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I mean, how many people still use wired earbuds? I'd be surprised if it is 5% of users

You can also ssh into localhost as the user if you have that set up

No but electric motors and heat pumps are much more efficient so electfication helps reduce waste heat

The power consumption is probably the peak power usage

We used to lift cities up to support sewer systems and now adding relatively simple infrastructure seems out of reach. Neoliberalism has completely ruined our ability to invest in public infrastructure

That might be true for older cars that didn't have good thermal management systems (like the old Nissan leaf) but not true anymore. Electric car batteries now regularly reach over 100k miles with only small degradation. If you baby it, it seems that 200k miles with only 10% range loss is to be expected now

Hydrogen is terrible. It is much more expensive than even gasoline, adds way more complexity compared to all electric, and extremely inefficient. It's a joke. It might make sense for semis in the future but will never make sense for passenger cars. The Mirai is a concept science experiment sold as a consumer car.

Batteries are expensive to replace right now but that's only because we don't have battery recycling infrastructure yet. Eventually they will be much cheaper to replace. Already, even factoring replacing the battery every 100k miles, electric cars are cheaper to own than gas and many batteries are known to last 200k+ miles. It really is only the Leaf that has the shitty battery that needs replacing.

Hi. Long time enterprise Linux admin here. Systemd is great and way, way better than sysvinit. I've also used openrc and i can say it is okay.

Sony's music CDs would install a rootkit so the music couldn't be copied

The mouse wheel dies before anything else

Better to buy a PC and install chimeraOS

Superconductors can be used as very fast charging energy storage devices. Think a capacitor but with better energy storage than a battery. We could have electric cars that charge as fast as it takes to fill a gas tank and instantly charging electronic devices.