GrindingGears

@GrindingGears@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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".⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Facts, amiright!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to undervolt your gpu and change fan curve⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Praise be. By his hand. May the Lord open.

  Gilead voted for this…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sega considering Netflix-like game subscription service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a couple things that I would like to point out here. I am a Tesla owner, not a huge fanboi or anything, but this is another press example of trying to incite fear.

  One: this vehicle was travelling over 200km/hr. It hit a cement barrier. That car could have been made of bubble wrap, it wasnt going to be pretty, no matter what.

  Two: there is a mechanical override in Tesla doors. You pull up on the latch at the top of the panel. It looks like a door handle. In fact, most people who are first riders in my car, end up pulling it before they realize there’s a door button there. Which is a pain in the ass because the door window doesn’t automatically roll down when it closes and it can damage the seals.

  Also there’s other vehicles that have the exact same door systems, but the press also neglects to mention that. Corvettes are one that comes immediately to mind.

  Again not totally a Tesla fanboi, I bought it before Elon went off the deep end. I do like the car though. Don’t hit shit at 200km/hr or drunk drive into ponds, and you are generally fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t, because I haven’t bought access to Ubisoft junk in years. Last I saw of their financials, I’m not the only one. If you want this behavior to stop, stop consuming media. I sure have cut way down. I cut the cable cord, I barely watch TV, cut all my streaming services except for one. Don’t buy many games anymore (mostly because they all suck, are often poorly finished and are often just a damn re-release). I saw my Spotify is going up 5 bucks this morning, it’s getting cut this week too.

  All this purging, yet my life hasn’t changed whatsoever. Almost feels good to get rid of all this crap. They only did it to themselves, so I hope they go have fun chasing people pirating 20 year old software. The crash is imminent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Journey: She Confess What Went Wrong, And The Lessons She Learnt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Might want to start with not being a robot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also $700 isn’t going to buy you much of a PC if you don’t have one already. Maybe mid spec 1080p.

  Not that I’m arguing for PC. I’m pro-console in most circumstances. Only for power modders, power gamers or power purchasers would I maybe argue that PC is the better route. Everyone else, console 100% (except this joke of a console).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s hypocrisy on AI: can artificial intelligence really enrich fossil-fuel companies and fight climate change at the same time? The tech giant says yes.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is just boomer fuel. The amount of boomers running around at our firm that have turned into AI bots is hilarious. Every solution, every question, “ai ai ai ai ai ai ai”

  I enjoy making humourous pictures of them and their 9 fingered hands using AI. We’ve cranked some great memes out lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on a replay of the single player campaign, and since this update the map is laggy as hell, and it’s dropping frames like crazy.