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Comment Re:The new CATL batteries are wild (Score 1) 159

The only way I might have been able to afford an EV is with a Chinese one, but my government won't let me have that. I don't have a place to charge right now so I can't use the kind of EV I can otherwise afford, i.e. a compliance car. e.g. a used 1st gen Leaf literally won't get me to work and back.

I just wish facts weren't dirty around here, we could use some more of them. I'm pretty tired of the automakers shitting everything up.

Comment Re:Build fireproof structures, this is not difficu (Score 1) 70

It's quite practical to build completely fireproof homes. Some Californians do, which proves the rest can do that too.

wat

None of these things are difficult. Concrete domes shrug off embers. So do eaveless steel buildings which make ideal garages easy to erect with a very small crew (which I did).

Because you were able to do it physically and legally, anyone can do it! It's so simple!

Comment Re:Why would you buy a dead company... 2000's is g (Score 1) 50

Last time I used their website, it was over complicated, non-responsive, and I got scammed

I've been using eBay since ... hmm, eBay says May 21, 2000. Part of eBay's charm is that their website is still uncomplicated for its level of functionality. They are essentially commercial Craigslist - no more webshit than is absolutely necessary to do the job. eBay is notable for having a lot of category-specific metadata about products listed on the site, which may or may not be correct but at least gives you something to search on. It's best to do both this and keyword searches because people misspell things and/or misenter the product info.

you needed some Master in eBay Scam Protection, and if you missed one of the 50 golden rules, you would see your money gone with no help from eBay

I've used dispute resolution with eBay several times, and while it has occasionally been irritating, I have generally been able to get back my money.

Doesn't seem like a smart move to buy a sinking ship, but hey, good luck with that !

Which ship is sinking? The real question is how Gamestop stays in business given how ubiquitous home internet access is.

Comment Sure (Score 1) 93

It's quite hilarious for me watching foreign videos where I can't tell what they might have actually said because I lack any context, all I can do is boggle.

I have seen improvement, but it's mostly in the software's ability to pick speech out of noise. The comprehension part is still nonexistent.

Comment Margin of Error (Score 1) 42

These results have been bouncing around a bit without any apparently explanation, I presume the methodology is variable with time and I don't take the exact numbers too seriously.

That said, this is the best time in history to be a Linux gamer. If you have AMD graphics then your system probably works great. If you have Nvidia, results will probably vary a whole lot, but at least features will work. (Only old school SLI is really missing.) Proton is very stable and recently there have been some nice improvements in areas like load time and menu responsiveness. From my informal testing, it seems like some of that is NTSYNC.

And it's also the worst time in history to be a Windows user, if only because you could still get Windows 98SE when Windows ME had come out...

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