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Comment Re:At This Point (Score 1) 127

I ran into this same issue, only when using eARC my sound bar had some of buffer overflow issue that would cause an audio dropout every five minutes or so.

It took about 10 months, but HDMI audio extractors finally came out. That have the single cable from the console and outputs the full signal to the TV, and just the audio to the second output.

The audio EDID flags are pulled from the audio side.

The extractor wants you to connect to the eARC port which I'm not doing. So I lose CEC signals so my TV remote can't control the sound bar's volume.

Comment Re:Future of Xbox (Score 3, Informative) 42

The Xbox Series X has the same Zen 2 CPU, RDNA2 GPU as the PS5. There are slight differences in other custom modules specific to each console. But they were modern at the time of release.

You can't claim the Xbox Series is a hardware refresh from Xbox One. Without the PlayStation 5 also being just a refresh of the PlayStation 4.

Comment Re:Nuclear Power Industry won't be happy (Score 1) 120

For a single home? No, it's not that complex, but can be expensive depending on total needs. Average cost is $15-16,000 USD to start and goes up for more capacity.

Grid level storage? Much more complex.

The goal isn't to have 99.99999999% grid uptime. It would be supporting known common events. It's night? You don't have solar? Strong storm? Wind is parked. A foot of snow, and then overcast for the next week with the 8.5 hours of sunlight per day? Much more difficult.

Comment Re:Nuclear Power Industry won't be happy (Score 1) 120

Renewables still all come down to not being always available. Which means complex storage solutions, or generation by alternative means. Right now that's mainly natural gas and coal.

Will people in 20-30 years want power at night in the middle of a large wind storm that requires the wind turbines to be parked? I'd wager so.

Comment Re: I'll try anything once... (Score 1) 66

The PS5 was modern at launch.

It uses Zen 2 for the CPU, and AMD launched Zen 3 seven days before the PS5's global launch with Zen 2 being under 18 months old at that point.

And RDNA 2 for graphics which was launched as GPUs from AMD six days after the PS5's global launch.

The limitation was related to clock speeds. This allows the console to run at a much lower power limit versus a mid ranged gaming PC.

I went from a i7 2600K to a Zen 2 CPU in 2019 and some games doubled in frame rate using the same GPU. The PS5 also has 8 cores versus older i7's having 4 cores and hyperthreading.

Comment Re:VW expanding lecce van factory (Score 1) 93

There's also the very large cost to construct the charging infrastructure to support a fleet of that size.

Add in that the BrightDrop is $66,000 MRSP, while gas powered vans of roughly the same cargo capacity are $15-20,000 less.

That could be two to three fleet replacements cycles to break even on the construction costs when calculating out the total cost of ownership.

Comment Re:VW expanding lecce van factory (Score 1) 93

The estimated 177-179 mile range could also be an issue. It's fine if you have a distribution center just out of a city and the route is to drive around the city and then back.

But it wouldn't work for something like appliance delivery to customer's homes which would be all over the place. By the times you made the morning deliveries you'd be under 50% of the range, and you wouldn't have 5-10 mins to refuel and get back on the road. Though you normally wouldn't need to refuel at that range with an ICE, normally just back at the depot overnight.

Comment Re:Spreading misinformation (Score 1) 226

Then you'll just complain about election deniers when it's brought up that COVID could have been used to make people too afraid to go outside so mail in ballets were heavily used and open to manipulation.

Or is shoehorning in a yes man candidate that pushed unpopular legislation not a way of "To control us". And much of that legislation provided funding for programs that directly benefited donors and people in a certain political party.

Comment Re:Spreading misinformation (Score 1) 226

Was the evidence indicating X trustworthy in the first place?

Or does it fall back to the old joke? "What's the difference between the US and Soviet Union? In the Soviet Union the people know all the media is propaganda."

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Comment Re:For those getting pitchforks ready (Score 1) 153

Any induction furnace is a very different type of device from the non existent induction oven.

With the furnace you have coils running all along the crucible which the metal you are smelting is against and then melts.

Induction is used to provide direct heat, not radiant heat like an oven.

Comment Re:For those getting pitchforks ready (Score 1) 153

You have an induction range.

Most of the oven parts are just normal convection ovens, though some are infrared. That means it's just a normal electric heating element and a fan. it might be fancy and have a top fan to force air down like an air fryer, but it could just be marketing BS and having convection = air fry.

The latest marketing BS I've seen is "air sous-vide". AKA a normal oven. Sous-vide works because water holds temperature better than air, and the food won't be overcooked because it is only brought up to the temperature.. Do you really want to look for 4-5 hours at 120-160F in your oven? Better to just slow cook that in the crockpot.

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