mortalic

@mortalic@lemmy.world
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Joined 1 years ago

This was me, you're talking about me. 😂 In the 90's Linux was barely getting started but slackware was probably the main distro everyone was focused on. That was the first one I ran across. This was probably late 90's, I don't remember when slack first came about though.

By the time the 2000's came around, it was basically a normal thing for people in college to have used or at least tried. Linux was in the vernacular, text books had references to it, and the famous lawsuit from SCO v IBM was in full swing. There were distro choices for days, including Gentoo which I spent literally a week getting everything compiled on an old Pentium only for it to not support some of the hardware and refuse to boot.

There was a company I believe called VA Linux that declared that year to be the year of the Linux desktop. My memory might be faulty on this one.

Loki gaming was a company that specialized in porting games to Linux, and they did a good job at it but couldn't make money. I remember being super excited about them and did buy a few games. I was broke too so that was a real splurge for me. I feel like they launched in the 90's (late) and crashed in the early 2000's.

Different studios take different approaches, I know when Polyphony digital was making Gran Turismo 7 they dramatically changed how they were doing audio by actually bringing the real cars into a dedicated recording studio. This isn't the video I saw a few years ago, but it's similar.

To my knowledge they may have been (still?) the only studio doing it this way.

Just a reminder that it isn't a left vs right conversation. It's working class vs ruling class.

You aren't bitter at leftists, you're bitter at the ideas that media companies use to keep you angry at leftists instead of oligarchs.

If you have to work, you're working class.

If you actually do hate certain types of people, then you need to work on yourself.

If you don't believe certain people need health care, then you need to work on yourself.

If you believe ultra wealthy (people making over $10mil in income annually) deserve more tax cuts, then you need to work on yourself.

If you don't believe that minimum wage should have parity with inflation, then you need to work on yourself.

Have some class solidarity.

EDIT: To all those downvotes... Ask yourself why you are downvoting me. (Now with 100% more sources)

Do you actually hate certain people? Really? But you're downvoting me? Work on yourself.

Do you actually believe you don't deserve health care? That others don't deserve health care? Seriously? Work on yourself.

Are you super wealthy (low percentage chance)? I'm saying uncomfortable things to you. But you can easily afford those taxes so maybe work on yourself.

Do you believe people working for minimum wage shouldn't be able to afford an apartment by themselves anywhere in the USA? Work on yourself.

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You all are awesome. What's the best way to dispose of them?

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While most of the points are covered here, and it's likely true that the cost to add the panel and micro inverters is high, (I built a small two panel one battery off-grid system for about $4000 to power a chest freezer)... I have a counter point that I feel should be considered.

While it's true that it isn't going to extend driving range by much, my thought is that it is still worth it. Take these examples:

Drove to great wolf lodge in the summer, left car in parking lot for 3 days without charge. It lost several %.

Left car in an airport lot for a week lost even more power.

Drove to NorCal, left car at Airbnb driveway, had to find charging despite the car sitting in very bright sunshine for 4 days.

Car camping

Apartment complex parking (literally one of the main negatives about EVs)

All of these would benefit from trickle charging, even if it was just to prevent the drain of sitting.

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I didn't realize pip and venv didn't work... that's a pretty big deal breaker for a lot of people, myself included.

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Good news! I've got information relevant to you. I grew up in a locale that would drop below 0F for most of the winter. It was NORMAL to get an oil heater and plug it into your 110v 15amp outlet outside.

Well with EV's you get that same cable, and plug it in and it accomplishes basically the same goal but for the battery instead of the oil. Even better it trickles "fuel" into your "tank" over night.

Or if you splash out dolla bills, you can get a dryer plug installed (240v 50amp) which fully charges your EV in a couple hours and keeps it nice and warm all night.

Everything else is the same, you put snow tires on it, drive to the slopes, skii all day, drive home....one difference though, its heat is available within seconds unlike my old car which took 10+ minutes in subzero temps to heat up and blow warm air. Heck, my EV has heated wiper fluid. That's pretty cool.

oh... and here's some extra cool parts.... if you do the Airbnb thing somwhere, your "fuel" is included. Just plug it in to their 110v outside outlet. When driving back down the slopes, you know what it does? It CHARGES THE CAR! You get free "fuel", just for driving back down the hill.

In all seriousness, a couple road trips with mine, in both 100+F and below 32F, I found out that all of those things don't matter. Yes winter tires wreck the efficiency, yes cold wrecks the efficiency, but it's still well over 200+ miles. All the extra convenience is so nice, that you really don't want to go back.

One example, I drove the same route to the beach at different times, one in the winter, I got there with 31% battery remaining. The same trip in the summer I had 55% batter remaining. So, like 1/3rd a tank of gas left, or half a tank of gas. Both are FIIIIINE. Know what I didn't do? Go to the gas station. I just plugged it in to the slow ass 110 wall outlet since... I'm at the beach for the weekend, in an airbnb... I don't know how long it took, because it was charged when I was ready to leave. Honestly, how do people not see how convenient this is?

Battery life is pretty widely available for Tesla's at least since they've been around for over a decade now. And like any car, it depends on how the owner drove it and maintained it. Some last forever, some are trash within years.

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Use cases increase if they are thin. Instead of limited to rooftops. For example, take a look at what Aptera is doing.

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Same, sync is awesome and the dev clearly worked hard on it.

I mean, the nuance you describe is notable. But I sit on the couch, using controllers and play the same games you would on ps or Xbox. Both of which run variants of Linux/windows.

It appears the nuance is no longer important.

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Am I missing something? This community is about cars, for car enthusiasts. I was a huge car enthusiast when I was a teen. I had a giant list of cars I wanted. No I couldn't afford a new car, yes I got a hand me down shit box, but I loved it.

This is their hobby. For those of you down voting and talking about making them bus, or bike, you're being negative about their hobby. Stop. Depending on where they live, they might not have that choice, or maybe they do bus or bike, but want a car too.

This community is for car enthusiasts.

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Skimmed the article, here: "I've been a Republican, but now I'm a registered independent. "

K... This is just not true. Plenty of AAA games run well on the steam deck. Currently installed on mine, RDR2, cyberpunk 2077, horizon zero dawn, Forza horizon, uncharted legacy of thieves, the last of us, and for funsies I just started another fallout 4 playthrough. I'm sure others have lots of other AAA games they play on their deck.

If it's the exclusives you're missing, like Gran Turismo or something, I think that's a different argument.

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I do not regret moving to proton. I only wish they had more services.

Yeah but, I mean....Florida.

I guess I can change the user agent. I kind of want to use firefox agent to force sites to keep it around. But yeah for this purpose you're probably right.

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Bought days gone (game) on steam. Would not launch on windows 11. Tried to get a refund. But it had been two weeks. Launch d it on my steam deck and it worked great.

So. No.... It's sucks.

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Seems like Fedora Kinoite is getting several votes. Maybe I'll give that a go for myself. I also like the idea of Fedora more since they are starting to offer their own Laptops with pretty nice hardware it seems.

The idea of buying new laptops that all just have proper OS support seems, novel.

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Hard to say without knowing your budget.

Off the top of my head, check the used market for things in the same new price points.

All these will be in the $30k-$45k new, but used examples should be less. I threw the cheapest autotempest price next to them which probably isn't real.

VW golf/Jetta GTI/gli $14,900 golf R $15,396 Honda Civic SI $14,900 Toyota GR Corolla no used examples I could find Hyundai Elantra N no used examples I could find Tesla model 3 $26,500

Stuff like this is starting to make its way into automotive youtubers feeds now. I just saw one where he picked up a Model S P85D for like $10k or something crazy because it was "insurance totaled". The issue was they'd let the battery die in the lot and some idiots didn't think to charge it.

Indeed, but also it's worth a read if you plan on making it your daily driver. The article touches on things like, even though it's arch based, it uses an old kernel among some other things.

While you're right about the spirit of the use case, you're missing the details.

Regular plan, one of the og unlimited data plans. One plus 9t.

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Thank you for this info, I'll look into it. I was messing around with a wifi direct solution earlier but didn't get it to work.

These seems like a lot of work so I can use my steam deck online in the car.

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I ended up with two. The OG which is now a media center more or less and the OLED which I use off and on depending on the game.

Where I live, this is changing already. I suspect it comes down to your lawmakers and how you vote more than landlords. Landlords will never do something unless it makes them easy money. Though, ev chargers can be profitable, so maybe they are just dumb.

I just bought a Thinkpad x1 carbon preloaded with Fedora and it's pretty fantastic.

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I've just started using Fedora recently and have been pretty impressed but I also ran into some of these annoying issues to start with. I wrote a super quick and dirty first run script to automate the things I use but maybe others will find it useful. I just added it to my GitHub if anyone wants to use it as well. I am not responsible if it wrecks your system.

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I mean, the Kia EV9 seems pretty big. But I think you mean Ford Excursion big.... and man.... GM has a hummer of a truck for you. Also, no one is buying it.

I love bar and play it all the time.

Pay wall

Never tbh, only when I run into a crazy issue on a site. My go to us first diable ublock origin second is clear stuff. I haven't had to do that in quite some time.

I had two rare but not valuable cars, my first car was a 1974 Mazda rx2 sedan. Bright orange with a white interior.

The second I restored a 1956 Dodge Truck which had a 270 V8. This combo wasn't common.

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No question. You must be right.

Starlight was such a great game. My friends Grandpa made hand drawn maps for it.

I do that....

Rotary, 12A if my memory is correct. Mine had an automatic (it was my grandmother's car before mine)

The wikipedia page looks just like it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mazda_Capella&diffonly=true#RX-2

Skip to the First generation photo, not the capella top photo

Edit: direct link to the photo that was my car: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mazda_Capella&diffonly=true#/media/File%3A1973_Mazda_616_front_left_Iceland.jpg

Strange that we aren't asking why it's so hard for people to put in the maximum. Seems like that's the better question. What measures could we put in place that make it easier for poverty wages to better set them selves up for retirement?

There is an fdroid version named syncthing fork. Give that a go.

I have this same issue, but not for a TV. Just a normal Asus monitor. If I use my laptop built-in panel and the gaming monitor, it happens less. If I enable a third monitor, it happens nearly every time I try to log back in.

Sleep/standby is disabled on mine cuz no distro I've found can work properly with it so it's just turning the monitors back on really.

It also happens exiting a game sometimes.

I've found waiting it out doesn't work, I have to fight through it to open display settings and disable one of the external monitors, then hit revert. Then it's back to normal.

Edit adding some info since our hardware is different: Lenovo legion slim Nvidia 4050 ryzen 5 Kubuntu 23.10

I've run into a few head scratcher swaps over the years. Most of the time they just had the engine sitting around.