nebula.tv Louis Weisz — I Rode 1000 Miles on the SMALLEST Electric Vehicles
I rode 1000 Miles from Boulder to Austin texas in an attempt to stress-test small, personal electric vehicles and settle a years-old burrito debate.
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Not competitive. A Honda Grom is just over half that price and probably way more capable and way more fun, and a Honda Navi is equally capable and a third of the price.
Nice car! Do you do any track driving or autocross with it?
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Emulation on a low end phone
Sorry to say this, but with your GPU there's no way you can emulate a switch, even for non graphically intensive games.
The consoles you can emulate are very limited compared to the switch, and those old games have so many crazy optimizations that new games don't have.
I recommend you look into classic games for old consoles or native Android games instead. If you want to run non-intensive switch games well, you need one of the following:
- A mid-range to high-end PC, preferably at least a Zen 3 or later or 12th gen Intel or later, although you might be fine with a couple generations behind those
- An Android phone with a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 or better, 8 Gen 2 or better is ideal
- A handheld with those SoCs or better, with an OS that can run Switch emulators
- An actual Nintendo Switch
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Emulation on a low end phone
Happy to see someone's finally going to Lemmy for these questions rather than Reddit! But I have to ask, what is the full SoC?
I'm not an expert on this, but I'd imagine you can run NES/SNES/GB/GBA games no problem, with a good possibility of running N64/DS games handily.
My phone with a Snapdragon 425 handled that no problem even though it struggled to run Android or any web page.
My phone with a Snapdragon 632 could handle DS games and N64 games, with just a slight audio latency from the latter.
I also use ZArchiver and unzipping is zippy (sorry) in my experience. Not quite as fast as Linux but that's to be expected considering the hardware difference.
However Windows is quite slow in this regard in my experience. It can easily take 30 seconds to extract a zip file that Linux can do in under a second, often with a sub 1MBps throughput. This is on an NVMe SSD.
A single month of patreon is gonna give them more money than watching all their videos with ads, you can just rotate
Can we stop putting actually infuriating political BS in the lighthearted c/mildlyinfuriating?
Most OEMs like to say that they have the very best. And unfortunately, software just keeps bloating, making it more useful to have a higher end chip.
However, this dynamic has changed somewhat in recent years as the price of flagship SoCs has skyrocketed by ~4x in 5 years. More high-end phones are releasing with not quite the best chip, like the base iPhone, the Pixel, and the Galaxy S25/S25+ (due to Exynos).
2012 Triumph Street Triple R. I've had it for about a year after upgrading from my slow GZ250.
Rode on the track for the first time!
I've always been dreaming of riding my motorcycle on a race track, free of speed limits and idiots in cars. And recently, I did so, thanks to the Total Control Advanced Rider Course.
They had us do various classroom exercises between the 6 20-minute track sessions. We learned about trail braking, proper body position, proper line selection, and suspension setup, among other things.
While on the track, the 1st session was about line selection, the 2nd session was about trail braking, the 3rd session was about body position, the 4th session was about practicing weaknesses, and for the last two sessions we could try to go as fast as we could.
We were split into 7 groups during the sessions, with group 1 being the fastest and group 7 being the slowest (many cruisers in that group). I started out in group 5 but I was more similarly paced to group 4. Some of my riding buddies came along and some were about the same speed or a little slower than me, but a couple were far faster and ended
I have a few examples:
- Flight Sim 2020
- Windows Defender is the best antivirus, better than all those paid crapware antiviruses
- An attempt at an independent browser engine that wasn't the dated IE
- This is a hot take but seamless integration of local file storage with OneDrive. Yes, they are way too heavy-handed about forcing this on you and it's really stupid how it moves your files without telling you, but I've never seen a file manager that handles both local and cloud files faster than W10's file manager (a big part of the reason why I was mad about W11, because that advantage disappeared)
The only useful thing I can think of after the pandemic is the CPU scheduling updates for Alder Lake, but that was pretty much a necessity. Everything else is AI overhype, rewriting programs to make them slower, and/or yet another way to invade people's privacy
I've never tried Portal but I know what it is. I'd imagine this would f*ck with my head even more than Half-Life.
Funny enough, DSP is on my "purchased backlog", games I decided to buy on sale on a whim but never got around to actually playing.
Never heard of Vintage Story before.
These at least are lightweight and can refill in under a minute lol
An electric motorcycle with 100 miles of range and not enough power to do highway speeds is not a touring bike. Imagine a Harley Sportster with the power of a 150cc scooter but each refill takes well over an hour. At least it doesn't vibrate like a Sportster.
Until the tech and the prices get better these will not sell well.
Pokemon - having to watch animations and not being able to speed anything up killed my interest
That's why I play on emulator most of the time, especially for games I've already beaten
A friend tried to get me into Half-Life multiple times and I just cannot get into it.
It's a fast-paced FPS game, which means I'm likely to get dizzy after some time but something about the ambience makes it worse than usual. I can play Skyrim for up to 1.5 hours at a time, Minecraft or Fortnite for 45-60 minutes, but I'd be lucky to play 20 minutes of Half-Life without my head pounding.
Plus, it's a linear, story-based game, and I'm more into games based more on mechanics and progression (like Pokémon, Factorio, Cities Skylines, Civ, Balatro, and incremental games) than story. And at least for as long as I've tried to play it, there isn't even much of a story.
Arch seems so interesting because you install the system component by component in the command line but I've heard it has poor long term stability. Is there a distro that's like Arch for installation but more stable?
Lately I've been really annoyed by Microsoft products. For a certain work-related thing we were using Microsoft word to collaborate and it randomly would stop letting some of us edit, throwing warnings like "Allow access to your Microsoft 365 account" even though I was already signed in, and clicking on allow access would just bring the warning back upon refreshing.
Which would happen every 20 minutes because it gives me a pop-up to sign in, with three buttons on the pop-up. Two are cancel buttons, and the actual sign in button is invisible. I was already signed in, of course. I couldn't continue working until a refresh.
Moving pictures is the biggest pain for some reason (and it isn't even better in LibreOffice Writer). It's been like this for years.
And then they have the gaul to start throwing AI everywhere when they can't even make their basic systems usable. I'm starting to root for Microsoft's failure these days, because they haven't done anything useful or innovative since the pandemic.
Disgruntled, I suggested that we switch to Google Docs (yes, I know it's Google, but we all already have Google accounts and we needed this done in a few hours), and everyone instantly agreed because I had just said their frustrations out loud.
Funny enough, for local downloads of video game OSTs (which I like way too much), I've been recently turning to Steam of all things. Often cheaper than Bandcamp and DRM-free!
My phone showed 0% battery but didn't die
I was just doing random stuff on my phone and went to click a button near the top right of the screen, and was mildly horrified to see "1%", so I immediately put it into the charger, where the phone promptly started showing "0%" for the next ~30 seconds. The phone never died.
Has this happened to any of you?
Certain internet apps stop working until full device reboot
I've been experiencing this for a while now and it doesn't seem to appear anywhere else on other forums, so I'll post here. Even if this is unsolvable, it's good to get the issue posted somewhere.
Certain internet apps stop working randomly. When one app stops working, they all stop working. None of them crash, but they lose their functionality. The Internet still works, as I can browse the web just fine when these apps are broken. The only way to fix this is a full device reboot.
The apps include but are not limited to:
- Discord
- Jerboa for Lemmy
- Dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, Hinge)
- Certain banking apps (you know it's broken when it fails to show biometric login)
My phone is a Moto G Stylus 5G 2022, with the November 1, 2024 security patch of Android 13.
EDIT: I found another way to at least temporarily fix the issue after it happened a record 6 times in one day. Disabling (and optionally re-enabling) the DuckDuckGo app tracking protection. This is incredibly strange becaus
Literally me right now
I could be exploring all the mechanics that Fulgora and Gleba have to offer. I've researched both planets and have a spaceship ready to take me there in a couple minutes. But nooooo... I instead want to utilize the insane scale of everything on Vulcanus to build rail networks to bring my SPM to the moon!
First, I want red, green, blue, and purple science to get unlimited mining productivity! But yellow science for enhanced military power sounds nice for medium demolishers, behemoth biters, and the Gleba enemies... And since I already have yellow science, I can easily expand to space science... And wait, I also can make Metallurgic science as well!
Space Age Progress Update #1: SPACE!
Hi! SuperSpruce here! I wanted to give occasional progress updates of my Factorio: Space Age base, so here it is! I would've posted this on Reddit instead of here if it wasn't for Reddit's greed starting in 2023. Note that I'm not using any mods here, even QoL.
The start was quite poor, due to the dry climate, no visible chokepoints, and spaced out resources. The only good thing was a small oil patch nearby. The biters were a constant threat in the early game, so I researched military and gun turrets before automation, purposely delayed scaling up as to keep power consumption low, and rushed efficiency modules and solar power. My weapon progression has gone: SMG with yellow ammo, SMG with red ammo, flamethrower, SMG+defender capsules, and now tank + defender capsules.
Here's the whole base. Yes, I am naming my train stations after motorcycles, deal with it.
.My 1-4 train system uses what amounts to a gi
My new ride: A 2012 Triumph Street Triple R
It's been a good 3500 miles with the GZ250, but I've been itching for more power and better cornering potential. Also, I somehow spent $1000 in maintenance in 10 months for a "beginner" bike. So, I sold my GZ250 to buy this crazy motorcycle. I always wanted a high-revving inline-3 engine, and this bike was a good deal.
What a difference it is! I went from being slower than 99% of cars on the road to faster than 99% of cars on the road. That and the difference in ergonomics make it feel like my first time riding again because I feel like a noob again.
It pulls so crazy hard in lower gears that I don't think I've ever gave it full throttle below 4th gear, and it sounds amazing doing so. And whenever I take a corner, I consistently underestimate just how much I can lean, so I go almost unsatisfyingly slow, and the bike seems to say, "c'mon, chicken. Believe in me. You could've gone way faster than that." I hope to do a track day to remedy this mismatch between me and my motorcy
How to transfer files to iPad from PC privately?
This is the #1 reason why I don't buy Apple anymore. But if there was an easy private way, I'd be open to getting Apple products again.
I simply want to transfer files from my PC to my iPad without any companies collecting info about the files, such as legally acquired mp3 files that dumb corporations will think are pirated.
What are the ways to do this?
Why does DRM consume vast system resources even though we have TPM, Pluton, etc.
I've seen many instances of some software having DRM that significantly degrades the performance of the software, or worse, the performance of the entire OS due to heavy background tasks. Prime examples include Denuvo and all those Adobe background processes. Why can't they just simply use the TPM or the other 5 security chips embedded into the CPU so that they don't bloat the system?
Guy attempts to ride from Boulder, CO to Austin, TX on micromobility vehicles
This might be a bit different than what usually gets posted here but I found this on Nebula and its perhaps my favorite video I've seen on the platform yet. You can also watch it on YouTube (strangely YT didn't suggest it to me despite it being right up my alley).
I absolutely love this idea of trying to do long distance riding with little e-bikes and e-scooters, or basically anything on 2 (or just 1???) wheels.
Thinking of getting into self hosting but I'm a complete noob
I think of myself as technically inclined. I have installed Linux multiple times and have basic command line knowledge, and I've programmed in many languages, with the most experience making a static website game using HTML/CSS/JS.
Additionally, I own the superspruce.org domain (my registrar is Dynadot), but I don't really know how to wield the power of owning a domain. I also have some spare computers to be used for hosting, a 2009 laptop running Lubuntu and a 3900X+32GB RAM desktop other running KDE Neon, but I'm also open to experimenting with cloud hosting too (I know, sacrilege here).
However, I don't know much about the TCP/IP protocol or other networking protocols. I'm happy to learn, but the curve would need to start gently.
I would want to try hosting my websites, and also a personal non-federated Lemmy instance to serve as a archivable forum for my games. Even if it's not very useful, it's great experience.
(Electric) Motorcycles of CES 2024: AI-driven tech steals the spotlight
Not sure if this is the right community for this, but I see plenty of electric motorcycle stuff here, so I'll bite. Message me if this is the wrong place for this content.
Anyways, really? AI? On a motorcycle? Isn't the entire point of motorcycles feeling the freedom of manipulating your machine to do what you ask of it? Without any AI and data selling nonsense? Please don't let this be the direction of motorcycling.
AI is powerful has a place in many areas. Just keep it out of motorcycles, a hobby defined by skill, freedom, and most importantly, fun.
Give us electric motorcycles whose tech adds to the experience, not tries to turn it into a IoT data harvesting device, please.
What is your dream motorcycle garage?
If you could have any three production motorcycles, with any budget, what would you pick?
I'll go first:
- Yamaha R1 (Sport riding and trackdays, also crossplane sound)
- Triumph Tiger 900 GT (touring and adventure riding with an actually manageable seat height)
- Honda Grom (for just hooning around for when I want a small light bike)
Super weird error, what's happening?
I'm not sure if this is the best community to post in, but I just bought a used computer and slotted in an RX480 as the GPU. I installed KDE Neon 5.27 on it, and it worked flawlessly for 2 days.
Then, even though it was working earlier today, it slept and then would not wake up. So I turned off the power and turned it back on again, and was greeted with this error screen:
The only prior error message I'd gotten from the system was when I tried to install wine for one application, it told me some packages weren't up to date, without a way to fix it. I can enter the BIOS just fine.
What is going on? How do I fix this?