COASTER1921

COASTER1921 , 4 months ago to news in A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

Lol what state is doing this? That should basically kill EV sales there while simultaneously bringing their gas tax revenue to literally zero. Terrible financial choice.

COASTER1921 , 4 months ago to news in A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

It doesn’t help that the first EVs most manufacturers are focusing on are their large SUVs and trucks. The Chevy Bolt and Tesla Model 3 both certainly aren’t small cars in a general sense, but in the land of EVs they are. Both weigh under 4000 pounds which is less than the best selling vehicle in North America, the F150.

COASTER1921 , 4 months ago to piracy in Netflix: Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly

To be fair to Netflix before other networks took streaming seriously they were charging very little to license their content on Netflix. That’s why it had everything and was so good to be better than piracy. The royalties from Netflix couldn’t be enough to fund these networks. Even Netflix themselves as the studio has struggled substantially promoting these price hikes and the effective recreation of cable TV.

As they lose more of the licensed content they’re forced to focus on their own. Unfortunately for the just part they can’t compete with constant new mediocre shows and movies. The streaming industry as a whole has lost sight of what made it popular in the first place.

COASTER1921 , 5 months ago to technology in Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

Exactly this. Lower resolution and added compression. You could click to view full version if needed, but this was a feature as it meant faster loading and a small fraction of the data usage.

COASTER1921 , 5 months ago to technology in Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

And despite being designed to run on potatoes with a 2G connection it somehow felt just as smooth as modern mobile browsers (at least as I remember it). It’s crazy how well it worked considering the hardware and network limitations of the time.

COASTER1921 , 5 months ago to memes in Target Acquired

AA is the last United States based airline to even have one. This move is an industry-wide trend now that lie-flat business class seats are standard. Business class has gotten much nicer in the past 10 years and taken away the customers that previously would have flown in first.

I’d rather fly Qatar qsuites or many other si-enclosed business class seats than the first class ones remaining on European airlines like British Airways, Lufthansa, of air France. And doing so is a fraction of the price.

COASTER1921 , 5 months ago to technology in Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla

I’d argue we’re at the point where that would be a good business move too. It wouldn’t fix my main issue of but allowing 3rd party repairs so I wouldn’t buy one, but I know several people who have bought other brands due to Elon.

COASTER1921 , 5 months ago to asklemmy in What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for?

The Galaxy A5x series is excellent value. It’s not the absolute cheapest but for ~$300 there’s nothing it does wrong. I’ve used a Galaxy A52 (older 4g version) for the last 2 years without any issues. Before that I stuck to Umidigi phones in the ~$120-$150 range which were all great except for the cameras.

Over Christmas I won a Pixel 8 Pro giveaway but except for in the lowest lighting conditions the difference is insignificant to my eye. I actually really miss some of the Samsung software features (namely secure folder and free-form windows).

Having a cheaper phone is also freeing to treat them less gently. I often found myself taking photos I might not otherwise due to the fact all my prior phones were so cheap. I’m not about to hold my Pixel 8 Pro out over a cliff, but for the Umidigi phones and Galaxy A52 that was no problem when traveling.

COASTER1921 , 5 months ago to technology in ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

I personally had no problem with them charging for API access, the rate was my bigger issue. I suspect they were basing it off of the money and hype behind the large language models that were previously training using their data for free rather than the relatively few 3rd party app users. I don’t get how there weren’t more people using them considering how bad the official Android app is, but there’s no way it was substantially impacting their bottom line.

Charging comparable rates or even 2-3x what they would get from users of the official app seeing ads also wouldn’t be an issue to me, paying to support software is generally good as it aligns user and developer interests. But with 20x higher rates than they’d get from the user using the official app that couldn’t genuinely be the case.

COASTER1921 , 6 months ago to worldnews in Younger Americans are friendlier to China

I visit China frequently for work and feel that the impression most older Americans have of China is incredibly out of touch. The traditional media portrayal of the country is definitely a part of this. Yes, it’s certainly an authoritarian state, but this doesn’t change whether the people are nice or what they want in life.

COASTER1921 , 6 months ago to memes in Google “search”

Although they’re nowhere near marketshare of Apple they definitely haven’t had failure in the Pixels. Every generation I notice more and more people using them rather than the previous niche audience. They’re probably the best all-around Android phones out there for average people, and with the standard pixel 8 being $550 reasonably good value compared to their competition for all but heavy mobile gamers.

COASTER1921 , 6 months ago to technology in Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

Seriously this is crazy. Apple somehow winning is way worse as there is simply no way to install third party apps on IOS. Android makes the risks clear but it’s still at least possible if you click install anyway.

In terms of being a monopoly, in the US ios has more market share anyway. Google’s lawyers must have really made some big mistake.

COASTER1921 , 6 months ago to asklemmy in How poor is the average American?

The home bought 15 years ago definitley helps. With higher interest and pricing explosions in growing Metro areas like DFW, I’d expect the housing payment to be well over 3x if you were to buy now. DFW median home price alone is up 2.63x over the last 15yr alone before considering interest rates.

COASTER1921 , 6 months ago to technology in iMessage will reportedly dodge EU regulations, won’t have to open up

If EU imessage usage were as widespread as in US it would definitely be subject to regulation. Such a shame.

COASTER1921 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Disclosure of sensitive credentials and configuration in containerized deployments - ownCloud

NVME only. I suspect caching just isn’t enabled based on previous comment. If it’s not by default then I didn’t change it.