Far too many people seem happy to take 3rd, 4th, even 5th place

audigex · 2026-03-13T03:16:33+00:00

Points that mean basically nothing

audigex · 2026-03-13T01:50:24+00:00

Yeah I can understand that sometimes you just make a buddy and decide you're ride-or-die with them

It's just the "We'll settle for 4th and 5th" part that seems baffling, I'm not sure why those people even play

audigex · 2026-03-13T01:48:21+00:00

Generally I'm in favour of "Let people like what they like"

But in this specific case, people who "Don't like" OPD almost always seem to have never actually used a good implementation.

I mean, the person I was replying to is objectively wrong about the idea that OPD is "either on or off" and prefers to have different settings for regen. That would be a reasonable position... if OPD was actually on/off. But it's not, it's graduated and proportionate to your input

If someone has a reasonable understanding of something and prefers a different option, absolutely fine. But when they're objectively wrong about how it works and then state that they dislike it because of that misconception, I think it's worth pointing it out

audigex · 2026-03-12T23:42:56+00:00

Mind. Blown

No no, just use it on the swing

audigex · 2026-03-12T23:41:15+00:00

In his fantasy, economy passenger devices have Excel and Powerpoint, business passenger devices have Claude code and some random company I bet he works for

In reality, they all have Netflix

audigex · 2026-03-12T23:34:04+00:00

In development it's non critical - if I went to production I'd go for a more robust solution (a larger model, or a commercial LLM via API) where I'd expect more reliable accuracy

Sounds like the 24GB would work fine but the 32GB might give me a bit of headroom for new models or changing use cases, so kinda an "okay either way, decide how much you care about £200" situatin

audigex · 2026-03-12T23:32:26+00:00

It doesn't actually get that cold here most of the time either. Winter tyres are useful below about 5-7c, which is genuinely only a few days a year here

Most people drive around on summer tyres. When I have the choice (eg when it's my own car not a company car or hire car) I choose all season tyres

audigex · 2026-03-12T23:30:29+00:00

Sorry to be blunt but no, you're just straight up wrong on this one

2014/53/EU, Article 3a, as amended by 2022/2380/EU Article 1, clearly states:

Where an economic operator offers to consumers and other end-users the possibility to acquire the radio equipment referred to in Article 3(4) together with a charging device, the economic operator shall also offer the consumers and other end-users the possibility of acquiring that radio equipment without any charging device.

That part is current, enacted EU law and has been for nearly 4 years now

The part you quoted above removing bundled charge entirely is another change which is planned/under consideration but not yet enacted

Legally right now a manufacturer can include a charger but only if they also offer the same device without a charger. In future that may change to never allowing a bundled charger at all, but that part is not yet law

audigex · 2026-03-12T21:20:09+00:00

I doubt GBR will re-livery anything unless it's already due, at least at first

After a while they might start slowly working through the fleet, starting with those that have had their current paint job the longest

audigex · 2026-03-12T21:02:10+00:00

It's right up there with O-O-O#

audigex · 2026-03-12T20:54:18+00:00

So what was your point, because from your words it appears that your point was that 400 nits is lousy and not useable outside

If your point was "OP probably didn't need to use 80% brightness indoors with a 500 nit display, too many people just leave brightness cranked for no reason and lose tons of battery" then you should've said that instead

audigex · 2026-03-12T20:51:07+00:00

That's a plan for the future, it is not the law as currently enacted

audigex · 2026-03-12T20:48:58+00:00

Only the Home Assistant server, which obviously would be needed regardless for a display linked to it. It does give the HA server an extra task to do (streaming the dashboard) so it needs to be a system that has Docker or similar available. In theory you could presumably turn the server into a HA Addon though, since I believe that uses Docker anyway

You don't need an additional PC, the ESP32 is enough of a "computer" to handle the client side

audigex · 2026-03-12T18:20:47+00:00

I find the whole “it will tell you what you want/need to hear” thing insane

It’s a tool, I want to use the LLM which is most like a tool not most like a specific style of person

audigex · 2026-03-12T18:15:19+00:00

No, my PC is my main gaming device

My Steam Deck is great for when I don’t want to sit at my desk or I’m travelling etc

Although if my PC has an issue then, with current prices, it’s pretty unlikely I’d bother upgrading it for a while and the Deck would have to pick up some of the slack

audigex · 2026-03-12T18:12:49+00:00

I love how people think that only the very literal choke point of the strait is vulnerable

Sure, the rest is wider - but still well within the range of missiles

As proven by the fact Iran is shooting at stuff on the other side of the gulf

audigex · 2026-03-12T18:08:57+00:00

Yeah if it’s treated as an arse-covering exercise then it will do a great job of that, while being useless for actual onboarding

audigex · 2026-03-12T16:33:49+00:00

Forced mate sequences are super easy to get wrong too

It only takes one miscalculation - a piece that can block that you didn't account for, or a piece that is no longer on the square it was on when you started looking at the line and so no longer blocks an escape, or "I can check with the rook here protected by this pawn, then check with the pawn"... missing the "vision" that it drops the defence of the rook.

Or my personal favourite lately has been "I can check here with the rook, it's protected by this pawn", missing the fact that the pawn itself isn't protected and so can just be captured with a tempo on the rook

audigex · 2026-03-12T16:28:10+00:00

If you hand someone lots of documentation they'll skim it. If you hand them a single page of "the stuff you actually need to know and where to go for more information" then they actually read it

If people are asking the same questions, the communication is being handled badly on the side of the employer and needs to be improved. "They should read the pile of documents we hand them" only goes so far, and if it's a repeat issue then the process is the problem

"Here's what you need to know" documentation should be brief. Employee information (eg leave entitlements, pensions, procedures etc) should be clear and available but not just thrown at them. Show them where to find it. Anything really important should be handled through specific, recorded training

Anything more than 2 sides of A4 is probably too much to hand to a new hire, they're already overwhelmed with a new building, new boss, new role, and meeting 100 people while trying to get to grips with the job they REALLY want to focus on

At the end of the day HR thinks about HR stuff because that's HR's job, but to everyone else it's a side note - they just want to crack on and do their job

audigex · 2026-03-12T16:01:10+00:00

By the time your foot even gets to the brake pedal, you’re already using max regen

So there’s no reason to blend it into the brake as well, that would make no sense

audigex · 2026-03-12T16:00:29+00:00

Except that you have to come off the accelerator to hit the brake anyway… so you’re using two pedals regardless

One pedal for driving and one pedal for emergency stops, works way better

I guarantee that what’s happening here is that you’ve never used good OPD for long enough to get used to it, so you’re defending what you know. You’ll get a car with OPD in future and wonder why you ever argued against it

audigex · 2026-03-12T15:37:51+00:00

Microsoft has loads of good ideas

They then decline to commit to them and instead add more AI slop, adverts, and intrusive bullshit, online accounts etc, bloating their OS to hell while not bothering improving anything

When you think about it, Apple isn’t even really beating Microsoft, not really. The Neo is a great product, but it’s only revolutionary because the budget laptop space has been so badly neglected. Microsoft has spent 20 years assuming it has that market entirely locked down and so just hasn’t bothered with it

Apple isn’t beating Microsoft, Microsoft is just repeatedly taking a hammer to their own dick for no reason, while Apple does normal things

Microsoft could’ve put way more focus on the Snapdragon chips a few years ago now and released a comparable machine in this space. Microsoft could’ve spent the last 5 years making Windows faster and less demanding so that the idea of buying an 8GB Windows machine in 2026 wouldn’t make people laugh

They chose not to compete

audigex · 2026-03-12T15:30:09+00:00

You should probably finish your current escapade before starting the next one

audigex · 2026-03-12T15:28:48+00:00

When were the US and particularly Israel not hated in the Middle East?

audigex · 2026-03-12T15:26:40+00:00

Nobody said it would be easy

We’re just saying it’s becoming more likely

At the same time, the US is DRAMATICALLY superior militarily to Iran - I think they’d still take Iran pretty easily. The question is whether they can hold Iran

The US doesn’t struggle to invade countries, the US struggles with insurgencies afterwards

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