And by “tending to last longer” it is good to note that it almost always lasts 5x-10x longer, as in you only need to charge it once a month instead of every few days with medium reading, depending on backlight usage.

When I only read a few pages a day because of my schedule, my battery lasts over 6 months easily. Meanwhile my unused iPad has to be charged every week or so even if it is used 0 minutes.

Also in the Nuremberg US versions of the trails:

Less than a fraction of one percent of identified war criminals got prosecuted. 99.8%+ got off scott-free.

(>100,000 war criminals arrested, 2500 were identified as “major war criminals” and the rest let free, of whom 177 were tried, the rest of the major war criminals getting off with 0 consequences and many getting jobs in the US, of those, 142 were convicted)

0.142% of war criminals had any consequences at all. Many of those were just for publicity.

Yep, me too, but my Sony xperia 5ii has a few issues like no fingerprint reader and a battery that only lasts 3/4 of a day with light use, plus no updates for the past 3 years…

Might have to go fairphone soon

I am a bit ignorant about fedora security, but doesn’t pretty much everyone run Pipewire now and not pulseaudio?

But that is the best part of user software development.

Developing [a game] is pretty much free, so if you make any money out of it at all is just a bonus.

Most physical hobbies cost money where if you make some money from it it likely won’t even start breaking even, you are often 1-10k€ in the hole before you even start selling anything.

That doesn’t mean anything.

If you “by default” don’t log, then when receiving a court order, there is nothing to hand over which is the entire point. If,magically, logs from the past 5 years when they said there were “no logs” show up, that means they were lying about no logs.

Just like they now advertise that your data is fully end to end encrypted and even they can’t see it.

If, with a court order, they are able to decrypt and hand over your data, then they were lying in the first place that they couldn’t read your data and it isn’t end to end encrypted

Court orders aren’t some magical thing that go back in time and redo history. The entire point of these heavily advertised precautions is exactly against court orders by corrupt, tyrannical governments using the law as a political or fascist blunt weapon against citizens.

The USB control is a good point because for example my Xperia 5ii defaults the port control to full data connection

Not only that, Sony will, after you disable port data transfer, will silently re-enable it after a time.

In the dystopia of outer-worlds-esque orwellien-surveillance corporate feudalism it looks like they will have to endure, I think we can afford to lighten up on them 😂

U.S. Coast Guard should now change their name to Americas Coast Pirates

They updated the Lens app (pretty much the best scanning app available) UI and haven’t enshittified it! I call that a win! I wish I could now pin it to a specific version on the play store.

Yet 90% of young people won’t know what it is because digital cameras have been replaced by phones and phones no longer have microSD lol

They had said on release (a few years ago) that they were selling the base model LCD just a bit above “at-cost” to try to break it into the market and capture share. It worked.

Now that RAM prices have >3x’ed, they would likely be selling that model at a significant loss if they keep manufacturing it. Completely logical move.

Bad for the consumer, but RAM being sucked up by shitty never-accurate, lying plagerism machines with the goal of replacing jobs for extra corporate profit is also bad for the consumer and probably a large part of the cause behind this production stop.

endurain might be able tot be combines with Fitotrack or Opentrack tot get an steava-like experience?

I know of one chip that is a sodium ion charger but I think it is only available in China and not in the west since the tech is picking up more speed there.

I guess you technically can use a Lithium ion charging chip with a programmable charge voltage like the BQ25300 but the problem is that almost every chip with a programmable charging voltage also has an under voltage shutoff to prevent deep Li-Ion discharge (usually 3, 2.5, or 2V), but that also means that you can only use like 50-80% of the already limited capacity.

One of my next projects is using GreenPak programmable signal matrix (like a very mini FPGA) to make a sodium charging chip I can put in projects.

Microsoft does this is other products too.

For example, python runs inside of Excel now so you can finally make good figures with matplotlib.

But they intentionally slow code compilation so it takes around 5x as long as as spyder for the same code.

Then, your code will time out after a couple seconds of execution and you “have to buy compute tokens” in order to be able to compute it further with your own machine.

V-rising

A sort of diablo-style game where you are the bad guy vampire. Very fun, but the damn server doesn’t pause time when it is empty, so I can only spin it up when I plan to play, not have it on all the time like valheim if my friends want to jump in without me and play

Isn’t spinning your own yarn an amount of work that you should be saving money? 😂

They don’t even stop significantly more crime now… They simply invent new “crimes” and jerk each other off for keeping the streets safe from that minority eating their lunch or going for a walk.

2024 reports in Belgium say 42% nuclear (53% import, indeed from France), 17.3% gas, and 17.9% wind, biofuel at 3%, and solar at 11.9% (probably mostly from residential feedback).

So gas is pretty much being eliminated. It dropped from 30% in 2020 to 17.3% in 2024.

And prices have only gone up with those savings. But that probably has to do more with extremely corrupt scammers that we have as energy companies. For example in the oil crisis at the start of the Russian invasion, gas exploded in price (3x more expensive) in November. My gas company (Mega) tried to say that we used 99.7% of our gas in November and December only. We apparently only used the equivalent of a single hot shower through the rest of the year. We work with a monthly “estimated usage” payment and then the difference between actual usage is paid at the end of the year. This resulted in us having a 3500€ bill at the end of the year.

Luckily we had a (now standard) smart meter so we could prove via a 3rd party that they were flat out lying and scamming us, but then it was “oopsie poopsie, how could we know??” Anyway, they get record profits every year, so that is probably a lot of the reason

But in much of the EU, electricity is expensive.

I had an EV for a while (tons of people have company cars in Belgium) and charging it at a fast charging station costs like 10% more per km than gas. A regular charging station is very slightly cheaper.

Charging at home used to be cheaper, but now energy companies charge a fee for “peak energy usage” that is more than 15 minutes, so if you charge your car at 11kW at home once in a month, you will get an extra fee on your 250€/month energy bill of 50€.

I am interested in that battery research though, because charge-cycle wise, only lithium iron phosphate subsection of EV battery chemistry would last even near that long. Lithium ion only lasts 500 cycles before degrading to 70% and LiPo is only 1000. My ID4 could do 420 km on a charge, assuming a LiPo composition, that is 420k kilometers, which is a quarter of what you say. That said, that is a pretty long lifetime for a car. Especially because all of the sensor systems would break down or be remotely disabled to force you to buy new ones long before then.