tony @ tony @lemmy.hoyle.me.uk

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That's partly why I have a cheap chinese ebike (still wasn't cheap, but nothing like some of the silly numbers some manufacturers are quoting). The parts are all cobbled together from other chinese manufactures and are pretty much standard. If it breaks, I replace a bit (they sell most of the parts on their website), or upgrade it, depending how I feel. Nothing proprietary there at all.

Read only root and was they way unix was installed for decades. Some things, like nfs roots, somewhat rely on it (multiple machines would run a single static install of unix, with user partitions being mounted on demand on each machine).

People don't like dealing with partitions though so modern distros tend towards a single root paritition with everything in it. It's funny to go back to the old way.

TBF the unix model originally was read only mounted / and /usr - typically in a separate partition - so they were immutable for decades. It's only later when home users started using single partition models that that really broke.

But the separation is built right in.. /etc for config, /home for user stuff, etc. so there's really no need for another layer.. it's not like windows were it's common to store the configuration in the same directory as the binaries.. so not really seeing what the current fad is about. Presumably something will come out of it, maybe even a standard..

Hybrids were an necessity when large batteries weren't feasable (in the first Leaf, for example, the 24kw battery was about 80% of the cost, it's amazing they could sell it at a profit at all).

Falling prices and increased capacity means that isn't really the case any more, and it's not really worth the complexity of a hybrid.

I mostly agree although there were some pretty decent chunks that left the launch site at high velocity. NSF's car was 500 metres away and didn't fare well at all.

I presume SpaceX have picked up all the pieces by now though.. unlikely there was any long term damage.

I'd say write it for yourself then worry about the cross platform later. You can always go back and rewrite.

That sounds like the kind of stuff we make at $dayjob (that's for the building trade, where they often have complex spreadsheets and going to an app that calculates everything down to the number of screws for them is a huge benefit).

You could probably still do it with a spreadsheet, just have parts list add/remove fan out into the cutting list and update automatically. I imagine it'd get quite ugly, but doable. If you want to do optimisation (buy 1 5 foot length and cut rather than 2 2 foot lengths, because it's cheaper, for example) it gets even uglier and at that point a bespoke app becomes more sensible.

Games I tend to look for people playing it on twitch. You can't get much better than actually seeing a game in action to know if it's for you.

That's convenient..

Stick to sites you know. If you're looking for a review and you get a hit on a site you don't know there's a better than 50% chance it's just an ad generated site (and frequently these days just the output from chatgpt).

Sucks for lesser known sites that are trying to get noticed, but unless google work out a way of removing the crap from feeds that's the way it is.

Same with youtube.. unless you trust the reviewer, assume it's paid unless there's good evidence otherwise.

Search for reddit/lemmy mentions specifically.. although those can be astroturfed too.. but the comments are generally helpful.

You're clearly a known customer for those products :p The algorithm is never wrong..

You really want to do it that way anyway.. process the files to a new set of files. That way when you screw it up going back is just deleting the new files, fixing and rerunning.

There's a road here that's relatively modern as roads go.. it was built when I was a child to take traffic out of the centre. It's wide, straight and has no houses or anything along it that would attract pedestrians. It was clearly designed and built as a bypass.

The council recently made it 20.. I'm still scratching my head (a) why and (b) whether they really expect anyone to take any notice.

But then they'll leave a road as 30 and cover it with speed bumps.. including the main route to the motorway..

There's also some stuff about interoperability which is partly why threads were making noises about the fediverse.

The requirement for reporting and blocking tools presents a problem for X, which has just removed those. Although it wouldn't surprise me to see Musk just pull out of the non-US market altogether . He's trying to turn it into a payment platform and doing that in every country simultaneously would be impossible.

“We do not share SAT scores or GPAs with Facebook or TikTok, and any other third parties using pixel or cookies,”

shows clear evidence that they do, in fact, share these things

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It seems like a new anti Tesla article hits lemmy every day. It's boring at this point.

Part of the children problem is distinguishing between 'small' and 'far away'. Humans seem reasonably good at it, but from what I've seen AIs aren't there yet.

One of the advantages of working from home is you can have the meeting on in the background and get on with some real work. When it comes your time to speak you've lost maybe 5 minutes instead of an hour.

They need to ditch Musk.. he's toxic to the brand now.

It's situational.. the on that the papers all quoted that claimed workimg from home was less productive was based on about 200 data entry clerks in India. It doesn't really apply outside that business and the sample was so small you couldn't draw a conclusion anyway.

Meanwhile plenty of cases of productivity increasing (including ours) and they're situational too.

I think it'll come down to... Good companies can get the best out of workers wherever they are. If managers have issues with productivity they need to look in the mirror.