GrindingGears

@GrindingGears@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The bigger thing is just the whole virtue signaling of everything and anything. I try to do my best about all of this too, but I don’t protest, I don’t brag to my friends. I just kind of try to do good things (to the best of my abilities), and otherwise just shut the fuck up about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 27th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m about to check this Nivalis Nights game out. Thing was in self caused development hell for years and I don’t have my hopes up. But I’m invested as I liked its predecessor and I’ve been waiting for it for awhile, so I’ll at least give it a fair shake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing with those new cars, is they very seldom actually ever make it to market in any sort of volume. I’ll be able to take the idea of the Slate truck a lot more seriously, when I start seeing them on the roads. Until then, it’s just dreams and concept exercises (which are highly important, don’t get me wrong).

  I’m also more excited for the concept of the Telo truck, but I question how they are going to get it to market through the safety requirements. The slate truck was an exciting concept at first, but will almost certainly get more bloated between concept and the marketplace. The marketplace might also still realize their actual appetite for the most basic accoutrements of a base model vehicle is still pretty low. There’s always those few guys that want to roll the windows up, and crank over their engines by hands, but that crowd also doesn’t tend to buy new vehicles but once every twenty years. Once the trendy “cool” phase is over for the Slate, should it arrive, I worry about it having any sort of staying power. People bitch about those huge screens in their face, but I fear they also very quickly bemoan the loss of them once they realize they can’t LOL or cruise Spotify as easily as they are used to. It would be better for humanity if this happened though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll feel differentially if you ever travel a great distance somewhere, and spend some time there.

  There exists a pretty good network of decent charging now on most main routes in North America for example. But it’s still the secondary areas that need work now. For 90% of your travels (more like 98% in our case), the home charger gets it done. But the whole charging infrastructure that we need is still not completely there yet.

  We drove across the continent this summer. The drive back and forth across was surprisingly quiet and uneventful. But spending 4 weeks at my parents and at our in-laws, in a more rural town setting, was…painful. We have a mobile charger, but of course my in-laws didn’t have an outlet nearby, my parents do, but it wasn’t working. Our hometown has three public charging stations, all painfully slow (5+ hours). It made for a tough few weeks. Still doable, but I’d hardly call it convenient.

  As for surveillance, that ship left the station a long time ago, and it’s not just EVs, it’s all vehicles. That’s a completely different topic though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry for completely trashing the next month of your life, but I’m not sorry because it’s really fucking good. It has a bit of a slow start but just gets better and better and better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Halt and Catch Fire is so slept on, it’s not funny. It’s in my personal top 10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can say the same about any full sized truck at this point, everything’s ginormous. Just drove my FIL’s 1500 series Chevrolet the other day, that things ridiculous in size. It probably won’t be any smaller, or maybe just a tiny bit (I’m unsure for exact dimensions).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So what do we do about my evil twin brother who is a supervillain?

  I didn’t believe this was a problem until I watched my wife and her twin sister unlocking each others phones (they aren’t identical but they do look quite a lot alike)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not in America, but they are fairly rare where I live (Canada). Like if I go for a drive in traffic on a commute, I maybe will see one or two at the very most. And it’s usually the same ones that I am seeing when I do see them.

  I mean the market for a vehicle that’s >100k, looks like the truck you drew as a child when you were asked to draw a truck, that has almost zero utility and almost certainly has to be awkward as fuck to drive and park due to its width and size, I mean that market is right next to zero. My seven year old is pretty into them though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On the second part, why don’t you just leave peoples vehicles alone? I mean I dont like Nissans either, but I’m not out laying subtle hints to damage people’s property because I don’t like them. That doesn’t make anyone sympathetic to a cause, it makes them more steadfast for whatever you are against. Absolute 1d thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX Is Junk. That’s What the Bond Market Says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I am just waiting for my Tesla to be able to self drive itself (reliably) to the corner store. You know, like I was promised in six months back in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, it’s for sure 2021 you guys, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Analysts Say Video Game Hardware Isn't Getting Cheaper Anytime Soon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah except it’s all fun and games until someone gets hungry and needs to eat. There, the problem begins all over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Analysts Say Video Game Hardware Isn't Getting Cheaper Anytime Soon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually what’s keeping this whole AI bubble propped up. And what’s making it get more bubbly. I’ll extend you hardware on margin but only if it’s my hardware and I’ll just keep doing that over and over until the musical chairs stop. You buy hardware that you don’t pay for and I sell it to you for imaginary money and the investors reward us for that with money thats mostly debt and that’s what keeps people dancing around and around and around…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Analysts Say Video Game Hardware Isn't Getting Cheaper Anytime Soon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost like if everyone would quit blowing their load over every game reveal and preordering themselves into oblivion and quit chasing shiny new things all the time and hoarding…well it’s almost like the old trad rules of supply and demand would almost, dare I say, kick in?

  Alas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric cars are starting to take over the world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve had ours for about 2.5 years now. We love it, it’s really enjoyable to drive. I love the simplicity of them the most. I just got a new truck too, and I wish I could have got an EV that would have worked size wise and price wise. It runs on dead dinosaurs and feels like one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI job scams are booming – and I was fooled by one. Here is how to avoid them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I straight up deleted LinkedIn. It’s too much information thats made publically available, it’s a constant pipeline to the black market for compromising info (and it’s already too late), and it’s just literally the most straight up annoying thing I’ve ever used. The people are fake (I mean they are real but they are straight up annoying), the jobs are mostly fake, and it’s a constant stream of scams, recruiters trying to mine your info and mislead you, salespeople peddling their crap constantly.

  No thanks. Seriously give it a try, because that shit is toxic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m starting to believe the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Luna Removing Paid Games And Offering No Refunds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m a dying breed, but I don’t feel like own something if I can’t put my hands on it physically. I view Steam as leasing and not ownership. I’ve bought a fair amount of stuff on it over the years, but I don’t feel like I actually own it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That will maybe happen, but it’ll be at suppressed wages. That’s what happens every economic downturn, if you are at the top, you benefit. Everyone else gets another layer of prosperity chopped off underneath them. You’ll have precarious employment for a couple years and then gladly accept a job you wouldn’t even look at right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75tn, reports say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can say this succinctly: Tesla is going to fucking collapse on a lot of very stupid retail investors.

  I mean don’t get me wrong, people can stay irrational longer than you can stay insolvent, but Tesla legit makes me shake my head. First off, buddy clearly has major major mental problems, yet he clearly controls the board and runs this company as his own personal fifedom, committing all sorts of shit that in any other country and regulatory system would probably nearly have him behind bars. None of this is priced in.

  Tesla hasn’t innovated from a car perspective since 2020. Everything has been smoke and mirrors and bullshit like the Cybertruck. FSD? I have a Tesla in the garage that couldn’t reliably drive itself automomously down my alley way, let alone in real world situations. Yet the autobots claim it’s driving their cars fully, which is legit absolute bullshit. FSD has gotten better, sure, but it absolutely needs pretty much full attention and thats nowhere close to changing. So was it full driving by the end of year 2016? 2017? 2018? 2019? In six months. 2020? 2021? 2022? 2023? 2024? 2025!!! 2026!!!

  So I mean price in robots that are clearly being driven by people, empty promises, a ton of bullshit. Mental illness, infantile behaviour, let’s call a spade a spade, people can do what they want with their money, invest in what they want, but this stock is 100% hype and 0% actual substance. I don’t care what sort of methodology you try to argue it meets. It defies any sort of logic or rationality. So could it hit 20,000? Maybe. Could hit zero. You might as well throw shit at the wall at this point. How it’s worth more than Toyota though, is a sign of how bad this whole downturn really could be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 29th⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just polished off South Park: The Fractured But Whole. I’m a huge South Park fan, was a day 1 buyer of the Stick of Truth, and went out of my way (on my honeymoon of all things) to buy this game the day it came out. We got home a couple weeks later, I played it for a couple days, got stuck not too far into it, and abandoned it.

  Sometime over the past year or so, I saw it in the Nintendo Switch store for cheap, and thought I’d give it a go again. Picked it back up about a week and a half ago on our Switch 2, and just went crazy with it. It’s as good as Stick of Truth, it’s just a bit more of a slow burn at the beginning. Wouldn’t recommend it on the Switch 2 though, it really chugged in a lot of spots. Not sure if that was the game or the console’s fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first basic income for workers impacted by AI has begun sending out $1,000 monthly payments⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  2026’s version of greenwashing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s shitty. We are pretty big cucks up here for that sort of stuff too. Our telecommunications companies pretty much run our country, so it’s only a matter of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I noticed both yesterday mine is actually working again. I’m in Canada if that makes any difference. But it’s definitely haunting.

  Honestly even ignoring all this for a second, I fucking hate those eero routers. OMFG. They have turned me into a slobbering ragging lunatic on more than one occasion. I just fucking hate routers as a whole, they’ve always been demon devices, but these ones especially can fucking blow up anytime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that what the fuck is causing that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally the best thing that people worldwide can do, is throw their smartphones in the garbage can. Go back to a flip phone, if you must. The timeline sucks, the world sucks, and the common denominator in what’s causing everything to spiral, is what’s in your pocket. Seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's literally science⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when I was a teenager and those things were all the rage (mid 90s). I wanted one just because they were alternative.

  Fast forward a whole bunch of years and I’m pilfering the supply closet at work, and happen to stumble upon a slightly dusty, but functional and genuine OG Microsoft split keyboard. So of course I just had to.

  Let’s just say that keyboard is back collecting dust in that exact same spot. The ergos of it were okish, like your hand naturally rests like that. But even just that little difference of layout messed my muscle memory up way too much. And you are right, hitting some of the function keys was too alien.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that this is normal behaviour, and I mean fuck Roblox, as we all know it’s a scuzzy predatory breeding ground. But this constant narrative that video games, or music, or other types of media mediums are to blame after events like this is exhausting. It’s mental.fucking.illness thats to blame here. End of story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next generation Xbox may launch in 2027⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You aren’t getting a processor, graphics card, a motherboard, case and that ram for $699 right now, though. That’s my point. It’s more than double the cost, if not maybe even triple right now. Do you actually get double or triple the value then? Touche on the steam savings (you could even argue pirating - not condoning but just saying it’s an option, to get those savings), but are you going to actually close the gap? PC games tend to be more demanding too, plus as a PC gamer I often find games need a lot more time for optimization and need tinkering, whereas with a console they just sort of work. There’s pros and cons to each for sure, but I’m of the opinion that right now I’m more heavily on the side of the console, at least from a $ value perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next generation Xbox may launch in 2027⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You might need something to happen in the PC world for this to happen. Right now you are looking at about 5 to 6x the purchase price for a PC vs a console. Not saying I disagree with the sentiment, I get it. But I’m also sick of Nvidia and AMD who are also pretty gross.