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New comment by vablings in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

vablings — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:58:48 +0000

"The reason is simple: The mere existence of low-range EVs hurts overall EV adoption, because people aren't going to rent a car just for a road trip. You're talking about adding $100+ per day on what's supposed to be a cheaper method of travel compared to flying."

Just wait for people to be priced out of ICE cars. EV's should be and will be significantly cheaper to buy and manufacture.

New comment by vablings in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

vablings — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:56:42 +0000

"This is such a euphemism to pretend that you’d like to wait two hours at a refueling station."

There is virtually no EV sold on the market today that takes two hours to charge to 80% at a HVDC charger.

"I get it; I like EVs for their around town purpose, but man it’s almost fantasy to sell it as “5-10 minutes every two hours”."

The Hyundai Ioniq 5 takes about 20 minutes to go from 10% SOC to 80% SOC in about 18 min with an 800v charger. That equates to about 3 hours of driving on the highway.

New comment by vablings in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

vablings — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:49:06 +0000

High velocity accidents where the gas is quickly dispersed into the air is pretty much the only way that happens.

New comment by vablings in "Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows"

vablings — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:44:28 +0000

So, to be clear, and to really drive this point home. Gaming on Linux is absolutely viable and practical it's just the efforts are sunken by bad developers who refuse to enable compatibility or figure out a better solution.

"games that market is mostly concentrated on is the single category that still does not work on Linux."

All of the games you described have and will work on Linux perfectly fine under proton, it is the developers CHOICE for these games not to work.

New comment by vablings in "Claude Cookbook"

vablings — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:25:48 +0000

Speaking a prompt with a long ramble is very powerful.

New comment by vablings in "Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency"

vablings — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:31:43 +0000

Due to various penalties, wind resistance. gear down and aircraft configuration. A go-around consumes a huge amount of fuel, not as much as climbing to cruise but its alot

New comment by vablings in "Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS"

vablings — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:05:23 +0000

I can't speak for all the products, but from what I have heard it's pretty bad. Pay close attention to the shitposts on UC, they regularly get taken down but have some interesting information in them.

New comment by vablings in "Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS"

vablings — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:04:37 +0000

Yes, it does. Wine lets you register a VEH. They do other stuff to prevent Wine and virtual machines in general that I am not fully aware of.

Even then it's just a fancy party trick, you can suspend the process call the decryption function enumerating all the pages and take a full dump to get the binary

FYI; Theia is a very bad product. It absolutely tanks binary performance and does little to prevent a moderately competent engineer from cheating in your game.

New comment by vablings in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

vablings — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:45:17 +0000

Faustian barging, the worst part is people are simple unaware of the dealings

New comment by vablings in "AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Gaming Performance for Less"

vablings — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:42:12 +0000

Let's rephrase that statement. My game probably works fine on linux and if it doesn't there is an active community read to support it BUT the person, I purchased this game from said no.

New comment by vablings in "Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS"

vablings — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:40:03 +0000

There is little difference these days between the government spying on you and your own device spying on you. The difference is one only cares if you do something wrong, the other one will steal pilfer and sell your data despite already purchasing a product.

New comment by vablings in "Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS"

vablings — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:36:15 +0000

It is not kernel level, they use a number of pretty fancy user mode tricks to prevent people messing with the game.

They encrypt every page and register an exception handler that decrypts the page when a fault is reached to keep memory secure. They do cache timing checks to see if a page was recently in the working set outside of the expected control flow and will flag you if you fail the check too many times because it indicates tampering.

New comment by vablings in "Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS"

vablings — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:29:49 +0000

They don't officially support Linux, but they allow the community to continue playing using Sober. Honestly it's probably better that way

New comment by vablings in "A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste"

vablings — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:06:51 +0000

It is likely a fraction of a fraction of an already small fraction. Textiles, tires and food packaging are the biggest contributors. It has yet to be proven that microplastics are directly linked to any harm, it is mostly unknown.

If you care about that kind of stuff the best thing you could do is stop driving.

New comment by vablings in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

vablings — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:00:14 +0000

I might also point out that Finland has very good social programs, probably some of the best in Europe

New comment by vablings in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

vablings — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:58:36 +0000

One issue is that if you plan to have an expanding family your home needs to retain its resale value to allow you to sell it and move into a larger home to suit your family needs.

New comment by vablings in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

vablings — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:56:30 +0000

The issue is that housing should not be an investment but due to rising labor and materials costs and also more restrictive code, they are now an investment.

New comment by vablings in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

vablings — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:34:04 +0000

This is the first time I have heard of ESPNow, this looks absolutely amazing for situations where I want an esp32 to control something but I don't want to use home assistant as a bridge with esphome

New comment by vablings in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

vablings — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:43:14 +0000

One big thing about steel is actually traceability, certain industries require very specific steels. One example that always comes to mind is Sheffield Forgemaster's who are one of the few places in the world that can make absolutely gargantuan sized castings for nuclear reactors and marine equipment

New comment by vablings in "FDA authorized Zyn nicotine pouches without knowing what they were made of"

vablings — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:24:44 +0000

"Why on earth would they give funding to research if the people who pay for that research (you) actively think it's scam?"

First of all. I never specifically said that the research is a scam. I am fully onboard with real research into the topic to explore the effects on health

"You are arguing that the government shouldn't fund research on this problem (it's a grift)"

That is NOT what I said, I specifically believe the so called "health and wellness industry" is capitalizing on largely unfounded beliefs that microplastics are already proven to be hazardous (not true).

If it turns out that microplastics are actually a serious health hazard, that doesn't even mean that the health and wellness industry is right, they just got lucky on another grift. They operate thousands of grifts every year often selling things that are blatantly dangerous.

I am pro good research. I am anti unregulated bullshit quackery like the below videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJpo2JtErPs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l60T39qLq9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnM94jqAubU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzw_grLzjw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orYwywPgGdQ