I've got an Xbox Series X which I really enjoyed until MS pushed sponsored ads on the home page which you can't hide, there are no options to mark them as objectionable or feedback. I'm vegetarian and seeing a big ad for some murder flesh dog burger from McBurgerJnr or something is sickening to see. It prompted me to not buy the game I was considering on the platform and I'm seriously considering getting rid of the thing. My Windows PC is also about to find itself wiped and I'll switch to Linux as Steam seems to run games on there pretty well thanks to the SteamDeck. At least the ads in Steam are relevant I suppose but ads are toxic anywhere, I should just read a book. Advertising is destroying entertainment.

| It's difficult to make a go on just suspension components, tires, alignments, and brakes.

Iâ(TM)ve driven EVs for 8 years now and never had to do anything to their brakes. Regenerative braking leaves the discs and pads so barely used that every now and then it is a good idea to stomp on the pedal to knock the rust off. Iâ(TM)ve no idea when the brakes and pads will need to be replaced, the discs look brand new at 85,000km on my current car and were the same on the one I just sold. The car comes completely to a halt on regen and then the brakes will click on to hold it in place.

So far, the only maintenance has been tyre replacements, wiper blades, cabin filters and screen wash. 8 years and thatâ(TM)s it. No wonder the Nissan dealer tried to push us to an SUV when we went to buy our new LEAF.

I live in the largest city in my country and I have rooftop solar and a powerwall. We have trains too, and ferries, and buses, and cycle paths. Still way too many cars, but we have all the stuff and it isnâ(TM)t a stinking backwater. Rooftop solar and batteries arenâ(TM)t a big deal these days and our solar has already been paid off by the savings on our power bills. I added the battery later and it allows us to use all the solar power rather than exporting it for about 1/3rd of the buyback cost so that saves us more money.

With companies stopping selling ICE vehicles, and with an annual replacement rate of around 10%, it wonâ(TM)t be long before ICE vehicle owners start struggling to find fuel. Just this year Norway has seen a 9% decline in fossil fuel sales compared with last year and a number of sites are removing fossil fuel pumps and replacing them with fast chargers.

So hereâ(TM)s the thing, everything I saw on Reddit was from somewhere else so in the last few months since they killed Apollo with their ridiculous API price hike I stopped going and you know what? I still get all the same info from other sites and all without the toxic reddit-think. Some of the dumbest discussions and opinions Iâ(TM)ve ever seen and I can do without. Reddit can go the same way as Digg.

My comment will get lost in the noise but I just wanted to agree with you directly. We have a regular morning coffee meeting in our group and none of us are in the office. The thing with remote work is to ensure you all stay connected and you also feel part of a team. If anything, those who do go into the office are losing out because it costs them time and most of the office is empty so it is a waste of time. When we were all in the office, they moved us to hot desks so we rarely got to be in the same place anyway and the noise made working very difficult. The commute adds an hour each side of the day along with a lot of cost. Productivity is way up with WFH and we still chat, show pictures, crack jokes etc, but we can also turn that noise off and focus. I canâ(TM)t do that at the office, the noise is always there. Times have changed, WFH is better if you need the peace, and Teams etc give us the contact. Oddly enough, next week I will be going into the office but it is a rare occurrence and just because my boss is coming to town and would like to have lunch.

There are a few things at work here, yes there are managers who are vexed by empty desks because their empire has disappeared. There are also property owners who invested heavily in office space who are looking huge losses as a result.

For companies that react properly though, there are greatly reduced costs for office space and parking, plus less time lost to sickness because staff aren't mixing and spreading germs, happier workers with more free time and lower costs due to not paying to commute and just overall a much better work environment.

The town centres are devastated for sure with all the empty offices but this is an opportunity to redevelop with walkable cities and cost effective accommodation to bring life back to these places.

Before COVID, my workplace was in the process of moving offices to open plan and hot desking. It was disastrous for productivity, arriving and having to find a desk and get set up, often in a location that was different each day with all the associated noise of an office, but different and distracting each day. I struggled to get more than a couple of hours of productive work done with the noise, the disturbance, the general lack of feeling like I was in MY workspace.

Then COVID hit and we were ordered to work from home, the company funded our home office setup and I settled into a comfortable space with a door and no disturbances and with everything where I needed it. Productivity went way up and we got a nice schedule of Teams meetings, a morning coffee with my colleagues and so on. Highly available, quick to turn around work and not spending three hours a day in a damn car. We havenâ(TM)t been called back but Iâ(TM)ve been quick to point out that I would be much less productive if forced to and would immediately start looking for another job.

Working from home in a properly set up office is the ideal. We should be pushing to get everyone who can work from home to do so permanently, we have the technology to make it work and it would take a huge amount of pressure off the roads and reduce greenhouse gas emissions dramatically.

I bought the first M1 Mac mini as Iâ(TM)m a developer and wanted to try it out. Back then, it was pretty tough but at least as smooth as the shift from PPC to Intel was back in the day. The major difference was the temps, my Intel Mac mini routinely runs at 80+C and the M1 runs at 35 under the same loads. Iâ(TM)ve now got an M1Pro MacBook Pro which slaughters the old Intel MacBook Pro I used.

I do all the same stuff I did on the Intel Macs, including virtualisation with UTM which being based on Qemu can run a lot of different operating systems and for ARM code it properly virtualises so thereâ(TM)s little speed penalty. Rocky Linux 9 ARM version in a VM is my go to Linux on the machine and Docker/Singularity support on ARM is coming along nicely but if I need x86 I can do that. Itâ(TM)s not as quick as Rosetta 2 which basically runs at native speeds unlike the original Rosetta which was about 10x slower than the PPC chips it was emulating and only usable because the code was able to use native libs a lot of the time but compile a command line PPC binary and run that to see the real speed. Rosetta 2 is about 80% of the speed of native.

The next few years will be interesting but I have no regrets switching to Apple Silicon. The very low temps, high performance and all day battery life on my laptop are all very worthwhile and the downsides are pretty much gone now that devs have figured out the platform.

Been a long time since I was active on here because I discovered reddit. But with the loss of Apollo and how utterly terrible the official app is, Iâ(TM)m done with reddit. The moderation and voting on reddit is terrible anyway as it produces group-think on wrong ideas. Not as much going on here on Slashdot but the moderation has always meant good comments hit the top.

So, Iâ(TM)m back. What did I miss?

> apt remove liblog4j1.2-java

Not a bad idea if you are not using it anyway but you have removed version 1.2 which is not affected by these recent issues. They really need to make it properly clear that this affects log4j2.

Batteries such as the large Tesla MegaPacks going in at various places can hold a lot of energy and provide that far quicker than a generator can spin up. That said, most people I know who are putting in solar are also putting in batteries which take our excess generation and allow us to use it overnight. I barely use any grid power these days although Iâ(TM)m connected but my next house is going off grid entirely. Currently I shove most of my excess power once the house battery is filled into my car and that gives me enough âfuelâ(TM) to cover my driving without visiting a charging station for the most part. It would be even better if I could use the cars as additional power storage and thatâ(TM)s certainly coming too. Grids need to react to this new localised generation and energy independence people are gaining.

âoe Very recently: Install apps from App store and identified developers only. If you want to do anything else you need to manually add an exception. No longer can you set Macs to by default allow executing unsigned code.â

Not strictly true, right click on the newly installed app and you can still open it even when it isnâ(TM)t signed and it gets added as an exception.