It's also not innovative because solar powered EVs have been around since the Tesla Roadster.

You know, solar panels on roofs have been a thing for a long time, and it's not a huge stretch to take the power they make, and shove it in an EV. Viola, solar powered EV.

Sure it's not a car with built in solar panels, but the average area of a car does not provide enough power to go anywhere - given practical shading and other aspects, you might get a kilowatt or two out of the solar panels. A car with a 50kWh battery would take several days of full sunshine to charge. It's L1 charger speeds, at best. Except instead of being able to use your car during the day you have to charge it during the day in the sun and then use it at night, versus plugging it in to an L1 charger at night letting it charge while you sleep.

You're far better off with fixed solar panels on the roof and channelling that energy into the battery of your EV.

My brother built an electric bike using cheap lithium batteries he bought online. The guide he followed said the system was smart and safe, with no need to worry or really understand how it worked. One night, the bike caught fire in our garage. Lithium fires burn fast and hot, and you cannot put them out with water. By the time firefighters arrived, the garage was destroyed and part of the house was burning. My brother got third-degree burns trying to pull the bike outside.

Lithium ion batteries do not cause lithium fires. If that was the case you should be concerned about the several pounds of sodium that's sitting in your kitchen right now.

Lithium ion batteries have several weaknesses - and they catch fire not from lithium ions, but the stored energy which creates an internal short circuit that rapidly generates a lot of heat. Couple that with flammable electrolyte and cell materials that contains oxidizers and you get the recipe for a fire. The lithium itself is fairly stable in its ionic form and it's very reluctant to replace the lost electron.

It's not the lithium - because if you take a discharged battery and a charged battery and puncture them, the discharged battery (or really, anything below 50% charge) will at best spew a little contents out. meanwhile the charged battery produces exciting fireworks.

Lithium primary cells though do contain actual metallic lithium and are exciting, but their expense and non-rechargeable nature mean they are not very prevalent.

As for your kitchen - sodium in the form of table salt. Sodium chloride, which has both the reactive sodium metal plus the poisonous gas chlorine, but together is rather innocuous other than giving you high blood pressure.

If you have dodgy cells, if you're willing to give up half their capacity, they will not cause a fire even when damaged as at 50% they do not have enough energy stored to discharge with flame.

Nevermind. The problem was my /tmp ramdisk was full. I guess Fedora uses tmpfs by default and it's a fixed size. This has bit me before. Wonder if I can change it back to a normal directory on the disk.

No, tmpfs is not ramfs. It's called tmpfs because it's a self-resizing RAM disk - it takes more RAM the more stuff you put in there, and shrinks when you delete stuff, which is great for /tmp and other temporary file storage. It does have a limit of up to half the physical RAM installed, but that shouldn't be a huge issue on a modern system.

tmpfs might fail if there's no more RAM available which can happen if there's a lot of stuff going on, which likely might have lots of stuff in /tmp so it's a double whammy of low RAM and lots of temp files clogging things up.

While true, it's also potentially risky especially in a high profile case where pretrial coverage can reach a lot of people.

As example, if for some reason part of the evidence publicly disclosed will be ruled inadmissible for trial, jury selection would be significantly impacted as it might become very problematic to find an unbiased jury.

Or it's likely that it's evidence they aren't going to use because it's so circumstantial it's worthless. "We found our suspect, he had ChatGPT and location history putting him in the area".

They likely have far more convincing evidence than that and hearsay from the passengers.

All that's basically been revealed is "We found a suspect, and evidence points to him being in the area where the fire started". It's not criminal level airtight evidence, and any good lawyer can poke holes at that (well, so were dozens of other people that were in the area), so it's general enough to not taint the pool.

Presumably he was in the area. But likely so were many more people - he didn't happen to be the only person there at that time.

The prosecutor's job is to convince the jury that it could only be this person, and likely the evidence they release isn't even close to it.

Contrast that with Luigi Mangione who has had the President and his DoJ secretary all call him a murderer, which is tainting the jury pool because they're associating him with murder from the get go.

All the police have done here is say he's a suspect who had this amount of circumstantial evidence tying him to the fires. If you can concoct a plausible story to cast doubt, the jury's not tainted.

He's only a suspect. Whereas Luigi Mangione has been called repeated a murderer to the point it's tainted the jury pool. It's why Trump repeats his words a lot - repetition drills it until it becomes "truth", and having the top people say it basically makes it true. He might walk simply because the administration simply couldn't shut up. (He could also walk simply by jury nullification - especially with health insurance premiums doubling or tripling in 2026)

You might be right about the rest, but the Aptera is far more efficient than a Model 3. The published numbers put it at about 110 Wh/mile, while the Model 3 is at 230 Wh/mile. And, frankly, the Aptera numbers seem a little high for a vehicle with a 0.13 drag coeffiecient and with one less wheel. I think the Aptera design should be able to do better than 100 Wh/mile. Obviously, it's hard to make an accurate comparison between a real-world car and one that is basically vaporware, but something would have to be seriously screwed up for a design as light and aerodynamic as the Aptera to be barely better than a Model 3.

I were at a job interview with company make these Internet of Trash things. Of course, a lot was cloud, but they actually were also looking for embedded skils as they also want to move as much as possible into the devices such they could work without internet. But then: without a local websiervr, the configuration probably couldn't be changed without a cloud backend.

You don't need a webserver for configuration. Presumably the devices were getting configuration information from somewhere, and if that part is documented, you're all set.

Because when the cloud shuts down, you release those docs, and then let people figure out how to redirect the configuration requests then go on from there. Within a month someone will have a internet DNS service that redirects to their web configuration thing.

Just tell people how to do it and let the hackers figure it out.

I'd buy one if they ever get around to making them. I've been wanting to buy one for 15 years.

Teslas do. Mine is lower pitch and barely audible. Nothing above 20kph.

The most compelling thing about Tron for me was that it's a secret world contained within the computer, to be explored. A place where the rules are different, a landscape that only one man has ever seen.

It's what makes a lot of old video games compelling too. They don't look realistic, but inside them are these whole worlds, unlike our own but still feeling real and tangible.

The sequels mostly ignored that in favour of some fancy CGI, which these days doesn't count for much.

Why though? One of the best things about EVs is that they are quiet and you sail past the fossils as they grind away desperately trying to keep up.

Under GDPR it has to be explicit and clearly indicated, but yeah not everywhere is as good as that.

Before the Dot Com era, startups that succeeded transitioned from growth stocks in to blue chips. They settle down, focus on becoming more efficient at executing what is now proven business mode.

But modern tech stocks are expected to act like growth stocks *forever*. When they grow to their natural potential, they begin to turn to dubious practices to generate the next tranche of growth. They undermine their services in order to squeeze a bit more revenue out of them. Or they let their successful business stagnate while the rock star founder beguiles stockholders with visions of transforming into a block chain or AI company.

Back in the early 2000s, when Amazon first transitioned from being a book store to an everything store, and they just introduced Prime membership, you used the site and thought "this thing is great." Nobody thinks that anymore; it's slower, more opaque and less reliable, cluttered with knockoffs, sponsored results, and astroturf reviews. Fake sales events with phony markdowns? Who is surprised?

Now do that with Youtube or Twitch that are airing live games.

There might be a more benign reason for it. In GDPR countries, if you turn it off they will probably need to delete all the biometric data. If you then turn it back on again, it will have to regenerate all the biometic data and re-scan every photo. If people toggle it too often, it's going to consume a large amount of CPU time.

You can confirm it by using an open source facial recognition tool, like the one built into Immich. Importing photos takes much, much longer if you have face recognition turned on.

Of course a more sensible way to do it would be to allow the user to toggle it whenever they want, with the caveat that if the turn it back on, it might take a long time to start working, or might only apply to new photos after the initial back-catalogue freebie.

Or they could just be being dicks.

AMD has had the console market sewn up for many years now. I think everyone was burned by Nvidia and their dodgy self de-soldering chips back in the XBOX 360 days, and the fact that they can't be relied on to keep supplying chips even when a more lucrative bubble like AI comes along.

The chips in consoles are always behind the curve of PC graphics, but have the advantage of being a fixed target that developers can optimize for. That said the returns seem to be diminishing - games on the PS5 don't look that much better than the PS4 Pro, or even the original PS4.