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1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

I was curious so looked up the kwh/100km for EVs (measure of how little energy it takes to go 100km). Teslas tend to be around 15, which isn't bad. My own Prius Prime in EV mode gets around 11, which is nice.

Good metric, and damned impressive on the Prius. I was curious too and looked up a couple more:

Ioniq 6 takes about 13.9, Ioniq 5 takes about 18, Kia EV6 takes about 16.5. From what I've seen and read with various EVs, the shape of the vehicle makes a ton of difference in their efficiency, particularly at higher speeds. An SUV/crossover like the Ioniq 5 or Tesla Model Y will be significantly worse than a sedan. 

Another interesting thing I was reminded of recently is that the EPA considers a gallon of gas to have the equivalent of 33.7 kWh of energy. So e.g. my Prius with a relatively small 12 gallon tank has about 404 kWh of energy onboard. Again, vs. e.g. a 77 kWh battery in the Hyundai EVs. If an EV had batteries that contained as much energy as even my Prius with its small tank, their increased efficiency would give them a range of well over 1,200 miles (~1,900 km).  Gas cars are not very efficient; they just have huge stores of energy.

6 hours ago, Ominous said:

The free Level 3 charging they are giving away (not just them) is kinda insane. It's leading to people using Level 3 as their every day charger, creating demand and lines that shouldn't exist. 

Yeah it's kind of crazy how much they're giving away with that, though of course it's understandable why they'd want to remove that potential barrier to the EV world from the minds of potential customers. 

But for example I've seen on a lot of YouTube videos that charging on Electrify America (one of the largest providers) can be $0.45 or more per kWh, so with e.g. a 77.4 kWh Ioniq 5 battery, that'd be just under $35 for a charge. By contrast, at work we have slow level 2 chargers (I think they're 6 kWh shared between two plugs) but you're only charged $0.10 per kWh, so that same Ioniq 5 suddenly costs more like $7.50 to charge. 

I hear you on the long lines, and it's really unfortunate how behind our infrastructure is here. If I couldn't charge cheaply at work, I'm not sure I'd be considering an EV since I live in an apartment and wouldn't want to rely entirely on public charging. 

1 hour ago, Brian said:

Hyundai had a similar deal for Ioniq 6 SE RWD for $239 down and $239 a month. That’s a better deal. Unfortunate that Hyundai doesn’t include the glass roof on the SEL

If I wasn't reasonably sure that I'm going to buy a 2025 model Ioniq 5 (coming later this year) I probably would have bitten on that offer.  That's a great way to dip your toes into the EV world, and it still includes two years of free charging. So you're paying $240 + insurance to drive a brand new EV. Amazing deal. 

3 hours ago, silentbob said:

Oh how I’ve missed this dog

 

 

 

 

 

"This man is with 'Gays for Trump'. I'm Triumph, with 'Dogs for Michael Vick'". 

Happy Birthday, sir! Hope it's a great one and I'm glad you're here! 🥳 

Yeah the hotdogs aren't stellar themselves (though IMO they're pretty tasty), but it's the fact that they're $1.50, you get a drink, and there are a bunch of different toppings you can put on it that make it a stellar deal.

Looks like a movie that will look fantastic on an OLED!

3 hours ago, ort said:

Why do these modern military conflicts feel like they are between two grade school aged children?

 

…or maybe two drunk guys in an Applebees parking lot at 12:45am?

Without having watched the video (olol) I will say this is true of me at least. I buy very few new games anymore; I've got such a backlog thanks to various sales (looking at you, Steam) that I couldn't hope to ever finish all of my games anyway. Plus as I get older I have less and less time for gaming.  

I know my parents bought the house I grew up in in rural Idaho for about $40k in 1985 (it was built in 1977, I believe). Currently Zillow lists its price as around $250k.  

I'm guessing though that it could potentially sell for more than that because they've done a lot of remodeling over the years, and similar homes in the town are going for $300k or more. 

4 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

I always talk them down to about $50 for a year sub, so I’m good with it, mostly because it’s how I tend to find new music/bands for myself as streaming services seem to just pull from the same bands most of the time, and when I do the “discover new music” thing with any of them it just gives me garbage I don’t like lol. Plus, that Pearl Jam station

But, yea, any more than $50-60ish/year and no f’n way  

 

I also don’t think the phone apps are worth paying for, as there’s no server really involved in a way that it should cost money. It’s a signal from your phone through the net/towers to your cars onboard modem. Only server-side bit is the log-in and settings being saved. Ford/Lincoln and others (Hyundai/Kia/Genesis being one of them) offer it for free for life on new cars.

Which app are you meaning? With Blue-Link, you get three years for free with the purchase of a new car and then it's $99/year. https://www.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/blue-link

11 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

My power went off at 2:30am last night and they kept pushing back the estimate of restoration. It seems like a vehicle caused the outage so the original time was supposed to be 8am, then it got pushed to 6pm and then eventually 9pm, and it came back around 8pm. Not a lot to do during that time, can't even shower or eat and my cell phone ran out of batteries. Good times.

That's a bummer, sorry. Do you have some powerbanks for e.g. your phone and they just ran out? 

9 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

I will never pay for a subscription for anything in my car. 

Mostly agreed, though I would be willing to pay a very small monthly amount for a convenience service that requires server upkeep, like an app that gives access to remote start from anywhere (beyond the range of the key fob), for example. But yeah taking basic functionality for which the hardware is already there and putting it behind a paywall is complete bullshit and they can fuck all the way off (looking at you, BMW, and your attempted heated seat subscription). 

12 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

You are aware of how many layoffs are constantly happening in tech, right?  Also our stock has lost like 20% in the last month.

Just to agree with what legend said... I have both a bachelor's and master's in Computer Science and certainly don't know everything about IT, which of course is its own field... But I'd wager your average CS or IT person would be better at most of the other field's tasks than, say, your average English major just by virtue of the significant overlap of the fields of CS and IT. In fact immediately after finishing my master's I worked in IT for two years.

Similarly, now that I work for a major semiconductor company I had a much more gradual learning curve than, say, your average English major would have, but I'm still basically the only CS person on my immediate team; everyone else studied electrical engineering, circuit design, etc.  I'm learning something every day! 

9 hours ago, Reputator said:

 

Wow, same. April 2001

 

 

aahhhh that screenname 
 

ooooo here's the oldest image of Mr. Wade Steel that I have

 

 

I just have a folder full of old message board stuff

 

some of you guys that hung around the PC community board might remember this crap

 

This was around the time I was in college near Seattle and I actually made a sign that said "PCCB ESMIs the Mariners" and took it to the game. Of course I didn't make it on the TV.  

I joined IGN in August of 2000.  

It's truly been a pleasure posting with you fucks the last 20 years!  

Niiiice. I'm at something like 120 hours in Vampire Survivors... What's another 10? 

2 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

The weekend recap:

 

-Jurassic Park (1993; dir. Steven Spielberg): 10/10

-Only God Forgives (2013; dir. Nicolas Winding Refn): 9/10

-Sin City: Recut, Extended and Unrated Edition (2005; dir. Robert Rodriguez/Frank Miller): 8/10

-The Northman (2022; dir. Robert Eggers): 7/10

-How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022; dir. Daniel Goldhaber): 8.5/10

-Past Lives (2023; dir. Celine Song): 7.5/10

-Dragon Ball Z: Movie 1 - Dead Zone (1989; dir. Daisuke Nishio): 7/10

It legitimately impresses me with how many movies you watch pretty much every weekend. I can barely cook my meals.  

I think I've only ever eaten at Chipotle once and yeah it was OK. I picked up from there a lot though when I was driving for Uber Eats. Pretty popular.  

Couldn't tell a damn bit of difference here in Portland, unfortunately, but I've been enjoying the videos and such online.

4 hours ago, TheLeon said:

Winning ticket was sold in Oregon.

Yeah somewhere here in Portland. How fun it is to think of what one would do with that much money...

Yeah I also got onboard with Game Informer for $20. I used to have a Maximum PC and PC Gamer sub going for a long time but finally cancelled a while ago because I realized I never read it. So yeah... looking forward to not reading Game Informer either.  

3 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:

Any suggestions for a microphone with noise-canceling for laptop? I don't have much to spend on it, so hopefully something cheap will last awhile if possible. I like the headphones I have, but the mic is on the cord, and it hasn't been working.

I don't have a lot of experience with products in this category so unfortunately I can't offer any suggestions myself, but it might help to state your budget so that others might be about to better help you.