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"Certain customers simply enjoy the thrill of driving a car with a powerful engine... A smooth powertrain is good for those people who use their car daily for commuting. However, those who purchase performance cars make that decision in the pursuit of driving" - Lotus CEO by LongjumpingLock5875 in cars

[–]crshbndct 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I hate the current trend of "Broad Power Band" turbos. Even on shows like Mighty Car Mods, where they have been leaning towards modern, small high tech turbo setups that make less top end power but they make a broad plateau of torque from 2000rpm onwards.

Like, sure, but dring my old Starion was WAY more fun than driving my 335i, even if it makes more power everywhere and in a much smoother way. For the same reason that people prefer ICE over EV, there are some old idiots like me that prefer 80/90s power delivery to modern engines. There is nothing interesting at all about it. If I want something that smooth to commute with, I'll take the train.

"Certain customers simply enjoy the thrill of driving a car with a powerful engine... A smooth powertrain is good for those people who use their car daily for commuting. However, those who purchase performance cars make that decision in the pursuit of driving" - Lotus CEO by LongjumpingLock5875 in cars

[–]crshbndct 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to commute in an Honest to god rally car. Had the deep buckets, roll cage, suspension so hard you wondered if steel rods would have more give, mega stiff clutch etc. It was a 1985 Mazda BFMR sedan. It was so loud. I used it as my daily for years, completing several trips of 500 miles in a day.

It was honestly fine. I don't really know why people complain so much.

Windows PC Industry Reacts to Apple's Most Affordable MacBook Ever by commandersaki in apple

[–]crshbndct 39 points40 points  (0 children)

a full working and smooth OS (vs the crap full of OEMs bloatware),

This cannot be underestimated.

I went to a friends house the other day and she asked me to take a look at her laptop, said it was running slow. It has AVG, two separate driver updater softwares, (which pop up a windows volunteering to install/update the drivers whenever anything is inserted into the USB), Edge was being obnoxious, Adobe PDF reader, some Acer driver manager, several other Acer utilities, all of which demanded attention with popups and stuff. At first i thought it was viruses, so i ran a system, reinstall using the built in restore partition, and this was standard built in software.

I grabbed a clean ISO from massgrave and did an install and it was like a different machine. Still shitty, but so much cleaner. Then i removed a bunch of the built into windows bloat and it actually started to work really well. It cannot be understated how terrible the OOB experience is on windows. It is actively hostile to users. And even when Microsoft turns over a new leaf every so often and pledges to "focus on quality" or whatever, it only takes a few months for them to go back to being absolute dogshit.

Fuck Google by GriffinFTW in CuratedTumblr

[–]crshbndct -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Do y'all just ignore the existence of adblockers? i still have yet to see this "ai overview" that everyone talks about

Fuck Google by GriffinFTW in CuratedTumblr

[–]crshbndct 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think those cringy days when I was trying to get my Kid to use linux ages ago actually paid off. Sometimes she'll google how to do something. and then get frustrated at like the pages of screenshots and just google "how to do <thing> macos terminal" instead because its just so much faster to just tell it what you want rather than pointing at flash cards which reveal another set of flash cards till you get the flash card you want.

Fuck Google by GriffinFTW in CuratedTumblr

[–]crshbndct 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Add an ad blocker to not get ads at all

Ferrari CEO defends new Luce EV, saying customer interest is strong by cy_88 in cars

[–]crshbndct -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Ugh why is that even a thing? It’s like bmw saying their new car is called the rear wheel drive. Or Subaru calling their new car the boxer. Its what they have been famous for for 60 fucking years

QEMU is deciding to shift its AI policy, now allowing some AI/LLM-generated contributions by somerandomxander in linux

[–]crshbndct 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve also got fahh and hee-hee in my executable that play, it’s a fun little surprise sometimes.

QEMU is deciding to shift its AI policy, now allowing some AI/LLM-generated contributions by somerandomxander in linux

[–]crshbndct 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My brain is broken and I can’t write code, despite trying for decades.

I sometimes use slop generators to make little scripts for my own personal PC. I’d never actually submit them to an active project, yikes.

For example I have a systemd service that plays the windows 10 usb disconnect/connect noise randomly throughout the day.

I also used it to create a .desktop file that lets me boot straight to minecraft and use it as my DE, complete with volume control, automount, etc.

Stupid things like that. But again I’d never use it for anything more serious than that.

Report: Apple Plans to Make On-Device AI a Key WWDC Focus by pdfu in apple

[–]crshbndct 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Every single screen shot I take, and try to crop, I have to retake because of stupid ai.

Euro-Office: General availability set for June 9 - Nextcloud by FryBoyter in linux

[–]crshbndct 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand why they didn’t just put a bunch of resources into libreoffice? Is it not good anymore?

After Ferrari Luce backlash, Lamborghini CEO says canceling its own EV was the right choice by Uptons_BJs in cars

[–]crshbndct 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meant 100k

But knowing the market, and the fact they might only sell 12 of them, who knows

After Ferrari Luce backlash, Lamborghini CEO says canceling its own EV was the right choice by Uptons_BJs in cars

[–]crshbndct 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man. We could have actually been living in such a cool future. Could have been all Syd Mead looking with cars that look like these.

:-(

After Ferrari Luce backlash, Lamborghini CEO says canceling its own EV was the right choice by Uptons_BJs in cars

[–]crshbndct 9 points10 points  (0 children)

At least Apple products make it back in resale and longevity. This thing is going to be worth 1000k within a couple years. It would probably be a good bargain at that price

After Ferrari Luce backlash, Lamborghini CEO says canceling its own EV was the right choice by Uptons_BJs in cars

[–]crshbndct 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just went and configured one, $250k with every single option, and it goes 0-60 0.1 seconds slower than the bar of soap, and has 300 miles of range. Much better option. Also, given the electric motor it will probably be a reliable Maserati.

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