[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Well, not quite.

If you bought an SUV, you don't have a trunk.

This is just a "hey the engine bay has free space and doesn't get hot, cool you can have a trunk as well as usual wagon/SUV space.

Here they are at least charging for actual parts, an engine bay full of plastic covering to hold stuff.

500 might seem a bit steep for just a bunch of plastic, but car companies charge that amount for plastic or rubber like that all the time, at least list price.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

To be fair to the media, there just isn't enough time to cover all of the blatant corruption of Trump and his orbit. There are only so many hours in the day...

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You forgot "yes to more bribes to politicians"

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Because it can be a pretty steep hit to power output/efficiency compared to angling them to face the sun.

Cost per watt is significantly higher this way compared to what you generally see. It allows more sharing of sun between other uses and solar, but it comes at the expense of not letting the solar get as much sun for the same panel cost.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I think it's unreasonable to say it's fossil fuel propaganda. I like having shade and coverage in a car parking lot.

It's not that the solar covering is just for solar power, but it's a convenient pitch to combine the use cases where sure, solar covering parking is more expensive than solar straight on the ground, and sure, a plain covering is cheaper than a solar covering, but right now the lots are uncovered bits of asphalt that could be better.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, beating someone who takes a game super serious is super unlikely...

About the only exception was seeing some people who took fighting games seriously in some fighting games the rando pressing random buttons was hard to beat.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Well some have a 'team sports' ideology where your team is your team, no matter what may come. So you always support 'your team' or else you are a bad person. Nevermind that 'your team' displays no loyalty to you and screws you...

What's scary is that beyond Trump's 37%, there's still some people that will now badmouth Trump and what he has done, and perhaps their biggest worry is that because Trump did so badly, the Republicans will lose power. They get actively screwed on economy and foreign wars while the party cheers on and they still say "well at least they aren't democrats"

Then there's the folks that are at least happy that they are grabbing hispanics off the streets. Was exposed to a conservative ranting about wasting our resources in Venezula, of being too cozy with Israel especially with the Iran war, and even going so far as to blame the Israeli relationship for the death of Charlie Kirk... But at least he was doing something about those scary Mexicans...

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I've found competitive games just aren't for me.

When I'm doing well competitively, I'm just not having as much fun. Have to take it too seriously to compete and particularly in strategy games the best strategy is often not the most fun.

Playing with known friends in a small instance is decent, but playing in an open scenario just feels exhausting.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I frankly don't know about Apple and Tim Cook specifically, but broadly a lot of enthusiasts may not be as excited about revenue and profit as they are about how good the experience is for them.

For example, looking at a well executed enjoyable game with no bullshit micro transactions or loot boxes or anything most would agree that is a good game.

But revenue and profit wise some random low effort mobile game with micro transactions would blow that good game out of the water business wise.

Unfortunately, lots of "better business" is explicitly screwing over the customers as much as they can possibly get away with, so I'm not super excited about arguments around revenue, profit, and market cap as a measure of a company I should like to buy from.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Octopi two finger swipe from above is search apps.

In settings you can enable swipe to open a folder, tap to launch one app from it.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It has it. It's in launcher settings "swipe up/down on folders to open them"

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It's putting whatever you want and what you don't want on the home screen, including for example launching into search.

My phone stock launcher search dialog that once would have been to type the app name became a 'multi-search' that would do internet search and AI search and app search was sluggish and third set of results. So I go for a launcher that keeps the app search field just a quick name based search of applications.

It does also do things like let me opt into fitting more icons on the screen at a time, since the default launcher has some ludicrous small number of icons on screen at a time.

Also, the scrolling lets me scroll letters to rapidly get to apps starting with 'm' for example without typing, though I never use that.

It also presents a different 'folder' design where a tap on it launches a default app from the group, and a quick slide opens it up to select a less popular, alternate app quickly.

Also, two finger swipe from top takes me straight to typing app name to launch.

Someone else I knew swapped launchers just to have a different wallpaper behavior that their stock launcher wouldn't do.

Currently using Octopi.

view more: next ›

jj4211

0 post score
0 comment score
joined 2 years ago