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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mac OS has has this nailed down basically perfectly for over 10 years now, even windows has been great in the last 5+ years. Not having scaling done right in the age of 4k displays being cheap is a sin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's assuming they even read the message and don't just close out of it instantly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thats assuming that people are actually going to throw their computers in the trash when the OS reaches end of life.

Most people running these old machines probably won't know or care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OP isn't asking for it to decrypt automatically. OP is asking for the entering the decryption password to also log you in. That way you only have to type the password once, instead of twice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter if it's a parallel or series hybrid. The electric motor does the most work in stop and go traffic, and thats what also hurts your engine the most. The electric motor allows the gas engine to not have to stress itself as much, and run in much more optimal load ranges.

Gaskets and seals almost never have change intervals, it's replace them when they leak. Air filters are $30 and take 10 minutes to change so the labor rate is stupid cheap for those. Synthetic oil changes aren't that expensive, and last a lot longer than most people think. Many German (regular gas) cars suggest 1-2 year and 10-15k mile intervals for their oil changes, and even dealers will do those for under $100. In 5 years I've spent less than $1500 in maintenance on my regular ass gas Outback, and that's doing work way ahead of schedule, not waiting until Subarus prescribed times. Maintenance costs are not that big of a concern for new gas cars.

What holds people back from EVs is range anxiety. A phev gives them exactly what they want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

6 years ago someone submitted a contact us form with the name Fuckwit McBumcrumble at work and we found it really funny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hybrids shift all of the hard work to the dead simple electric motors, and allow the gas engines to stay in their happy zone. There's a reason why priuses and other hybrids are know to be stupid reliable. Maintenance is also a lot less frequent because of that. So while you technically have to do it, you go MUCH longer in between doing them. I'd be comfortable doing 15k mile oil changes on a hybrid, but not on a gas car.

Granted this is GM so I'd expect them to fuck something up about these cars. But it's their trucks and those are like the only good things GM makes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They're the perfect stepping stone for those who are curious, but afraid to make the leap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

FOSS devs/enthusiasts

hang out IRL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

2 Factor Authentication?

 

Does anyone have a copy of the original Windows 7 recovery media for the X1 Carbon Gen 2? I can find gen 1, and most other later gens. But not this machine. Currently it's running it's factory install, but it's horrendously slow and I'm not fully sure why. And sadly the built in create recovery media option says there's nothing to be found.

Does anyone else have any experience with these machines? Were their SSDs always so horribly slow? 550mbps read is good, but 100mbps writes is bad even by 2013 standards. The touchbar takes what feels like ages to respond, and with age has discolored in a really gross way. Overall it seems like a pretty well built machine. But man, what was Lenovo thinking?

 

I have a BASE model T14 gen 1 (1366x768 screen, lowest end i5, base ssd etc) and I was wanting to eek out a bit more performance out of this machine. It's quite thermally constrained with longer loads despite being the base model, and it's fan seems to barely move any air at all.

I know along with other T series you can install the heatsink from the higher end models with dGPUs and get much better cooling. Has anyone here done the same and can report back on performance differences?

Part No 5H40W36701 is the heatsink I have. Part No 5H40W36700 appears to be the model for the dGPU macines. Lenovo lists it as $61.16 for this part, but ebay has them for a little over $30. So the next question is it enough of a difference to justify it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I forget what car it is, but there's a car radio that has a "max volume on startup" option to avoid this issue.

Why is this feature not standard on everything? If every time my radio defaulted to a medium low volume, and I slowly turn it up then that'd be perfect.

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