GrindingGears

@GrindingGears@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Waits Outside Supermarket To Fight Call Of Duty Fan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Priced At $700 Like PS5 Pro? It’s Looking Likely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Slow news cycle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here are all the games enhanced by PS5 Pro⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that a PC with modern specs costs over $2k to build. Comparing PCs to Consoles is a fools errand, yes of course it’s way better, because my gaming PC also cost five times as much to build.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here are all the games enhanced by PS5 Pro⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a PS5 earlier this year that’s just collecting dust. I guess I didn’t realize or appreciate until after purchase that there is very few actual PS5 titles. There is no way in hell I would consider a PS5 Pro with their current library.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Pro announcement plans and console design have been leaked [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s a fair point. But you should still be able to play offline. I’m not much of an online gamer anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Pro announcement plans and console design have been leaked [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think we’ve learned by now that if you can’t touch it, you don’t own it. I’m tired of “leasing” software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Engineers Stage a Coup and Take Over Their Company?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d literally fucking hire someone to wipe these people off the planet for doing this. No one is going to rationally negotiate with these people.

  If you want to stage a coup, like realistically, gather the necessary capital and attempt a purchase of shares. There’s a growing trend of owners of companies cashing out and selling the company to employee held trusts. This is rife with risk, and conflicts of interest too, but there’s actually legitimate ways of doing this, not holding people hostage. I remember a boss of mine from several years ago walking someone out, and afterwards being like that fucking sucks, I liked that guy, now we are in trouble, and he’s going to be very hard to replace. But nobody threatens me. This story reminds me of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never believe the hype.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, my Segway brought me a lot of joy through 2020. That’s the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are saying that the bullet might have been up to some conspiracy stuff. I’m dumb as shit, and even I got that first read. C’mon. The bullet might have been from one of those Disney movies, or straight from the acme factory. You don’t know.

  For real though, don’t take life so seriously. It’s hard to find humor in serious events where people died, don’t get me wrong, but at the same time a little bit of color might bring a bit of joy or a laugh to someone at a time when everyone is trying to get us to all focus on darkness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I asked what your fave controllers are, now. What is the worst controller you have used?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There were some cheap ass weird ones in North America too. I remember for Christmas we’d ask for a Joycon or something like that, and we’d get “the Joycron,” which looked nothing like a controller, had a weird shape, felt like shit and was cheap as hell. The old man would be like, arrrr we saw it at the BiWay and it was 99 cents, why do you need the one thats $60? Then he would play it, and sure enough, by February you had the real one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I asked what your fave controllers are, now. What is the worst controller you have used?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. That thing was HUGE. I have tiny hands too, and always struggled with it.

  I also didn’t really like the N64 controller, it was kind of a weird size too, and it just had a weird layout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t marry them, they just diddle them underage on exotic island compounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cons just care about the kid until they are born. Not one second longer than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quality issues alone are a major disincentive to outsourcing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like you are in a good place, and are satisfied. For what it’s worth, IMO, just stay happy. If that means staying where you are, you don’t gotta impress nobody but yourself. So don’t worry about all the other noise. Always keep one eye on the prize, like in today’s professional world, you always have to be prepared for the rug to be pulled up from under you with a layoff or if the company hires a new boss for you and they are a zeeb, but once you got that concern appropriately hedged, always put professional well being above everything else.

  I left my last job to make double what the previous one paid, and my job is a nightmare job. Each successive job pays me more, makes me more miserable, the people are always worse and more money just means more problems. Money ain’t everything, and I mean it. Make enough to survive, live your happy idea of a perfect lifestyle, save for rainy days and retirement, and the rest is just noise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why ‘poly-employment’ may be 2024’s next big work trend, working more than one job is getting a re-brand⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the point of LinkedIn anyways, can anyone actually describe it to me? All these years later and I’m still confused. The only thing I’ve found it useful for, is basically a digital rolodex for when I want to get ahold of someone. I can’t read the news feed or whatever it’s called, it’s insufferable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive. Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be a massive loss for sure. One that will be felt for a long time. It’s the only way I can get around our thoroughly enshittified press up here in Canada. I mean I’d gladly pay, if it was worth paying for, which it’s not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The level of engagement on Reddit these days⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually the mods that did it for me. If you don’t have this really weird super specific but vague world view, and you can’t follow 143 different rules (some not specified), then they start censoring you and temp banning your comments and contributions. The mods on my community sub actually permabanned me when I questioned them on it, instead of discussing it. After that I was like this is infuriating, and I don’t really want to participate here. Problem is, they mod anything related to said topic, like city, province, country, most political parties, quite a few special interest topics, etc. Its super weird behaviour.