteria here. Sometimes the doors just get bent real bad too, like I suspect even if the manual override worked in this door, these young adults hit the barrier at a very high speed, that door was going to have serious damage. You were probably going to have to use Jaws of Life or break the window no matter what. I used to drive an after hours tow truck years ago for a dealer that I worked for, and in quite a number of accidents (especially the high speed ones) the doors were no longer operable. It’s just one of those things