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New comment by shiftpgdn in "The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)"

shiftpgdn — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:37:52 +0000

How is it a scam to sell something for more than the cost to make it? Labor and energy are not free you know.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

shiftpgdn — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:27:14 +0000

I still think 90% of what made UO unique is the fact there was no Google or central repository of expert knowledge. Yes, UOStratics existed, but it wasn't perfect. A lot of the fun was in the fact basically nobody knew the BEST way to play, and therefore everyone was just doing whatever they thought was fun.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"

shiftpgdn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:19:39 +0000

This is an extremely widespread issue. I send close to a million emails per month across dozens of different providers (all newsletters.) These are all from high reputation domains and email accounts. We are completely unable to make anything happen with Microslop. It is infuriating.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

shiftpgdn — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:10:48 +0000

Just buy one and remove the SIM card.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

shiftpgdn — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:06:00 +0000

This is cool. My first into to a practical application of Linux in the early 2000s was using Damn Small Linux to recover files off of cooked Windows Machines. I looked up the project the other day while reminiscing and thought it would be interesting if someone took a real shot at reviving the spirit of the project.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable"

shiftpgdn — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 16:26:53 +0000

That's ok, you'll get the same treatment everyone else got before they started this trend. "Normies" with their lives on the standard socials will get extra attention or special treatment at no detriment to you.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Evidence of a 12,800-year-old shallow airburst depression in Louisiana"

shiftpgdn — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:10:45 +0000

There is a lot of dogma in academia too!!

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

shiftpgdn — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:38:36 +0000

They get paid $300 (may be different these days) if you like in the car. The financial incentive for making you puke is quite high.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

shiftpgdn — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:35:52 +0000

Why did you cancel on the Tesla Model Y?

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'"

shiftpgdn — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:19:14 +0000

It’s fantastic and Tesla service has been really good for the one issue I had over the last １２ months. My wife bought a Model Y in 2021 so it’s the second Tesla in the house.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'"

shiftpgdn — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:27:43 +0000

I too have FSD 13 on my CT and use it for 99% of driving with no issues. I have done a number of long city to city drives (30-100+ miles) with zero interventions. The roads would be 10,000x safer if every car was using FSD, even in extreme edge cases like the original post.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'"

shiftpgdn — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:24:20 +0000

I like that you've built a strawman for anyone who might disagree with you. "Oh there aren't any positive reviews they're just fanboys." You may as well write "Anyone who disagrees with me is wrong."

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities"

shiftpgdn — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:28:33 +0000

What is PG&Es generation cost vs administrative and legal overhead? The 11% margin isn't a good basis number. How is other states like Texas or Colorado are delivering at 10-12c/kwh ?

I do agree with your sentiment that city bureaucrats may be tempted to raid the energy business to pay for pet projects and other things. This can be protected against by segmenting the energy business into its own protected organization.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "WordPress Is in Trouble"

shiftpgdn — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:04:47 +0000

Pressable includes support, global caching, and a bunch of other things you won't get on a $5/month VPS. Also not everyone wants to play system administrator 7 days a week to keep their server from getting hijacked or nuked.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Mullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash"

shiftpgdn — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:46:37 +0000

Yes? There are without exaggeration 1000+ companies offering WordPress hosting. It's a replaceable product. Nothing WPEngine offers is unique or special. WordPress itself is an entire ecosystem.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film"

shiftpgdn — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:27:28 +0000

Drum scanning is crazy time consuming and expensive. I shoot hundreds (sometimes thousands) of film photos per year and 99.999% of my scanning is done with a camera and a backlight.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Investigating corrupt Winamp skins"

shiftpgdn — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:40:10 +0000

I used to use Litestep on 2000 and XP, it had such a big community and feature set.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Mercedes-Benz high-power charging goes large at Starbucks"

shiftpgdn — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:09:00 +0000

Audi/Porsche EVs can do 350kw at peak, so almost!

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts"

shiftpgdn — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:59:02 +0000

The Lightning has plenty of times since I am confident I could get it repaired or replaced easily. The Cybertruck... not so much.

New comment by shiftpgdn in "Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts"

shiftpgdn — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:34:27 +0000

Tesla has a V2H/V2G (Powershare is the name Tesla uses) available for Cybertruck owners included as part of the vehicle purchase. I am still waiting on mine, despite receiving my Cybertruck almost 6 months ago.

I also have the Ford equipment from when I got my Lightning, however finding a competent installer has been impossible. Right now it's collecting spiders in the corner of my garage.