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New comment by Loggias in "Tesla used car prices keep plumetting, dips below average used car"

Loggias — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 11:13:52 +0000

Well, considering that some teslas have gone 300k miles on the same battery, this is a moot point.

New comment by Loggias in "Why is printer ink so expensive?"

Loggias — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 15:54:43 +0000

Because it’s really inconvenient and not the best use of my time?

New comment by Loggias in "Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts"

Loggias — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 17:22:56 +0000

How do you find these instances? I quit Reddit after being a user for 13 years once they killed the API for 3rd parties.

There are some subreddits I’d like to browse still but I definitely won’t be joining back into that dumpster fire.

I’ve been using Lemmy but it’s honestly aggravating to use in many ways.

New comment by Loggias in "Why is my LG Washing Machine using 3.6GB of data/day?"

Loggias — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:38:31 +0000

The cheapest washer/dryer of the past 3 decades came with a audible timer; most annoyingly loud.

New comment by Loggias in "Vowels and diphthongs in sperm whales"

Loggias — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 12:16:59 +0000

This concept is explored in one of the episodes of Extrapolations. Fiction obviously, but interesting to think about.

New comment by Loggias in "Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024"

Loggias — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 03:15:34 +0000

Google just keeps on digging in. Their search engine has been a smoldering SEO dumpster fire for the past 10 years; Now it’s blazing.

Chrome? Friends don’t let friends use Chrome. It’s the unadulterated Android OS of the browser world.

I’ve been considering Kagi, but I don’t see an easy way to pay for it without basically removing all anonymity… it really is a relentless yet boring dystopia.

New comment by Loggias in "Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making"

Loggias — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:58:04 +0000

This isn’t really the case for some college degrees. You cannot be successful in engineering e.g., specifically ME (in my case), through memorization alone.

For many degrees, you’re absolutely correct though. I remember being envious of such workloads in college simply because of the idea that time spent studying directly correlates to your grade. Engineering degrees, in general, simply show that you know how to learn. Memorization is helpful but alone is not enough to understand concepts and apply them.

Memorizing formulas vs. being able to derive them is a good example here.

New comment by Loggias in "You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It"

Loggias — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 15:39:58 +0000

Yeah, I’ve been replacing parts on and repairing iPhones for 15 years now; more of a hobby and fixing stuff for friends.

The battery is simple to replace even on the newest phones. Sure there’s a warning about non apple part that will show up but eventually subside. And that is only if you don’t swap the BMS module from the original to the new one. Any reputable shop should know to do this and have the skills required to desolder and resolder 2 connections…

New comment by Loggias in "The iOS option to charge battery to "80% Limit" shouldn't just be for iPhone 15"

Loggias — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 03:08:13 +0000

Having the majority of your usage / charge cycles being based on a 50 to 80% total charged will increase the total cycles (and the battery’s total life).

New comment by Loggias in "Organization probably doesn't want to improve things"

Loggias — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 03:50:13 +0000

I’m curious now which article you’re referring to at the end of your comment. I know “Bullshit Jobs” only from the book by David Graeber, which is definitely worth a read for anyone interested in the topic.

New comment by Loggias in "Study reveals correlation between repeated falsehoods and public misperceptions"

Loggias — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:38:15 +0000

> “By the time President Trump left office, he had made an estimated 30,573 false claims“

This sounds outlandish, but the repeating and doubling down on every false claim probably makes the math work out.