Even if battery energy density started getting close to that of liquid hydrocarbons, and thats a looong way off still, youd still need more batteries than you would fuel because batteries dont get lighter as they discharge like burned fuel does, rocket equation stuff. A 747 carries ~150k kilograms of fuel, if that didnt burn off thats an extra 37k kg the first quarter of the flight, an extra 75k kg the first half of the flight and so on...

Battery planes may never make widespread sense, if we ever start generating enough carbon free energy cheaply enough and even if all ground transport goes battery electric or whatever, at some point it might still be worth it to just make carbon neutral jet fuel with air fuel synthesis. That seems closer on the horizon than the battery tech needed for large planes to be feasible, hard to beat jet turbines for that application.

A steam gift card can be laundered entirely within the steam economy tho, a dunkin gift card doesnt let you buy and resell special donut skins.

Oh thats already happening. https://www.reddit.com/r/simps...

The alerts are so much worse too like "Hey, looks like you slept like shit, should probably take it easy today." thanks google but not really up to either of us. Already knew that and fitbit was a lot gentler about it...

I know everybody turns off any new features immediately upon release, but with the new(ish) agent the way some of the various bits and pieces have come together has been pretty great.

Credits are global now, so youre watching something "why does he look familiar?", you click down to the actor now it shows you their whole filmography, you can watchlist stuff right there, and even a little category 'Youve seen them in' with anything with them in any of your libraries youve watched by recent. Not just other shows if youre watching a show or only other movies if youre watching movies. And since you can just search and browse through anything/anyone now, its actually replaced IMDB for me just because its sooo much cleaner. https://watch.plex.tv/person/n... vs https://www.imdb.com/name/nm00...

And speaking of the watchlist, thats universal now, you can search and add stuff you dont have, from any service, even stuff thats not on any service, and the watchlist can interface directly with the *arrs, so youre looking up that guy from that thing, watchlist another of his movies, radarr goes and does its thing. You can add upcoming stuff too and they even have trailers now, so i dont have to go to Youtube anymore cuz it doesnt make me wade through 20 fake AI trailers before finding the one on the actual studios channel and then it doesnt autoplay some assholes reaction or breakdown of the trailer i just watched right after.

AND if your users have their watchlists public, you can monitor theirs too, so friends and family can just watchlist stuff you dont have without leaving the plex app, so you dont need to try to convince them to use a third party app like Omni to request stuff.

All the other social features still suck tho, their own lack of features makes you abuse the rating system as a filter for other things instead of as a rating system, but replacing IMDB and youtube for at least my purposes has been pretty nice. Some of my users dont have their watchlists public either so i still have a facebook group chat for requests cuz who wants to use some third party app for requests. .

$750 is ridiculous tho, i paid $100 during a 50% off sale a couple of black fridays ago, but with all my collections and playlists and everything and especially all my users switching to Jellyfin wouldnt be as simple as everyone pretends, but if in the future they roll out Plex2 to loophole my lifetime or try to charge my users individually ill figure it out.

Don't forget buying puts. Instead of exposing directly by shorting stock, you can buy puts to obtain a similar position for a (typically, but not always) portion of what a real position would cost. Unless you're an Ape, then you just YOLO. Honestly, after watching GameStop, I'm tempted to buy some calls, just in case a million apes decide to throw mom's savings into it.

It doesn't help that there's all these influencer-types renting teslas and filming themselves going airborne over hills and the like, doing stuff normal drivers would never do if they had to pay for it. The old adage of "Drive it like you stole it"-on-steroids applies.

While *he* was climbing up it, not I. Sigh.

You should try it just for the experience. Typically the pay isn't that great, warehouses not climate controlled so in the South, brutally humid and hot summers wear you down physically AND mentally, making mistakes more common. You are rated on your order pull numbers and constantly threatened with replacement if you can't keep your numbers up, benefits are usually slim to none, and yes, injuries were common. Saw a guy get buried under some heavy ass shit that fell over while I was trying to climb it and he was fired for it for "Ignoring safety standards that required him to get help" while simultaneously being responsible for his pull-rate and getting help would negatively effect the other person's pull rate, so basically the work environment dictated that if you follow the rules, you get fired for non-performance, but if you don't, you get fired if you get injured... I did this for 3 months during a summer and chose to just get reprimanded for my pull-rate degradation because fuck it, I got one body and I could always get another warehouse job because turnover was so high. The job sucks. On the other hand, it really made me appreciate being an office drone where my biggest enemies were status conferences, sprint planning meetings, and constantly changing requirements.

Don't forget Apple/Google's cut. As always, the money is in selling the shovels, apparently.

I used to work in an office that was very laid back. I usually wore chinos/jeans and a t-shirt + hoodie, which was decidedly upscale for the office. Anyway, on one random day I wore shorts and my boss came in and said "You need to dress for the position you aspire!" and at that exact moment our CTO walked by in board shorts, hoodie, and slides. I just pointed at him and went back to work.

Theyâ(TM)re bringing back .plan files

Wait until someone like Joe Rogan derides this as un-alpha while unironically pushing his autistic buddy's "buttered coffee."

Last I heard they were trying to "free state" Puerto Rico...

Right. Look, in theory I think it'd be good to put in a load of laundry while I'm doing something else and getting an alert that the load is done or almost done (especially for things that wrinkle easily). Right now I set a timer on my phone and that works well enough. BUT, I'm also wary of:

Over-the-air updates that brick my fucking device (official or hack).

Suspiciously timed "malfunctions" that require costly service, unnecessary maintenance, and/or replacement (thanks, inkjets for this business model)

Etc etc.

Look, for a dryer, I could see someone integrating something like Zojirushi's 'fuzzy logic" that they use for rice cooking to determine drying times, etc (why keep running when the clothes are dry?) Or even doing something like, if you don't want to leave wet clothes in a washing machine all day while you're at work being able to turn on the load thirty minutes before you get home from work. And on TVs, I find the smart "experience" slow, laggy and deeply unsatisfying when it takes a minute just to switch from the main screen to Netflix that I'm more apt to just use my Playstation or get something like the FireHD, etc.

But, largely, I DGAF about these features enough to pay extra, that's for sure.