If only it was as simple as "don't use it". Used to be that communities formed around mailing lists and webrings. Now if you aren't on Discord, Twitter, and YouTube, you are going to be isolated from them.

I am involved in the Japanese electronics and retro computing scene. When many people left Twitter due to Musk turning it into a Nazi bar, the drama seemed to mostly pass the Japanese users by. English speaking communities fragmented onto BlueSky, the Fediverse, and Twitch. So I lost contact with both some of the English speaking ones, and almost all of the Japanese ones. Man, I just want to read about unusual Japanese street lights, or the new project someone made for the FM Towns Marty, but it's all happening on Twitter. At least the Japanese still use blogs I guess.

They have already put far too much emphasis on AI with their phones. When Pixel phones started they had A+ cameras, the absolute best you could get on a phone, at least for still photos. Video was always a bit weak, but for photos there was nothing else close.

A few years ago they stopped really pushing the camera technology and went all in on AI instead. Their CPUs have mediocre performance, but always tout big AI chops, which rarely amount to anything. The supposedly exclusive features that they unlock always get back-ported to older devices within days of release.

Their cameras are maybe B+ now. Some considerable distance behind the leaders, especially Xiaomi and Honor with their huge sensors and optics. It's so sad.

He was cast by Robert H. Justman. Roddenberry had different ideas about who Picard was supposed to be, but in the end going with a British actor with that commanding voice, a mixture of Yorkshire and stage trained, turned out to be perfect for the role. Steward brought gravitas and subtlety to the role, in equal measure.

Crypto makes it much easier. The crypto can be laundered through mixing, and moved to countries that won't extradite.

In this case they are blaming North Korea, which if accurate means that the money will simply be traded with China and Russia.

Are there any good alternatives? Don't say self host, that's a lot of work and your emails will be blocked anyway.

If you haven't read the interview, in it she relates a story where her young daughter's teacher asked her to write three things that made her child special. Apparently she is such an awful mother that she couldn't do that, and turned to AI for assistance. The AI shat out some generic Hallmark style platitudes, and she was delighted.

People like her want to dehumanize all of us to that level.

Social democracy is the way to deal with it. If everyone has a stake, but nobody has overall or excessive power, and the government truly works for the people, the outcomes tend to be decent.

It probably does cost Google something. They scan apps and devices for malware, and anything that increases the number of apps and ways to distribute them will increase the cost. They also have to certify these app stores, they aren't just going to let anyone set one up and start distributing malware or pirate streaming apps.

It feels calibrated to deter unserious applicants, but not cause further legal woes.

The real issue is F-Droid and similar open source app stores. It remains to be seen exactly how it is going to pan out.

That's interesting. Ours hasn't quite caught up yet, and will do things like limit the size of the inverter you can install because they don't trust the export limiter.

How does it work for an outage? With solar inverters they need to have a special island mode where they disconnect the grid, so there is no chance of backfeeding power into it and electrocuting the technician who is trying to fix it. Most inverters don't support that and have an automatic cut-off if they don't detect the grid is up (i.e. there is already 110V 60Hz there).

If you have Vehicle 2 Load you can just plug appliances directly into the car.

Many of the nuclear fanatics want it because they think it means they don't have to change their lifestyle, or because they are NIMBYs and fear wind turbines and solar farms appearing near them (but don't care about nuclear plants near someone else).

Renewables and storage are by far the cheapest and fastest option now. Nuclear is just kicking the can down the road, not doing anything for another 20+ years because "nuclear is coming".

Coincidentally published today: https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

Nissan did it back with the original Leaf around 2012. It was advertised as for emergency use and required an expensive wall box. Later there were V2G options for it, also rather expensive.

True, but I wouldn't read much into the 75,000 figure. Folding it repeatedly isn't the same as keeping it in a pocket, exposed to normal dust and lint, and folding it repeatedly. In other words, it's likely to be optimistic.

I'd say the flaw is that the tolerance is so tight that the manufacturing yield is unacceptably low.

But also, in China the government runs the country and controls the economy, not the stock market like in the US. So it's really an apples to oranges comparison.

Also "vaporizing some $480 billion in market value" is kind of hilarious. Can you vaporize something that is already vapour?

In this case it appears to be a design flaw. They all break in the same place, in the same way. iFixIt found that there is a part of the hinge right under the screen there, and it appears that sometimes it gets misaligned and damages the screen.

My memory of a systemic failure was HP laptops. They had a deal with Nvidia that meant they all used Nvidia chipsets, and they would all eventually fail as the repeated heating and cooling cycles caused the BGA soldering to fail.