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finalarbiter

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  • Ö rule

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  • They're dressed like a resident evil character lol

  • Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch

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  • The only EVs I've driven that actually felt like they took advantage of being an EV were from EV companies, no legacy automakers. Tesla, Polestar, Lucid, Rivian. Everyone else the vehicle felt like an afterthought

    Preach it! I test drove a variety of EVs (except tesla) last year while I was looking to replace my car. My experience was largely disappointing:

    • Ford and the other American brands felt like they were designed to be disliked. All of them were overpriced and poorly designed, aside from the Chevy Volt, which was just poorly designed.
    • Toyota bz4x and the Suburu on the same platform (sunterra? Idr Solterra) were nowhere to be found near me. From what I understand, though, they also generally didn't impress.
    • The VW ID.4 was... fine, I guess, but the infotainment was buggy and froze for most of the test drive. It's also plagued with recalls, so I didn't really trust in the longevity of the vehicle.

    There was a used Polestar 2 MY21 launch edition someone traded in near me. I took it for a test drive and fell in love! Even several months in, I'm still excited to get behind the wheel, even for something like a grocery run.

    The only thing about it that I am not a fan of is the range, which is ~200mi for MY21. That's still more than enough me, I maybe need to charge 1-2x a month. Well, that and the slightly underpowered processor for the infotainment makes it a bit sluggish at times.

    Edit: I remembered what the Subaru EV was called and also the Chevy Volt wasn't overpriced i guess

  • VW Recalls 2023 to 2025 ID.4 Vehicles for Battery Fire Risk

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  • Wow fuck that site. Within a few seconds of opening, a menu asking for a monthly 'contribution' popped up and refused to close (that x didn't do anything)

  • Is Minecraft piracy really piracy?

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  • If you don't care, then why are you trying so hard to convince yourself and others that this isn't piracy?

    Again, the ease of obtaining the game without a license has nothing to do with the legality of doing so. Piracy is the act of bypassing licensing restrictions in software, which is exactly what you are doing.

  • Is Minecraft piracy really piracy?

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  • There are plenty of games for sale that don't include drm or are otherwise easy to obtain. It's still piracy to download them without paying.

    I'll never understand these posts where someone is bending over backwards to try to 'prove' that pirating a game isn't piracy by some sovereign citizen-esque logic. Just download the game and move on.

  • OpenSplitDeck - An open source steam controller

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  • Yeah it seems strange to be sourcing parts from a 'spares' retailer like ifixit, instead of finding the part on normal electronics distributors. Great way to make the price skyrocket.

  • Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’

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  • That's largely a result of facebook buying up a bunch of vr dev companies and making them release quest exclusives. I'd be curious to see what titles released per year looks like if you include all platforms.

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  • IIRC the hungry judge effect is considered more of a correlation than a causation. It's been a while since I read about it, but another theory was that case ordering mattered more- it was about the relative comparisons to previous cases in the day. Additionally, some suggested that cases which required more deliberation on sentencing would not be scheduled right before a break so they wouldn't be interrupted.

  • Picked up a copy of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for XB360

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  • Wow, it's weird for me to see the xbox360 considered a retro console. Never really thought about it, but it is 21 years old now (released 2005).

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    What do I think of my paper ? It's under review

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  • They, and likely everyone else downvoting you, want the actual paper.

  • is actually a big piece of #SHIT: after another system update, ALL GAMES but Godot ones start crashing. I payed for them, but I can’t play.

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  • So your system updated, but you're blaming steam? That's hardly their fault. There is clearly something wrong with your computer. Next time rub a few brain cells together and think before you come out here screaming like a toddler.

  • How to avoid hating the opposite gender after reading what they write online?

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  • Assuming any homogeneity in a group as large as 'the opposite gender' is foolish. People with any combination of parts and identities can be dumb pieces of shit, so it's hardly fair or even reasonable to hate that entire group of the actions of a subset.

    Does that make the things you read any less upsetting? No, nor should it. Especially online, people are emboldened to say some pretty heinous shit. They don't, however, represent all guys, gals, or whatever else.

  • Weight Loss drugs could save airlines $580 million a year in fuel costs - Dexerto

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  • Blame the airline for seats that are too small, not passengers for being too large.

  • Rule of 4

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  • Ah, I misunderstood. I thought you were just saying someone should make it.

  • Rule of 4

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  • Then make it

  • Clicks Communicator: the ultimate communication companion

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  • This feels like a solution looking for a problem. What is the benefit of this 'companion'? If the point is really just to have a physical keyboard for messages, seems like I'd be better off with one of those little folding bluetooth keyboard for 1/10 the price.

  • An Company(ies) that Converts Classic Automobiles to Automobiles with Solar Panels Built into Their Skins?

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  • Aptera makes a highly optimized vehicle. Most extant EVs, let alone converted classic cars, would not benefit appreciably from integrating current solar panel technology.

    The solar panels on the Aptera provide 700 W, or 0.7 kW. For comparison, a level one charger (110v, single phase) provides 1-2.4 kW. For the average EV, a level one charger adds about 2-5 miles of driving for every hour charged depending on the vehicle.

    The aerodynamics of the vehicle are really important in the charge rate to driving range conversion. As such, a converted classic car with the same battery as a similarly-sized EV would gain fewer driving miles at the same charge rate. Given that, the solar panels from the Aptera would make a negligible difference on a standard EV, let alone a converted classic car.

    TL;DR: Solar panels do not contribute an appreciable amount of energy to the car, it only works for the Aptera due to its extremely optimized aerodynamics.

  • Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

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  • Yeah that's the thing, it's especially hard to trust a newer service without any track record of longevity or a company with a proven track record of poor support. Even then, everything dies eventually. Companies will shut down servers due to funding/popularity issues (it doesn't make sense to continue spending money and dev time on a game nobody is playing anymore) or to funnel players into a newer game. It would be great to see more live service or otherwise online games (e.g. MMOs) that are self-hostable.

  • Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

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  • I don't think Stadia's problem was the technology, though. It actually worked pretty well if you had a decent internet connection.

    The issue, imo, was that nobody trusted in the longevity of the platform. Given Google's track record, why would anyone want to buy in to something that would likely only last a few years? I know they ended up refunding people, but it's not like they do that with every product they've cancelled.

    Edit: spellcheck