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Nice! Are you travelling further south (or east/west for that matter 
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Did Venice and then Riva del Garda, now on the way back north. Fun fact, at 235km/h (limited due to winter tires required in Germany before Easter) the car sucks down over 450Wh/km. I'm averaging less than 200km per charge. The car tells me this is "40.2% more consumption than expected"
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I'm honestly surprised it's not more than that. 450Wh/km * 235km/h = 105.75kW = 142HP. That seems like a fairly low amount of power to maintain 235km/h.
Driving at high-speed train speeds sounds like a lot of fun.
Driving at high-speed train speeds sounds like a lot of fun.
ddrueding
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Under acceleration I can get it above 600kW, and it accelerates into the speed limiter quite hard. The cross sectional area is pretty small, and it is a slippery bastard, so 150hp feels about right.
At those speeds control is a bit...opportunistic. There are opportunities to control the car, a few times a second, probably 20% of the time on average. You certainly have to be on your game.
First time I've ever been passed on a derestricted Autobahn was yesterday. 1980s SAAB 900 Turbo Convertible. I kept up for quite a while, but 215kph in the twistie bits was more than my winter tires were up for. She was damn fast.
At those speeds control is a bit...opportunistic. There are opportunities to control the car, a few times a second, probably 20% of the time on average. You certainly have to be on your game.
First time I've ever been passed on a derestricted Autobahn was yesterday. 1980s SAAB 900 Turbo Convertible. I kept up for quite a while, but 215kph in the twistie bits was more than my winter tires were up for. She was damn fast.
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150 hp is really efficient. And I am somewhat jealous of you and living in Denmark. I have ~1100-1200 km to drive before I reach the continent.
Venice is really nice, haven't been to Lago di Garda, Verona is probably the closest. Italy in general is fantastic with the food and everything.
Venice is really nice, haven't been to Lago di Garda, Verona is probably the closest. Italy in general is fantastic with the food and everything.
sedrosken
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Pope Francis has passed, having made it to one more Easter. I'm sure it's no small relief after fighting for his life pretty much for all of the month previous.
Can't wait for the hateful bigots to somehow use this as justification for their hatred, saying that God struck him down for his tolerance or some other such. No Kyle, he was just 88 years old and got sick. Frankly 88 in a world leader position is a much better lifespan than I'd expect. I'm not religious by any means, but he kept his teachings much more relevant to things Jesus actually was supposed to have said in his holy book than a lot of others I've seen. The fact that so many other world leaders had public squabbles with him because he called them out on their BS made me respect him a hell of a lot more than I have most any other religious figure.
Whoever they pick to replace him will have pretty big shoes to fill. I just hope it doesn't end up being some reactionary ultra-conservative theocrat that undoes every good deed Francis ever did. But in 2025, I'm quickly learning to keep my mouth shut about what I hope for as often the complete opposite occurs.
Can't wait for the hateful bigots to somehow use this as justification for their hatred, saying that God struck him down for his tolerance or some other such. No Kyle, he was just 88 years old and got sick. Frankly 88 in a world leader position is a much better lifespan than I'd expect. I'm not religious by any means, but he kept his teachings much more relevant to things Jesus actually was supposed to have said in his holy book than a lot of others I've seen. The fact that so many other world leaders had public squabbles with him because he called them out on their BS made me respect him a hell of a lot more than I have most any other religious figure.
Whoever they pick to replace him will have pretty big shoes to fill. I just hope it doesn't end up being some reactionary ultra-conservative theocrat that undoes every good deed Francis ever did. But in 2025, I'm quickly learning to keep my mouth shut about what I hope for as often the complete opposite occurs.
sedrosken
Florida Man
So, I wound up with a Precision 7750 off of a friend whose company was liquidating inventory after upgrading their fleet. No storage, asset info was scrubbed, the useless battery was removed so it could go in a plane, so on and so forth. I ended up chucking the 2TB I bought for my 840g8 and a spare 512GB drive I had into it, as it's got 4 NVMe slots as mentioned in another thread. I also ended up replacing the battery for a used one with "good" life remaining so it can survive sleeps between being plugged into the wall and so I could flash the latest firmware -- it was at 1.6 and jumped directly to 1.38.
It's a bit of a chonkster. Model denotes it as a 17 inch laptop but I have it on good authority that the display is actually 17.3" and there's a healthy half inch of bezel at the sides and top, and a full inch at the bottom. I'd call this an 18 or even 18.5" laptop in actuality. It got slightly shipping damaged but I repaired the worst of it. One corner is missing the retaining nut in the body that the captive screw would screw into, and the right side of the cooler has some manky looking bending on the fins that I mostly straightened out, but it runs fine.
The keyboard is broadly fine though it does seem to miss the odd keypress and that's starting to get annoying, though the full numpad is very useful and you can rebind the calculator keys in the registry. Touchpad bizarrely has actual buttons at the bottom instead of the whole touchpad being one big button, and more bizarrely still it has a dedicated middle click button. It does support gestures, as it is a modern touchpad otherwise. I would eventually like to replace the display with a 120Hz panel, but I'm in no hurry as that both involves spending money and a deeply involved disassembly process I'd rather avoid.
It has a 10th gen i7, a 10850H, and a Quadro RTX 5000 with 16GB of VRAM which from what I can tell is basically the laptop equivalent of a 2080 Super. It's a couple hundred points off from my main with the 3060 12GB in Time Spy, but it doesn't have to drive as high resolution a display (1080p vs 1440p) and not at as fast a refresh (60 vs 120) so overall this either outperforms or comes very close to outperforming my main in half the wattage.
It was a bit of a heroic process to unlock the voltage controls on this -- decompiling the firmware, looking for the offsets to change to toggle CFG Lock and Overclocking Lock off, and finally booting into a special tool to toggle said variables in hex -- but I seem to have settled in at around a -175mV undervolt, which I'm told is pretty good for 10th gen. It doesn't run any cooler or consume any less power -- for that, I had to configure power limits, and I typically keep PL1 at 50W with PL2 at 70W for a maximum 40sec turbo -- but it does sustain higher turbo clocks for longer, in my burn-in testing in OCCT with the PLs set to 90/110 it wasn't wanting to draw anything over 80 and ran at ~84C to sustain 3.6GHz all core in AVX2, which again I'm told is pretty good for 10th gen. In games it tends to sustain around 4.2 all core fine enough. I have a PROCHOT offset of 10C as I really don't feel comfortable with the idea of riding 100C on anything.
I'm more or less replacing my daily use of my main with this as it's both more convenient to use in the living room and more power efficient. Under load, my main can draw 300-400W easily, and my main isn't particularly power hungry. This on the other hand has a hard cap of 240W from the brick it's got, and in practice I don't think I've ever seen sustained draw go past 150W.
It's a bit of a chonkster. Model denotes it as a 17 inch laptop but I have it on good authority that the display is actually 17.3" and there's a healthy half inch of bezel at the sides and top, and a full inch at the bottom. I'd call this an 18 or even 18.5" laptop in actuality. It got slightly shipping damaged but I repaired the worst of it. One corner is missing the retaining nut in the body that the captive screw would screw into, and the right side of the cooler has some manky looking bending on the fins that I mostly straightened out, but it runs fine.
The keyboard is broadly fine though it does seem to miss the odd keypress and that's starting to get annoying, though the full numpad is very useful and you can rebind the calculator keys in the registry. Touchpad bizarrely has actual buttons at the bottom instead of the whole touchpad being one big button, and more bizarrely still it has a dedicated middle click button. It does support gestures, as it is a modern touchpad otherwise. I would eventually like to replace the display with a 120Hz panel, but I'm in no hurry as that both involves spending money and a deeply involved disassembly process I'd rather avoid.
It has a 10th gen i7, a 10850H, and a Quadro RTX 5000 with 16GB of VRAM which from what I can tell is basically the laptop equivalent of a 2080 Super. It's a couple hundred points off from my main with the 3060 12GB in Time Spy, but it doesn't have to drive as high resolution a display (1080p vs 1440p) and not at as fast a refresh (60 vs 120) so overall this either outperforms or comes very close to outperforming my main in half the wattage.
It was a bit of a heroic process to unlock the voltage controls on this -- decompiling the firmware, looking for the offsets to change to toggle CFG Lock and Overclocking Lock off, and finally booting into a special tool to toggle said variables in hex -- but I seem to have settled in at around a -175mV undervolt, which I'm told is pretty good for 10th gen. It doesn't run any cooler or consume any less power -- for that, I had to configure power limits, and I typically keep PL1 at 50W with PL2 at 70W for a maximum 40sec turbo -- but it does sustain higher turbo clocks for longer, in my burn-in testing in OCCT with the PLs set to 90/110 it wasn't wanting to draw anything over 80 and ran at ~84C to sustain 3.6GHz all core in AVX2, which again I'm told is pretty good for 10th gen. In games it tends to sustain around 4.2 all core fine enough. I have a PROCHOT offset of 10C as I really don't feel comfortable with the idea of riding 100C on anything.
I'm more or less replacing my daily use of my main with this as it's both more convenient to use in the living room and more power efficient. Under load, my main can draw 300-400W easily, and my main isn't particularly power hungry. This on the other hand has a hard cap of 240W from the brick it's got, and in practice I don't think I've ever seen sustained draw go past 150W.
ddrueding
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As I understand it, the big reasons they picked a South American pope were to shore up the rapidly declining base of South American Catholics plus finding someone with absolutely no connection to the internal sex abuse scandals that were present for more or less the entirety of Benedict's time in office. I'd expect that they'll pick a conservative European once again, now that the bone has been thrown to the non-European faithful and given the prevailing political winds worldwide.
Which probably means that all the somewhat-less-hateful rhetoric Francis offered is about to go up in smoke.
It's interesting to note that MANY protestant denominations are also undergoing internal schisms. The Methodist Church in the US for example has fractured over the same basic question of whether how much misogyny and homophobia should be part of doctrine, with some churches choosing to join a regressive faith conference based on principles most frequently practiced in Africa rather than the progressive ones common to the United Methodist Conference. IIRC Episcopalians have a similar doctrinal split over many of the same issues, which is extra weird for an almost-Roman-Catholic church with King Charles as its head. You'd think the guy who has expressed a desire to be reincarnated as a sanitary napkin would be willing to speak up to clarify the correct amount of acceptable homophobia for congregants of the good ol' CoE.
One thing I would absolutely recommend for anyone willing to give up valuable Sunday sleep-in time is a visit to a Unitarian-Universalist church service. They don't ask you to believe anything. The couple times I performed in one, I really enjoyed the combination of moral philosophy and widely varied readings from non-Biblical texts. Their hymnal includes things like Labor Union Protest songs and Buddhist poetry. It's a very different experience from getting a 90 minute rant about how women wearing pants is an affront to God and Baby Jesus, which is ALSO something I've experienced in a Christian church.