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Re: Tesla owner charged ~$600,000 at charging station because of a Supercharger bug

laurelraven — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 13:52:19 -0000

And 24kW will pull 12kWh over half an hour, the time period they said it was

As for knowing what it is when, smart meters for time-of-use billing can do that

Re: Tesla owner charged ~$600,000 at charging station because of a Supercharger bug

laurelraven — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 13:51:18 -0000

Yes, which would be 12 kWh in half an hour, which is what they said

Re: DuckDuckGo to Introduce a Privacy-Focused Desktop Browser ‘Faster than Chrome’

laurelraven — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 15:54:55 -0000

I'm going to assume the reason they're not targeting Linux yet is the part where they're using the OS's provided renderer: Linux doesn't have just one which would make this more complicated to implement. I'm betting they do add one for Linux at some point though.

Re: You can now root your Roku

laurelraven — Wed, 19 May 2021 15:28:44 -0000

That setting is available built in, it's not hard to do

Edit: okay, I take that back... But it is very doable with a bit of networking and Linux knowledge

Re: How are you handling Shadowlands' overwhelming amount of max-level content?

laurelraven — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:45:06 -0000

Easy: I don't sweat it. I'm not looking to get into an M+ raiding guild (or whatever they are now) or maximizing literally everything as fast as possible, and it sounds like you're in the same spot overall. For me, I just do what I want most of the time, other than I try to do the Maw dailies and work on getting sytgia and rep with the Maw vendor (I forget her name at the moment), trying to keep up with the callings at least every few days, and running at least part of Torghast each week. Beyond that, I treat things like fun exploration and figuring out how these things work, and just do what sounds like fun at the moment.

Mind you, I'm also forcing myself to spend most of my time on my main right now, since I have a serious case of altoholism, but honestly, if leveling alts is what's fun for you, do that. I'm just pushing myself to absorb as much of the story as I can since I missed a lot of the latter Legion storyline and most of BFA.

Re: How to add an LED strip to your 3D printer

laurelraven — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 21:01:36 -0000

Hey, quick question: I'm looking at powering my octo-pi from my printer and was thinking of adding the LED strip (after holding my phone's flash up to it just so I can see what's printing, I can really see the benefit of this!). What would you recommend for wiring the y-cables: first split to power one buck converter, then a second to power the other, or would you split once to power the printer on one side with a second split to both buck converters on the other?

Re: Google may push people to Gmail, but it's a bad substitute for Inbox

laurelraven — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 01:53:32 -0000

No, just that we didn't need the function, when clearly a lot of us find it useful.

I'll tell you what: I'll not put words in your mouth if you don't tell us what we use isn't useful ;)

Re: Google may push people to Gmail, but it's a bad substitute for Inbox

laurelraven — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 01:51:04 -0000

That's fine, you don't have to like it. Doesn't change that we do and that we don't want to lose it.

It's not a zero sum game; we can both have what we want in this.

At least, until Google cancels it for no apparent good reason.

Re: Google may push people to Gmail, but it's a bad substitute for Inbox

laurelraven — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 01:07:59 -0000

Honestly? After all they've killed so far, them killing Inbox too? I don't think I'll be trying any of their new services again either.

What's the point of having the best experience when it's just going to be killed off after becoming a core part of your workflow?

Re: Google may push people to Gmail, but it's a bad substitute for Inbox

laurelraven — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 01:04:43 -0000

You've got it backward. Inbox is incredibly simple and intuitive. Gmail is complex. Just because you're used to the complexity doesn't mean it's intuitive.

Re: Google may push people to Gmail, but it's a bad substitute for Inbox

laurelraven — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 01:01:40 -0000

When the email has something that I need to deal with at some point, but not now, I snooze it so it's not in the way, but will show back up later when I need to deal with it. For example, I get an email that I can't take care of until I get home, I set it so that it'll show back up around that time.

Or, how about we don't need to justify how our workflow works, when it works for us. Just because it isn't the same as yours doesn't make it bad or wrong.

Re: Github’s Atom vs Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code: Comparison, Review and Voting

laurelraven — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:31:38 -0000

This is something of an unfair comparison, considering VSCode is still in beta, so a lot of functionality wasn't added at the time this review was done. Could you consider re-reviewing after it's fully released?

Re: Microsoft Finally Begins Roll-Out Of New Outlook.com Design

laurelraven — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:05:37 -0000

"privacy concerns"
You mean, telemetry data? Why should I care about that?

"ongoing bugs"
A new operating system. Win7 and Win8 both had bugs when they first shipped. They're working them out.

"a new 3GB build every few weeks"
Why are you getting a new build every few weeks? Are you on one of the Insider rings? You do realize that regular users don't get new builds, right?

"enforced updates"
This is a bit annoying, but on the other hand, some of the rampant problems on the net were caused by people never updating, ever. Since I keep up to date anyway, I'll accept this minor annoyance.

"ads being delivered [...] along with unwanted apps"
I must have missed all these ads; where do I go to find them? I hear that I probably got a few apps auto installed, but I've never seen them, and they must not be very big, because they've caused literally zero problems or stress for me.

"instability/glitches"
Not been that bad. For the ones we have seen, I refer you to the bugs comment.

"stranglehold control of everything you do"
I have no idea what this is referencing. Where does Win10 restrict what you can and can't do? I've found I can do literally everything I've tried to do with it that worked previously on Win7 and Win8/8.1, and then some.

Win10 is a huge step forward. You don't have to like it, that's your right.

Re: Microsoft Finds Another Way to Force Windows 10 Upgrade on Businesses

laurelraven — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:10:42 -0000

While I like Windows 10, Microsoft pulling this is a really bad move. Basically, they're altering their support window for Win 7 and Win 8.1. It's almost like they're trying to see if they can illicit a class-action lawsuit against them.

They're obligated to support these OSes until 2020 and 2022 (respectively), so their overly aggressive pushing makes no sense. Ultimately, as long as anyone is still running those platforms, they have to support them, so it doesn't actually gain them anything to push this hard, and ultimately their tactics are serving to alienate them to their paying customers.

I can't see this move doing anything at all for them other than pissing of businesses, which are their biggest customers. I have no idea what Microsoft is thinking these days, but they really need to get it together before they lose all goodwill they were trying for with Windows 10.

Re: Windows 10 RSAT and Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 coming this month

laurelraven — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:19:40 -0000

Really? They released it only a month after Windows 8 RTM, and before general availability. I upgraded as soon as it was available and never went without RSAT.

As for Windows 10, it would have been nice if they had synced the releases, but as it is, I can wait a month to upgrade my work machine. I should anyway, since I can't really afford to have it break because of a day-one bug and spend all of my time fighting that.

Re: Review: Jawbone Up3

laurelraven — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:14:38 -0000

The "everything else" comment I took to mean everything beyond what was already in the much cheaper Up2. The smart alarm is in the Up2.

Re: This Photo Was Removed By Instagram, Owner Writes Powerful Open Letter In Response

laurelraven — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 12:25:53 -0000

Whether you think it needs to be done or not, do you think it's right to censor it?

Re: Google faces $323,000 fine if it doesn’t start reading customer emails

laurelraven — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 02:48:48 -0000

Because they're operating services in Germany.

Re: Google faces $323,000 fine if it doesn’t start reading customer emails

laurelraven — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 02:46:45 -0000

That may be true in the US; however, Germany has much more stringent laws about what a corporation's responsibilities are to their customers. If Google didn't make any money from the deal, then it would be unreasonable to require them to dedicate resources to support; since they DO make money (and a lot of it) on the transaction, then it's only fair that they provide a reasonable level of support for the services they're providing.

Re: Warlords of Draenor Tanking Changes

laurelraven — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:32:12 -0000

My personal take is that, honestly, I miss the old passive mitigation where the object was to work on holding threat; now I feel like I'm working on keeping myself alive more than anything.

Anyway, I'm still having a lot of fun, so that's something.

As for the change, I agree that a tank's job isn't to deal a lot of damage, and having a mechanic that can be gamed to top the DPS charts feels wrong. Too, though I worry how this will play out, I'm looking forward to mechanics that will leave our groups slightly bloodied while fighting; after all, after a 20 minute battle, we shouldn't be coming out looking pristine and whole, we should be battered and bruised. The Resolve mechanic looks like you said, a way to do that while keeping the tank healable.

I'm looking forward to it.

Re: Top 5 Reasons Why No New Race or Class in Warlords of Draenor is A-OK

laurelraven — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:37:23 -0000

Oh, sure, they happened. Only one or the other per expansion, though, until Mists. Since we just got a new race AND class in one expansion, waiting an expansion for more makes sense.

We're almost getting to a point of too many options now as it is. I'd, personally, like SOMETHING to look forward to for the following expansion...

Re: Freemium Users: Freeloaders or Fantastico? | Pertino

laurelraven — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:02:35 -0000

I couldn't agree with you more about the shortsightedness of LogMeIn's move. While I've not been in a good position to push for it at companies I've worked for, I'm moving in that direction, and the fact that I used to use it personally would make me lean heavily in its favor.

Now, since I have to go find a different solution for my personal life (my use is and has been limited enough that if I needed to pay for it, I'd probably not even bother), when I get to a position of decision making power, I'll likely lean towards whatever I wind up replacing them with instead.

That's just me, but I'm betting there are a lot of people who will get a taste for TeamViewer or the like instead of LogMeIn now, and they'll lose relevance. Which is sad, because I loved their product, and still think they have a great offering.

Re: 6 Gun Mage -

laurelraven — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 00:05:55 -0000

Yes, I'd REALLY like to see the RSS feed set up; I don't keep up well with any webcomic that doesn't use one, and I really like this one so far and don't want to miss out!

Re: I’ve seen CCleaner clean up some data, but this takes the cake

laurelraven — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:03:36 -0000

I once had it claim to have cleaned 17 yottabytes. Something about misreading the file sizes on certain cookies.

Re: Windows Server 8 gets a new name, roses retain their sweetness

laurelraven — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:48:13 -0000

Technically, there is a 6 in Vista...its version number is 6.0. Win 7 was supposed to be version 7.0, hence the name.

They left out the key changes that they felt would make it worthy of a major version change, so Windows 7 is actually version 6.1, but I think they pretty much decided at that point to divorce the name from the version number; so, confusion all around.