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absentbird ,

Swappable batteries are a giant headache, charging is better.

Batteries are lasting longer and longer, LFP are already able to last 20 times as long as typical lithium ion, while using less cobalt.

Modern EV tech is still relatively new. It took combustion cars a long time to get to present day longevity and efficiency. EVs will catch up.

absentbird ,

There's a couple thousand in China for Nio, but they haven't really taken off anywhere else.

By contrast there's over 1.8 million public EV chargers in China alone.

Batteries are heavy, which makes them hard to move and requires secure attachment to the vehicle. EV chargers have no moving parts and require much less maintenance.

absentbird ,

150km of range usually requires about 200kg of lithium ion batteries. More for larger vehicles.

What's wrong with charging? At 350KW you can get 150km of range in 5 minutes.

absentbird ,

The Fiat 500e's battery weighs 295kg.

absentbird ,

It's expected for HDR to mature on Linux later this year. I'll send you an update in December.

absentbird ,

Like people, but with a feduciary responsibility to gain wealth at every opportunity. Corporations are almost like vampires: they don't need food or water, they don't age, they have inhuman power, yet they wear the guise of people; they pass as human to make it easier to drain us of our blood, an endless thirst they feel compelled to heed.

absentbird ,

Only if you got that 13 button wired mouse in your laptop bag.

absentbird ,

That makes sense. Though I think it depends on what you're doing for that 1%. For me personally I prefer a beefy desktop for work+games, and a low-power laptop/tablet for portable jobs.

That way I can upgrade the PC tower every couple years and keep using the same portable device for years and years, since it's basically just an email/web/SSH terminal. I've been using the same desktop PC since 2009, just upgrading it as needed. Over 15 years it feels like fewer devices than having to keep replacing a high end laptop every 3-4 years or so.

absentbird ,

In a first past the post system of districts with single representative candidates, it almost always resolves to two viable parties. That's the way it's been for basically all of American history.

The parties can change, but the shape of the system remains constant: a vote is only effective when cast for the largest opponent of your least desired candidate. It's unintuitive and discouraging.

The parliamentary systems used in much of Europe, for all their flaws, do allow for more robust and diverse representation.

absentbird ,

Feather?

absentbird , (edited )

Yes

The cost of hiring a team of programmers the size of a large class can easily cost millions of dollars. There's a long history of school projects accomplishing things in computer science that would have cost millions. Look at BSD for example.

absentbird ,

You could say that about basically anything: it only takes one or two passionate people to [write a great novel, build a house, invent something new, prove a scientific theory, advance the field of mathematics] in a matter of weeks.

Those are rare and impressive exceptions, it's not so simple in practice. The Mythical Man Month has some good insight on this. Big projects cost big money, and don't necessarily get the job done faster.

absentbird ,

What about all the HD Zelda remakes?

absentbird ,

I disagree. In my experience having a lack of restrooms just makes the place nasty and hostile. You can still visit places with plenty of public restrooms, and it's so much nicer. Every light rail station in Seattle smells like a toilet, the ones in Vancouver are way nicer. Removing restrooms doesn't remove the need to pee.

absentbird ,

I got a PineTab2 for under $200 that has treated me well. No e-ink or symbolic buttons, but it runs Linux and the included cover has a keyboard.

I usually use it as a dummy terminal with a Bluetooth mechanical keyboard.

absentbird ,

"Ukraine's war" but Palestinian genocide. The situation in Ukraine is no less of a genocide, and it's Russia's war, Ukraine is just trying to survive.

absentbird ,

Yes, a million times this. Voting is just one small part of what we must do to fight for a better future. Giving up is not an option, there is far too much at stake. Vote, protest, occupy, run for office, take direct action, organize, and create a better world for the people who come after us. Solidarity forever.

absentbird ,

I said they're both genocide. Just because the oppressor could lose doesn't remove the possibility of genocide. Germany lost WW2, but they absolutely committed genocide.

Russia has abducted 20k Ukrainian children. Russia has destroyed museums, schools, cultural monuments, and churches. Russia has changed the language in the regions they conquered. It has been declared a genocide by many nations, scholars, and the international criminal court.

What "KD ratio" is required for a genocide to count in your mind?

absentbird ,

Historically that's total nonsense. Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were at war during the Nazi Holocaust in Russia that killed over a hundred thousand people. Are you saying that wasn't genocide? I find that absurd.

Israel declared war on Hamas, but that's still a genocide. Russia didn't declare war until last month. Ukraine hasn't declared war, they're being invaded. So how does your distinction make any sense?

absentbird ,

True, though Gimp makes it pretty easy when the text is in the same spot each frame like that: Make a new layer for blocking over the old text, put the new text on a layer above that one, then export to gif.

Video tutorial for anyone interested: https://youtu.be/ZCf4oGj0OLk?si=gRXk9nQ4Lts4jEC2

absentbird ,

In some cases it seems a bit inconsistent, like Siemens is on the list because they're working to build an undersea cable to allow Israel to integrate with the European electrical grid. Regardless of whether the land is called Israel or Palestine, it helps everyone to reduce dependency on fossil fuels.

absentbird ,

Britain was not a foreign occupier in 1700s colonial America? Must be news to the Algonquian, Iroquois, and Wampanoag.

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That's what I love about Linux: you have options.

  • Security updates automatically, but only restart or do feature upgrades manually?
    • You got it.
  • Automatically update everything as soon as it comes out, with a little pop-up to let you know you should restart?
    • Sure thing boss.
  • Automate the entire process with reboots scheduled during off-hours?
    • No problem.
  • Never update anything without being asked?
    • There's a setting for that.

It empowers the user to choose what works best for them.

absentbird ,

Oh, our apologies JC Denton. What artistic forms are acceptable for your memes? Are all drawings prohibited, or only those in eastern styles?

absentbird ,

That's a pretty low bar, to be fair.

absentbird ,

What law does it break?

absentbird ,

Yeah, I mean maybe I'm biased. 10 is the one that got me to go 100% Linux and never look back. Windows 7 could be irritating, but it was manageable, it could be controlled.

absentbird ,

Like it or not, it's an important medium. We couldn't have Deus Ex without Ghost in the Shell.

absentbird ,

Adobe's Creative Cloud for enterprise, Individual, or Single App Terms of Use permit deployment in a VM. Even if they didn't, it's not illegal to violate software terms of use, though it could open you up to a breach of contract.

absentbird ,

What's illegal about a $7 windows license?

absentbird ,

It's not illegal to violate terms of service, at worst it's breach of contract. What policy does it even violate? As best as I can tell Windows licenses are transferrable by first owner provided they aren't installed on another machine.

absentbird ,

Copyright infringement? The only thing being purchased is the product key, from an online reseller. The software is downloaded from the Microsoft website. It's not an infringement of copyright to purchase a software key from a company other than Microsoft, it's not even a violation of their terms of service as best as I can tell.

absentbird ,

Where is that written?

absentbird ,

I did, best as I can tell it's permitted. Resale of retail Windows licenses is legal. I can't find anything saying it's not.

absentbird ,

Don't call it a comeback, it's been here for years
Connecting all peers, putting Comcast in fear
Makin the tiers blow off like a typhoon
Now watch how the bandwidth blooms
Transmissions, not expiring
All the competition, it's inspiring
Mom & pops, online shops
The benefit of equal access rocks

absentbird ,

Only dual boot two Linux partitions. Dual booting windows is a waste of disk space, and liable to fuck with your bootloader every update.

absentbird ,

There was time now, I finally had time!

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/4e876ebb-9d19-443c-aacf-fbfacca23c19.webp

absentbird ,

Is someone with $900 million a person without a river of blood to their name?

absentbird ,

Steam OS is based on Arch, and Valve shares source code for nearly all their packages: https://steamdeck-packages.steamos.cloud/archlinux-mirror/sources/jupiter-main/

absentbird ,

It's not like this is coming out of nowhere, there's some pretty compelling reasons to be concerned about forced labor in the Temu supply chain.

Please, for the love of God, VOTE! (pawb.social)

I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...

absentbird ,

none as to why.

I like that he's doing more to fight climate change

It's also been nice to see money put towards public infrastructure, as opposed to the last guy who put all the money into tax cuts for the rich and racist border walls. We might even get some high speed electric trains soon.

absentbird ,

Did his protests get more attention under trump?

absentbird ,

What group of voters would be exterminated under Biden?

absentbird , (edited )

Wouldn't cutting the brake lines of a moving bus be really dangerous? Why not vote for ice cream, then sabotage the bus while it's parked? At least the ice cream place has food, shelter, and a bathroom.

absentbird ,

Then it should be easy for every voter to call for harm reduction.

absentbird ,

The route to the cliff would run over way more people, and attempting to wrest control of a speeding bus is liable to hit even more. Why not vote for the ice cream place and make the avoidance of collisions a key priority? That seems like a safer option for everyone.

how can something be so courageous and yet so true (slrpnk.net)

Edit: Jesus Christ, people. If you buy a $150 Thinkpad made by slave labor instead of a $1,200 MacBook made by slave labor, you're still supporting a capitalist economy based on slave labor. We all do. We have no choice. The number of smug liberals in the comments saying "well I buy a cheap used laptop" or "well I buy coffee...

absentbird ,

Framework laptops are like $1700

absentbird ,

Where even is the Starbucks in the photo?

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