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Comment Cheap and slow is for your house only (Score 1) 178

Cheap slow chargers near where people live and work.

The problem is that means "cheap" charger is only serving ONE individual over most of its life. It's like you built a custom charger for Fred.

Meanwhile the 3x cost "expensive" charger is serving up to 10 people a day.

So that "cheap" charger is not at all cheap and is not really a public good, in that by and large only one member of the public gets to use it, not multiple.

Comment Agressive to who (Score 1) 79

Gensler has had an aggressive tenure

Forget the Crypto drama.

Under Ginzlers watch, MANY stocks suffered from very aggressive (and probably illegal) short selling. All reports to the SEC appear to have gone no-where.

This is not just Tesla but lots of other stocks as well, and the SEC appeared not to care at all...

The SEC appeared to have been captured by powerful interests that were able to run amok, so whatever comes next cannot be worse than what we are leaving.

Comment That stopped me from getting a PS5 Pro (Score 1) 91

UltraHD Bluray. Think you missed that point. Dont want or need yet another component taking up more wall space.

Yes this for me is a huge reason for getting a PS5 to begin with, and the lack of an internal drive (along with the price) means the PS5 Pro is an absolute non-starter for me.

Yes you can get an external drive but like you said, I don't want another component I just want it all in one.

Comment Problem, variance in abilities over same port. (Score 3, Informative) 194

Does your USB-C port support Thunderbolt or not? What kind, which is important because later Thunderbolt can carry a lot of voltage... I think it's on the new Mac mini the thunderbolt USB-C are all on the back, but none on the front (even though there is USB-C on the front).

In theory it's a better world I guess when all connectors are just USB-C. In reality for users though, it sure seems prone to issues.

There is already one known case of revision - for a bit some Macbook Pros charged only over a USB-C port. But they (WISLEY) reverted back to the beloved MagSafe connector for primary power supply, even though I believe you can still charge via USB-C....

I guess maybe a higher end data connection like Thunderbolt over USB-C still makes some sense as probably anyone actually needing Thunderbolt will know what they are doing... but I am 100% sure mistakes will be made and some consumers will be getting a fraction of the data speed they could have from port confusion.

Comment Re:Not sure it's a great idea to filter everything (Score 1) 145

Most of the "dust" probably comes off the occupants in the form of dead skin and hair.

Some does sure, but if you live is most places in the west that have an arid to semi-arid climate, you get the same dust outside as in so a lot of it really is environmental.

Also pollen can be a major component of dust in areas that are more humid. And it's worse to clean being more sticky.

Comment Not sure it's a great idea to filter everything (Score 1) 145

It seems like the human body has to have time to build up tolerance and resistance.

If you have a sealed house with near perfect filtration, whenever you go outside you are going to be miserable, and possibly get kind of sick (or at least have your immune system weakened to get sick via other means).

While I would dearly love to seal up a house so much outside dust would never bean issue, I value my own family's health too much to strive for something like that...

Seems just as effective to use natural air temperature to heat or cool your house as much as possible and use solar panels to power any offset you have to have from that, with a light but constant air flow as much as possible.

Comment Same here (Score 1) 123

I thought Burning Man was a hippy, alternative culture sort of thing.

I thought exactly the same thing, if I were ever to go I assume I'd just show up on a flaming chariot or something, and camp wherever.

I mean how do they even check for tickets?? It looked like chaos driving in from all the pictures I've ever seen.

Comment Wrong (Score 1) 171

It is an Apple device. You donÃ(TM)t need to turn it off and on again.

Wrong, because it's ALSO a UNIX device, which means you can use shutdown -r now if you need to shut it down, or use a menu item to tell it to shut down...

And because it's an Apple device it would power on from an external keyboard so what's your damage Heather?

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