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Pika , 3 months ago to technology in A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

yea looking at wyoming I can see there is defo a lack of EV stations, it looks like for southern wyoming the longest stretch is between rock springs and Lareme, but that’s mostly if you lack the ability to use super chargers. I can see how it would be a pain to use an EV in that case, doable but it would stretch it a little further than i would be comfortable with as well. That being said you would never catch me driving 3 hours one way to visit someone anyway lmao

Pika , 3 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Please Stop

this is how it should be anyway, you do not want any ledger or database to be mutable because it allows for integrity violations and will cause you to lose the ability to trust it. Even non-blockchain styles follow that principle.

Pika , 3 months ago to technology in A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

An alternative idea that I mentioned on a thread yesterday about vehicles with high bumpers, adjust the license class system to be more strict regarding vehicles. You already have to have extra training in a different license to run transport vehicles or semi trucks you should have to do the same with large vehicles, I’m not saying ban every pickup truck out there because I fully agree that trucks are a hard requirement especially in snow covered States like mine but there is a difference between having a pickup truck and having a monster truck at least in my opinion heavier or taller than low end transport vehicles

Pika , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to technology in A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

If you are unable to find a charging station at some point halfway across the state you’re either being too picky, or blind. I live in the middle of nowhere Maine and I can still find at least one electric vehicle charger per major town. Hell there is three of them in the town next over and it’s not even considered one of our highly populated towns. I thought the same that you did until I actually looked up where charging stations are located I was pleasantly surprized

Pika , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to lemmyshitpost in Please Stop

as hostile as people are to block chain due to NFT’s and bad implementations, the technology itself has its use cases. It’s a great solution for information exchange that requires verification and Immutation. This makes them perfect for ledgers or transaction networks.

It’s just there is so much bad PR regarding it everyone just discredits it. Not all of the block chain technologies are massively energy intensive per transaction, it’s just many of the cryptocurrencies use the most intensive one because it’s also arguably the most secure

Pika , 3 months ago to linux_gaming in Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down

I disagree with selling pirated roms but, he also wasn’t part of the development team he was closer to a sales associate then anything. the punishment given to him was cruel and unusable and honestly a failure of the legal system.

I see this on the same level as forcing a sales associate at Walmart to pay the fine of all the wage violations the company as a whole did. It’s rediculous.

I personally will never be buying a Nintendo product again out of principle.

Pika , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to worldnews in Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat

Ah yes, because electric vehicles collect so much more data than your standard vehicles, they essentially are the same thing just different engine. Ever look at the data OnStar collects even apperently without an account? Ever look at the privacy policy the infotainment system has you agree to once or twice a month? it’s scary.

how about just pass legislation that a foreign country cannot collect data on a vehicle in the US if we are that scared of it

Pika , 3 months ago to technology in Apple hit with class action lawsuit over iCloud's 5GB limit

does it still have the “we noticed you are running out of space, turn on cloud to free up device space” nag? I haven’t used apple in years but that one drove me crazy

Pika , 3 months ago to asklemmy in What Are Some Things You Regret Buying or Bought but Never Used?

You did not miss much don’t worry. I have them as well, their NC capability sucks, and they run a master slave setup meaning the right unit must be present to operate, you can’t only use the left unit. I regret buying mine

Pika , 3 months ago to technology in YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions

that’s because they keep going at it from a timeline POV; I believe if they made required work time slots as a limitation against contract work (i.e if you are required to work between x-y daily) this issue would be resolved. There’s no real reason for many contract positions to be a static time slot, contractors are supposed to be fully flexible on their own time as long as the end product is correct and within SLA, thd only benefit to fixed scheduling is management level, so I think that would tip the scale onto employee instead of contractor

Pika , 3 months ago to nostupidquestions in Is it normal to forget your own age?

I’ve been forgetting my age since I was like 13 of 14, age is quite pointless in the terms of things, I consistently need to think about it when I say my age lol, it makes my coworkers give a second glance

Pika , 4 months ago to memes in Winning the lottery

“and you said your name was uncle… Bruce was it? who was your dad again?”

Pika , 4 months ago to news in Wendy’s Vows No Burger ‘Surge Pricing’ After Online Fury

Speaking of things that the McDonald’s app has access to, I just double checked mine on Android and it has permissions to access your pictures and files by default, I’m sure it was part of that thing that you just select through in order to access the app but that’s kind of concerning can understand location, files is a little weird

Pika , 4 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Buy one get one full price

This is more than just Wendy’s, fast food in general is through the roof now. McDonald’s was known for years for its dollar menu, they no longer have a dollar menu it’s a $1 $2 $3 menu and the only thing on there that is a dollar is sauces. Fast food restaurants are doing a damn good job at pricing themselves out of the market. I can’t remember the last time I went to your typical fast food joint, it’s almost always more cost effective to go to a place that offers carryout and just order it ahead. My current go to has been Domino’s, I can spend $18 dollars for two burgers a large fry and a drink or I can spend $18 getting 2 pizzas or 1 pizza and cheesy bread or for $4 for more for two pizzas, a thing of chicken and a 2 Liter soda,

Pika , 4 months ago to piracy in Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’

I fully agree, a project should have as little ties to illegal content as it can, and yes the current system goes off of current legal law or at least how the judge/Jury interpret it. And that’s where a lot of this issue comes to play.

It’s quite clear in existing law that you are legally allowed to reverse engineer a piece of equipment that you have physically purchased, there is no argument on that. The issue occurs when you are reverse engineering something that has DRM because at that point you were breaking a security standard. This is also why most emulators are legal however ROMs are not, because while it’s completely legal to reverse engineer a switch for example, the ability to bypass the DRM on the game itself in order to play the game is breaking a security standard which is not referenced in existing laws or backup laws.

This, in my opinion is the biggest issue with current laws, it makes no sense for me to be allowed to make a digital Archive of something that I have, but not be allowed to circumvent the security on the item itself in order to actually use the archive. Due to this it also means that ripping 4K and Blu-ray discs also are breaking a DRM which means you are legally not allowed to make a digital copy of movies that you own. Which directly contradicts the intent of these laws.

Of course I’m talking about in the US, other countries have a more lapse ideology for a data retention and archival purposes. Maybe someday as the younger Generations get older they will reapproach current dmca and copyright law and give exemption for personal use to allow breaking DRM, but until that happens expect every emulator is going to have this same exact claim every time