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[–] sky@leminal.space 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google and Apple have been putting more serious machine learning accelerators in their devices for a bit now. It enables some nice features, like on-device speech-to-text and improved photo processing.

At least when the generative AI hype dies down there will still be legitimate uses for the hardware.

[–] sky@leminal.space 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

there's a couple EVs that can go that far. I rented a Tesla Model Y Long Range, which cannot. I did not leave with a full charge and didn't arrive with one either. You don't need to.

I charged 3 times on the way up the coast, for 15, 10, and 20 minutes. The last one was was only longer because I ran into target to get something.

That's... 9%.

What car takes an hour to charge?? I used to have a Chevy Bolt, the slowest charging EV you can buy. and it didn't take an hour.

Go play around with A Better Route Planner if you want to see that assuming 3 hours of charging for an eight hour trip is ridiculous.

Edit: 50mph on the highway is laughable, I was going 80-85mph. It's a bit over a 500mi drive.

[–] sky@leminal.space 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Used EVs can be a great deal! I've had my eyes out for a good deal on a leaf for ages, but not many pop up in my rural area.

[–] sky@leminal.space 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

it was a rental car lol

though you'd be surprised to learn there's EVs under $80k! not that anyone can afford new cars anyway.

[–] sky@leminal.space 30 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I spent under an hour charging on a 8 hour drive. I barely had time to pee or eat before the car was ready. Have you road-tripped an EV?

[–] sky@leminal.space 6 points 1 year ago

this looks sick!

[–] sky@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

I will say that maybe Philips' regular LED bulbs are bad, but I have Hue bulbs I've been using since 2015 without issues still. They've been extremely reliable.

[–] sky@leminal.space 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Too bad most other streaming boxes suck ass and are full of ads. Begging Android TV manufacturers to use a decent SoC for once.

[–] sky@leminal.space 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sky@leminal.space 1 points 1 year ago

Nice! I recently switched to Android and the Material You adaptive coloring through the system is so nice.

Anything that makes customizing a Linux desktop a little easier is good in my book.

[–] sky@leminal.space 1 points 1 year ago

Your users shouldn't even really need to know what an API is, much less be rationing requests like it's early SMS plans or something, geez.

[–] sky@leminal.space 4 points 1 year ago

I particularly enjoyed the rant about Digital OTA TV. I have not had a good experience with it ever myself. I'm close to putting a serious antenna on my roof to get decent reception, but what a pain!

In an ideal world it would be more reliable and we would have had tuners built into phones and tablets, streaming TV on the go without using data would be sick.

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