Outside of these custom all-in-one ready to fly drones, drone motors are ALREADY like that. They come in well-defined sizes, they are rated by kV (thousands of RPM per volt) and they have standard mounting holes. If you just don't screw with the fully preassembled drones up front you can easily get that kind of parts interchangeability. You can also buy controller/radio combos which provide the same or superior range to what DJI offers, so the only benefit to buying a prebuilt drone is that you don't have to do anything, and it comes with a number of down sides.

I built my first quadcopter for under $200 all in, including a Devo 5 radio which I could load alternate firmware and an additional $10-ish radio transceiver module into so that it supports all of the major protocols. That's a price with regular range and without FPV, but the point remains — you don't need DJI.

Nah, that's the reason for the moral. The actual moral is: don't fuck with Apple gift cards — neither a buyer nor a redeemer be. Apple has certainly taught us all a lesson, and that lesson is that their gift card system is insecure and they will punish legitimate customers for their lack of security. Whether it's even possible to make a gift card secure is irrelevant to that lesson.

Here's why

Will the spotify year in review be updated to tell you how many children were trafficked as the result of the ICE ads they carry?

IOW undoing the works of Bill Clinton.

If only more people understood how the TCA led to the rise of Faux News we might have some clarity.

The CO2 should have to escape through whatever opening is created, and ripstop is pretty standard for this sort of thing, keeping openings small. A venting liquid CO2 tank would be limited by evaporation.
The danger zone would depend on the size of the hole, but like old CO2 fire extinguishers, CO2 tends to disburse fast, and the lethal range for it is drastically higher than things like carbon monoxide, ammonia, and such.
Plus, think of the future! An EV would operate just fine, and a couple minutes would get you out of danger.

It is a closed loop system. Smallish tanks for the liquid co2, great big football field or larger dome for gaseous CO2. Website does not have dimensions, I'd guess the dome varies in size based on total energy desired.
As such, it is like worrying about the inner loop water in a nuclear reactor. Since you theoretically only need that initial charge, it rounds to zero per unit of energy over time.

Reading the site page, it is closed cycle. The big gas dome holds more or less atmosphere temperature and pressure CO2. There are one or more tanks holding relatively non-cryogenic liquid CO2.
When there is excess power, pumps liquify CO2 into the tanks. When power is demanded, evaporating CO2 goes through a turbine to produce power, then into the dome.
Water is used, most likely to cool the freshly compressed CO2, and warm expanded CO2 after the turbine.

If only you could get wood by punching trees

I'm on Devuan. Most Debian packages work but not all. When one doesn't I use the appimage or flatpak, preferably the former. It gets me the software and I move on. Right now I am using OrcaSlicer from a flatpak.

Starting the Butlerian Jihad just a bit early, aren't you?

I forgot to add: Nintendo hates the fact that we can legally sell a game cartridge to someone else once we have played a game. They want everyone to have to buy their own copy from Nintendo, without there ever being any kind of used game market. Obviously, they make more money that way!

So if their abusive access-denial policies have the side-effect of scaring people away from the used game market, that is a total win!

We need better consumer protection laws to shut down abuse like this. But getting them is an extreme uphill struggle, given how much political power these super-rich international businesses wind up having.

Apple is pretty bad about this, as per the recently-reported story of Apple revoking a user's access to literally all of his apple hardware and email account because he bought a gift card that someone else had compromised. That's quite a lot worse since people depend on their apple devices much more than on a simple game console.

Google is bad about this too. They will disable your email accounts based on their automated policy violation detection and even though they, in theory, give you a way to get human review, reported cases show that they are notorious for showing no mercy even when you did was innocent and legal (but just has the appearance of risk). They feel justified in this since their services are free to you, but people get very dependent on their emails and a ban can be very life-wrecking.

In the case of apple and Nintendo, they very deliberately protect themselves from criminal harm by deflecting victimization on to their own users instead. Like in the apple case: if you are the victim of fraud (buying a compromised gift card), Apple shuts YOU down, rather than eating the financial loss themselves. And with Nintendo, if you innocently bought a legit used game, but it turns out the previous owner illegally duplicated it, Nintendo shuts YOU down, rather than eating the cost of copyright infringement.

In the very specific case of hardware mods, I can see a justification of denying online use in order to protect players from OTHER players who cheat. Especially in PVP games, people obviously hate cheaters because they ruin the game for everyone, so they are happy to accept control measures that can detect cheaters and shut them down. HOWEVER, even in this case, a permanent account ban is WAY too heavy handed. The obvious reasonable balance is that you are banned so long as your device remains detectably compromised. Once you clean the device up, you should be allowed to play again. MAYBE a perma-ban from online games would be justified for repeat offenders, but only after they have received and acknowledged several warnings to this effect.

Shutting a player down the instant a copied key is detected is outright egregious, as it punishes the victim without proof of guilt (not to mention bypasses any pretension of legal due process). Nintendo doesn't care, of course, because their products are desirable enough (and there is too little competition in the industry realistically), that they can just get away with this. People will put up with this abuse to play Nintendo exclusives. Same for Apple.

The wealthy abuse us because we tolerate it and keep giving them our money. And also because there are too few big-tech companies, creating an effective cartel, leaving us with no-where else to turn (realistically, even if there are theoretical alternatives that come with unwanted sacrifice, cost, or risk, above-and-beyond).

In my mind you'd be buying a car without a battery and simultaneously subscribing to a battery service, but if you ever wanted to own a battery you could buy one. You'd get the battery delivered to the dealer (and/or they would work with one or more services directly and keep some on site) before you picked up the vehicle so it would be all the same to you as if it had come with it, and it would also come charged.

Moving them around without a battery at scrapping time is not a detriment, as vehicles to be scrapped are usually moved around with a fork lift anyway.

Watch for the AI bubble crash in 2026.

You could do battery swaps for NEVs in a scheme where you didn't own a battery at all, and instead just subscribed to one. You could also do it for heavy diesel truck equivalents, as big diesels typically have the fuel tanks hanging on the outside of the frame where they're nice and accessible anyway. But it doesn't make any sense for the vehicles in between that, i.e. the bulk of them...