Kushan

Didn’t this get called out months ago when they refunded the program of dropping sterile flies to stop this spread?

In other words, the fact that they haven’t been seen in the US since 1966 and are appearing today is directly because of trump.

The problem is that your stance is needlessly binary. Just because they were intended to “save the auto industry” doesn’t mean that they’re not also better for the environment.

The narrative that the manufacturing of EV’s is just as bad as the pollution from ICE vehicles has long been debunked and even if you’re charging from home via the grid, that doesn’t mean it’s environmentally bad, the push towards renewable energy production is ongoing.

The US is vastly behind the times but that’s not the fault of EVs. Take the UK for example, which is producing more and more green energy. It stopped burning coal years ago and regularly runs almost entirely on pure renewables. That means EV’s charging there are regularly being charged from renewables, even when pulling from the grid.

Gosh, can you imagine dying of cancer after spending the last few good years of your life protecting a literal paedophile monster and taking the fall for him.

A monster that gives no fucks about you.

Nobody is going to give a fuck about her. Not even his base. Especially not his base.

What a sad, miserable life.

Sure but it’s not a new thing, either.

It’s self hosting by the literal definition that you host the server yourself.

That it’s closed source and sends all kinds of data to another server is an entirely separate (and valid) concern.

As much as I agree with the concerns around Plex, I would rather we didn’t start gatekeeping the self hosting community with arbitrary requirements and grey lines around what is and isn’t “true self hosting” or whatever. I would far rather we inform people and let them make their own choices about what they want to host on their private devices and networks.

When a car turns, one side’s wheels have to rotate faster than the other side as it needs to travel further.

Thus, it’s advantageous to be able to power wheels independently.

And just so we’re really on the same page, just because something is a challenge doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing or shouldn’t be done.

It’s not like we didn’t have the same problems with balancing the grid when people started installing electric ovens or Aircon or dishwashers or washing machines or pretty much any other heavy appliance you can think of.

In fact, did you know that if you were to install Solar and export production to the grid, that can cause the same problems? A lot of people seem to think that it’s about how much power the grid can produce alone but there’s a reason it’s referred to as a “balance”, too much input causes problems as well. Utilities need to plan energy production in advance to cope with an already variable demand, there are people who’s entire job is predicting spikes and drops on consumption so they can figure out if they need to spin up or shut down entire power plants - both of which are expensive to do and any mistake will mean brownouts or worse, a collapsed grid. This isn’t a new thing, it has been this way for decades.

If anything, EVs and EV chargers can be made a lot smarter than the above to actually help balance the grid.

My electric provider gives me cheap electric and a discount on my bill if I let them decide when the car charges (via controlling the car charger). I just tell them when I need the car to be fully charged by and they handle the scheduling. Do I care if the car charges at 2am instead of 9pm if it’s fully charged by 7am either way? Absolutely not.

Better yet, V2X is starting to become a thing - this enables bi-directional charging for the EV. In other words, the EV itself actually helps balance the grid rather than just be a pure drag on it.

In the modern age, overall grid capacity is only a small part of the problem, what we need is a smarter grid. A smarter grid will cope with spikes in demand without forward planning and being cheaper overall for everyone.

Bungie played an absolute blinder by signing up with Activision all those years ago as all the shitty monetisation they pulled got blamed on Bobby K.

Nope, turns out Bungie was just that shitty the whole time.

The man really is an alien

I’m going to pick a slightly more obscure one: Kane from Command & Conquer.

If that’s the case, then it should be trivial to prove and the EFF can force them to open source it.

Let’s not make baseless accusations, let’s get proof and hold them to it.

That’s not strictly accurate.

The slicer is Open Source yes, but not the printer firmware or software. That’s closed source and proprietary to Bambu.

Now there’s some contention there because a lot of the features and ideas that make modern 3D printing as reliable and great were developed in the open, under open source licenses and Bambu has definitely implemented many of them in their printer firmware, but they don’t infringe any licenses in the printer software itself (as far as anyone is aware).

This whole debacle centres around the slicing software, which is separate from the printer itself (though is necessary to actually use the printer) and it’s AGPL.

I work in IT, been a software developer for decades.

I have a full on smart home, all the smart tech you can imagine. All connected and running locally via home assistant.

Smart tech isn’t bad, shitty tech is.

I’m the UK, 10kWh from a large brand (sigenergy) costs about £2k, but cheaper brands you can get about 3x the storage for that price.

Not the same guy but I’m having both installed right now. I’ll be buying cheap electric at night to fill my batteries and running the house all day from that, while exporting and selling anything from the solar as well as any excess.

Every unit I sell is worth 12.5p, the cheap rate is costing me only 5.2p. eventually that export rate will go away, I’m which case I’ll be able to be self sufficient about 2/3 of the year.

Exactly, hence why it’s very difficult to run a truly “private” DNS. Your best bet would be to run your own resolver on a VPS or something

You still have to perform lookups by reaching out to the root resolvers.

Plus people knew the increase was coming so I imagine there was a spike in sales just before hand.

We have faster charging speeds with lithium today, 800v cars that can charge at 300KW+ have been on the market for half a decade, BYD has launched cars that can charge at 2-3x that speed. The charging infrastructure is the bottleneck there, even if all new cars could charge at those speeds it wouldn’t mean much because hardly any chargers can support it.

Besides it’s almost moot, most EV owners aren’t charging via fast chargers like you would fill up an ICE car, they’re charging at home at much cheaper rates and only using fast chargers for particularly long trips.

Sodium batteries are real though. You can buy them today, their big promise was that they would be cheaper than lithium batteries because sodium is abundant and readily available whereas lithium is a rare mineral. Then lithium prices fell through the floor and the value proposition failed, at least for now. They’re also not as energy dense, which is probably what will hold then back from EV use for a while yet, but the claim around being safer holds up.