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Kaligalis

@ Kaligalis @lemmy.world

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  • Cybertruck Driver Tests “Wade Mode” in Grapevine Lake, Test Ends with Bricked Truck & Driver in Jail.

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  • The lower the mass sits, the better the truck handles.If you have something heavy (like a battery pack) which you need to include in the design somewhere, putting it as low to the ground as safely possible is the right choice. So that's not a stupid decision at all. It's what literally all EV makers do because it's objectively the right way to place the battery pack.

    Watching that clip, I don't see the typical signs of a battery fire. So I guess, wade mode did in fact keep the battery dry. Wading through a stream reaching to the top of the wheels would probably work fine. But if you stay in the water, it eventually gets through to some electronics and power is cut off by the overcurrent protection. So just don't do that.

  • Cybertruck Driver Tests “Wade Mode” in Grapevine Lake, Test Ends with Bricked Truck & Driver in Jail.

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  • Obviously, wading ain't swimming. The mode is probably useful in some edge cases. Driving straight into a lake just isn't one of them.

  • Discuss..

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  • Yes, people forget how brutal early industrialization was.Children had to spend their entire day in the mines. A machine eating a finger or two per month was okay. Working 70+ hours per week was actually normal for most children and adults.

  • I try to be open minded but it's just wrong

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  • Depends on the environment. When camping, in a tent without a floor, putting on each shoe right after the sock allows parking the shoed foot on the dirt while putting on the next sock and shoe.But putting on both socks and then putting on both shoes is the default.

  • Longing for the day I can buy an EV that's not a smartphone on wheels is like...

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  • Fully open hardware and software would be nice. I don't plan to tinker with it. But it would give peace of mind to know that it can't be enshittified and that discontinuation of the model will not leave me out of luck for spare parts.

  • Terms of Service

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  • I got app-emulation/proton-ge-custom-bin from the kzd overlay. The overlay is in the eselect repository list.

  • me_irl

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  • Optical audio is somewhat an abandoned standard. The copper port is as good. And professionals use external devices connected to USB and synced in their digital audio workstation software now.USB-C gets somewhat more frequent now. But USB-A is the mechanically superior standard for sort-of fixed installation (like on the back of a PC). And if you have a USB-C device, chances are, you also have an adapter already.Thunderbolt is pretty niche. It's more a mac thing. It's nice to have - but 99.9% of the users don't have any matching devices and routing those PCIe lanes to a PCIe slot is better.It is somewhat a hot take - I know. But if you really use the 2.5 G Ethernet, you probably want 10 G anyway. So just go for a board with that or add it via PCIe card.

  • me_irl

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  • For stereo, TOSLINK is fine. But so is the copper port right next to it. I removed it because it's basically unused fluff for more than 99.9% of all users. I used that port (on a dedicated sound card) once to connect a DTS 5.1 active speaker system (marketed at gamers like me) back in the 00s. It doesn't really have enough bandwidth for 5.1. But I'm no audiophile, so it was fine. Thing is: Just plugging in the copper cables works as well and provides the full bandwidth.\

    And motherboard-integrated DACs are pretty good now. Even audiophiles can't hear the improvement in stereo in blind tests (they probably can hear copper sounding better in 5.1 though).It's basically the Betamax of audio connection standards. Technically better, but market adoption is negligible.

  • Money Saving Tips 💰

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  • If you actually need a car, this one is the most important cost saving measure:

    • Drive a reasonably sized car which isn't optimized to exploit laws made for trucks.

  • Microslop official documentation on how to ground an AI

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  • It's Microslop. The people who had any resemblance of work ethics left a long time ago. No one still working there gives any shits about QA - especially not the management.

  • me_irl

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  • Actually:

    The on-board video ports are for emergencies when your actual GPU isn't working. One of each type is plenty.That 2.5 Gb Ethernet isn't giving me any actual benefits in practice as no other component in the network supports it anyway. If you need more speed, go all the way to 10 Gb.No one really has toslink equipment anymore and the optical standard on that connector is shit anyway. You literally get better audio from the analog ports.Get rid of the fancy special USB ports as well as the legacy low-speed ports. Just give only the normal super-speed ports which always work well without odd hardware quirks or driver issues. And 4 are actually plenty. I connect at least one hub anyway.Also don't waste precious PCIe lanes for useless bling like six SATA ports, multiple NICs, or Wireless. Just route the unused PCIe lanes to the PCIe slots. Maybe I want to add an AI accelerator later.

  • Terms of Service

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  • Yeah, Gentoo isn't exactly an out-of-the-box gaming distro. But having all the gaming stuff (including GE Proton and Steam) managed by Portage is pretty neat.And don't worry: When you are done hopping, Gentoo will always be there to accept you back without any judgment. It's all about choice after all...

  • People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants In Their Area Than AI Data Centers

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  • Trump already won that war 20 times. So it's probably all fine.

  • Software Engineers Say They're Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them

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  • It's called entry-level for a reason. Back in my days, you could start such a position without any formal education as long as you were willing to acquire the required skills and knowledge without needing a nanny. We had to go to the library or actually buy the books for knowledge. Now they can just use the internet.The actual requirement for doing the job never changed. And it's not knowledge.

  • Software Engineers Say They're Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them

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  • Nah, AI isn't that good. When you don't properly review every single line twice, you get the most absurd bullshit you've ever seen.I use Claude Code Opus daily btw.

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  • Sounds just like the usual crazy to me. Better stay away. It's not worth it if you aren't also crazy yourself.

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  • Nah, Linux isn't made by Apple.

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  • Distros basically are OSes. You get some choices of kernel with some choices of userland and some choices of desktop environment. Additionally, you get some update mechanism and optionally some customized looks, tools, and/or sets of settings. That's all what an OS really is.

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  • To be fair, I did recommend Window 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, and Windows 7 to random people. It somehow stopped.I play on Gentoo, btw.