I don’t mind traditional autos that much as long as they have positive shifts (not a “slushbox”) and have predictable shift points.

CVT’s can fuck right off though. I swear every single manufacturer building a CVT tries to tune it to act like a “normal” auto transmission and it just makes it feel god awful. If you’re gonna lie to me just make it act like a damn CVT, rev the engine to it’s peak power band, and fucking hold it there!!!

This kind of shit is why modern cars will fail. Not because of build quality, but because corporate moneygrubbers will never, EVER be able to keep their fingers out of the free money software pie. It’s against their very nature.

I absolutely refuse to buy any car that has these integrated, baked-in infotainment systems that they can fuck with remotely. I’ll hold onto my 91 Accord till it dies, engine swap it, then electric swap it as many times as I have to.

If you look into the electric power train swaps they can easily run into 6 figures.

For now. The swap industry is still new and every drivetrain has to be built from bespoke parts and a lot of labor- when electric becomes mandatory and not a luxury, there will be a blossoming industry of ready-made battery and motor/transmission kits meant to adapt commonly built cars over to electric. When it goes from weeks of wiring and fabricating to a day or two of unbolting parts, those swap costs will drop to economically feasible levels. And since we’ll likely never see an economic electric car under $40k in our lifetime… there’s a lot of value to have there.

And “successful” in every other industry is a bit of a stretch. Tolerated, sure, and the modern consumer is braindead enough to think it’s OK. It is my personal preference that any modern car with this stuff baked into it is a failure and I will never touch one with a ten foot pole, they can go fuck themselves with that rent seeking.

this also implies the existence of a large dent in the earth’s core and mantle… hmm

I mean, pretty much any engineering student who’s taken Fluid Dynamics I and a physics/dynamics series could tell you that trying to maintain a high vacuum along hundreds of miles of tube, then accelerating things inside that tube to 700mph (when KE=1/2m v^2), was probably a very very bad idea. the sheer accurate tolerances that would need to be maintained between each tube joint, and the quality of the air seals, along the entire length of tube is just insane.

given that i always car camp:

Aquatainer square 7gal water jug. You don’t realize how hard it is to pack water until you get a square jug that actually fits with your other stuff in the trunk. AND IT HAS A SPIGOT OMG. The spigot makes wash-up after cooking so much easier.

Unless you use HDR…

I still experience 90W idle on the desktop if I enable HDR on my main 1440p75 monitor. 7900XTX.

It seems to be tied to the IO dies and memory speed. At normal idle both the GPU cores and memory I/O can clock down below 10mhz, but as soon as I turn HDR on, the memory becomes locked at a full 2450mhz and I get the high power draw.

grifters gonna grift! all aboard the train to Projection Station~!

bad religion bait post is bad

least racist 4chan thread ever