The move fast and break things attitude of the computer industry is just about acceptable for short lived devices but when it comes to the infrastructure of the house we have expectations that things we last a bit more than a few years. The smart home device makers haven't realised they need to support their products for decades and not surprisingly people are dropping them and returning to products designed to last longer. The cost of installation is a big part of home costs.

Bluetooth is nowadays meant to be capable of these high ranges but I have found even if you get a larger antenna bluetooth dongle with longer range features it doesn't in practice extend it much further. It does however work so if you do want a bit more range get the latest standard dongle with a noticeable antenna and it will boost the signal a bit and provide some extra meters of range.

The big benefit of this feature is for headsets that have a microphone and headphones. Whenever you used both together previously the quality of both would drop, but with two separate connections that should no longer happen. Its taken far too long for Microsoft to go about implementing this upgrade since its been available in Bluetooth for years but its good its finally here making bluetooth headsets work a lot better.

We didn't have a choice, this isn't something that the people of the world really did, almost all of this CO2 was produced by companies, sometimes on the behalf of things we use but we have zero control to change it. There are no signs this is going to stop, we will fly past 2C in under a decade.

1.5C passed, onwards to 2C above pre industrial levels. Will probably happen around 2034 if we keep accelerating then maybe a year or two earlier. All these commitments to do something have proven to be lies over the past 40 years and I doubt anything will change soon there are still plenty of deniers this scientific fact is happening and the danger it poses to our species. Continuous growth on a planet with finite resources and the damage that CO2 does to our habitat is unsustainable for life.

Also high time they any false clams are properly punished. If the DMCA is used to lay claim to something that isn't theirs then the consequences should be appropriate, like also cutting off Sony from the internet. This is their argument so lets make it apply to them too. Also everyone involved in the Malware scandals from top to bottom of the organisation should be in jail, 20 years seems appropriate.

If that is true we are all dead, that is going to lead to catastrophic climate change which will blow every last tipping point and lead to complete climate collapse, our habitat including the animals we depend on is all going to disappear. That would lock us in for 6C+ of rises and likely 4C+ by 2050, it will be devastating. It better be wrong or its time to have an end of the world party.

The entire point of side loading was that it didn't require being signed and checked via the playstore and Google. Not surprisingly people have been using it to get hold of software that Google doesn't want you to have. Its an essential mechanism for development or just testing things out. We badly need an open platform for mobile, Google is locking Android down now, the replacement ROMs are getting shut down with the lack of distributed OS and now this. None of this about security its about lock in and control.

Per MWh Solar and Wind are cheaper than anything else so they are leading across the globe just on the economics. The decline in Solar pricing has been astounding over the past 15 years its really a technology that has matured and got very cheap compared to what it compares to. It also scales really well you can deploy a few panels on a balcony to offset some electrical costs all the way up to many MW farms deployed in open areas. It pays for itself in 5-10 years and will produce 80% of its rated power at least 25 yeas after install. There is a reason its most of the power being deployed.

On the one hand its awful this is occuring, having corrupt editor/author networks producing garbage papers due to "publish or die" is making a real mess. But these are not highly linked papers, they tend to refer only to other fake papers in a big web of nonsense science or non novel findings. It so far has little bearing on the main scientific findings. The issue is people think this discredits science generally and that is why it needs to be dealt with. But its a misunderstanding of what is happening and why (the irony).

The underlying papers are often available online completely for free. You can read the majority of medical papers from PubMed, Nature publishes a lot of the climate science and you can read most of it. The thing is its going to take a bit of work to get into reading them to understand all the particular words a field uses. An abstract is usually less than 4 paragraphs so its not difficult to get started and go direct to source, but in my experience people don't do that they wait for a news article in their favourite news paper.

It as always been understood that producing green energy products takes energy and that has to come from the existing power grid, which in almost every country involves CO2 production. If you look at solar companies roofs in china they have panels up and companies like JA Solar are net zero. But their individual net zero status is irrelevant to the planet, the power demand is the same. We deploy all the solar we make, it's the fastest growing power source in the world and in China. They consume more than half of their own panels for their own grid. Solar is also the cheapest power source and that is why it is so poplar.

The time to stop was the early 1980s when we were sure it was happening and knew what the result was going to be. It was definitely urgent by the early 2000s after Kyoto had failed. Now its all over but for the dying we have already emitted enough to end our species, there is just a lag before the planet heats up and all the last tipping point is breached.

Thanks to Thor of Pirate Software opposing the movement the petitions got shared and talked about a lot more and will now hopefully pass the needed amount.

This is really suspicious. This satellite had been exposing some serious crimes against the environment and a lot of leaking gas and its sudden disappearance seems suspicious. Its not a common event to loose a satellite once its successfully in orbit and functioning.