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Comment Re:BSoD was an indicator (Score 1) 80

No I make no assumptions on the validity of data, in fact the corruption of data is often the root cause of a bluescreen. What I'm making an assumption about is the possible failure modes and how a logical partition can correct for them. And the simple answer is, it can't.

You either write to %windir% or you don't. Having Office or Photoshop installed on D: partition instead of C: doesn't change that. You either write to the pagefile or you don't. Having that pagefile located on a different logical partition also doesn't change anything either.

Having it on a different physical device may change something, but then the root cause of the problem was a device corrupting data in flight, not the location of the files on the said device. The partition part of this makes no sense.

Comment Re: You'd expect far right... (Score 1) 103

Germany irrelevant, not a signing member

Clearly you don't understand how the EU works. Germany was a core player in this, and has been for a while. This letter is rather irrelevant, there's been a discussion in the EU about relaxing these rules for well over 6 months now spearheaded by Germany at the behest of their industry. The thing that is irrelevant here is the letter itself.

Comment Re:Renewable fuels? (Score 1) 103

They still are. That doesn't mean the other use cases weren't being pushed as well. You can see that evident in the various H2 filling stations for vehicles around the place. Here's a map: https://h2-map.eu/, here's an explanation: everything 700bar is stupid (passenger vehicles). Everything 350bar made more sense.

Comment Re: Saturated market (Score 1) 103

250 is completely fine in an EV. I drive from London to Durham, which is 260 -- ie longer than your there-and-back journey -- it take five hours if all goes well. The car doesn't need to charge, but I do need a break on a journey of that length. I would not blink about jumping in my car and driving 125 miles, going for a hike, and driving home again, without ever thinking about the need to plug in either en route or at my destination. Just plug in the night before and plug in when I get home. Totally straightforward.

Obviously, some EVs have a range of way less than 250 and some have a range of way more. But there's plenty of perfectly ordinary cars that will take you 250 miles without blinking: Citroen C5 Aircross LR, Renault Scenic LR, Kia EV4, Tesla M3 LR, Xpeng G6 LR, MG IM5 LR, etc etc.

Comment Re: Renewable fuels? (Score 1) 103

I don't really see why you need me to do this, when Google is readily available to you. It would be nice to think that as I'm going to this effort, you're going to concede that it is in fact the case that China has been innovating in basic battery chemistries, but we shall see.

Anyway, I am amazed you really need me to spell this out for LFP: it's quite a well-known chemistry, surely you've read about it? You know, cheaper, more durable, many more charge cycles, greater fire resistance, no M or Co thus no risk of conflict minerals, lower power density than NMC but not too bad, etc etc. Used in the R1T, the Mach E, the M3 & Y, loads of BYDs, etc

For sodium: there's been models in mass production since late 2023, including the Yiewei 3 and the JMEV EV3. Sodium's obvious massive advantage is that it's much cheaper due to sodium's enormous abundance cf Li. But there's also a lower fire risk, lower impact of extraction cf Li, no conflict minerals, many more charge cycles even than LFP, etc. But lower power density than Li chemistries
Example: https://www.electrive.com/2024...

For semi-solid state: the first mass produced car is the MG4 Anxin Edition. It's an LiM chemistry similar to the LMR chemistry you touted, but it's coming in mid 2026 in global markets, a full two years before the chemistry you described, and the production car is already finalised. You can read about it here: https://carnewschina.com/2025/...
Semi-solid is more power-dense than liquid chemistry and more stable.

Comment Re:Saturated market (Score 1) 103

I don't think anyone's ever tried to hide the fact that putting in a home charger has always had two costs associated with it: the kit and the installation. The all-in costs have always been 500 to 1k in the UK, which is not nothing, but also only a small fraction of the costs of buying a car (unless it's a really, really shit car). What we were discussing was whether your costs in your circs would be the typical 500 to 1k or would be that plus another 2500 for a long shielded cable run, and I think the answer is, there would be extra costs, but almost certainly far less than the 2500 you were talking about, because there's easier solutions than running that long cable.

But as I said before, it's going to be a very long time before you buy an EV anyway, if you ever do, long enough that battery prices will have fallen another 50 or 75%, so the car itself will be a lot cheaper than today.

Comment I'm sure the stall has nothing to do (Score 2, Interesting) 24

With the fact that arrests have dropped from 44,000 per year to about 11,000 per year because so many federal law enforcement agents have been taken off other beats and put on immigration enforcement....

Seriously look it up. If we had a functional media it would be much bigger news. Most of the Democrats sucks so hard in messaging...

Comment So hear me out on this one (Score 5, Insightful) 47

What if, and I'm just spitballing here, the news media barely covered this and certainly didn't cover the corruption angle at all because the news media is now completely owned by billionaires like something like literally 90% of the news media is owned by billionaires.

So almost nobody hears about this and then the news cycle eats the attention of anyone who does and we all just move on and forget about it. Does that work for you?

In project 2025 they call it shock and awe. Everything is a distraction from the previous terrible thing Trump did and everything Trump does next is a distraction from whatever he's doing at the time. Meanwhile the economy is continuously collapsing due to mismanagement so you're too busy trying to keep your head above water to care about anything else.

Then you mix in a little voter suppression and the fact that a billionaire Trump sycophant just bought the company that controls all of our voting machines and maybe do a few hundred billion dollars of propaganda right before the election and Bob's your uncle Trump gets a third term or at least JD Vance gets his term.

Then we had 25% unemployment, world war III takes off and goes nuclear and we Fermi paradox ourselves. I don't think the billionaires are planning on that last one but I don't think they are thinking any of this through either. They're just too busy trying to set themselves up as feudal Kings.

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