Weird. I have a Ryzen 9 5900HX (about Ryzen 7 3700 performance), Radeon RX6800M (15% slower than RX6700XT), 32GB DDR4 RAM, and a 2TB 970 Evo Plus SSD, which is 40% filled right now.
I know a lot of the recent increase in the launch and shut down time of Steam has to do with this stupid splash screen. It waits for the network for about 8s even though I have good Internet, and takes a long time to do other stuff as well.
I read the article, and the direction Honda is going worries me, scares me even.
I wish all the best for electric-powered motorcycles. I can’t wait to see them become cost-competitive with gas motorcycles. I think Honda would do quite well with an e-grom.
But, Honda doesn’t seem to just focus on switching the powertrain to electric. They emphasize connectivity and tech. Don’t get me wrong, I like high-tech motorcycles, look at the Yamaha R1. But there is one clear line I draw where the tech becomes detrimental: The point where the addition of new tech gives the manufacturer more control over the bike.
With the Yamaha R1, all the tech is either to make the motorcycle safer to ride (cornering ABS), or make the ride more customizable (power modes). These settings don’t frequently change unless you tell it to and it can all be turned off.
But I’m seeing that Honda wants to copy Zero’s “make the customer pay to unlock the feature that the hardware already supports,” plus adding features enabling the collection and selling of user data. This is especially scary if insurance companies buy the data. It takes away the freedom of motorcycling, as you are metaphorically being ruled by greedy companies.
Not all ICE motorcycles are like that. Some people straight pipe their motorcycle to make it obnoxiously loud. But my Suzuki GZ250 is fairly quiet, even at full throttle at 8000rpm you couldn’t hear it from a block away
Interesting. I’ve only had Steam since 2017 but currently it’s the slowest it’s ever been.
It takes 20s to start and 5s to shut down on fast hardware. This is 6x slower than the electron-based open source Heroic launcher. It’s also 20x slower than opening a web browser, considerably slower than opening Word, LibreOffice, unmodded Factorio, Kdenlive (a full-featured video editor), Cities Skylines 2 (known for poor optimization lol), or even the 11GB Quartus Prime (used for programming FPGAs) It’s not far off from Windows itself.
The only apps slower to open than Steam are large games, some pro-level software, and the absolutely horrific MS Teams desktop app and Epic Games Store.
Perhaps 2024 will be the year of the girlfriend
Making money over the summer and upgrading to a faster motorcycle
Kuusi palaa
Guess which meaning this one is. Hint: Look at my username
You mean rent premium (it’s a subscription of course)
Forza Horizon 4 did this but worse. It would be an unskippable 2 minute video ad ignoring your volume settings. It only played 5 times in my 45 hours of gameplay but it was so damn unacceptable that it’s reminding me to give that game a negative review.
Forza Horizon 5 does not do this. Get that game or something else instead.
They should allow premium users to use third party YouTube clients using an API, like Reddit before Spez’s war on third party apps.
Not when he has to wait for baggage claim
A motorcycle is cheap, fuel-efficient, and fun.
I used that for a while specifically because of that feature. But I switched to uBlock origin when I found out it could block those autoplaying videos as well.
That’s 149KW (200hp) on that tiny car? That sounds like a hoot to drive
It is currently overhyped and so much of it just seems to be copying the same 3 generative AI tools into as many places as possible. This won’t work out because it is expensive to run the AI models. I can’t believe nobody talks about this cost.
Where AI shines is when something new is done with it, or there is a significant improvement in some way to an existing model (more powerful or runs on lower end chips, for example).
This might be a hot take here, but I’d be open to instances running a limited number of ads with minimal tracking to generate enough revenue to keep the instance afloat.
It’s why I did use the official Reddit app at first when I started using Reddit. They can’t bleed money forever. But when they kept making the app worse and worse and worse that’s when I switched to third party apps. And after they killed those, I didn’t have any sympathy for Reddit because I was sick of their continued greed.
That is two very different things. One is a terrorist group, the other are just humans trying to live their lives in safety. Same with Israel. The people are humans trying to live their lives in safety, but Netenyahu is incredibly corrupt and reports show that he is secretly propping up Hamas.
Small security updates when necessary would be fine, but all the time I just see software (especially with the web) be like, we’re deprecating these features (that millions of websites use).
When I get a bit more space to myself, I’m thinking of somehow wall mounting a 42"-50" 4K TV and using that as a work monitor. Or maybe I don’t need a wall mount. I’d have what feels like acres of screen real estate.
Stop forcing updates on the lower level stuff that forces people to spend billions on maintaining code. This way, we could return to a world where you can just buy software and use it for years without some update borking it.
Also outlawing financially motivated (i.e. greedy) retroactive ToS changes.
How is this even legal? So now suddenly every chromium extension has to go through a play store style review? How is Google entitled to do this on their competitor’s browsers?