I kinda disagree, there is still a lot of waste even with the best bike brands. Hydraulic brakes are probably my biggest gripe, it's basically impossible to rebuild 4 piston calipers, and that's if they even have replacement pistons/seals to begin with. Hope and SRAM are the only two I know of that have pistons readily available but they are also overpriced to hell (it costs around $100 for 8 pistons, almost the same price as replacing the calipers entirely). Magura, TRP, and Shimano make everything in-house but they only supply parts to rebuild the levers, the calipers are basically just wear items.

Dropper posts, carbonfiber parts/frames, the 3 different hub "standards" being used, and non-standard sized bearings are all adding to the irrepairability of bicycles. And that's before you factor in that Shimano and SRAM are hell bent on using electronic shifting and shoving wireless bullshit on all their products.

Yes, a good bicycle is repairable and will last decades, it's just getting harder and harder to find new bikes that are good.

Pyrolysis sounds really cool in theory but in practice it's wasteful, produces lower quality fuel that is harder to refine, and contains a ton of benzene.

There's a dude on youtube making one of these in his backyard, basically a speed run to turn his house into a superfund site. I have no idea how people can see burnt plastic as a "green" alternative.

I feel like even calling this a ring is an insult to actual jewelry

Good news! This ring also comes in fuchsia pink with piss yellow sapphires:

it's real and if it didn't already look dystopian enough, everything is oil themed for some fucking reason.

I believe it was built for the world cup but wasn't finished in time, yet another $200+ million wasted in the desert.

I have torx all over my mountain bike that gets caked in dirt, a little bit of water and a pick gets them usable in seconds. I could argue that hex is superior to square but they're both worse than torx so who really cares.

Sir this is a picture of a toyota tacoma and a ford f250

I'm not a snob, I'll spark up with the homies from time to time, but my god are flower vapes far superior to burning. I will never go back to smoking as my main, it's just worse in almost every way.

I don't care how crazy they look, my funky doohickeys keep my taste buds and lungs safe.

Snakes don't suffocate prey by stopping their breathing, they stop the blood flow to the brain. A retic can kill a person without even trying, that much muscle around your neck might leave you a few seconds before you're unconscious.

Your correct that thickness plays a role in theremal transfer, but the paste and amount you use is not what determines that gap. Both laptop and desktop heatsinks are under quite a bit of pressure, more than enough to squish out extra paste. If you want to be extra sure you can spread a thin layer across the entire chip, but a dot or two usually works just fine. This video is on desktop coolers but mounting pressure should be similar.

If your laptop is over a couple years old I can almost guarantee there are dry spots on the chip currently. Laptops already run pretty hot and it's a double whammy for drying and pump out.

I don't know of any modern paste that is electrically conductive, heck I basically use old thermal paste as an extra layer of protection on my gpu with liquid metal. You can be sloppy and contrary to the old belief, you can't use too much.
The bigger thing to watch out for is dried paste that essentially turns into adhesive. You can break a contact applying too much force, though with a heat gun (or hair dryer) and some patience it should be easy to avoid.

No problem, although I was definitely thinking of desktops and not a laptop. Some of the 'quiet' fan curves can be very underpowered and are detrimental to performance.

If it's not under warranty and you're comfortable opening it up, replacing the thermal pads and paste will do wonders for your temps though. Even if it's fairly new, a lot of laptop OEMs just have terrible paste applications.

Well, if you're looking at Tdie/edge temps it's pretty unavoidable to see 80-90c on modern cards, at least if they're air cooled. I think amd has a 20-30c delta between Tdie and average 'gpu' temp, nvidia is around 20c? Either way, even with a perfect paste application you can set your target temp to 70c and still get some nasty looking temp spikes.
Thermal protection is way faster than software can report, unless you're overclocking it's really not something to worry about imo.

Good lord, reading some of the comments on this article made me lose braincells. Musk sure is owning the marxist libs with these fucking leaky refrigerators on wheels.

Idk, something just irks the hell out of me when people are like "50% battery is actually good bro, it's the perfect storage level for lithium bro". It's not in storage anymore, it's being delivered.

ICE cars are shipped with a quarter tank or less, but they are never delivered without close to a full tank. The fact that the Tesla dealer didn't spend the $1 of electricity or the half hour washing it down is just plain rude. And yet, people are still defending this shit as if being abused by big daddy musk is their life's greatest goal. Absolutely mind boggling.

I've been lucky enough to demo box's prime9 and absolutely loved it. It was only for an hour but it shifted great and I genuinely did not miss the extra gears. Idk exactly how reliable it is long term, but it definitely felt better than GX eagle.

The only thing holding me back from throwing prime9 on is that the cassettes are HG hub only, and this wheel is XD. When I got the helix I was so close to just swapping the entire wheel for an HG hub and going for box. It was just too expensive to swap so much of my drivetrain when the wheels and hubs are perfectly good. Hope you can find it in europe or demo a setup for yourself, if I could run box I absolutely would.

Single speed would be nice, but I struggle with my local hills even with that big ol' dinner plate of a 50t.

It would liven up the rear end of this hardtail quite a bit, and it's definitely something I have in mind for the future. But for now, I'm kinda stuck trying to make the most out of this XD driver wheelset.

The bushings on this derailleur are pretty worn, the clutch is probably 80% of what it used to be, and the B-bolt absolutely needs to be replaced. It just annoys me that the B-bolt is $30 for the X01 version and the bushings push it close to the price of an entire derailleur. It's possible to reuse it, but after so many miles I think it's finally earned it's rest.

But even when it was performing it's best I was always having to adjust cable tension or deal with problem gears. Probably my biggest issue has always been he lower limit adjustment, it always finds a way to need re-aligning and I've ruinied spokes with it jumping over. It's just a very fiddly system, I've literally gone through tires before needing to adjust my derailleurs on my 2x10 road bike. I can barely get through a long ride without touching the barrel on GX. Even with a fresh hanger, chain, and cassette I could never get GX to the point where I could trust it like other groupsets.

I mean, I'll take the stupid XTX crap over whatever the hell Nvidia is doing with Ti super bullshit

but almost the entire automotive industry engaging in similar tactics, but that was not nearly as widely reported.

This is straight up false. Yes most, if not all diesel engines were found to be out of regulation especially at idle. It's a bad regulation and needs to updated, but of course lobbists have put a stop to that.

The major difference was that VW group was using arrestor devices to skirt the testing even on the highway. It's why they paid the heftiest fine over all the other manufacturers. It was very purposeful, not saying the others are saints but there is a difference between neglecting to adhear and intentional deceit.

they were very hard to find and most peoples orders had not yet been delivered. It definitely hindered sales and was totally blown out of proportion.

Do you think that maybe, possibly, that it could be a variety of factors that led to id4 orders being cancelled? And also, if it was a commercial failure I can almost guarantee the model would have been killed off rather than being updated into a 4th year. Not being able to test drive a car I'm spending a significant chunk of cash on is a way bigger turn off than a YT video and some stupid articles.

Like seriously, if you didn't have the luxury of a very nice VW dealership, would you still have ended up with an id4? How do rekon availability and crappy dealerships didn't play a bigger role than Doug? Idk what to fucking tell you bro, people don't treat reviews as gospel, and if they do then they are most likely children and/or completely unable to afford the thing being reviewed.

VW has always underestimated their efficiency, even on gas/diesel cars imo

Maybe they underestimate the MPG rating but did you forget the massive diesel scandal? They lied about the efficiency of their engine and exhaust system to the point where they had software counteracting testing procedures.

Do you own an id4 or something? Like why do you care about the public perception of a company? People who actually are in the market for a new car are bound to test drive it first, and they can decide if the infotainment system is good enough for themselves. My point is: lots of talk from people who are nowhere near buying any car let alone a $40k+ id4. If I purely listened to the internet's opinion I wouldn't own half the shit I enjoy on a daily basis.

MKBHD and his team are by no means perfect, watch their podcast and you'll quickly see the gaps in their knowledge. If you haven't watched him in awhile I can understand you position a lot better. He's come a long way in the past few years, and while I never found his reviews to be bad, his current work is top quality. For instance: a lot of his smartphone reviews revolve around the camera performance. At the end of the year he does a big comparison between a bunch of phones. Between that and the yearly smartphone awards, I think he does a fine job at summarizing the software improvements over the first year of ownership.

Of course every big content creator has a legion of annoying fans, again LTT almost killed a 2 man company from a single botched video. I'm not here to defend any community, just that these two reviewers that you seem to have a gripe with do better work than 90% of others.