darganon

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darganon,

That secure shoelace knot was an actual game changer. Shit just works.

darganon,

I don’t mind a cover changing the meaning of a song, but stuff where the cover is just the song again is…lazy as fuck?

Like Fast Car by (country music guy) is fantastic, but it’s the same as the original, which is also fantastic. Feels cheap or something, I don’t know. Like the whole Weezer cover album was boring as fuck. The songs are technically great, but why listen to that over the originals? Rivers said his goal was to try and reproduce the original sound, which seems like an interesting exercise for the band, but not for the listener. So that wraps back around to respecting the band.

Anyways, I have a lot of strong feelings about covers. Make it your own, even if you don’t change it that much.

darganon,

Got mine last night, excited to try it out!

darganon,

It’s pretty good. I think they’re onto something here.

It navigated some annoying traffic very well, took a right on red perfectly, twice. Did a roundabout just fine twice.

The bad bits:

Speed limits are odd, if it can’t figure it out it drops way low. (I have heard if you turn off automatic speed offset it fixes that)

There is one long turn lane it popped into halfway down instead of immediately, as would be preferred. It could catch another driver unaware.

It goes way too fast into the roundabout. Just an unpleasant deceleration, but it’s not unsafe.

Auto parking was cool, but slow.

darganon,

Plastic surgery!

darganon,

It’s doing okay, the first season of Frasier proper was a little stilted and not fully fleshed out, so maybe we’re on to something here.

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)

Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....

darganon,

Netflix is a public company, you can just go look at how wrong you are about this.

They took in $9.3 billion in Q1 2024, and spent $702 million on “technology” and $3.7 billion on adding “content assets”

Their net profit was $2.3 billion, for one quarter. They could afford to just charge less money, but the line must go up.

darganon,

Oh no, Grandma’s bitlocker will be vulnerable when the attacker gets physical access to her machine!

darganon,

I saw this headline and immediately thought “ArmouryCrate is the reason”

I certainly avoid ASUS stuff after discovering that piece of nonsense on my new install.

darganon,

Never is going to be tough, but a fast GPU with a lot of RAM.

If you’re serious about it, just start at a 4090 and work your way down to whatever your budget is.

darganon,

I have the same combo and it also runs flawlessly with my Reverb G2, iracing is great, but there’s never enough horsepower to run that cranked all the way up.

darganon,

Megadeth is a wonderful band, and even their best albums have some downright terrible lyrics.

I mean, Psychotron is an excellent song, but there’s no defending the lyrics.

darganon,

Toyota and Volvo are both adopting giga press in future manufacturing. Don’t act like Tesla has done nothing.

darganon,

Of course, they were just the first people to use it, and for making cars.

That’s innovation whether you give them credit for it or not.

darganon,

Isn’t this a place for memes?

darganon,

Ooooh that’s dirty.

darganon,

I use Multiviewer, having track maps and timing is sick

darganon,

Projectivy Launcher works great. Set it as default on your Chromecast and never see the main UI again!

darganon,

I detoured through here on a road trip one time, the town was just kind of abandoned but didn’t look too weird, but I just happened to get stuck in one of the worst thunderstorms I’ve ever been in as I was leaving. That’s my overriding memory of the place.

darganon,

I miss liftoff.

darganon,

Anonidate 2.0?

darganon,

I only upgraded for the nicer camera. I have so many pictures that are blurry that I think springing for a little nicer camera is worth it. But yeah, the tech is pretty stagnant.

darganon,

Reddit swallowed any community simply due to inertia. Everyone is already there, why build your own thing?

How does data sent over the internet know where to go?

I saw a map of undersea internet cables the other day and it’s crazy how many branches there are. It got me wondering - if I’m (based in the UK) playing an online game from someone in Japan for example, how is the route worked out? Does my ISP know that to get to place X, the data has to be routed via cable 1, cable 2 etc....

darganon,

There are things called routers that…route traffic. A dumbed down version is routers talk to other routers to find out what they know about.

If a game server you connect to matches you with someone in Japan, your computer sends a packet with the address in Japan attached to it. Your home router probably has no clue where that is, so it goes to its upstream router and asks if they know, this process repeats until one figures it out and you get a route.

This all happens very quickly, and it’s why people say the Internet routes around damage.

darganon,

I like Bottas as a character, but he drove the fastest car for a few years and proved he doesn’t have the wheel to wheel skills.

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