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Malfeasant@lemmy.world

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Is there a separate 12v battery, or are the 12v bits run from a dc-dc converter powered by the high voltage system?

Eh, I've seen plenty of internal trunk releases that are just an unmarked handle that pulls a cable...

Tesla vehicles are prone to sudden unintended acceleration.

Wait, has that ever been confirmed? I mean of course Tesla would deny it, but I'd be quicker to believe user error than a design flaw (but I wouldn't rule it out either)

I feel the sarcasm dripping from this comment...

I'd just like to point out that the same is true of your house. Your average deadbolt and doorknob can be defeated by a cordless drill in less than 30 seconds and with very little noise. Don't ask me how I know :D

I'm not somewhere where I can watch a video, how does a router have a display at all? Is it streaming to a web page?

Normal Windows updates don't take an hour

Correct. But who can tell the difference beforehand between a normal update and an abnormal one? The problem is Windows tends to hide those details. I've sat on support calls where a server needs to be rebooted for some configuration change, and Windows insists on applying updates because hey, you're rebooting anyway, so what if it takes 1/2 hour to do this thing that should take 5 minutes...

Helium in balloons is returning to the atmosphere. We can re harvest it if we want

No. It wafts away into space. All the helium we find is a product of radioactive decay- alpha particles- which gets trapped underground. Once it's released into the atmosphere, it is effectively gone.

Why insult apes like that?

The problem is those passive adapters only work because one side switches to the other's protocol.

You'd have an argument if he had shot himself, or ODed on pills, or slashed his wrists, or any number of other painless, or at least very quick, ways of offing himself.

He set himself on fucking fire. One of the worst ways imaginable to die that doesn't require someone else's active participation, and in fact resists someone else actively trying to stop him. It gets attention.

I work in technical support. Shit is always breaking! Nothing ever works right! Everything needs constant fixing by a trained professional! I know because I see it every day and I've been doing this for 25 years across many different products!

(It couldn't possibly be that I don't see all the shit that works, because when it's working, people don't call me...)

Funny, most credit cards in the last ~5 years don't even have raised numbers anymore... Knuckle buster won't do any good.

I just wrote a personal check yesterday - bought a 20 year old minivan from the in-laws. But yeah, was the first time in years.

I'm in Arizona, I get a little bit of that too. Taco truck on every corner? Sounds marvelous, sign me up!

why does the police accept it without any evidence?

"Will we get to beat someone up without consequences? Hell yeah, who cares if he did anything or not"

They know all the buzzwords and three word slogans to keep the politically apathetic tuned in

And how is that different from what we have?

Why settle for the lesser evil? Cthulhu 2024.

Eh, I don't like interacting with people, so I'll take any chance to minimize it, if not eliminate it entirely. So I use the app to specify how I want my burger (and my kids'). I'd rather do curbside, but if that isn't an option, just giving a name or code at the intercom is better than having to repeat things 3 times and/or wonder if they heard me when they don't say anything...

Nobody suggests either of these

Plenty of people do. They're idiots of course, but there are a lot of them. My next door neighbor for one, I can't even talk to him anymore because it's always "you hear about how many people the vaccine has killed now?"