Pxtl @ Pxtl @lemmy.ca

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Right? If it were something like Last Of Us I'd get it, but fighting games generally have characters designed to titillate. The ladies are mostly cheesecake pin-ups but with bigger muscles. Getting cranky about nude mods in those is hilariously hypocritical.

Lol I got banned from one of the world news communities for "genocide denial" for pointing out that Biden might be reasonable for doubting the exact death toll numbers coming out of Gaza's government in that we should be reasonably skeptical of the claims from both sides of this war since they're both demonstrably willing to lie to shift blame.

I have to say, considering how Google half-asses things I'd have no confidence in this product. That said, a half-assed effort by Google is still probably better software than the full-ass software effort by carmakers.

My real dream is to get these things fully modular. Let my lift up the touchscreen to access a cavity where a little infotainment-SBC is wired into a couple of USB ports and a mini DisplayPort. What's it got to run? Audio, touchscreen, GPS, phone-over-Bluetooth? That stuff is well-known. Basically the only place where I expect standard interfaces to fall on their face is climate control. As an API fallback, have the built-in car-computer run a private web-server for controlling the car's non-standard hardware. Then just have the SBC use a browser for those screens. Only API needed is "what URIs do I show for what features like climate or trip-odometer or whatever screens can't be standardized at the infotainment level".

Simple: because they're cheaper.

Like, say you build a gaming PC that's comparable to a PS5. I think it would be extremely hard to come up with a combination of PSU, ram, mobo, GPU, CPU, wifi, storage, case, keyboard, mouse, and game controller that costs less than a PS5 and has comparable performance. Even if you picked entry-level components. And you still have to pay the Windows tax probably. And all of that was much more difficult than just buying a PS5 -- not everybody has the time.

The discussion of this same article on Hacker News is shockingly redpilly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38055947

TIL that Justin Trudeau and Matthew Perry were classmates.

To me this seems like solving the wrong problem. Ever since Souls, too many games get obsessed about making their boss encounters challenging but making the main level gameplay just tedious filler. AC6 missions often feel like that. Imho the correct action is to refine the gameplay and figure out your core loop, instead of having massive difficulty spikes.

This is the gameplay equivalent of the "Whisper and Explosion" problem.

Ah, NB. I could tell it wasn't Ontario or BC because the municipal government didn't stop him.

Investors rent their units out. If there were too many investors, rents would crash because of a supply glut.

The reason investors exist is because there's a shortage. Things that are plentiful don't get people hoarding them.

Great, so some renters convert into owners, but net occupancy doesn't change, rent doesn't go down, and the market gets worse because there's less incentive to build more.

Then what?

The other 45% can go push a giant dynamo like the mill in Conan.

I drive a Prius and I live in Canada, a vehicle with like 3 mm of ground clearance. The trick is to live in a place with actual civilized government that plows and salts.

That's what I'd assumed. Wipe it out with something lint free to make sure there's no grit, then add the new grease.

You can't redistribute your way out of a shortage. Any solution to the housing crisis that doesn't involve a shitload more housing is rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic.

Thanks for reassuring about the dark patch. Yes, it's the exact spot the coil burned. I assume there was a brief flame during the burnout.

If you’re not in a big hurry, I would replace that white plastic bearing the drum rides on (you can see it on the very left in the last picture). It’s super squeaky when it fails. If you don’t replace it, at least give it a dollop of high temp grease.

I picked up a (too big, too expensive) tub of high-temp lithium bearing grease for exactly that purpose. My only wonder is how thoroughly I should clean off the old grease before applying it.

Pandering. There is only one atmosphere.

Right? And sane laws about safe vehicles that would clamp down on these land-tanks would never pass because muh freedoms.

If your vehicle represents a higher risk to other people around you, then there should be firmer laws about driving it safely. Give Miatas a higher speed limit, and F-350s firmer penalties for dangerous driving and speeding.

I mean I drive a Prius Prime and I love it. I'm surprised they're not pushing harder on PHEVs. I just put 900km onto the darn thing on a road trip - a few evening charging sessions (the motel had a charging station across the street) for like $3 total plus $35CAD of gas for the whole trip.