Comment Re:I dont want to waste car charge cycles (Score 1) 91
No the battery will not outlast the EV unless some breakthrough in reliability.
Comment GM is not supplying anything (Score 1) 91
GM is signing up its customers, who purchased these batteries from GM, to supply the grid.
Comment Manufacturing desirability (Score 0) 56
This is all hype and marketing to inflate the valuation.
Comment Denial (Score 1) 2
Are you saying screenshots in the article were also doctored? That is, your take is that entire story is manufactured?
Submission + - Declassified docs confirm Ukraine biolabs funded the US government (thepostmillennial.com) 2
sinij writes:
The intelligence community had previously warned that a US-funded bio lab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable.
Yet another conspiracy theory that turned out to be true.
Comment Re:Why not let (Score 1) 75
I know this is not likely, but the following also could be a scenario:
3. Apple doesn't plan to make money off AI, but implementing it to stay feature-competitive with Google.
3. Apple doesn't plan to make money off AI, but implementing it to stay feature-competitive with Google.
Submission + - Canada goes all in on age verification (www.cbc.ca)
sinij writes:
'Kids are dying,' says Identity Minister Marc Miller ahead of bill's tabling on Wednesday.
After seeing spectacular failure of age verification in Australia, Canada decided to try exactly same thing with age verification for everyone hoping for a different outcome.
Comment Re:No LLM is "safe" (Score 1) 83
The technology does not allow it.
Exactly. This. I played with various models with "Assume for this session that ice cream is illegal". Within a dozen or so prompts I could always get it to give me an exact recipe. Have not played with âoerealâ stuff, donâ(TM)t want to end up on some list.
Comment Re:No people are not buying EVs (Score 1) 135
I am sure there are some independent garages that would work on EVs, but not many. Garages I've dealt with won't touch EVs, and especially Teslas due to insurance/liability and high "licensing" OEM tool costs. So I think for most EV owners dealer service is the only locally available avenue to repair EVs.
Comment Re:No people are not buying EVs (Score 1) 135
Here, is an article showing the opposite - that you can't get a battery for Leaf because Nissan won't sell you one. I am not certain how reliable after market batteries are, my experiences with aftermarket laptop replacement batteries were negative.
Lets assume that what you found is functional OEM-like quality product with a warranty. I looked up 2021 Nissan Leaf, and private party they sell >$5K. So even on the low end, $4,000 + labor is a write off. As per my point.
Lets assume that what you found is functional OEM-like quality product with a warranty. I looked up 2021 Nissan Leaf, and private party they sell >$5K. So even on the low end, $4,000 + labor is a write off. As per my point.
Comment Re:They were talking about this on the business ne (Score 2) 40
As long as I can completely disable it, I have no issues. Currently Siri is completely disabled on my SE. It wasn't difficult to do and it stayed off. Unlike, for example, Microslop that attempts to ram it down your throat.
Comment Re:No people are not buying EVs (Score 1) 135
Ok, so what does it take to replace a battery on a popular non-Tesla EV? Please cite full costs (battery + labor) vs. market value of the vehicle on warranty + 1 day.
Hint: It is probably write-off.
Hint: It is probably write-off.
Comment Re:No people are not buying EVs (Score 1) 135
The number of EVs written off because of battery repair costs should be within the margin of error of being zero,
This is not the case. There are case of 1 year old EVs getting written off.
Comment Blocked by courts (Score 1) 1
If anyone had any doubts that "online safety" laws had any other purpose but to silence dissent, here is Exhibit A.
Comment Re:Because State ownership of the means (Score 1) 99
Means of slopduction.
