[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Honestly it’s sort of the principle of it.

Like the car has it, it’s already cost the manufacturer to install it sure there are ongoing dev costs for some things, but not all.

On top of that many manufacturers are locking the features to the one person.

So for example I pay for heated seats. Then I sell the car, and the new owner has to “buy” heated seats again.

I’m sorry I’m not supporting that bullshit or the manufacturers who are doing this one bit even if I don’t pay for a feature.

On top of that there are issues with servicing and also forced firmware updates.

A friend was late to work the other day because his Tesla was doing an update when he tried to leave, like what happens if someone was trying to rush a partner to a hospital or something and you happen to jump in the car as it’s mid way through an update.

I want to be in control of the things I own and pay for, that’s the whole point of owning something. Car manufacturers these days seem to be under the delusion that they still own our vehicles and we are just the money sacks they are renting them to.

This has been going on for a while, but seem much much worse on the electric cars.

Also frankly the infrastructure isn’t there in many places around the world.

It’s not just waiting to charge the car that’s the issue, it’s waiting for the charger… when each vehicle takes up to 30min-an hour to get a meaningful amount of range back suddenly you need like 10x as many charging stations as you had petrol/diesel pumps.

And while this may be in place in some places in the world it’s not in most. Add this to the fact that charging points are often out of order well you start to see the issue.

[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 124 points 8 months ago

It’s not EV’s I’m skeptical of hey.

It’s the cars they are making. The evs are all quite expensive and then all new cars seem to be taking the opportunity to tack on all these extra subscriptions and such.

I’m never buying a car where heated seats are bound to my car app account on a subscription like seriously…

[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

Pretty positive this is going to end up being a DNS level block that will be as simple as setting a dns server outside of the UK to bypass.

Because anything else would create an unbelievable amount of administrative overhead.

Also imagine the spike in identity theft this is going to cause.

[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

I have to say, while not a huge fan of apple…

Most of these hacks I’ve seen seem to have long been patched out.

I still feel iPhones are largely more secure overall even if simply because on average I’m pretty confident the fleet of iPhones in use are using much more up to date software than android devices.

[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

I have absolute confidence that Finland will absolutely counter any aggressive actions all by themselves if they need to.

They have an absolutely staggering amount of artillery and you can be sure it’s all pre-sighted and ready to make any silly invasion attempts an absolute blood bath.

They also have a powerful and decentralised airforce, setup to operate from their highways and backwater air fields should the need arise.

Finland out of any nation in Europe would be the least of my worries about its ability to defend themselves, they have been gearing up and planning to defend against Russian aggression for generations, their people are motivated and I believe already armed with their service rifles after they complete their mandatory service period.

Add NATO membership into it and Russian threats are just laughable, dragging such a powerful and motivated foe into a war you are already struggling badly with would be incredibly stupid, not that that rules it out I guess.

[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 106 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I am now using Firefox…

I mean I was using Firefox before this, but I also am now as well you know.

[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

If games apply it in context as an immersive effect I’m ok with it if it’s not over done.

Like when I’m looking down a scope or something, or through binoculars.

Games that apply it as a full screen effect I turn it off immediately.

[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Remember when CPU’s / GPU’s had clockspeeds that didn’t include “up to”

I understand why it’s better net performance doing it this way and better uses the whole potential performance of the chip.

That still doesn’t make me like it, not because of the technical reasons, but because of the way they twist the marketing, it could hit 6ghz for 1 microsecond and they could still claim #nowupto6ghz!

[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago

I am much, much more likely to be willing to pay for Ublock than I am YouTube.

[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 121 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

46c… lmfao what a stupid headline.

That is absolutely NOT “hot”or “overheating” for a piece of tech under stress.

The phone housing is the heat sync, and the phone is more powerful than many people’s few year old laptops.

Not to defend apple but this is just trying to sensationalise and farm clicks, my pixel 7 used to get way hotter doing just normal tasks to the point I was getting overheat warnings and the screen would shut off.

Now if it was more like 55c I could see that being an issue at least from a comfort standpoint.

On top of this, pointing a thermal camera as an emissive surface like glass… not the most accurate way to actually get a temperature reading, they should have used a thermal couple… but I’m guessing that would have showed an even less exciting click bait number.

[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

See the issue is "gain all the skills"

Comes after the job

Grads know nothing... They just hopefully have the foundation concepts there now to build the true knowledge of how things work and are done in the real world.

That's the real reason grads can't get jobs... I'll take someone with 10 years real world experience in the role or one similar and no on paper qualifications in a heartbeat over a fresh faced university graduate.

[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

100% this.

I have even noted a huge deterioration since I have been in the IT industry, and that's just been since the mid 2000's

  1. People have no idea how to do basic process of elimination troubleshooting anymore.

  2. They have no ability to look at logs and extrapolate what could be going on.

  3. They don't understand how to use a search engine effectively anymore or how to rapidly filter through large amounts of information to find answers (I have no idea why)

  4. The ability to understand how the various bits of tech actually work together and how this is happening seems to be getting more and more lost. So then which things fail people have no idea where to start.

  5. More and more products as you said "just work"... Until they don't and give you jack shit to go on.

Basically just "oh... It didn't work, try again later" nothing is more infuriating than something not working and also giving you no information to troubleshoot, it's why I am basically allergic to anything made by Apple in particular but this is becoming more and more the standard.

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