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roboror··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
>Unless you live in bumfuck nowhere with expensive electricity, zero solar power and a daily 5 hour commute, an EV will likely work just fine for you.

In NYC it's a nightmare to own an EV and rely on public charging.

roboror··on Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Kind of whitewashing howto docs here--which in recent years have been replaced with (human-made) solely optimized for SEO to serve ads. That's why explainer videos took off in the first place.
roboror··on Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac
That's putting a bandaid on an infected wound.
roboror··on David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models
They also want to implement self-regulation now instead of waiting for actual government watchdogs to be implemented.
roboror··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
Right, Sending off my data to some random 3rd party company with far lower stakes does not make me feel better.
roboror··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
There are ads for ATV content.
roboror··on Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
I hope this is comedy
roboror··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
This feels like "the best way to read a book is via CliffsNotes"
roboror··on How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
Really? I think the ModRetro M64 is hideous compared to Analogue's 3D (their version of the N64)
roboror··on Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users
Renders poorly on desktop too.
roboror··on Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users
>A single job posting for an engagement team

A single job posting for an engagement team in Poland.

roboror··on I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run
Identified every component of my system incorrectly. W11.
roboror··on Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
Children don't have fully formed brains. There's a wildly varying ceiling on the efficacy of discipline.
roboror··on Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]
If we're doing money=smart, the mag 7 control almost $4T in assets and cash, so wouldn't you trust them even more?
roboror··on Nvidia Halos
How else are you supposed to counter all the danger transistors?

Hot take here, but personally I feel they should safety assess the danger transistors, reducing the need for so many safety transistors.

roboror··on AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July
Full title: AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs through a BIOS update in July — TSME is coming back after 'valuable community feedback'
roboror··on Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
It's full circle now and a large portion of posts and comments are now LLM generated responses, whether by a bot or copy/pasted by a human.
roboror··on Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers
How much would it have cost to start from scratch?
roboror··on Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union
The fast-food worker being replaced by a kiosk is inevitable and not limited to California, but even the kiosk is mostly transitory and destined to be largely replaced by a phone app.
roboror··on Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive
Before I saw the car, I figured the response would be overblown like many are these days, but yikes that is really an uninspiring silhouette.
roboror··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
Sounds like a good way to pump the numbers
roboror··on Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
Wild speculation here obviously, but it could be a regulation play--there's a lot of potential legislation that would regulate what you can legally 3D print, which would warrant a system to be the age-verification equivalent for 3D printing.
roboror··on White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/technology/trump-ai-model...
roboror··on Haunted Paper Toys
Cool thanks! I can finally put a name to the phenomena I've been wondering about since I was a child.
roboror··on 12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)
Proud to report residential composting is now mandatory in NYC.
roboror··on Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
In a perfect world sure but in the real world if a processor catches something they will disable your processing and freeze any funds while making it a nightmare to remedy, so you really want them doing as little as possible.
roboror··on Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
What models have you found capable? I was recently recommended Qwen3 Coder Next and I did not find it very successful. I have a good amount of VRAM/RAM so would love to run something locally.
roboror··on My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
Are there laws and lawmakers in this scenario?
roboror··on AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
It's an AMD thing
roboror··on Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM
There's a standalone version of reactor now
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