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Dave

@ Dave @lemmy.nz

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2h ago

Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep
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Dave @lemmy.nz 2h ago
Haha you got me, I do have a charger at home. I'm just not used to charging in the day, I normally charge overnight. But I guess I could charge more if needed.

4h ago

Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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Dave @lemmy.nz 4h ago

I spend 90% of my time at home so that probably won't help my battery much 😅

5h ago

Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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Dave @lemmy.nz 5h ago

I was excited too! But they mention it kills the battery as Google doesn't let the access the system API for it, so we'll see whether it stays enabled.

1d ago

why not all laptops and PCs charging/working via usb c yet,instead of whatever bs charger they make?

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Dave @lemmy.nz 1d ago

my thinkpad lappy has a 230w power supply. can usb-c do that?

The latest USB-C Power Delivery Standard should do 240w, but not all USB-C ports are rated for it.

1d ago

Anyone have some good electric cars?

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Dave @lemmy.nz 1d ago

Interesting that duel motors and AWD make hardly any difference! I'm quite happy with my single motor FWD performance, and it seems like they might be similar.

1d ago

Anyone have some good electric cars?

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Dave @lemmy.nz 1d ago

I can't find the data now but from memory the AWD model is supposed to do 0-100kph in about 4 seconds as opposed to the 7.5 or so of the FWD models, so I assumed you'd be able to feel the difference 😆.

1d ago

Copilot AI ‘Microslop’ Chat Ban Is Not Censorship—Says Microslop

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Dave @lemmy.nz 1d ago

Did they remember to add Micro$lop to their slur filter?

2d ago

Breaking Down the New Stupid Ageist Californian Law that Requires Age Verification at OS account setup

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Dave @lemmy.nz 2d ago

I've read the law and can't find anything in it that requires verification of the age, only that an age must be provided.

Maybe this guy has a good argument but the site is down right now.

2d ago

What would it look like if time were expanding?

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Dave @lemmy.nz 2d ago

It's an interesting question, that from my searching around we don't really know if time is expanding or what that would mean.

One interesting answer I found is this:

The simple answer is that no, time is not expanding or contracting.
The complicated answer is that when we're describing the universe we start with the assumption that time isn't expanding or contracting. That is, we choose our coordinate system to make the time dimension non-changing.

That is to say, we know time is not expanding because we use time as our scale. The link has a bunch of maths if that's your thing.

I also found a suggestion that time expanding would likely act like other time dilation, that is to say that it would only be noticeable by an independent observer (such as if a spacecraft were traveling near the speed of light, those on board might only experience a few weeks passing as it travels to Alpha Centauri, but for those remaining on earth it may appear as 5 years).

3d ago

Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse”

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Dave @lemmy.nz 3d ago

Just one team working on Teams, and they are doing their best to make it worse.

I for one encourage them, it apparently needs to be even worse before my work will consider changing

3d ago

What should be done and over with by now?

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Dave @lemmy.nz 3d ago

You can mostly solve the solar issue by building more solar, it generates power in virtually any weather, maybe less but then you just build more to account for it. And when it's not sunny it's normally windy.

Also grids normally span multiple areas, you don't build all your solar in the same spot, you spread it around so it's sunny somewhere.

Batteries or even pumped hydro also solve the problem of power being generated at a different time than needed.

Outside of the US, solar capacity is being added at speed because it has become so cheap.

3d ago

Anyone have some good electric cars?

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Dave @lemmy.nz 3d ago

I don't know if airbags are connected enough to coordinate with each other, but you kind of expect they should err on the side of going off if unsure rather than not going off!

Just looked up the recall, apparently 100 million airbags recalled starting from 2013. It seems to have resulted in the bankruptcy of the company!

It might be a little early to be related to your crash if it was just a few years back. Hopefully you're doing ok now!

3d ago

Anyone have some good electric cars?

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Dave @lemmy.nz 3d ago

BYD is very popular everywhere, it just overtook Tesla as the biggest EV manufacturer.

Personally I avoided BYD due to the whole China data sovereignty thing, but from what I hear their cars are solid.

3d ago

Anyone have some good electric cars?

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Dave @lemmy.nz 3d ago

Modern airbags only go off if you crash in a direction that they can help, e.g. if you slide sideways into a pole, you'd only expect curtain airbags to go off, not the one in your steering wheel. Airbags are dangerous so you only want them to go off when they aren't going to make things worse.

Though by the way you italicised "none", perhaps the car is full of airbags all over and they still didn't go off?

I also seem to remember a massive recall from a decade back because the world's biggest airbag manufacturer found many of their airbags didn't go off properly.

3d ago

Anyone have some good electric cars?

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Dave @lemmy.nz 3d ago

I have the mid range one but I believe the top model has AWD and so you get a lot more go from a standing start.

3d ago

Anyone have some good electric cars?

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Dave @lemmy.nz 3d ago

I also have a 2024 Ariya! Also love it, only had it less than 6 months (bought an ex-demo car for about 60% of the price of a new one).

Nissan have been making Leafs for years, built in Japan, we got the 63kWh mid-range model. It's not a huge SUV but big enough we can easily fit three kids in the back and they have leg room. Has all the bells and whistles, like adaptive cruise control, steering assist, auto wipers, auto-lock/unlock, bluetooth, beepy things when you get too close, uses Lidar not cameras like tesla, but also have cameras so you have the overhead 360 view. All sorts of beeps and barps for various warnings but you can turn off anything you don't like.

I'd say the most unusual part is that there's no separation of driver and front passenger footwell, just one giant gap. After reading about it online I did what others do and bought a baskety container thing and velcroed it to the floor so now there is so much storage for all the books and jerseys and whatever, on top of the two glove boxes.

Comes with free updates to the satnav maps that you can also do yourself (I ended up using my wife's Windows computer as I didn't get their software working on Linux, maybe someone else has had better luck).

There are things I don't like but overall, a solid car, no regrets. If you have more money they also sell a higher spec AWD version with a bigger battery. We get about 300km range on our 63kWh version by the time we fill it with stuff and 5 people.

4d ago

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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Dave @lemmy.nz 4d ago

TBH this sounds to me like something specifically intended to not be an Australian-like solution, which they could have copied.

4d ago

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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Dave @lemmy.nz 4d ago

I am not sure what's required of a bare bones Linux install (general computing device) that has access to a package manager (application store)!

4d ago

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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Dave @lemmy.nz 4d ago

Yeah perhaps. Or that "account" doesn't really need to bw what we think of as an account.

Could it be covered, but they would still have to ask? It says if it wasn't done at setup it has to ask, so perhaps an account-less OS would still be expected to ask for an age and provide it when asked?

4d ago

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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Dave @lemmy.nz 4d ago

Nah I don't think it does. You don't really get that because the intent of a law is important in court cases.

Mobile phones are specifically covered:

(g) “Operating system provider” means a person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.