zurohki

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As someone who games at 4k on a video card from 2017, I can confirm that VRR is a must-have feature for gaming at lower frame rates.

VRR means that falling off your set frame rate doesn't matter. 56 FPS is just as smooth as 60 FPS. If something explodes and the game drops to 40 for a second, you don't really notice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even scanning over the network works on Linux on my Brother MFP. I really didn't expect that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This. If you're unhappy with the shitposts, block /c/[email protected] and like magic, they're gone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

They weren't called the 'me' generation for nothing.

 

I took delivery this afternoon. It's running software version 1.0, so it doesn't have the fixes, Android Auto, etc from newer software versions. It also doesn't have mobile data active yet. This apparently comes after they send delivery confirmation through to BYD and the mothership acknowledges that the car belongs to a customer now. Trying to update it on wifi doesn't work, it just claims it's on the current version.

First impression: it's quiet. It's just quiet all the time. Not just when you're rolling down a hill or along a flat, but accelerating up a hill. There's no engine noise.

Yes, I know there's no engine noise because there's no engine, but this point bears repeating. For the entire first hour, I drove around town with the A/C fan on low and music turned off just listening to the absence of noise. It's quiet.

The silence makes driving it feel effortless. There's no roaring engine, you accelerate up a steep hill and it just smoothly glides up the hill. Not even the hitch of an automatic transmission switching gears, it just smoothly accelerates from zero to the speed limit.

I knew there were no gears and I knew EVs didn't have engine noise, but somehow I just wasn't ready for a car to silently glide up a hill.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Google? Unstable commitment to a project? That's crazy talk!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  1. Slice both sides off the mango
  2. Use the edge of a glass to separate the mango flesh from the skin
  3. Take the chunk of mango in your hand and carefully cut it up with a blunt knife. Put the pieces of mango in a bowl.
  4. Peel off the strip of skin left on the seed and eat the bit of mango that's still attached to the seed.
  5. Have a bath.
  6. Eat the bowl of mango with a fork.
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The bad news is that it may be a while before you can get back to devouring your favourite 60k hurt/comfort WIP.

This writer reads fanfics.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If they did, Apple wouldn't adopt it and we'd be in exactly the same place as we are now.

 

I didn't used to swear much at all, but then I started healing mythic+ regularly.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Valve have said they aren't planning on a new Steam Deck until there's substantial technology improvements, so I wouldn't expect to see one for at least a couple of years yet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of hydrogen's problems are solvable - we can pack a car with hydrogen tanks, make hydrogen with electrolysis, build infrastructure, etc.

The big killer is price. Those hydrogen filling stations aren't $1000 each like home chargers or $50,000 each like DC fast chargers, they're something like 2 million dollars each. And you need them everywhere, there's no home filling to carry most of your usage.

The hydrogen you put in them? You have to pay for not just the electricity that makes it into your car's electric motor, but all the energy that was wasted along the way:

Nobody's looking to spend all that money on filling stations, and nobody's interested in paying 2-3x as much to fill their car.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
 

Beans?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The other day I ordered a BYD Atto 3.

For ages I've seen people who ordered Teslas posting pictures of the charger they've had installed even though they won't be receiving the car for ages. I remember one even painted the whole garage red and white with a Tesla logo on the wall. I thought they were quite silly.

I currently have 12 tabs open for various EV chargers. I get it now.

Anyone know what sort of waiting times BYD have at the moment? The order page still just says "Order Received" and hasn't moved on to "In Production".

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/281

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