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BeardedGingerWonder

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  • OMG NSFW!

  • Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

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  • I'm fairness the only time I remember being in a phone store in the last decade was because I got an esim when I got my new phone, phone company didn't send me a qr code to get the esim and I lost access to my account because I couldn't receive an SMS because my old physical SIM was disabled.

  • What's the most unusual way you've made some extra money?

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  • Ah that's cool, hope you keep enjoying it. Happy cake day.

  • What's the most unusual way you've made some extra money?

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  • Would you like it to be your main source of income and, if so, how far away is that from becoming a reality?

  • What a flex

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  • Bro's got fat sticks

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  • Wasn't the Hogfather an old winter god?

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  • The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices

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  • Just in time for AM6.

  • Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices

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  • How do you take that from the comment above?

  • Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices

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  • They don't care, my parents laptop was decently mid-range spec bar storage, manufacturer put in a 5400RPM spinning rust drive. It was damn near unusable, crap from the factory.

    Was forced to use it once when visiting and noticed the performance, put an SSD in it and it's been a fine laptop since. They're perfectly willing to hobble a laptop to save a buck.

  • BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

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  • There is no equivalent to an IVA where I live. It also is likely going to become a major government problem needing to process a sizeable portion of the country's vehicles through an IVA like process which requires an in-depth inspection and, a lot of times, comparison against the design standards for which the car was imported from.

    An IVA is only checking the car meets established standards - it won't say there's no design flaws or attribute liability. Hence my previous comment about meeting standards. Presumably there is type approval of some kind where you live. Again it's UK centric, I'm not a car lawyer and I've mostly skimmed the page, but there's nothing glaringly insurmountable in what I can find here:

    Type approval guidelines

    Type approval fees

    From what research I've done in the UK at least the responsibility appears to fall on the manufacturer and I can't really see an argument for how it would fall anywhere else as they're the entity producing the product. By using the design there has to be a presumed level of acceptance that they have liability for the product. (I can't just go and make an exploding kettle and sell it and say "I downloaded these plans off the internet and built it, it's not my fault")

    In reality they'd have insurance to cover it, the insurance would most likely require the type approval in place.

    The supply chain is there, but no one is building older cars that they just have to assemble with aftermarket parts.

    If the demand is there and the products are available and possible within the legal framework then it's happening. Believe it or not I watched a video on YouTube in the last 7 days about Tuksedo Studio in Indonesia who do pretty much that.

    If it's not doable within the legal framework of a country it's a moot point.

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  • Right, but they built and sold it. No-one is forcing anyone to use the design.

    There's nothing stopping me from going online right now and grabbing a design for a car, building it, doing an IVA test and putting it on the road - the original designer is dead, who would get sued in that scenario?

    Alternatively, can I copy the design of an existing model, build it to the exact spec, sell it to someone else and absolve myself of all liability if a design flaw is found in the vehicle?

    I'm ignoring the fact an open source design is likely to get more analysis than just about any other car on the market.

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  • Again, the manufacturer, why would that change?

  • BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

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  • They built the thing and sold it as safe, the liability is implicit. If you produce something you need to produce it to established standards.

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  • The manufacturer? Why would that change.

  • xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers

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  • Had a friend who wrote his french oral presentation out in 1337, he was allowed notes but not the word for word presentation. He showed the teacher beforehand, she said that's fine, looks like gibberish.

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  • Coming from the position of "I'm not sure it's possible to protect the source of a space frame chassis"

    Things like the Locost 7 have plans in the wild, and quite a few have been built.

    You kind of have to pick your poison in terms of "off the shelf". Does buying a BMW steering column or a Chevy crate engine count? The feasibility of casting and machining a block or head is way beyond most. (To the point where developing an open source engine would struggle to go beyond design phase without a company backing it IMO) a donor car is a good place to start, of course.

    EVs may improve this, which would be good, though fucking with high voltage battery packs would be a negative.

    Chassis is relatively straightforward so long as you stick to box section or tubing.

    Body panels are tricky too, something like the Locost isnt too bad. Even more complicated is within the grasp of a dedicated home gamer - but we're talking big 3D printers/serious clay or polystyrene modelling skills/CF or GF moulding etc. high expense high skill.

    If you're talking at the level of open source chassis produced by a few companies, few different companies do EV motors, few do trims, few do body work etc and then integrators put them together - I could see it working, it's not that dissimilar to how say VW/Audi/Skoda/Seat operate.

    I do like the idea of PC style integrators and you spec the car you want, probably pricey though.

  • Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports

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  • Glass is absolutely not guaranteed to be flat or without defect. Some glasses are. Mirrors have to be or they don't work, they come precut in 300x300mm plates for cheap from IKEA. You're free to check absolutely any thread from the time to see what people's motivations were. Moving mass on a bedslinger would've been a bigger consideration.

  • China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along

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  • My comment was more about the Chinese monopoly that would ensue if TSMC were taken out.