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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 170,000 EV chargers in limbo as Enel X Way exits North America⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Open EVSE, but any charger that support OCPP in theory can be controlled by any software. I do not have an OCPP EVSE installed (or any EVSE yet), so no idea if it actually works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why we prefer to buy physical media, getting a digital with it is nice, but physical is key.

  It wasn’t even me was pushing for us to get physical media, it was my spouse. Of course my plex server the house probably helped. But after a few “forever” is only until next month, or shows completely disappearing altogether from any streaming, they started pushing for more physical media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple will avoid ban by selling latest Apple Watches without blood oxygen feature⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the original ruling it sounded like having the even just the sensor in the watch would be infringing. It sounds like these are new watch they are importing, but the article doesn’t make it clear if that is the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Tech Allowed An Abusive Husband To Break A Restraining Order, And A San Francisco Judge Sided With The Automaker⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like the restraining order should have listed out additional remedies, or maybe even made her the sole owner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cruise Self-Driving License Revoked After It Withheld Pedestrian Injury Footage, DMV Says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is like a bunch of the self-driving companies are trying to kill the tech by making the public turn against them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow that article is disingenuous and opinionated. UAW with Ford (and others) took a significant pay cut total hourly including benefits went from over $70 all the way down to $55. Now UAW wants to get some what they gave up to help the companies during the great recession of 2008 now that those same companies are making record profits. That seems completely reasonable position to take. Wages have not kept up with inflation for DECADES. The rational thing to do would be to try to push wages to make up for those year over year effective losses.

  So here’s the reference to UAW taking a pay cut in 2008 reuters.com/…/ford-uaw-deal-cuts-wages-to-55-an-h… Pretty sure it was not only Ford and this isn’t the only article about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX Might Have Lost 200+ Starlink Satellites In Just 2 Months Shows Data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it will. Just like doing the exact same thing for power and phone lines to every single place in the entire US ran prices up. Difference is we paid for it and enforced companies do to it. For internet access we just paid for it and then never made them provide the internet access to everyone everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX Might Have Lost 200+ Starlink Satellites In Just 2 Months Shows Data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And the country should fix this just like during electrification and running phone lines to everywhere.

  In the US we paid for internet to be run everywhere (like we did for electricity and phone lines), then the phone companies just didn’t do it. Neither congress nor FTC followed through with any consequences for companies not doing this. So here we are in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX Might Have Lost 200+ Starlink Satellites In Just 2 Months Shows Data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Over a long enough term it will be worth it. But as a said elsewhere neither electricity nor phone being run to rural US homes was cost effective for companies. So the US decided that was shit and paid for it to get done. Started to do the same for internet access. Phone companies refused, used the money for other purposes, inflated prices faster the inflation, etc. and yet neither FTC nor congress held them accountable. Other countries have done the same thing for power and phone, there is nothing fundamentally different about physical internet access stopping anyone from doing the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX Might Have Lost 200+ Starlink Satellites In Just 2 Months Shows Data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither was running phone lines or electricity in the rural US, but we did it anyway because it was better for the country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM confirms $130,000 Cadillac Escalade IQ won’t have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto | GM said it was going to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all vehicles, and now, that includes Cadillac’s l...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  with an aspect ratio of 20:1 across the entire dash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gem Hunters Found the Lithium America Needs. Maine Won’t Let Them Dig It Up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is destructive to the environment.

  The real question is if it is worth the damage to the environment for the lithium? That lithium will make it possible to make more batteries for less money, which then less fossil fuels and more renewables can be used over the entire life of the battery. Further if we start recycling lithium batteries completely, then it is the improvement across the lives of all the batteries made from that lithium minus any damage to the environment caused be recycle each generation of batteries.

  For Maine they probably will not see enough of an improvements directly. For the US we might see enough improvements elsewhere to make it worthwhile. For the world we probably would be a net gain of environmental improvement.

  The longer the timeframe the lithium can be used to lessen climate change impacts (batteries for cars and renewables) the more likely even Maine would see a net positive versus the damage of mining the lithium to begin with. But that is very hard to quantify and even harder to predict the future (new battery tech might displace current lithium batteries).