12C charging rates means fast charging for small batteries. I would be perfectly happy with a 300km range car if I could recharge in 15 minutes.

Linux users NEED their computer. You don’t put up with getting into Linux for fun except of you are a very special breed of geek.

I’m using Windows 11 at work and I don’t feel really a difference. I just had to double check if the start menu is really in the middle.

You’re drawing wrong conclusions. Intelligent beings have concepts to validate knowledge. When converting days to seconds, we have a formula that we apply. An LLM just guesses and has no way to verify it. And it’s like that for everything.

An example: Perplexity tells me that 9876543210 Seconds are 114,305.12 days. A calculator tells me it’s 114,311.84. Perplexity even tells me how to calculate it, but it does neither have the ability to calculate or to verify it.

Same goes for everything. It guesses without being able to grasp the underlying concepts.

The technology will eventually be available to every manufacturer. I think the main problem is Trump who does everything to prevent the switch to electric vehicles.

We’re having more and more electric buses in our town. It’s beautiful. They are so quiet. So much better for noise and air pollution.

How is Ford’s management perceived in the USA? Here on Europe they fucked up terribly.

I live in Cologne, Germany where their European headquarters and major plants are located. They completely missed EV development. Currently they stopped producing their best selling cars like the Ford Fiesta. The only EVs they build here are using VWs MEB platform and are selling at a higher price than VWs corresponding models.

They massively cut down on jobs and seem to be clueless about their future. They have been a major employer since the 1930s here and people are panicking about the loss of Ford altogether. They already shut down plants all over Europe.

There’s still a lot of manufacturing going on in Stuttgart. Despite a lot of it being moved abroad.

Is it still Mexicans that come over or has it changed to people from even poorer countries like Venezuela or Honduras?

It’s very noisy. In the sense of there being a lot of pixels that would make up either colors. Your eyes and brain try to make sense of the noise and “decide” what color it is. The strongest correlation that seems to exist is the time people get up in the morning. Early risers seem to see white more often, night owls have a tendency for blue. It might be caused by the amount of daylight vs. artificial light that people see throughout their waking hours.

All it would take would be a platform that handles the payment and supplies a tracking pixel. Websites could join and become part of it. At the moment, every single publisher has their own payment solution. If I want to read one local article from Houston today and one from Tokyo tomorrow, I won’t join two payment plans. I want them to be paid automatically, like when I play a song on Spotify or watch a video on YouTube. Just a decent amount of money instead of paying mostly middlemen.

Unpopular opinion: The missing business model for websites is killing the web. If there was a platform that would distribute a monthly fee to the websites we visit, the web would be much better.

50% could be allocated through traffic, 50% by choice. I could pay 20€ a month for example. Some would go to lemmy, some to my local newspaper, some to my favorite YouTube channels, authors or bloggers.

If enough people did this, investigative journalism would be funded, product testers wouldn’t be reliant on sponsoring and hobbyists could gain serious funding without selling out.

In the case you described it might be autonomous delivery systems. Why leave the house and drive around town when a little delivery drone on wheels can deliver it at the same time?

I only used Apple for a very short time, but their connector seemed pretty neat. Small and with satisfying haptics. Too bad they are so shitty about patents and standards.

Don’t American cars have a start stop automation that stops the engine as soon as the car isn’t driving? Or are they also disabling it?

Is that a vape brand?

Long haul trucking could be the first use case for automated driving. They could simply swap the trucks and recharge them. Depends on what’s cheaper: Adding swapping capabilities or having the whole trunk waiting to be charged.

One aspect I hate about this is that it’s so hard to find long term reviews. Brands change a tiny thing on their product and it’s a new model number.

A different inverter, motor, display, HDMI input configuration and it goes from FM344-02 DX to FM345-SL-Plus.

When shopping for a new washing machine, TV oder whatever consumer product you can imagine you only find reviews from either influencers that get paid by the manufacturer or it’s an Amazon review from someone who just unpacked it, tells me about the delivery process and how the first three days have been.

I want a single mother of triplets tell me if the washing machine made it through the diaper years. I want the retired soap opera addict to tell me how the TV performs after 20 seasons of Dallas or whatever grannies binge these days.

Insurance premiums will be adjusted. Plus people will avoid buying Teslas if there are too many attacks on them.

That being said, I think there are smarter ways to fight for democracy.

I’d love to have people move over to other apps. But here in Germany it’s nearly impossible to have a messenger group on any other app than WhatsApp. Everybody is on there. For every other app there will be someone not having it installed. It doesn’t matter if 80% are on Signal, 80% in Threema and 80% on Telegram. 100% are on Whatsapp and that’s what the group will be using.