Well, now that they’re doing it like China is, the rest of the world should use tariffs to mitigate this, like we do with Chinese EVs for an example (since those are so heavily subsidized to root out competition not just in China, but worldwide)

That’s partly on Debian, they really don’t want you running proprietary drivers. Or anything with a license other than GPL, ideally.

That said, nvidia should still stop being a bunch of cunts. While it’s gotten easier and they’ve open sourced parts of their drivers, there’s still a proprietary binary blob involved, whereas AMD’s Linux drivers are fully open source and integrated into the mainline kernel, usually enabled by default in most distros.

Personally if my 3060 Ti dies, I’ll also want to move to AMD, but I hope it lasts a long time because the 9070 XT costs more than twice as much for twice the fps, despite being several years newer (okay the 3060 Ti of course now costs much less than it did when it came out, but still about what a 60 series card SHOULD cost brand new if you go back to before the AI and crypto booms).

That absolutely is something that Ray Tracing could simplify/enable, yes!

It’s not that ray tracing is a gimmick, it’s more that modern cards still aren’t powerful enough to fully trace every ray, so some cheating is still done with baked lighting I believe. Plus a lot of devs might not have gotten accustomed to using it properly yet.

Usually it’s been a single comment. This time there were 100+ posted at once. Think it was done automatically rather than copy-pasted manually. Comment style very much seems like the same person each time though, and they’ve been banned by the time I get online and see the comments each time lol

Was basically implying that OP voted for genocide (the talking point is that voting for Harris meant voting for genocide) and now others voted to genocide him instead (Trump and his Latino genocide in the US) and that he hopes OP gets thrown in a van because that would be karma

Dude keeps leaving similar comments at me too after I commented that anyone who refrained from voting for Harris because of the genocide is an idiot because Trump supports the same genocide and more. First time I ever came to Lemmy to find over 100 replies in my inbox lol

Congrats, you’ve pissed off the “not voting for Harris was right because she supported Israel” crowd that seems to ignore that Trump is a literal fan of genocide. Actually I think the person who replied to you and is likely going to have their comment removed by mods soon is the same person who replies to a couple of my old comments occasionally telling me to die essentially.

I’d buy you a beer if I ever see you, if I knew who you are lol

What makes you think that person voted Trump?

Ooh I haven’t seen this one yet. Tbf I’ve only ever watched YouTube videos of his bits, might be time to grab entire specials.

Most people only see it in shows with Gordon Ramsey I think. Depending on country

Ah, well, there may be commercial freight services for that. Passenger trains aren’t gonna be wasting any cars on cars I think. But anyway, large part of the experience is the drive back IMO. You don’t go to Germany to pick up a Toyota Corolla, those things come on trailers. You go there in person to buy something sporty or luxury, then roadtrip back

My 2.5 H4 Subaru was a bit sluggish, but the real issue is fuel consumption. Diesel is cheaper to power than petrol OR Electric atm. Price of electricity has been going up in recent years. Plus turbodiesels get ridiculous torque, just not instantly like EVs.

Firstly, you’re replying to an obvious joke. Secondly, just because an ICE driver can choose where their longer stops are because the refuel stops are short and infrequent, doesn’t mean they don’t do proper stops.

Thirdly, unless your EV is fairly new, 20-30 min doesn’t give you much range at all. 20 year old diesel car with a decent sized tank will get you 1000 miles of range in 2 minutes. After that, YOU decide where to stop and eat, rather than charger availability and remaining range deciding for you.

Sir Terry Pratchett, the man so funny and insightful, he waa knighted.

Nobody specified who the man is. Dad? Stepdad? Uncle? Complete stranger?

Changes a lot IMO

Better tattoo than what he thought it was tbh

No? You drive back the 2000 km obviously. Part of it is the Autobahn!

You can also skip half the distance with a ferry, but it won’t be saving much time.

I think move fast and break things is more what you do before you get any real competition, or to get better than the competition in some areas by taking shortcuts in others.

You stop doing this when you’re the big dog. Then you embrace the image of reliability and stability.

Is he doing a great job? I thought he was just portraying himself.

Nah for real, if he’s not a psychopath in real life, he must be a tremendous actor.

I’m looking at this and it’s so sad. Not just that several states lack lines altogether, but… The existing lines lack some obvious interconnections. Where’s the OKC to Albuquerque line? Or even El Paso to Albuquerque. Get those two long distinct lines connected! Similarly, a shortcut to Denver from the line that goes through KC and Albuquerque? And I think Jacksonville should get direct lines to Atlanta and New Orleans.

There’s so much that could be improved here with just a few tens of thousands of miles. Focus on better interconnections between the already existing routes first because it improves mobility for more people with fewer railroads to build, then build routes to cities currently completely unserviced (actually both should be done at the same time, just a bigger focus on the former early on)

I’mma be taking so many trains when Rail Baltica gets built

Wait that sounds a bit wrong

Anyway yeah, for short to medium distances, rail is awesome. I haven’t tried super long distance rail yet. I’ve flown twice in my life and it was nice, but the first time was a short flight (3 hours) and the second time I had someone abuse their platinum status to get me one of dem nice emergency exit seats where there’s no limit to your legroom. I imagine if you’re going on like a 2 or 3 week vacation, taking a train or several there and back would be super nice, but if you’re spending a week on another continent because of time constraints, a plane sounds better.

Once shit gets built though, I can take a local train to Tallinn, then take the new slightly faster train to Poland, then from there to Germany. The most ridiculous thing about this is the fact that this train route is going to be a HUGE thing for car enthusiasts, because the biggest used car market in Europe is Germany, and right now you have to fly to Germany to go buy a car if you can’t find what you want closer (also German prices are better). So it’s gonna be a great train route for car enthusiasts (among all the other people of course).