GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials 1 week ago:
There are reasonable limits. Let’s say his car takes 30 minutes. Is 31 minutes total connection time acceptable? I think everyone would say yes. How about 35 minutes? 45? An hour?
Where people draw the line is going to vary. I agree with the premise that you shouldn’t have to wait by your car to charge, whether it’s 30 minutes or 2 hours. That is wasted time, and drastically reduces the attraction of having an EV. For myself, having to wait an extra 15 minutes isn’t too bad, and extra half hour or more is probably too much. I think context also really matters. If I’m parking at a station in a garage where most of the users are there for work, I expect to be there for at least 2 hours, possibly 4 (and would pick a charger I could use most of the time). At a mall, where people are in and out, if I was going to be there much more than 30 minutes I would probably plan to be back at my car to move it when it was charged. Especially since most of the chargers I’ve seen bill based on connection time and not electricity used.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 weeks ago:
There is a hydrogen fusion reaction that releases beta particles, i.e., electrons. This could be used to produce electricity directly without boiling water, but I think the heat output would be such that you could also boil water for more electricity.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 3 weeks ago:
I have a 2017 Leaf. It absolutely has its drawbacks compared to most modern cars, but it did exist 6 years ago.
- Comment on It's always about dat math 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have to do nothing while waiting for delivery. I have to cook to…cook. Sometimes I don’t want to cook, and I usually have something quicker if that’s the case, but your false equivalency doesn’t help your argument.
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 3 weeks ago:
If people were doing this, how would you know? And if other people aren’t, what do you expect the people who are to do about it? Are you hoping for a Streets of New York scene where the non-intrusive Christians duke it out with the loudmouthed Christians until only one group is left?
I’m not saying what you’re saying is wrong, it just doesnt address the question of the guy who responded to you.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 4 weeks ago:
Vigilantism is a common response to the failure of the justice system. When people feel like the justice system will serve them, and policing will protect them, they’re more inclined to let justice be served.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 4 weeks ago:
I can’t remember how many OSs I’ve installed at this point, and if the amount of frustration I feel when Windoes does an update and decides it’s time to ask half or more of the Starting for the First Time! questions is at all indicative of the fear and dread someone who has never installed an OS in their life before feels, these people would rather return the machine than pay $200 for Windows+installation, and installing it themselves is out of the question. I might be surprised, but the average user, even the average gamer, is unikely to want that hassle.
- Comment on Feynman rules 4 weeks ago:
But once again, those will explain how, not why.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 4 weeks ago:
Shit, these are all the things I’m looking for. Now I have something to do this weekend. Do you run SteamOS beta? I do, and it’s been pretty good, but I’m not sure how the plug-ins feel about it.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 4 weeks ago:
Interesting, I’ll have to look it up. Not having times isn’t world-ending for me, but I do like having them. And achievements are nice, too.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 4 weeks ago:
The vast majority of the software updates they do appear to be open sourced, which makes it really hard to lock the market using anti-competitive measures. And making Linux more mainstream makes it better for everyone, not just gamers. And if Valve makes games that are optimized for their hardware spec, how is that any different than an XBox, Sony, or Nintendo game, except for the part where it will also work on other PCs without having to wait for a port?
It’s reasonable to be cautious about any actor, especially one as powerful as Valve. But nothing I’ve seen, except for the loot box stuff, has been actually anti-competitive, to the point where my GOG and Epic games work well enough on Linux these days that even the games that warn me I’m on an unsupported platform work just fine.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 4 weeks ago:
Im currently playing a game from Epic on my Steam Deck, I’ve recently played games from GOG, and of course Steam. The biggest drawbacks with non-Steam games are having to go to the desktop to install them, and not having my time in big picture mode tracked for those games. So, not seamless, but exceptionally playable. I’ve even customized button maps for non-Steam games, and also had to do nothing at all to have them work well.
If Steam keeps extending like this, people will stop buying Windows for gaming. I will acknowledge that my gaming requirements aren’t as extensive as some, and I’ve never installed Fortnite or Roblox for my own use.
- Comment on This one goes out to Dennis Prager 4 weeks ago:
Like most things, it’s pretty simple from the far view. But there are a lot of details, much of which scientists are still trying to figure out.
The short version is, mitochondria, those powerhouses of the cell, have their own DNA, just like some bacteria. They do their own living, dividing, and dying, and have their own lineage. When a cell splits, some of the mitochondria go to each cell. So the mitochondrial DNA will be inherited from whoever donated the cell, or egg in this instance. So the lineage of the mitochondria would be related to the mitochondria of the egg donor and any other offspring she had, but the DNA in the nucleus, the mouse DNA, wouldn’t be related to her.
…and that opens the door to mitochondrial diseases, all of which are pretty terrible.
- Comment on This one goes out to Dennis Prager 4 weeks ago:
Mitochondria have DNA. Mitochondria are passed from mother to child through the egg. The egg used in the scenario would have mitochondrial DNA from the mother mouse. All of what would typically be called mouse DNA came from the two male mice. So, technically DNA from theatrical line, but only mitochondrial DNA, mouse DNA.
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 1 month ago:
Aren’t all the names ObviouslyNotBanana?
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 month ago:
I had an Apple ][e I could use at school. It was preferable to the ][census for the same reason.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
I’m more than okay with options. I’m even okay with changing the default on new phones. I’m not so okay with changing it on existing installations without giving the option to the user.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
I just got a OneUI update to V7 on my Samsung and it remapped the power button.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
Which is a loss. I liked the extra button, just not for an assistant.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
I don’t use the features you listed that much, so I switched it back to powering off my phone. On my Samsung device, there was a link titled how do I turn off my phone. One of the options suggested was saying, “Bixby, turn off my phone.” Nope.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 month ago:
I had to do a variant of this with my now wife. She never wanted to pick restaurants, so I’d suggest something i was okay with but knew she hated. She got a lot more willing to give her opinions after a few years. Now we can discuss it like equals instead of me making the decision all the time.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 months ago:
Ah, okay. I saw some earlier speculation that RFK Jr. didn’t actually say this and thought yours was in the same vein. Crazy videos of people saying things we wouldn’t believe 10 years ago seems to be the norm these days…
- Comment on Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? 2 months ago:
Well, I do think the first step would be calling out their bad behavior. Maybe they don’t think what they’re saying is so bad, or maybe they think their peers are okay with it. On that point, I don’t think financially supporting them will indicate we don’t approve of their statements or behavior.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 months ago:
I would be equally unsurprised if RFK Jr. also said it, though.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
I hate Adobe and their stupid subscription model! Thank goodness for Photopea and their subscription model!
This is like the clown meme, but with only two panels.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Made It Easier Than Ever To Stop Putting Up With Microsoft | Aftermath 2 months ago:
I think the biggest problem with thos approach is custo.ers could potentially pay less to get what they want, and thats taking profits away from the company. Why would they want that?
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 2 months ago:
I do the majority of Steam browsing on my deck, with much of the rest being following links in Lemmy, etc. on my phone. I also expect I’m not their typical user.
- Comment on Well fuck me then 2 months ago:
Well, $2 of Coke makes me feel good all day. I bet $2 of coke couldn’t do that!
- Comment on President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis 2 months ago:
Sometimes bitter people seem to live forever, but the bitterness etched on their faces always makes them look older.
- Comment on It's me! 2 months ago:
My favorite Disney princess.