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I took delivery this afternoon. It's running software version 1.0, so it doesn't have the fixes, Android Auto, etc from newer software versions. It also doesn't have mobile data active yet. This apparently comes after they send delivery confirmation through to BYD and the mothership acknowledges that the car belongs to a customer now. Trying to update it on wifi doesn't work, it just claims it's on the current version.

First impression: it's quiet. It's just quiet all the time. Not just when you're rolling down a hill or along a flat, but accelerating up a hill. There's no engine noise.

Yes, I know there's no engine noise because there's no engine, but this point bears repeating. For the entire first hour, I drove around town with the A/C fan on low and music turned off just listening to the absence of noise. It's quiet.

The silence makes driving it feel effortless. There's no roaring engine, you accelerate up a steep hill and it just smoothly glides up the hill. Not even the hitch of an automatic transmission switching gears, it just smoothly accelerates from zero to the speed limit.

I knew there were no gears and I knew EVs didn't have engine noise, but somehow I just wasn't ready for a car to silently glide up a hill.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they did, Apple wouldn't adopt it and we'd be in exactly the same place as we are now.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

"Lying Liar Who Lies Continues Lying"

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I didn't used to swear much at all, but then I started healing mythic+ regularly.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Valve have said they aren't planning on a new Steam Deck until there's substantial technology improvements, so I wouldn't expect to see one for at least a couple of years yet.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Their announcements about products that are way better than anything that actually exists with no solid plans to actually bring it to market is actually just another flavor of anti-EV FUD.

It's not the right time to buy an EV because our imaginary product is SO much better than any of those boring products, you should wait for it and keep buying our gas vehicles for now.

[-] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's remarkable to me that Reddit could have let one of their PR drones write a post that essentially took seven paragraphs to say, "Sorry but we have to" and it probably would have mostly blown over.

But Huffman's ego took the wheel and he had to make it personal. Instead of just leaving, people are actively cheering for Reddit's downfall.

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Beans?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All because some weeb wanted to play Nier: Automata.

2B's bum has been a major contributor to Linux gaming.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I don't think Twitter would rate limit the Google indexer, though.

It's probably the increased bounce rate, as people click Twitter links in the search results, get Twitter's login wall and click back to continue searching instead of creating an account.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

IIRC the two hardest problems in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who didn't realise this joke is in base 3.

[-] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago

"This is a business decision, not like all those other times people protested companies."

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

This. For a lot of people Reddit isn't reddit.com, it's Apollo or Relay or Sync or Reddit Is Fun.

After the apps stop working, they won't be able to keep using the thing they're used to. They can't just go back, they'll have to switch to something different.

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The other day I ordered a BYD Atto 3.

For ages I've seen people who ordered Teslas posting pictures of the charger they've had installed even though they won't be receiving the car for ages. I remember one even painted the whole garage red and white with a Tesla logo on the wall. I thought they were quite silly.

I currently have 12 tabs open for various EV chargers. I get it now.

Anyone know what sort of waiting times BYD have at the moment? The order page still just says "Order Received" and hasn't moved on to "In Production".

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/281

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The more I hear about Windows these last few years, the more it feels like I got out just in time.

Gaming on Linux just keeps getting better, and doing anything on Windows just keeps getting worse.

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