Re: Paying attention
its a great way of killing second hand kit. No support contract? No new ssl cert for you.
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Ive had the opposite experience. Im typing on an asus laptop now, granted I changed the RAM and M2 as it was cheaper for me to do so than order with. Its an AMD hex core with 1660ti and it has been flawless so far. I even took it apart after a year to see what state the fans and grills were in (it said on the sticker something about dust free design) and whilst skeptical, its fairly clean.
It does feel a bit flimsy and doesnt have usb-c charging (not surprising with a 150W battery charger of course).
the only thing that bothers me is the flashing keyboard lights until the driver kicks in.
It isnt just the slave labour. It is the total lack of proper controls. Building regulations? Nah, proper severances and working conditions? Nah. Toxic chemical disposal pathways? Nah. Ethical production? Nah. Power issues? Spool up a brown coal plant or 10
The list goes on. Turn a blind eye isnt even close.
It doesnt suit everyone.
there are 4 chargers in our village at the village hall. Around 100 cottages in the village. Every night there are 2 DPD vans vans plugged into the chargers all night so thats 2 free for "public use". Most people cant park outside their houses as the village is mostly single track road. We are lucky as we have a small drive so can park one car outside the house.
Almost all the cottages in the village have multi phases coming in to each one, 70A on each - usually TWO phases active, some of the longer cottages have a real mishmash. Single meter, one MPAN. We have two phases active, one is used for the AGA and storage heaters the other for domestic. So we could charge one car at a time on high draw, I wouldnt like to charge two if the AGA and shower are on. No mains gas and almost none of the cottages have room for surface oil tanks, christ knows how much an underground tank would cost. We have mains sewerage at least.
The nearest shopping town is Keswick, which is 20 miles away along B and A roads, a smaller town with petrol station is 10 miles away, work for both of us is around 35 miles away so a 70 mile commute. No charging at work for either of us.
EV would be a nightmare to run for us. It would be a very strict nightly charge as we couldnt guarantee a 140 miles over 2 day commute in winter conditions. As far as ICE goes, one of us has a fiat panda 4x4 (awesome in the bad weather) which does about 55mpg, the skoda fabia estate does about 50. I fill up once a week in both when we do our shopping.
Today we drove to edinburgh, it was 150 miles and took 2.45 hours either way, no stops. This would have been fairly crappy in an EV as that would possibly be two full charges so maybe 2.45+1.5 each way? And thats arriving home "empty". My fabia still has 300 miles left in the tank.
there isnt a mass market for H2 hence green sources H2 isnt worth it. Once there is a market then countries with excess green electricity will start to look at cracking water as a money source. There are quite a few countries that could make money from H2 production but without the demand it isnt worth the infrastructure.
FCEV is more than possible with current tech. https://wrightbus.com/en-gb/hydrogen-bus-streetdeck-hydrolinerFCEV there's one right there. 8 mins of hydrogen filling for 200 miles+ these are early days of course but still possible. Newer fuel cells are also being developed.
EV arent bad but the charging times are horrific for mass transport. If entire cities converted all their ICE to EV then the grid would collapse in short order, those cities would brown out. H2 on the otherhand would not, people would go to filling stations, the same as ICE.
1. im cheap, just give me a few million a year. I will even take dollars so thats a saving.
2. I hate twitter. I will gladly run it into the ground for you.
3. Fuck people who disagree with you. amirite?
4. Abolish HR so 3. doesnt get problematic. I dont think you thought of that cost saving measure.
5. I will happily clean up crap and kowtow to your whims.
so you would find it hilarious if your wife and kids are woken at 2AM by a squad of armed police shouting and booting the door in? Not aure I find it hilarious.
What about if it was the neighbours house and the swat teams used your lawn, fence and back yard to go piling through?
Doesnt sound like fun to me. I assume you have never seen such an operation in effect. You might have a lot of bravado now but it isnt like the movies and is a lot more scary in real life. Especially if you have your own kids who are crying in terror.
air-tag = thing
thing sends out bluetooth beacons
iphone = gadget
gadget has an OS
OS has a function to listen for bluetooth beacons
when an airtag beacon is heard the gadget sends its location to the internet overlord masters
internet overlord masters can update owners of thing with the location given by gadget
if you too have a gadget then you get a notice if there are things around you that have been there for "an extended period of time" talking to the internet overlord masters
which is the irony. Become a master criminal by running a successful company so badly that even though you make money, so did everyone else. have no accounting, no business plan. Then claim incompetence so your assets arent totally taken away. That being said if he has loads of offshore accounts everywhere then good luck finding them all.