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Comment Re:Thought so (Score 0) 42

Once storage became cheap and bandwidth was no longer an issue (in the home), I just ripped all of my content to use FLAC and called it a day. I've stored all the original media somewhere safe where it won't get damaged. For commercial content and devices to replay that content using other encoding methods, I'll let those folks duke it out with Dolby. Wake me up when it's over.

Comment Failed test? (Score 1) 69

What does a failed test look like? If containment fails and 92 protons interact with matter, I would imagine you wind up with a flash of energy as the antiprotons and their proton cousins mutually destruct. It's been a fair amount of time (and bottles of wine) since my last physics class. How much energy are we talking about? I am guessing it's not a significant energy release in terms of there being any real risk to anyone/anything nearby.

Comment Re:Such BS overselling (Score 1) 120

An average American home consumes close to 1000KwH of electricity per month. Assuming its sunny, and is rarely cloudy in your area, that would still be only about 7.5% of a typical home's electrical needs. Where I live, that would save me about $8-9/month....or about the cost of a couple of loaves of bread. And of course, very few places are sunny every day all year long.

Granted, not everyone lives in a single family house that uses a lot of electricity in a state with relatively inexpensive grid power. I'd imagine that if you live in a place like California where power is very expensive and there is lots of sun, the value proposition could be a bit better.

Personally, I'd rather have enough solar capacity (and somewhere to store excess for rainy days) and just be done with the grid entirely. That's likely what I'll do for my next home.

Comment We had a few echo shows... (Score 2) 10

And when the ads appeared, I tossed them. Frankly, I should thank Amazon for that as it reinforced that I didn't want any of their shit in the house so now it's all gone. Pretty soon Prime and and their streaming services are going too. They're consistently ratcheting up the rates to the point where it's gotten silly. Going back to using Jellyfin to play media in the home.

Seeya.

Comment They weren't selling THAT well anyway (Score 1) 74

The sales numbers for Kia/Hyundai EVs are somewhat small in the US. Tesla sold about 600k units in 2025. In 2nd place is Chevrolet at almost 100k sales. Hyundai/Kia combined sell about 100k units as well.

The top 10 are:

Tesla 589k
Chevrolet 97k
Hyundai 66k
Cadillac 49k
BMW 42k
Rivian 42k
Honda 39k
Kia 34k
VW 29k
GMC 24k

Total EV sales: 1.28 million units (only about 8% of total vehicle sales and down 2% year over year)

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story...

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