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.

30% is more or less the standard. Not just in the games industry, but everywhere.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I drink caffeine in the morning, but I really need to stay away from it after that. If I drink coffee later on in the day (or just a lot in the morning) then I won’t be able to get good sleep. If I don’t get good sleep them I won’t be able to concentrate.

Working out also really helps me fall asleep at night. I do some weight lifting during the day at work, and some cardio at night. I also don’t try to force myself to get to sleep, I try to make sure that I will be tired by bed time by burning off any remaining energy during the evening so I’m tired when my alert to start winding down goes off.

But good sleep is absolutely the key. When I get bad sleep, especially consistently bad sleep I can’t concentrate.

FOSS devs/enthusiasts

hang out IRL

Let’s ban private car ownership.

Or even better, just create viable public transportation, and discourage the plague of suburbia. Let the people who want to drive drive. And the people who only see it as a means to get from point A to B out of cars.

Not being able to pass a slow car just angers people.

People who are angry about the slow car are probably going to ride their ass.

People riding other people’s ass don’t have enough following distance to react to an emergency brake.

Now there’s an accident and traffic comes to a half.

People coming up from behind are in the same scenario.

Now there’s a pileup.

Congrats! You’ve now made the roads less safe.

What I hate is when you click on what’s supposed to be an image that you’d expect to expand, but instead it’s a link because the embed isn’t supported. Then when you hit back you lose your place because the page your on isn’t saved and you’ve lost your place trying to get back.

meters

Ya lost all Americans.