Not *EVERYTHING* is a conspiracy. Especially when the proposed conspiracy is stupid and doesn't reflect the reality of the timeline. Just because some wealthy person somewhere came up with one idea, doesn't mean everything was come up by some secret wealthy private club goers.

Let me be clear, at this point I am calling you silly on my own accord, I do not have Trump and Musk standing next to me pointing out how silly your comment is in the context.

When *everything* is a conspiracy theory to you, it's time to consult with a mental health professional.

Nano is useless bloatware. RAM costs a lot these days, use Pico instead.

(Note: Yes this is sarcasm, I know the relationship between them).

Congrats. On the other hand I do it all the time. Not just is it quick for navigation where diverse UI elements appear in different areas of the screen, most devices contain in-built digitisers to work with a pen, as you said drawing is a use case.

Agreed. Whenever you take one input form and shoehorn it into another not designed for it sucks. Don't touch your screen to type. Touch your screen to draw, drag or provide singular location based inputs.

Productivity and quality are not mutually exclusive terms, especially if you work in QA/QC.

And that's how we lead to more fossil fuels, someone making a stupid either-or comparison to a one or both problem. Every problem broken down becomes "insignificant". It's all the "insignificant" parts together that make it significant.

Now allow this innumerate to educate you:

The World Nuclear Association estimates the high CO2 emissions as a cost of construction make up 10% of the emission avoidance of shutting down a comparable coal plant. What that means is that not only do you get to spend 25 fucking years building a plant, but you get to wait another 5 years on top of that to just break even its construction emissions (and that assumes you've shut down a coal plant, which ... let's be real here, energy requirements are going up).

Tell me again how achieving nothing for 30 years will help and while your formulate your answer calculate out the total CO2 emissions of a coal plant over a 30 year period for your comparison as opposed to taking fast and realistic action that could reduce emissions *today*.

Let me guess, you're the kind of person standing on a level crossing while the train comes towards you at speed and your only solution is ... "gee I hope the government builds a train line around me in time."

Wait, you people still wash your hands? I thought that was nothing more than COVID quackery like the "vaccine" or the "moon landing".

Presumably he's comparing real meat to fake meat in a McPlant burger and complaining about the amount of salt in it without a sense of irony.

Oh yes absolutely. Any time anyone discusses power or cars on Slashdot the YMMV rule applies. There are places where it makes absolutely no sense. There are places where it makes a huge amount of sense.

As an example my current energy tariff differs by 1 eurocent between off peak and on. The neighbour (presumably on a similar tariff) has no solar so for them there's literally no cost benefit to any storage of any kind. On the flip side my parents are given 3 hours of free electricity per day. Load shifting is a huge benefit to them.

I don't see a need for V2H either, but it is nice that bi-directional charging is working in major brands. A friend of mine lives in Brisbane and when they had the cyclone hit at the start of last year which knocked out the power for 4 days she ran an extension cord to her BYD Atto3 (V2L) and plugged her fridge, AC, Induction cooker, and lights into the car. Ran like that for several days while the petrol heads who were telling her that an EV is a major liability in a disaster were all sitting around watching their food rot with their thumbs up their ass.

Domestic batteries make a lot of sense in very specific conditions. If you're able to micromanage a dynamic pricing contract then they can pay themselves quickly by loadshifting to cheaper times (cost avoidance). If you have a high feed in tariff for solar then they can pay for themselves too by ensuring you can use your own generated power at your rate rather than being charged a feed in rate (again cost avoidance). In some places in the world the energy market is insane to the point where you actually can make a profit by re-exporting (I have friends in Australia which are on energy contracts that provide 3 hours of free electricity a day in the middle of the day). One of them has a battery and no solar at all and it's paying off quickly.

It's unfortunately a case where car companies are ahead of the local regulations. A bit like the plug in battery and plug in solar. It'll take a while for regulations to catch up to the point where this stuff is simple and standardised. Right now some of the cars I listed only offer V2H in combination with some service along with a partner for hardware in your house. It's silly.

But hey we're in early adopter territory here.

Nothing odd about it. It's a different format for a different purpose. Next time you see a GenZer on the train holding their phone vertically, go take a peak at what they are watching. If it's YouTube I guarantee you they'll be watching shorts. If it's Facebook or Instagram it'll be a reel, or if it's TikTok it'll be ... Tiktok. Correct format for correct purpose.

I get it, you're a boomer. But please get yourself a lawn and a walking stick to shake and stay in your lane. Leave the kids and their modern formats be. Just because you grew up on cable TV and Youtube cat videos watched on that weird "computer" thing doesn't mean other people don't know what they are doing. It just means what they are doing isn't for geezers like you.

What do you mean trolling? It's a direct comparison. We had a problem that would occur at a specific time (one caused by date change, the other caused by Google's deadline), and people got together to make sure the problem didn't happen (one changed how dates are stored, the other introduced a Manifest V3 compatible adblocker which I'm pointing out seems to work with identical efficacy as the old one).

This is Y2K. A whole lot of noise seemingly turned into a nothingburger thanks to some clever programmers making the entire issue transparent to the end user.

Here some bedtime reading for you: https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Thank god for that. It was hard enough to learn 9 (now 8) planets at school. Can you imagine having to learn all the names if the hydrostatic equilibrium definition held? The KBOs alone would be a pain to learn.

Except I'm right, given that the official definition of a planet and a dwarf planet are mutually exclusive. Here let me help you:
Planet:
c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
Dwarf planet:
c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and is not a satellite.

I highlighted the relevant word in bold. You're on Slashdot so I hope I don't need to explain the logical "NOT" operator to you.

Remember how I said you're wrong. Try reading up the definition of a planet again. Here allow me to give you a hint. Go look up what the official definition is of "clearing the neighbourhood". Note the word "completely" is something you made up in your head; Even if the word completely were omitted it seems you don't understand what "clearing the neighbourhood" means since Earth, Jupiter, and Neptune are all gravitational dominant in their orbit. By the way this definition predates the 2005 discussions about Pluto.

This! A lot of people don't realise just how much black there is between stars and just how small objects are. For those people who have a hobby of measuring occultations it is usually a very carefully calculated trajectory that may draw a path across the earth only a couple of 100km across, often much tighter than those of full solar eclipses.

Noticing this kind of thing by happenstance rarely happens. I say rarely because a freak incident did occur to a friend of mine, but even that incident had a mitigating factor: an astronomy conference he was dialling in to caused him to measure an occultation where none was expected. But we don't typically go blindly looking at stars to see if they blink out of luck.

Some times the rich fuckers goals align with the goals of the common people. Sometimes. Usually not. And certainly not for everything else that fucker is doing, but in this case yes.