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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a sign of how bad the situation is that we talk about car repairs in terms of hacking.

  Documentation should be mandatory, and DRM on this stuff mostly forbidden.

  For the FP4, I think I’m going to go for e/OS, because of the official Android Auto support. I want to degoogle, not root.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That may be ok for an Arduino, but for a car I’d really like to be able to get support, which may be tough with a smaller provider, unless they really use generic components and document their stuff decently, which I’d really have to be convinced about. And let’s not even get into the software support.

  And I write this from my 2yo old Fairphone 4, which I plan to degoogle during the holidays, while I sit in front of my 7yo Thinkpad.

  I use Arch BTW.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Chinese ones tend to be less enshittified? Having just recently about how Xiaomi cars disable software updates if you change the headlights, allow me to doubt that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the Multipla deserves better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen Browser: A New Privacy-Focused Browser(Firefox)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  a couple KDE tweaks even made PiP work fantastic

  Tell me more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is not fine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does really no one get a song reference around here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is not fine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was always burning since world’s been turning!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That wouldn’t be so bad per se… Many improvements in human conditions have been achieved by automating stuff and kicking people out. Think of the green revolution.

  The problem is that the use case here is to massify the production of literal shit, like clickbaity articles on social media content, or ever larger volumes of advertisement. Those jobs don’t need to be replaced, they just need to go away for good.

  Are we really going to use an AI to write motivation letters from a list of bullet points, to send it to an HR that will condense it into a list of bullet points using AI? Seriously?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I find myself in a bizarre situation.

  I have some open source ““Ai”” solutions that I find really really nice and helpful e.g. the image search in Immich, or LanguageTool which bills itself as an AI spellchecker.

  At the same time I am horrified at the stupidity underlying 99% of big tech AI stuff that gets wall street hot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But… Isn’t that kind of the point? Slashing computational cost so that we can deploy that stuff wherever it’s needed without a tenfold increase in the world’s energy bill?

  Whether we should do that at all is a very different question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think anyone would notice?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t need that, we already have Scandinavia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it need more than one name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry Jared, I got confused there for a moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it need more than one name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, because Italians totally have no idea how to build a car.