tankplanker @ tankplanker @lemmy.world

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Normal Sway can do translucent windows as well.

Per workspace wallpaper I do with multibg-sway. It uses the workspace title to set the wallpaper. So that means you can set the title dynamically it means I can change wallpaper dynamically per workspace as well.

Worked somewhere that required security clearance that used your national insurance number (UK equivalent to SSN) as your login id. Most people in the UK do not memorise their NI number.

Password had to be uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters, I think at least 12? Couldn't have back to back special characters or start or end with numbers. No whole words, either.

So now you have to remember two strings of letters and numbers. Sackable offensive to write either down. I once got a phone call from security because I would miss enter my password after lunch first time around, just once a day, but they rang me up still to see what going on.

Security there was a nightmare, worked with an obviously disabled guy, who forgot to put his disabled badge on his car dashboard and they threatened to ban him from site (which would result in the sack as you couldn't work remotely). The kicker was that they said we know you forgot to put the badge out, so they knew he was disabled as all car registrations are preregistered only way onsite.

While I prefer IRL clothes shopping, the range of clothes at my nearby stores sucks so badly that online is vastly superior for me. Once you have a list of shops that you trust it's easy to go shopping.

This is partly due to my body shape being an athletic build. Buying online from stores that list the actual clothing measurements means I can choose stuff that actually fits me properly. IRL near me just has generic sizing that is either too tight across the shoulders or far too long.

I spend above average on clothing, your generic brands even online don't offer actual clothing measurements, but then I would rather have a smaller number of items that are good quality and fit rather than be wasteful with disposable fast fashion thst doesn't last and doesn't fit.

Lawson also had problems with Fernando and has been quite out spoken about his own team. I'm not sure he will reign that in the big chair next season.

I believe they have now asked Albon twice since he left saying no both times due to Max, and he hasn't been part of their stable since 22. I think this is the smart move for him as he knows being in Red Bull against Max is just not good for his mental health. I can see Albon back at Red Bull if Max leaves, which at the start of the season was a remote possibility.

Danny left the Red Bull stable when he left RB this year, he could have stayed as an ambassador but chose not to, so I am extremely doubtful he will ever come back to Red Bull F1.

I agree about any rookies, unless they are a generational talent then its just too risky, and counter productive, and if they are, then expect massive fireworks like McLaren 07.

They have had both Fernando and Lewis ask about seats, with Fernando having similar discussions to Albon start of this season. Carlos they turned down, despite discussions, that has to be similar to why they got rid of Carlos in the first place.

Id agree if they weren't looking at Lawson who is pretty anonymous outside of New Zealand, it makes more sense with Danny as he is way more marketable, even now. Yuki does have reasonable power in Japan, which is a considerably larger economy than New Zealand, something like 3rd vs 53rd.

I could see Yuki going to AM, Lawrence would assume Lance could beat him, I am not so sure as Lance is worse than anybody Yukis already faced at RB. I would suspect he'll go to Endurance with Honda as the more likely destination.

There is something to be said about throwing the constructors championship this and next season as it will mean more wind tunnel time and other resources to help the transition to the new regulations in 26.

I would be extremely surprised if they give Yuki a shot, they just do not rate him at all and only recently even remembered he was even an option for that main seat. Max has been clear that he wants no drama just racing, and I suspect that they worry Yuki will be a bit combustible.

The risk they have for 26 is that Max leaves and then they have three drivers left who they do not rate. That really limits their options to get in another world class driver to replace Max, they kind of stuck trying to buy someone whose just out of contract like LeClerc, assuming the rumors aren't true of his last contract being till 29.

Red Bull decided not to choose Carlos this year, rather than the other way around, this is the second time they decided against making him Max's teammate. I think the number of people who believe Carlos would do the same or worse than Checo is one: Checo's dad. Not even Checo would believe that right now.

Why would they not sign him? I doubt he held out for salary parity to Max, the most I would expect is a number 2 contract as Massa or Barrichello are rumored to have had when at Ferrari. Williams hardly has the big money to pay drivers...

We aren't comparing that second driver to Max, we are comparing them to Checo, can they score significantly more points than Checo? Even when Red Bull didn't go in the wrong direction with their car to the point even Max was publicly complaining the car was too hard to drive. The Red Bull was peerless last year and Checo was 290 points behind Max, managed 2 races ahead of Max were they both finished, and four more races one place behind Max.

Totally normal behaviour, obviously not trying to hide paying bribes for the upcoming election out of FIA funds

Lmao

I switched to working out at home and saved a whole bunch of time I used to spend getting to and from the gym, plus all the faffing about waiting to get on the stations I wanted to use. Its not going to work for everyone but if you can do some sort of workout at home or at work if you lucky enough to work somewhere that has facilitates, then you can save a whole bunch of time.

As others have mentioned switching to high intensity can give you as big an impact in a lot less time. Unless you training for endurance events spending a couple of hours working out everyday can actually be counter productive. I used to train twice a day six days a week, an hours weights in the morning then two to three hours of BJJ/Kickboxing and I never made the same strength gains as when I toned that shit down.

Two hours is pretty excessive, you should be doing 10 minutes stretching tops, unless its an actual stretching workout such as yoga or you are working out an injury. Spending an hour on a stair master or a runner is only good if you actually challenging your heart rate during that time, and then only if you working on endurance for a reason.

He needs to go but not sure Lawson is the right person to do so, he's hardly smashed Yuki and Red Bull aren't even considering Yuki so he's not cleared even that benchmark.

They really shown their hand when they refused to sign Carlos, he was by far their best option this summer. They clearly don't want a driver who can challenge Max at all, but someone better than Checo. May be it's time for Bottas? Only half joking.

Does it have enough power to handle routing (not just switching) 2.5Gb + 2.5Gb + whatever the WiFi can support? My guess is it cannot and it would have pushed the price up signifcantly to do so.

Does seem counter intuitive to me as this is squarely aimed at enthusiasts who would like to min max their home network.

The problem with inconsistent penalties is because there are a range of punishments for most offenses. Its meant to give discretion to the stewards to adjust the level depending on the malice and/or impact assigned to the offense. Obviously this completely falls down when you fail to define something so nebulous as malice or impact in these same rules and have different people interpreting it week to week.

If we had just one penalty for say forcing a driver off, or speeding in the pit lane, then had a multiplier if it was intentional or not, that would at least clear up the consistency around the size of a penalty. Overtaking by exceeding track limits should be a flat 10 second penalty for everyone as an example, not 5 seconds one week and 10 seconds the next.

Blocking on a hot lap should always be a 5 place grid drop, blocking on a slow lap should never be a penalty, but what even is the point of a 1 place drop? Like WTAF, its like they been told to punish Max (for something that should not be an offense) then chose the smallest possible punishment going.That simply shouldn't be possible.

UK, £8 a month for 12Gb, unlimited calls and texts, Europe and US roaming included. However, the speed of the roaming just is garbage, completely useless for anything other than text only IMs. If you pay the daily premium, it suddenly improves to useful speed.

Roaming anywhere else is expensive enough to bankrupt a billionaire, something like 50p a Mb, yes Mb not Gb. And that's on top of a daily roaming charge that's mandatory in those regions.

Normally I just pick up a local sim when abroad as the roaming is just garbage.

Yeah its a big stretch, even if you also took Perez over as well to replace Carlos so that the handful of races Carlos finished ahead of Charles, Max might have finished in the best spots that the pair of them got all season.

I have Carlos ahead in Oz (1st vs 2nd, so 7 points), Canada (16th vs 19th, so no points benefit), Austria (3rd vs 11th, so 15 points), Mexico (1st vs 3rd so 10 points), Las Vegas (3rd vs 4th, so 3 points). I make that 35 points, putting Charles ahead of Lando on 354, still 50 points behind first place.

I am not seeing 50 additional points dropped between both Ferrari drivers this season? Probably another 30 maximum.

If you did this with Oscar and Lando, then you get Oscar ahead in Saudi (4th to 6th, so 4 points), Monaco (2nd to 4th, 6 points), Austria (2nd to 20th, so 18 points), Hungry (1st to 2nd, so 7 points), Belgium (2nd to 5th, so 8 points), Baku (1st to 4th, so 13 points), I make that 56 points, enough to put Lando just ahead of Max.

Only way that lead RB does not win is if you put a much worse driver than Max into it and it loses some of the more marginal results hes dragged the car to, or you put a properly competitive driver into Perez's car and he take a hatful of points of Max. Its the latter thats given Max the title at this point, it would be much much closer this season if Perez could at least match the best of Bottas`s seasons at Merc.

Its incredibly reductive to even suggest that he could just get the best positions each driver gets for those two teams. I think at best there are two may be three results team orders could have been used by McLaren to swap Oscar and Lando around, but he would still be behind by about 20 points.

What most people are describing here as an improvement is actually HDR rather than a straight resolution upgrade. Not all 4k downloads (or even actual streams) include HDR for all films, so concentrating on films with HDR and preferably Dolby Vision, assuming your TV supports it, is what I would recommend.

Obviously, not all films are going to be better just because they now have HDR. Even if they have good HDR, there might be other issues such as the green tint for Fellowship of the Ring or the recent problems with the Aliens AI remaster.

Final thing, if your TV is only average at HDR, then it might not even be worth seeking them out. I went from an average 7 year old LED with basic HDR support to a top of the range LG oled, and it's night and day better with HDR for good material.

The sort of natural looking and sincere charm that someone like Robert Downey Jr. can just turn on and work the whole room at once, not that fake or smarmy shit that has people commenting that it fake after the fact.

I've worked with accounts guys who can do it, I've watched them work close up, but I be damned if I cant just naturally do that.

Tesla have a CVT gearbox? Like actual gearbox that ice cars have? First, I've ever heard of them having a proper gearbox. First production ev I heard of with an actual gearbox is the taycan, that has a two speed, fully auto gearbox. Nit aware of any others with an actual gearbox.

You know how regen works right? And that the brake pedal on modern evs don't engage regen as fully as they are engaging the brakes as that's what that pedal is for. Engage the brakes and you aren't going to get anywhere near the energy back from regen as a ton of energy is being wasted by friction and thus heat of the brake pads.

I've owned a lexis 400h, i like the idea of them, but cvts are garbage to drive, even in hybrids. They also completely unsuitable for evs due to their wide torque band, they work best for ice engines have have narrow torque bands as the entire function of a cvt is to adjust to a narrow rev range to optimise that narrow torque band.

Any decent car in the tesla price bracket has configurable regen from all the way off to progressively more regen all thr way up to one pedal driving that will apply the brakes for you to come to a complete stop without touching thr pedal.

Vast majority of these it's switched between the modes using the paddle shift. If you can understand changing gears on a modern ice auto using the paddles, then it's not beyond the average driver to quickly get to grips with using it for regen.

I'd you feather the throttle as you start to slow down you can moderate the amount of regen dynamically without having to change modes. However that requires more skill than the average driver seem capable of.

Cheaper evs tend to have off, on, and may be one pedal driving modes, but they have to cut things to be cheaper as with all cars.

I get between a fifth and a quarter back of my energy consumption from using regen. Learning how to use it is essential for good economy, and it makes you safer as you plan ahead more for where you want to slow down. The least safest way to drive is emergency braking 10m before a stop sign as your default driving style