SapientLasagna @ SapientLasagna @lemmy.ca

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Sodium ion batteries don't use sodium metal. They use sodium oxides as the cathode.

This sounds awful. Software companies have maxed out all the subscription money they can squeeze out of their customers. But sometimes their customers make a profit anyway, an now the tech companies want a share of that too. FYI, Oracle has been doing that for years. The answer to the question of what does it cost is "dunno, how much do you have?"

AI agents can trivially send email. I don't know what the solution is, other than to disallow submissions from people who already have a good reputation with the project. Even that's not a good solution, because there really isn't a way to get a reputation that is open to humans, but can't be easily gamed by bots.

That's what you're saying but it's not born out by what's being seen with used EVs (other than the early Leafs). Used cars are perfectly usable after 10 years. The main problem with the used market is that there just weren't that many EVs on the road 10 years ago, less than 1% of the market.

Unfortunately that's a Tesla ad. But I was wrong. Looks like at least some of the 350kW charging cars take about 18 minutes. Slower than getting gas, but not much worse than a pee and sandwich break every two hours or so.

If it helps, my EV technically has a manual transmission. 100% of gear shifts are manual (it only has a single reduction gear).

You seem to have last looked at EVs in 2015. At 350kW, it takes about 7 minutes to charge.

Batteries only last 5 to 10 years max

Most manufactures offer 8 or 10 year warranties. Batteries are expected to last the life of the car (10-20 years). This is similar to the expected lifespan of the engine, because it's designed that way rather than being a fundamental limitation of the technology, same as contemporary car engine lifespans.

Electric cars are essentially disposable

All cars are expected to be recycled when major components are damaged or worn out.

Ofc rich people can just charge in their backyard or garage at night, so not an issue for them either.

Charging in your driveway works fine, and you might be overstating the percentage of people who live in apartments and also have a car. Maybe true in your locality but not mine.

I’m not saying that EVs are bad, but there has to be serious investment in infrastructure and batteries need to be cheaper and cheaply REPLACEABLE in order for the poor to be able to adopt EVs

Replaceable batteries make the car cost more, not less, same as engineering in easily swappable engines (some tanks have this, no cars do). The big thing you're not getting is that POOR PEOPLE DON'T BUY NEW CARS. The only thing required for adoption of EVs by poor people is a healthy supply of used EVs.

This might be one of the few cases where democracy won't actually work very well. If for no other reason than that I don't think we can actually define the community in any useful way.

Technocracy/meritocracy in this case is better, so long as disaffected groups can fork the kernel rather than be forced to accept what that leadership decides (they can).

I can't type ctrl-z without reflexively typing bg after, so no joy there.

Given that the conventional ship it replaces might carry a couple of thousand tons of fuel, that's still a net win.

Normal people don't fix computer issues. They also don't install operating systems, so this is all a bit academic.

And then there's this guy...https://globalnews.ca/news/6377799/bc-rcmp-want-to-talk-to-driver-about-questionable-snowmobile-transportation/

Port Coquitlam saw a four percent drop, from $1.4 million to $1.4 million

Gonna want to stock up with savings like that.

Of course you're absolutely right. I was hoping to avoid calling out the .ml denizens specifically. But here we are.

Internet leftists heavily subscribe to the idea of spheres of influence. Canada (and Western Europe) fall into the US sphere. What the citizens of those countries think or want is of no importance.

This also explains the .ml's support for Russia over Ukraine. In their worldview, Ukraine belongs solely to Russia, and Ukrainians resistance to that can only be explained by actions of the CIA, since Ukrainian citizens can have no agency of their own.

Seriously though, this is what break glass accounts are for. Create an account that can access your backups (preferably only the backup system) with a really long password and keep it offline in a safe place. Like a safe. Set up alerting if the break glass account ever gets used.

Farm labourer...just like nearly everyone else.

There's absolutely no need to keep an unsecured firearm for bears though. They don't generally break into houses, so you'll always have time to get the rifle out of the safe.

Also, if you keep a gun to shoot intruders, but haven't installed a steel door and window bars, then I don't think you're worried about safety; you just want to shoot someone.

If you don't like the term settler, it's not even than. Just the acknowledgement that you're with on treaty land, or more likely, on land not yet covered by a treaty. I guess there's the implicit acknowledgement that signing and upholding treaties is a good thing.