I have the opposite reaction when I see these memes. To me it’s a reminder of how inclusive some of my favorite nerdy communities are, on top of being a fun little in-joke like any meme should be. And I’m an old beardy middle aged dad too for whatever that’s worth.

However, that doesn’t mean the image itself is innocent or appropriate for most audiences. I’m not going to be asking the family’s opinion on this one, lol. But I don’t see it as a manga fetish thing at all. More empowerment than exploitation for the owners of the legs shown.

Auto correct.

They meant to say suck a fuck, not fuck a duck.

That would be crazy, as if we in the US were more loyal to the current president than the constitu-- ohhhh.

Totally, and I think that’s why they thought it was worth a press release. In the article they go right to how they’re setting a new power density record with this design.

Electric motors are just really power dense. The article says they managed a short term peak of 1,000 hp with that little flat 12.7kg motor and the continuous output could still be half that.

Just the cooling must be crazy.

Out of curiosity I looked up something comparable. It looks like high-performance integrated drive units that have other stuff like the single-speed gearbox, differential, and inverter are still only in the dozens of kg.

The voltage/hp comparison there doesn’t really fit.

Power is in watts or horsepower. You multiply the torque with the RPM and a scaling factor to get power.

A higher voltage system could probably be expected to produce more torque and power from the same size motor, but a lot depends on the design of the motor.

Then to answer “how much torque though,” I haven’t looked into it but electric motors have a very nice torque curve across the RPM range. If a motor made all that power with low torque, then it must spin at super high RPM and need to be geared down.

Unfortunately, the rinse crew has been dissolved as a cost cutting measure.

That’s an awesome note. I often think the same thing and I wish I could spread that freeing realization to everybody I meet.

Please describe to us what is important so that we may stand back in respectful awe and learn!

🤘🏻

I’m a couple years older and didn’t even get to start trying medications until my 40s.

And sure enough, gifted student and high scores on standardized tests and IQ and stuff, right here. Looking back it can be pretty frustrating to see how much of my childhood was shaped by it, but it’s harder to blame the adults in my life the further back I go.

What really frustrates me is that I went to a psych practice as an adult looking for some kind of help with my extremely stressful issues that I noticed exactly matched every description of ADHD I could find. There were questionnaires and a small battery of neuropsych type questions to evaluate things like short term memory and processing speed. I did well. It did not lead to a diagnosis.

So yeah, when I am sitting in a room 1:1 with somebody and I am in performance anxiety hyperfocus mode, I can do good on some fucking word problems. And that meant I DON’T have ADHD? Thanks, fuckers.

Thanks for posting this, because I started getting bummed thinking about how much of a great resource the full reddit history would be to just have online, were that whole thing not ruined gut bad reasons by bad people.

But then you reminded me about the good people.

I found the helpers, Mr Rogers!

I love this post. You are on the other side of the world yet you’ve envisioned an optimistic and plausible path for this country to start not just rebuilding but to find some redemption and even inspire people again. Eventually.

I’m not in NY, but am in the US within a several hour drive of there.

It’s so interesting to see how other people’s experiences of white conservative Christian America can be so different from mine.

I agree. It’s interesting and enriching to hear about the different starting points in life that led us to similar places.

my upbringing in a little country church.

It looks like you had one of those pockets of “true” scotsman christians! _/s

My family was catholic. I was surrounded by miserable conservatives before it was cool! :D

Ok bear with me here but we’re on Lemmy so I think I get in trouble if I don’t ask this…

Have ya tried Linux on the old machines? If not, you can make a bootable USB of Linux Mint and play around with it without changing anything on your system. The UI is laid out like Windows.

Nothing makes an old machine sing like installing Linux!

I appreciate the comment. Thanks!

It’s funny how often I see a headline like this, then think to myself “now, now, let’s be reasonable and give them the benefit of the doubt because crazy situations happen every day…”

aside: You see, growing up in white conservative christian america, my brain has this old deep conditioning to see people who are different looking or who have different priorities in life than me and think of how stupid/worthless that makes them. I have those neural pathways pretty safely contained, but it’s important to do maintenance.

Anyways, I often think to myself oh hey they aren’t just mind numbingly stupid and surely there’s something else going on. Then I read the details and it’s like every sentence pushes my face closer to my silly optimistic assumptions bellowing “search your feelings, you know it to be true” like some really heavy-handed metaphor about feeling the call of the dark side.

Nah, I guess I do know how stupid they are. But their stupidity isn’t gonna frustrate me into being like them again.

When I switched over my home desktop to Mint, it was a very short time before I looked at Windows and said “I’m too old for this shit.” I mean, the reason I am a Mint fan in the first place is that I am a FOSS loving nerd but with a family and pets and hobbies and a career and a middle aged energy level. The decades I’ve spent fixing Windows based PCs is enough for a lifetime, thx.

I say consolidate old files you want to keep. Shuffle them between drives as necessary to be able to format everything. Go all ext4 on the drives you already have. (once you’re ready)

This is the way.

I think these days the PC value argument is a lot more about longevity and versatility than price.

Like in my case, I want to have an old fashioned LAN gaming setup in my house. I’ve already managed to find four PCs stored away, and they are all going to work great. Three are already set up and have linux installed and everything. So they cost a decent amount in their day, but now they’re kind of just free extras.

It’s like foveated rendering for the whole damn universe.

“Just vote” is kind of an election day strategy.

The whole part where the actual work happens to put a decent person on the ballot instead of corporate drone n+1 is right now!