Dudewitbow

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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

budget cars in a nutshel are not practical for long range, which is why theres no demand for it in the US. range is one of the biggest reasons why car companies dont sell new EVs for under 30k for the most part. buyers are too picky about what they want in a budget car so the sales flounder and people wonder why no company even attempts to.

personally people buying budget evs need to either wait for better infrastructure, or be the practical person and rent a vehicle for long distance travel.

people are essentially asking for a car that basically cant exist to exist, hence the real situation is why wpuld someone buy a budget new car when you can buy a used premium car

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

i do agree, they should be let in just that dont expect those prices. in order to keep a price low they need the supply chain at a local factory in order to match said price, as well as adhere to the saftey standards for vehicles in said country (they arent the same globally). even in countries that has a BYD factory like Thailand do not get the low end prices that you basically only see in China. While id like the doors open, just keep in mind the vehicles sit closer to 17-22k pre local changes and built fully in said country.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (18 children)

American car manufacturers refuse to fill the market need.

keep in mind, at the around 15-25k price, you run into the problem Vinfast has when they introduced themselves to the U.S market. What would an informed buyer rather do: buy a cheap new vehicle or a used premium vehicle. Chevy* backed out of making yearly bolts because demand wasnt high enough, despite the 7500 rebate would bring it down to 22k

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

the idea of it improving battery is that generating frames is less performance intensive than running a certain framerate (e.g 60 fps capped game with frame gen at double the framerate consumes less power than running the same game at 120 fps). though its slightly less practical because frame generation only makes sense when the base framerate is high enough (ideally above 60) to avoid a lot of screen artifacting. So in practical use, this only makes sense to "save battery" in the context that you have a 120hz+ screen and choose to cap framerate to 60-75fps.

If one is serious about minmaxing battery to performance in a realistic value, people should have the screen cap at 40 hz, as it has half of the input latency between 30 and 60 fps, but only requires 10 more fps than 30 which is a very realistic performance target for maintaining a minimum on handheld.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

the advtage the steam system has is first the bought game/gifted game situation, as well as the more important factor, the recent opinion score, as at amy given momemt a game can get good because of a major change (e. g payday 2 reverting all the pay 2 win content the original publisher mandated) or gone to shit because of greed or a bad patch.

the problem users have is finding a curator that has a similar taste in games that they do. If I was a fan of JRPGs, im not going to care about the opinion on some person who doesnt really play jrpgs. at the same time, if you like some niche genre, to the general public, that niche is always less popular, so itll get worse ratings thanit should compared to people who enjoy said niche.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago

itll more likely go into the XeSS route with alternative code path

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 22 points 6 days ago

Aldi Nord controlled stores in the US are Trader Joes, Aldi Sud stores in the US are just Aldi

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 95 points 6 days ago (7 children)

basically how i see it with delivery trucks, you need a few things.

heated/air vented seats for driver comfort along with AC.

easy access to the back of the truck

as well as room to stand in the truck, because the driver is going to have to constantly get in and out of the driver seat, so being able to get out easier/faster is good.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

to me, Mortal Kombat goes under the "Soo bad its good" category.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

basically market has always shown convenience often trumps ownership, music streaming, video streaming, games now. ownership is the vocal minority

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the problem is the covid supply chain ended a while ago and console sales havent drastically picked up since then. the PS5 has been orderable direct from sony for quite a long while now, and shortly after in stores. physical game sales (something console users champion, has gone way down (according to sony, only 30% of the sales are physical now)

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

they weren't completely wrong now. on thier own financials, its mentioned that only 30% of game sales are physical. physical buyers are now the minority.

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