[-] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago

My ISP doesn't support IPv6, now what?

It's really bullshit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No, it's not. Most people, even in the US, can easily use the range. You don't go to a cross country roadtrip every day.

You drive to work, go grocery shopping, drive home and that's usually it. A range of 400km+ with new EVs is easily enough. Or do you drive to the gas station every 2 days with your current car?

And even if you go on a roadtrip, after driving for 4 hours you might want to take a break anyway.

You do realize there is no data available for the future? We aren't there yet.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You do realize most people charge at home? It doesn't matter how long it takes when the car is just sitting there (you'll even save time compared to driving to the gas station).

Manufacturers also give 7+ years warranty on batteries by now, but even after 10 years a battery doesn't just break, you only lose a few percent of range (if this wasn't already calculated into the buffer, depends on the car).

You do know EV sales stall because of that, right?

In what fantasy world are you living? EVs just hit an all-times sales record last year. This is for the US, but it's similar all over the world:

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Right now I could buy an EV with 520km range for 36k€. It's rapidly getting better.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Are we? There's still plenty of space for solar and wind. Including large battery installations for cities. It doesn't really feel like we're hitting a limit there anytime soon.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Both use E Ink’s latest Kaleido color screen technology, which has subtle, pastel-like hues and drops from a 300ppi grayscale resolution to 150ppi when you view content in color.

I had to check just how bad 150ppi would be when dropping down the resolution for color.

A 24" Full HD monitor has a PPI of 92. So it's actually okay.

I'm still using my old Kobo Aura HD (now roughly 11 years old) and the battery still lasts over a month. The screen was already decent back then, but a bit sluggish. I just checked, the old one has 265 ppi. Maybe it's not time for an upgrade yet :)

[-] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

I mean the most expensive phones are Androids nowadays, like the Galaxy Z Fold5 that starts at $1799 for the one with the smallest storage..

iPhones are just more consistent pricing wise, though they also released budget versions by now, right?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I absolutely hated it. If you just wanted to switch between games you had to get up and physically get the other CD. Oh and you better not drop that CD or scratch it, or your game might be lost.

Besides that buying games sucked too. Nowadays I can buy and download a game in an hour tops, smaller games in minutes. Back then you had to go to a store or wait for shipping..

Don't get me started on DRM, SecuROM doesn't work nowadays, so all games you bought with it are broken.

There was no charm, it all sucked.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Not true, go to your Steam library, right click the game you want to change, Properties -> Betas -> Select the game version you want.

Not every developer offers this, but there's plenty where I could go back 10 years in updates.

[-] [email protected] 176 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Absolute bullshit, lol. Nowadays you can boot your PC, launch Steam and start into your game while 20+ years ago you were still looking for the damn CD.

And don't get me started with game updates, you had to do them MANUALLY. Go to the developer website, look at a download page, then you get offered updates: 1.0.1a, 1.0.1b, 1.0.2, 1.0.2b, 1.0.3, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1abc, ...

For smaller updates you had to install them in order, so you download 1.0.1a, install it, then download 1.0.1b, install it, then download... if you are lucky the bigger updates like 1.1.0 or 1.2.0 could be directly installed without any in-between steps.

Oh and installing games? World of Warcraft had 4 CDs and if you bought it with Burning Crusade you had to use 8 CDs in total for installation! And the install took ages too.

And during the installation you had to type in a cd key, which took longer than all your popups you're describing together.

I've been mostly playing on PC for the last 27 years, what we have today, even if some stuff is annoying, is 100 times better than how it was back then.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it was definitely a little too fast, had a tiny bit of hair loss going (but that can always happen when you lose weight). But I just wasn't hungry in that time. When you only eat meat and veggies with a side of greek yogurt and berries the volume you can eat calorie wise is huge.

But Keto has other issues unfortunately (like possible diarrhea) so it's iffy. Also really tough to stick with it because you get carbs everywhere.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

For overall health? Working out and healthier eating is best.

Just losing weight? You can do that with only eating less and zero moving around (I did before with Keto, lost 14 kg in under 3 months. Now I was finally skinny, but skinny doesn't look great on a guy either).

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