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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Yes, I ended up selling and buying a hybrid. Super happy with the hybrid.

    • Basically instant “recharge” speed.

    • Longer range.

    • More vehicle options.

    • Don’t have to worry about heat or cold draining my fuel.

    • Can leave the car stationary for long periods of time without the fuel draining.

    • More fueling stations.

    • More reliable fueling stations (chargers may be broken.)

    • Less software bullshit. (Tesla)

    • Less possibly breaking updates. (Tesla) No joke. My car’s software literally crashed on the freeway once and I was essentially driving blind because all the screens went blank.

    I drive a lot and for long distances. Switching to hybrid made trips shorter by an hour.

    And I still got to keep fancy drive assist features. It’s like 80% of autopilot, if not more.

    Oh! And big one! Even though an electric car may say something like 500km range! That’s NOT the usable range! You’re not going to be driving the car to 0km. You’re not even supposed to charge to 100% most of the time! So most of the time you’ll charge to 80%, that’s 400km in the battery. But, you probably wanna play it safe, so you’ll want to recharge with 50km to 100km left in the battery. Leaving you with about 300km of usable range.

    Then the heat, cold, and time will slowly drain your 300km…

    Meanwhile, my hybrid has about 700km of usable range, regardless of time and weather.


  • jg1i@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule of owning
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    OK. I know I’m about to get blown the fuck up but… You will own nothing and be happy. But. Like. Unironically.

    I really don’t think most people want to manage thousands of music files on their computer. Or hundreds of movie files. Or thousands of picture files. Or hundreds of video game files.

    There are definitely options for doing this, but people who go this route are usually tech elite nerds. Not your parents or grandparents. Not normies.

    (I self-host Navidrome, Jellyfin, Immich, etc.)



  • jg1i@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksSmart home
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    2 months ago

    I program for a living.

    I can’t stand all the smart shit people talk about. I hate installing software updates. I hate having to download an app just to use some shitty hardware. I hate needing an internet connection to use something. I hate having to charge yet another device.

    I really hate software. I try to avoid it as much as possible.






  • It’s all right otherwise. Not phenomenal, but not crap. The specs you can get with other laptops. The hardware feel isn’t as good as a Dell XPS or an X1 Carbon. The expansion card stuff is kinda cool, but other laptops have ports too. I’ve never swapped out the cards.

    The main reason I bought this laptop is repairability. If that’s not your main priority, then I probably wouldn’t recommend this laptop.

    If you want to use this laptop with Linux and not spend time fixing hardware compatibility issues, then I definitely would not recommend this laptop. Definitely get a Dell XPS for a Linux laptop that Just Works.


  • Agreed! Not saying it’s not a software issue. Of course the software is broken. Of course I wish it was updated.

    But, Framework seeing the landscape and picking hardware with known issues is a bad choice. They could offer lower DPI and eliminate entire pages of workarounds and half fixes.

    Yes, high DPI should work, but it doesn’t everywhere. That’s just the reality, I wish it wasn’t.






  • I use Gboard. I really want to like the FUTO keyboard, but it unfortunately sucks for typing. Not sure what magic secret sauce Gboard has, but with the FUTO keyboard I basically mistype almost every word. Maybe Gboard has some tap target corrections or something? I’ve tried pushing through with the FUTO keyboard for about a month, but I think I’m ready to uninstall it. )`:



  • It’s possible! We can switch! I’m US born and raised and I voluntarily switched to metric in college. It took me maybe we few months to start building an intuition for Celsius, grams, liters, and meters. And that was with me in isolation. I would imagine it would be much faster if everyone else was also transitioning.

    Over the years, other people have asked me about this and I’ve been shocked at how many people don’t realize most of the world uses metric. Someone asked why I was using “Mexico units” once… Also, I’ve met lots of people who think the US invented inches, pounds, etc, which is… uh… interesting. The arguments y’all are having here are way more advanced than what I’ve run into.

    For anyone who wants to voluntarily switch, I highly recommend not to convert between imperial and metric. Just read the metric number and that’s it. The weather says it’s 25c outside? Don’t convert to F. Go outside, experience 25c. Over time you’ll build an intuition. Smartphones and computers have made the switch easier these days.

    Of course, until we all switch you’ll really end up being bilingual…