blitzen

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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Cool that they themed it to a Borg ship.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

In my experience, while Tesla is a prime offender, it isn't only Teslas headlight that are too bright. Honda Prologues are another specific model that blinds me all the time.

While we're at it, I'm convinced auto-headlights and the general dumbing down of drivers mean a lot of people are simply driving around with their brights on all the time. Don't know how to fix that one though.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 month ago

If only there were a way to stop using Google. Alas…

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

You’re not suggesting the automated mailing of speeding tickets based on average speed is reasonable, are you?

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

There’s a law against driving with your phone in your lap? That’s crazy.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Not even a little justified. What are you on about?

Phone is on her lap specifically because she’s not using it.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think you may be underestimating the size of cities. Even San Francisco, famously small for a major city, is 15 times (at approx. 30k acres) the size of the physically largest data center in the US (Switch Reno Tahoe) at 2,000 acres. That's still just 1/7th the size of Manhattan.

I won't argue that 2,000 acres isn't huge for a data center, but just trying to put numbers to the argument.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

It's like when Twitter went downhill, everyone moved to [next corporate owned thing, yet to be enshittified. Anything but the fediverse.]

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The thing that keeps me from mounting my phone to my bike is, I’ve read, that the vibration from the bike can damage the camera in the phone.

Also, how do you get hit with a kayak on a bike?

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I can only speak for myself, but any such service can only be looked at as a temporary solution. How long before that goes away? With your own media (be it ripped from disks you own or obtained elsewhere), it's not temporary.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I built my 32tb server a couple of years ago when drive prices were reasonable, but many of the rips on it are strait remuxes. Now that another drive or two is not likely affordable anytime soon, I'm re-encoding them to x265 to reclaim a bunch of space.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What do you mean by “the average buyer.” Wouldn’t all buyers currently be in the same exact position?

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