The https://meet.jit.si/ backend is not CPU, memory, or hard drive intensive. If it was the meet.jit.si site couldn't exist, it's an open source project after all with some but not ubercorp level sponsorship. If you plan on operating your own relay server on a very large scale it will use a lot of bandwidth though, so maybe put it on your email server but not your file server.
Ok, Volkswagen now has an electric vehicle that can compete with a jeep or a land rover, the ID.6.
https://electrek.co/2021/02/03...
Electric motors have huge torque at low RPM and super low center of gravity thanks to the underfloor battery pack, perfect for hill climbing.
Where do we move the goalposts to next?
> But try using electrics to climb mountains
VW did the Pikes Peak in under 8 minutes using their electric I.D. R. That's about a minute an a half faster than any internal combustion vehicle has ever done it. It did the Nurburgring in 6 minutes 5 seconds. Only a Porsche hybrid-electric has done it faster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_I.D._R
> Better yet, try logging with an all electric fleet.
There's the interesting case of the perpetual mega mining truck. It caries ore down from the mountain using regenerative braking, then drives back up the hill empty using the power it generated on the way down.
https://www.greencarreports.co...
> Or defend our western and northern borders against Russian and Chinese ICBMs with only electric ultralight cruise missiles.
Strawman much?
The technology proven by the trail blazers (at least the stuff that works and is useful) will eventually end up in the mainstream products. So even if it isn't the perfect solution for every transport task next month, it's still helpful.
Yes, it will be built in the USA. They are just now building out their new design HQ & factory in San Diego (or somewhere close in SoCal anyway).
As a small startup building novelty cars by hand with I'd guess less than 50 employees it is rather doubtful that they'd be unionized anytime soon. In the greater scheme of things it's probably better to focus on unionizing Tesla before giving these handful of engineers a hard time about it.
The main take away is that solar assist EVs are actually becoming feasible and the future is soonish.
If you have a few minutes you should look into the solar assisted Aptera. Instead of making the solar panels more efficient, make the vehicle hyper efficient.
Here's Detroit auto guru Sandy Munro interviewing the guys behind it:
It didn't blow up, it shut itself down after a left over pool of ethanol from refirb burned out a sensor and the rocket mistook that sensor reading for a breach.
Jitsi rocks!
The zero-install thing gets past a lot of the issues trying to get functional software onto locked down corporate laptops when the remote IT staff are mid pandemic meltdown. For any complaints about relay security you can tell them that it isn't too hard to host your own central relay server, it's all open source.
I see a lot of people comparing it to a DeLorian for example, which I agree with...
The reason for this is that the DeLorian also had a stainless steel body. Stainless does not like to be bent or stamped, thus the flat panels and angular appearance.
FWIW while I need 4WD and good cargo & tow capacity I'm not at all into pickups, but my first impression for this one was Fuck Yeah. Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder and YMMV.
200k reservations and counting.
Their about page states that in event that they go under the source code and datasets will be released as open source. If that is properly held in escrow or is at the whims and honor of who ever gets to sell off the assets will be seen in time.
It also states that they have >100 employees. Doing what exactly? What is their business model that can support such a large salary base for a write in an afternoon and basically done tool? Are they selling access to first responders, guilting them into buying into the system using marketing campaigns like the current one? If so, how evil is holding the lost and injured hostage to the license fee to find out where to rescue them? If they give out the magic decryption ring to emergency services, who exactly are the businesses who are interested enough to use the service as an alternative to a QR code? I don't get where the money is coming from. They've been around longer than most start-ups so there must be money coming from somewhere.
Don't be so smug. Anyone can break an ankle and know the way out just not know how to get there. I've also known very smart people with PhDs who couldn't navigate their way out of a supermarket parking lot. That doesn't mean they need to be culled from the human race, just that they know how to drop a current location pin in their map app and then share it.
That's for the whole board. I expect the voltage regulator isn't being terribly efficient to begin with.
Sounds like you need to go with an Arduino. The Cortex M0 and M4 chips are quite capable, run at 11 mA 3.3v, and sleep at 1-2 mA. You won't get much memory but you can attach a SD card easily enough. Classic ATMega32 can run for months off a 9v battery if you get your sleep registers right.
This is what happens when folks start to pay the Danegeld. It suddenly becomes a good investment for the criminal groups and 100x more saps get hit with the ransomware down the road.
When condemning a once useful tool now rendered a shadow of its former self by the new owners, it is important to go a step further and suggest a replacement. Luckily we've recently seen the rise of WebRTC.
Jitsi Meet (https://meet.jit.si) from any Firefox or Chrome derivative means nothing to install (unless you wish to bypass security by sharing your screen), and typically works better than skype anyway. It's all open source and open protocols so the only thing it lacks is a centralized address book - you need to arrange though some other way for everyone to join the group chat URL at the same time. You can even set up your own relay point if you don't like relaying your conversations through someone else's servers.
Sounds like "our firmware isn't on it so we can't extract profiling data from it to sell to advertisers, which is worth $10/mo/sub to us".
I think you overestimate what they'll sell you out for. More like 5c/mo/sub.
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