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- Comment on How to make an EV tire that won’t pollute the environment 4 days ago:
One person I know claimed to have run calculations, and found that the tire dust alone was putting out more pollution than the tires and tailpipe of the average gas car. Idk where they got their numbers or how that could work out, since the average gas car in America is a large truck.
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 1 week ago:
Ah, so any specific color. Yeah, that makes more sense.
Something I’ve heard from people in my life is that once you have a nicer car with all the creature comforts, it is really hard to go back. Strong air conditioning, extra comfy seats, quiet driving or the right kind of loud driving are all hard to give up.
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 1 week ago:
But like, so many used cars are grey? I always heard that people buy white, black, and grey because they sell better later on.
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 1 week ago:
Every comparison I’ve ever seen puts the new car as far, far more expensive than used.
Do two cars have to be different models and different years? Can it work out to compare the same trim level of the same car, and have the new one cost less overall than the used one?
I’ve never figured for any warranty in my car buying, so I’m playing a whole different ballgame here. I just go by advertised price, average gas milage, and how expensive is it when it breaks?
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 1 week ago:
I always wonder who is buying brand new vehicles. Why buy new instead of a car from one year ago?
- Comment on People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? 5 weeks ago:
Now that I’ve seen this… Most of the things people want out of a dumb phone can be accomplished by putting an android on ultra power saving mode. Except physical keyboards.
- Comment on People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? 5 weeks ago:
I want to be able to pull up an 80% version of a website on my phone, and have a button to open the full website on my computer for when I get home.
- Comment on People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely. Sometimes I consider getting a separate Bluetooth keyboard, but I seriously doubt it would be similar enough to scratch the itch. I really miss knowing exactly where all the keys are by feel and typing without looking.
- Comment on People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? 5 weeks ago:
Prepaid flip phones still exist.
- Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves 1 month ago:
Good. Set a precedent that you have to be careful of making wildly unrealistic claims.
- Comment on Beep beep 1 month ago:
I thought I was seeing the same jeep over and over, but no… Most of them have a whole row of ducks all of a sudden
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 1 month ago:
If that’s all it is, then simply charge less without making any changes.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 month ago:
Ultra specific storage cubbies for your favorite 5 tools. Label tags. Cabinet door knobs. Print in place toy cars with rolling wheels and doors that open. Compliant mechanisms. A coin sorting device. If they can print flexible things, phone cases.
Do not expect anything 3d printed to be food safe.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 month ago:
It helped me to know that checking out items helps the library.
I always thought of it as being a consumer of library resources, but the fact that the books/movies/library of things items are being checked out helps them prove that their services are useful to the community.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 1 month ago:
One more thing that makes Tesla hacking a profitable skill.
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 1 month ago:
They influence the buying decisions of their audience.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 month ago:
Yeah, a car that started out with 150 miles of range, has degraded to about 80 miles of range, and is known to be safe would be ideal.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 month ago:
Yes, absolutely. For a regular daily commute to a job that allows you to afford 2 vehicles, having one of the two with a shorter range with more charge cycles makes a lot of sense.
- Comment on Are you ultra woke on purpose? 1 month ago:
Yep, time to block the troll
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 month ago:
Lower power density, higher cycle life, safer. Sounds good for stationary power storage.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Getting out of hand? They’ve been out of hand for a while.
- Comment on Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook 1 month ago:
It’s not even “tracking down”. It’s public information that is easily searchable. It should be easy to stay 2 steps ahead of these groups planning things out in the open.
- Comment on Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook 1 month ago:
On Facebook… So there’s a clear trail of who is planning what and who is agreeing to go along. People with long histories of posting far right content, so when they inevitably cry “but a leftist plant orchestrated all this” there is evidence to the contrary.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 1 month ago:
Yeah, do it. Quit being a consumer of mixed source power, start being a producer of steady, good energy.
(Dirty enough that calling it clean green energy gets pushback, but far better than non-green normal sources like coal or natural gas.)
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 month ago:
I’m guessing that it can run multiplayer Doom with ray tracing turned on.
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 1 month ago:
It seems to be a soul-crushing job. Better to give it to the bots who have no soul.
- Comment on Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed 2 months ago:
Can’t show ads in my feed if I don’t have a feed!
- Comment on Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply 2 months ago:
Seems like ai companies should take some of that investor cash and build up their own power supply. Maybe they can be the ones to use the small, modular nuclear power stations I’ve heard a little about. Or go bananas on solar and various energy storage solutions.
- Comment on YouTube now requires creators to disclose when AI-generated content is used in videos 3 months ago:
Bold of you to assume that everyone knows movies and shows aren’t real.
- Comment on The first demonstration of entirely roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cell modules under ambient room conditions 3 months ago:
Yes, if the cost is low enough that the price per Kw is less, I think we would find more places to put it. On fences, on balconies, on rooftops of course, on awnings for parking spaces, on gazebos as a shade curtain, on pavilion rooftops… Yeah