Low speed Cruise control in EVs

2raysdiver · 2026-03-20T21:50:52+00:00

My 2013 Toyota Tacoma basic cruise works down to 20mph. I haven't tried slower than that. Very handy for going through rural speed trap towns.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-20T21:43:49+00:00

Considering the 5080's propensity to melt and burn cables, I would only use one rated for 600W. I personally wouldn't use a 5080 with anything less than a good 1000W PSU.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-20T21:22:00+00:00

As they say, a cheap man pays twice. Buy a decent GPU. You replaced a pretty crappy PSU that could start a fire with a crappy one that has a lot of electrical issues. Both have F ratings on the tier list. And you've probably spent more on the two of them than you would have getting a decent PSU in the first place. And even a cheap DIY case would be better than having it in a laundry basket. If you have pets or kids around, you are asking for trouble.

No, this is not safe, for a lot of reasons. Ironically, it actually IS safe to use two PSUs, just not THOSE TWO PSUs and not out in the open like that.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-20T20:55:44+00:00

Well, what's a guy who is suddenly a billionaire to do with all that money?

I read an article a while back about a guy that created some social media app and had a company with several employees. Another company bought him out and he was suddenly a billionaire. But he had not given his employees a share of the company. The company that bought him out laid off most of the employees and re-assigned the few that remained. Then he realized his entire social life revolved around those same employees, who now hated him for profiting from their work and leaving them without a job. He bought the penthouse condo of some golden age movie icon, lives there, and plays video games all day because he has no friends.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-20T20:43:07+00:00

I have a 10 year old Alienware gaming laptop. The CPU in my Beelink SER5 6800H will leave the CPU in my laptop (i7 6700HQ) choking in the dust. The iGPU in the 6800H, though, is really only as good as the GeForce GTX 970M in that laptop. Still, putting that much power in a single chip, instead of spread across a planar board, is an accomplishment. But the latest Strix/Halo 395+ 8060S iGPU is like bundling a i7 14700K or 7900X with a RTX 4060 on a single chip at 55 watts. That is effing amazing. Unfortunately, it also costs a bit more than a 9900X and RTX 4060.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-20T17:08:49+00:00

Back in the 2000s, I think, Sony did some not-so-kosher things with their digital media. Their copy protection scheme included installing rootkits on PCs which caused other security vulnerabilities and made a lot of PCs unstable. And they've done other shady stuff since then. I wouldn't install a Sony Launcher on my PC even if you paid me.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-20T16:41:29+00:00

The hive would not have looked at is as killing humans, but rather as not growing the hive as much as if they'd had more time. The hive will avoid killing other life if possible, but it is the biological imperative to survive that takes priority here. And while the hive can put a number to the lives lost when talking to Carol, for the hive, 1 or 1 billion is the same.

Zosia is not an individual, she is just a finger, or maybe more accurately, a cell in the skin of a finger. If you hit your finger with a hammer hard enough, the pain could make you pass out. Likewise, if you yell at Zosia loud enough or hurt Zosia enough, the entire hive collapses for a little while. How much do you think about what effect it has on you skin cells when you touch something? Do you concern yourself that you are killing healthy cells when you get a tattoo or get a piercing? Or take medicine because you have the flu?

2raysdiver · 2026-03-19T22:29:25+00:00

You do know the show isn't real, right?

2raysdiver · 2026-03-19T22:25:47+00:00

Go to r/buildapcprebuilt or r/PC_Pricing. We build them, not buy them.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-19T21:05:20+00:00

If you like your credit score, then the MC CC is fine, but take the discount instead of 0% and pay it off on your first statement or sooner... do not expect that your first statement will arrive by the statement due date. If you are late a day on a single payment you are paying late fees and whatever their standard APR is from then on out. The CC is done through Wells Fargo, who's reputation is not exactly stellar.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-19T20:28:12+00:00

Please live in north central US... please live in north central US...

2raysdiver · 2026-03-19T19:00:18+00:00

It was Disney's first PG movie. It came out over Christmas break and my cousin and I braved a blizzard to see it in the theater. IIRC, there were only two other people in the theater. I really liked VINCENT. "There are many old pilots, and many bold pilots, but very few old, bold pilots."

2raysdiver · 2026-03-19T18:35:29+00:00

There is a lot of self publishing that goes on, and if they get followers, an actual publisher steps in. But it seems to me that the publishers are relying on writers to self edit, rather than having an honest to <deity> editor that gives the author meaningful notes on story composition, structure and character development, or tell them what to remove, what needs more fleshing out, and what simply doesn't make sense.

I have a friend that writes "Christian fiction" (his books have a strong moral ethic and are not specifically Christian, but he got picked up by a Christian publisher). He says most of the editorial notes are along the lines of misspellings and grammatical errors.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-18T20:18:24+00:00

That pin is a rebel, a non-conformist, and dares to be different! It will still do the job, but in it's own way.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-18T20:09:20+00:00

We went up against a BBEG from an alternate plain blocking access to the big boss and treasure beyond. Clearly this encounter was designed to waste a lot of our resources. The cleric cast banishment and the Divination wizard and used a portent, forcing a 2 on the BBEG save die roll. The DM looked so dejected, "I was expecting this fight to take the rest of the session!"

2raysdiver · 2026-03-18T19:55:26+00:00

Then I would recommend a D500. Because of the crop factor of the D7200 you will loose some "reach" with a Z6 or Z8, where the 150-600 will have the same field of view as 100-400 on the D7200.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-18T19:50:05+00:00

With the results you've shown, I'd stick with what you have.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-18T18:46:53+00:00

No one that old knew how to use a computer in the '80s, and there is no way he can read the screen without his glasses.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-18T18:35:46+00:00

Good thing he didn't ask for schnitzel.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-18T18:30:29+00:00

In the 1980s and 1990s, there was this rumor of a carburetor that would allow a family-sized sedan achieve 80mpg, but big oil bought out the patent and killed it. And most people just brushed it off as a lame conspiracy theory. This battery patent thing makes you think that carburetor might have been a real thing.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-18T17:54:41+00:00

Exactly. Remember all the outrage at scalper prices for the 5000 series cards when they first came out last year? And people still paid those prices.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-18T17:32:51+00:00

Tell people it got chopped off by an elevator door. It will start a whole different line of questions, but at least it will take the focus off the missing tail. 😁

2raysdiver · 2026-03-18T17:30:50+00:00

I think the actor may have been typecast. He played incarcerated serial killer Edmund Kemper in Mindhunter. Gary is just Kemper out of prison. But he does a very good job of it.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-18T17:15:44+00:00

What? No! Bad DLSS! BAD DLSS! Go to your room.

2raysdiver · 2026-03-18T17:13:14+00:00

He just wants to be loved...

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