kudra @ kudra @sh.itjust.works

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are you trying to avoid cliches

definitely a better situation than depending on global servers. But if you think you're likely to suffer censorship even within your country, or power outages etc, it's good to look at alternatives that you control the hardware and power sources for yourselves.

good start! but when internet gets turned off, anything using tcp/ip stops. look for coop cloud, Reticulum, LoRa radios if you can get them. you can build your OWN local area internet to communicate with your friends.

I'm not a fan of hybrids, but I drove one once for a week and it was massively cheaper/used less fuel. So I can't believe there aren't some benefits overall... but I'm still massively on team BEV. Just keep it simple! Get over your blimmin range anxiety people.

yikes!! ​that's nuts. In AU they seem to need to be "secondhand" to be imported if not an official dealer import, and the system recently got an overhaul to make everything worse/harder. I just wish we could harmonise with EU rules already, it's so damn stupid. Plus each state in AU has different rego rules and costs. Insanely inefficient and stupid. But at least we CAN import them, even though we are a tiny minority amongst the child-killers.

yeah - way to alert my spidey senses, where the fuck does this come from, is it from fucking US servers through Palantir or some shit? Is there info on how exactly it operates anywhere??

astonished there is zero mention of the kei class of Japanese cars. This class is deliberately made small, and I've been driving the first kei class EV for years: the Mitsubishi Minicab-MiEV, which were first produced over 15 years ago. Yes the original battery was small, but I got the battery pack upgrade (from an AU EV specialist) which is 30kwh, I live rurally and with much greater distances between fast chargers than you would find in Europe. And it is /fine/.

great. now we'll be a target in Victoria 🫠

fair, but for non-addicts (assumedly in the majority) it would be good to not require a GP to waste an appointment just to prescribe a medication that is quite safe when taken in moderation. Chemists would be able to see the prescription history. If you haven't bought any in say, 6 months, you shouldn't need to go to a GP for a pack of Panadeine.

how about they let them give scripts for Panadeine... you know, that we used to be able to get without a script?

definitely a large concern.

maybe I should have only mentioned total cost of build-out then. It is good to know that they are generally lasting much longer than their warranty, and of course we keep seeing increase in efficiencies so that older panels really are only a trickle compared to new anyway. What is truly worrying is Jevons Paradox.

while this kind of growth in renewables makes me hopeful, the total cost of build out is what concerns me, especially as solar has a lifetime of only 10-20 years. I feel like that cost in energy terms needs to be taken into account...

fuck off zuck.

propaganda, obvs

I think because it's somewhat novel, and really very simple. Once you start getting into electrical energy, you add layers of complexity. Think like global supply chains are going to get disrupted, and this kind of low tech is absolutely the right direction to be following imo.

This really is one of the most depressing aspects of the whole fossil fuels debacle - and representative of the mindset of using fossil fuels overall. Shrug, walk away. Use them until they aren't there and don't accept responsibility for the damage.

No, you're not Vyv Rook. Zero chance.

I'm not sure we're not on the list because we're lower? It could be that we just weren't included in the data so aren't ranked?

OMG this raised my blood pressure so much.