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  • Salvo@aussie.zonetopics@lemmy.worldJimny
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    14 hours ago

    Kinetic Yellow.

    Illegal in some countries because that sort of colour is reserved for Emergency Vehicles.

    I wanted to join Team Tennis Ball when I purchased my Jimny, but decided that Team Latte was a much better team to be on.


  • Salvo@aussie.zonetopics@lemmy.worldJimny
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    15 hours ago

    The reason why the Jimny (Samurai) was discontinued in the US was due to Consumer Reports corrupting their testing procedures due to corporate pressure.

    The fact that a Jimny will not survive being hit by an oversized Truck reflects more poorly on the society that is normalising driving oversized Trucks than on the Jimny.



  • Even home owners need to fight to get Zero Energy homes built.

    8 years ago, we had a builder (who was offering free Powerwalls with every build) who refused to follow basic guidelines.

    We ended up having to escalate our complaint to the CEO of the company for fired the two Site Supervisors who were not being helpful.

    • tried bait-and-switching a Electric Assist hot water service in lieu of a fully electric heat-pump hot water service
    • installed a dark (woodland grey) colorbond roof instead of a light (surfmist) colorbond roof.
    • short-supplied insulation.
    • tried to install Reverse-cycle evaporators on the North side of the house.
    • etc.














  • This reminds me of when I got Spore on Optical disc for my (brand new at the time) Intel iMac. The disc was ISO9660 with both Joliet and HFS extensions, so if you put it in Windows, it would show up natively and if you put it in a Mac, it would also be native.

    After a few games in MacOSX I was disappointed with the performance so I started to dig and realised it was the Windows Binary with some sort of WINE-like translation layer. I assumed it would run better natively in Windows.

    I installed Bootcamp and a stripped-down version of Windows Vista and then installed the native Windows version. It installed a Root kit that broke most of Vistas security and the game ran even worse and crashed constantly.

    I don’t think that Microsoft deserves all the blame for games running like shit natively. The users who pirate games and the studios who don’t trust Windows users to not pirate games deserve the blame as well.

    Microsoft (and Post-Jobs Apple) definitely do deserve a lot of blame for allowing their platforms to get so bloated with so many features that users don’t want. Copilot should have been laughed out of the boardroom and Apple Intelligence is an underperforming, overly obnoxious know-nothing know-it-all.