• EtherWhack@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Premium in a Toyota? That like putting a 1500W PSU in a tower with an i5, a single drive, and a gtx-980 as the only PCI card.

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      1 month ago

      I am not a car person.

      It is unconcievable to me that you can identify the brand of a car from such a partial picture.

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        1 month ago

        I’m not super familiar with cars either, but for people that are, things like the fuel door and cap are unique between different makes and models. If you stare at cars enough, you just kinda begin to know these things

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          1 month ago

          Pretty much.

          I recognize the cap and its tether, but not sure what model. (looks close to a 2010 Prius or Yaris)

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        I’m the same, but then I realized I can likely identify a bunch of makes models and years of guitars and basses by a partial photo.

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      1 month ago

      ‘Premium’ gasoline is such a misleading name.

      It is more like messing around with undervolting when you don’t know what you are doing.

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        1 month ago

        Maybe.

        I was more referring to the efficiency side. In that a PSU is most efficient when between a certain wattage of power draw. Similarly, using a fuel formulated for high compression will be less efficient than one for low compression in an engine that is low compression.

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    1 month ago

    Higher octane fuels have a higher resistance to burning, lower octane fuels burn easier. All octane fuels are required to have detergents by law. Use what is recommended by your vehicle and stop wasting money. You will not get more power by using a higher octane fuel, unless your vehicle is tuned to use it or developed to use different octanes like Mazda’s sky active turbos.