WesternInfidels

@ WesternInfidels @feddit.online

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3 mo. ago

"Truly you have a dizzying intellect."

2d ago

Rosemary and garlic focaccia

I can't say I've tried a ton of King Arthur recipes, but the ones I've tried (including this one) have been bangers, instant family favorites.

2d ago

Stepping Away from Streaming with the Snowsky Echo Digital Audio Player

I have a teeny tiny 2015 smartphone with a headphone jack, an SD card, the SIM removed, and a copy of Foobar2000 installed. It was never fast enough or capacious enough to be a very good portable internet portal, but it runs something simple like Foobar2000 very, very well. The battery still lasts longer than the one in my actual phone does. And it was (in a sense) free. Reduce Reuse Recycle.

2d ago

Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production

...users can query Siri about, like asking the AI assistant what they should cook with the ingredients they have in front of them ... may also use the cameras to help with things like turn-by-turn directions.

Those are some pretty underwhelming use-cases. I can't see the world beating a path to anyone's door for that. Even if you were so excited about these features that you were willing to overlook the privacy concerns, it seems like the phone you've already got would probably be just fine as a conduit for such services.

2d ago

Republicans who slammed Biden’s gas prices are preaching patience for Trump

If they really believed in the free market they'd be willing to pay for some patience

3d ago

Obama says president ‘shouldn’t have a bunch of side hustles’

Yes, good catch!

The article also does nothing to acknowledge or account for the way trump's family cashed in, scoring deals that added up to potentially billions, i.e, far more than all the money on their little chart put together.

I am skeptical that any outsider can really say, in good faith, that trump's wealth rose or fell during his first term anyway. That family's finances are infamously obfuscated and shot through with fraud. Once a system passes a certain level of complexity, it becomes pretty trivial to paint it in whatever light you'd choose, and offer evidence to back that point of view up, too.

3d ago

Obama says president ‘shouldn’t have a bunch of side hustles’

This seems to gleefully conflate wealth and income, in order to claim that the infamously-always-grifting trump lost a fortune during his first term. Using percent to decide who had the "biggest increase" to their wealth is a sneaky way of excusing the grifting of the richest among us. It points out "Democrat" or "Democratic" repeatedly but doesn't use the word "Republican" even one time. Its supporting "according to Bloomberg" link doesn't even go anywhere.

3d ago

Still valid

It is committed long-term maintenance that separates a road from a desire pathway.

It is committed long-term maintenance that eventually makes software solid enough to be someone else's substrate.

/bombast

3d ago

The Centaur and the Mermaid [Pepper & Carrot]

What a wholesome, heartwarming way to trick me into imagining a centaur and a mermaid fucking

4d ago

Trump Reveals New Logo for Cringe-Inducing ICE Rebrand (ICE -> NICE)

Nazis In Camo, Eh

4d ago

The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

That's great but technically: Not a car.

4d ago

The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

If the drive motor / braking motor isn't rotating, it's not inducing any current, so there is no regeneration happening. Whatever system is holding your car (someone's car) stopped on a hill, it is not 'regen'. Period. Full stop. No argument possible. To believe otherwise is to believe in free energy.

I am about 99% sure your idea of "magnets" holding a car stopped on a hill is based on some kind of misunderstanding, but I'm not an electrical engineer. If you've read something that explains this, and you can link to it, I'll look at it.

4d ago

The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

I never apply brakes when on a hill, as regen braking covers that to.

But what about coming to a complete stop on a hill? There's no way for regen to do that, there has to be motion for it to work.

Do you know for a fact that your car (in "B" mode or whatever it is you're using) doesn't engage mechanical (friction) brakes on your behalf when appropriate? Or is this an assumption?

4d ago

Argument over how to carry out Trump’s deportation ‘master plan’ got so heated that officials had to ‘clear the room,’ report says

"We had to destroy our constitutional republic in order to save it."

4d ago

The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

In fact, according to BMW, drivers of current EVs pretty much never activate their mechanical braking systems, relying instead on their electric motors to handle the job.

I didn't think the regen could bring a car to a complete stop, like at a stop sign or a red light. They're certainly not using the motors to hold your place on a hill, are they?

Or are they just saying BMW drivers never stop when they're supposed to?

4d ago

The moment you realize you’ve played yourself.

Where is the line between 1) dealing with our frustrations with these fascist murder clowns by rendering them as trivial and ridiculous, and 2) normalizing these fascist murder clowns by making them funny and relatable?

I don't know the answer.

5d ago

What is this insect?

WesternInfidels @feddit.online 5d ago

I've had some success identifying bugs with Google Lens / Google Image Search. But it sure hasn't been 100%, and I'm sure some of us avoid Google on principle.

5d ago

Kid Cudi Fires M.I.A. From His Tour After She Is Booed During Republican Rant: ‘I Won’t Have Someone on Tour Making Offensive Remarks’

WesternInfidels @feddit.online 5d ago

Gosh you'd almost think fame and wealth separate a person from the reality they share with the rest of us.

6d ago

California Wants to Put License Plates on E-Bikes and Slow Them Down. Cyclists Are Not Happy About It