Not so bad when you think about it …… Ring’s subscription isn’t too expensive and it gives you cloud storage and remote access. Bring on the hatred but I’ve found it one of the few worthwhile subscriptions

User replaceable batteries would be actual cheap, would be nice. But iPhone 15 pro battery replacement at Apple is $100, and I’d expect that to be one of the more expensive battery replacements. Many phones will be cheaper, third parties will be cheaper. While I’d rather do it myself, it’s really not that much for once every three years to keep it above 80% health, and 9% of phone replacement cost.

the argument of “why would you try to save your battery by not using it when it has the same net effect of less battery?” is pretty short-sighted.

The argument is

• why try to save your phone battery when it’s critical to last the day and eventual replacement is cheap?
• it’s much more important to save your car battery because you won’t miss reduced range on normal days, you want max range available for road trips, and replacing the battery is very expensive

Definitely incredible but I still feel like people’s excitement is misdirected.

• they’re less energy dense so not likely to be on phones or many cars
• for cars the extra life is marginal when existing batteries already last more than the life of a typical vehicle
• much cheaper will make a huge difference in low end cars.
• but storage is the killer app! I don’t care about energy density but they’re much cheaper and will last much longer. Huge win!

Imagine if home battery systems cost half as much but last four times as long! Or grid storage! This is huge!

I don’t see this as a valid comparison.

• replacement phone batteries are really not that expensive. Don’t overthink it. Is it really a problem you might spend $50-$100 in three years to replace the battery?
• car batteries are not just much more expensive but they’re also overkill. Charging to 80% is more than enough for almost everyone’s daily driving on most vehicles, so why charge more?

Most of these infamous early failure modes that people are afraid of are entirely possible to repair at home for a DIY guy. On a BEV I’m shit out of luck

In a BEV many of those failure modes don’t exist. It’s quite possible we’ll see them last much longer with essentially no issues

BEVs use conventional suspensions and brake systems, so failure there are likely just as repairable DIY

The batteries have gotten better over time, but they can still fail fairly early

Aside from the OG Nissan Leaf with passive cooling, this really seems like more of a scare tactic than an actual issue.

I don’t know about all EVs, but assuming they’re similar to mine:

• battery warranteed for 8 years, 120,000 miles
• solid history of batteries lasting 250,000 miles or more
• aside from accident or manufacturing defect, batteries rarely actually fail. The above are defined for battery health being above 80%

I’m sure it happens that a few people need to replace the battery but they tend to last beyond the full expected lifetime of most cars and the usual failure mode is to continue working with less range

I didn’t know that. I guess my “English privilege” is showing

Sure there are limitations. The point still stands: an imperfect machine translation is better than no translation, as long as people understand it is.

Can we afford to allow a high bad deprive people of knowledge just because of the language they speak?

The article complains about the affect on languages of poor machine translations, but the affect of no translations is worse. Yes those Greenlanders should be able to read all of Wikipedia without learning English and even if the project has no human translators

Is it even getting misused? Spreading knowledge via machine translation where there are no human translators available, had to be better than not translating. As long as there is transparency so people can judge the results ……

And ai training trusting everything it reads is a larger systemic issue, not limited to this niche.

Perhaps part of the solution is machine readable citations. Maybe a search engine or ai could provide better results if it knew what was human generated vs machine generated. But even then you have huge gaps on one side with untrustworthy humans (like comedy) and on the other side with machine generated facts such as from a database

Maybe they did. We’ll find out in a couple decades

Will it? I’m skeptical of the translation since it’s obviously loose and casual, and more optimistic with the quote from Tesla saying they’re redesigning it …

• article says mechanical release handles inside and out. Tesla model y could already be here depending on the details
• articles says a hand must fit behind the handle, ruling out flush handles, but depending on the details, the model y may a Ready be there, as is the Opel Corsa in this thread
• no mention of the electronic latch. I don’t get it, wouldn’t this be the actual most dangerous part?

Same here but also I don’t want a truck nor something with that low range. Aside from being not what I’m interested in , the “blank slate” concept is compelling enough to be very interesting. I’m definitely going to follow this.

For everyone reflexively hating on this “Bezos Mobile”, I’m well aware of the reputation Amazon built for itself. However they are promising something people could own. For a reasonable price. And even customize. Instead of jumping right to negativity, this warrants some optimism

Keep an eye on Slate. Hope they do well

Probably

No surprise that they are going to power this beast at all costs

I mean, they could use their fascist power grab to drive through the infrastructure work to expand power transmission lines needed to support a modern economy, renewables, and yes more datacenters

Additional coal is just the easiest way since we already have century old power lines bringing that power where it’s needed

Yes, in this case, coal might be easiest, cheapest, fastest because we can continue to neglect infrastructure. It’ll fall apart on someone else’s administration

But they have gotten significantly worse over time. I did buy a Fire Stick knowing i was getting ads, but it was so much better the Apps on my smart tv and cheap that it was well worth it. Now it’s gotten bad enough that I no longer use it but suffer through the TV’s apps

I do plan on trying Apple TV in case it stays useable but at this point I’m not buying consumer tech from three years ago

Similarly with the Fire tablet. I knew I was getting ads when I bought them way back when, but tablets were expensive. Fire tablets were much cheaper and quite usable so the tradeoff was worth it. That long since stopped being true, and this experience is e partly why I don’t have an echo show.

I do want some dory of home dashboard, but echo show had never been under consideration. If the Apple rumors are real I might try that but otherwise I guess I’ll see when I have the motivation to build my own

Edit: rereading the post, this is even on devices where people paid extra to be ad free

Charron recommends starting with small steps like unplugging chargers for phones and other devices

This is completely useless advice leftover from two decades ago. All of these chargers have been active power supplies for a long time, and use almost no power when not in use

Meanwhile my coffee maker’s power button is on a touch screen? Who the eff designed that? How about yelling at corps to stop doing shit like this?

It’s really not that bad a compromise, as far as bribes go. Some cheap gaudy bauble as payment for not interfering with billions of dollars in business?

It’s still a bribe and it’s still encouraging mango mussolini, but very efficient tradeoff

Dont most people know that? I thought the promise is that you could establish a hydrogen infrastructure and it would get greener over time - similar to EV’s which get greener over time as power generation includes more renewables.

Not that I’m that naive but I thought that was the claim. Realistically it looks like corporate welfare to let fossil fuel companies keep a stranglehold on energy. One of the most satisfying parts of owning an EV is thinking about all that industry that no longer needs to exist. It’s not just the drilling and refining and shipping and military support for oppressive regimes worldwide, but also huge amounts of polluting and profiteering infrastructure to store and distribute gasoline to every street corner. It can all go

Yeah there’s always someone. Now that the door is open for these stunts we’ll see them in real life, including ones that full humans. It is critical to figure these out before we rely on the technology, because people are assholes.

I’ve been saying for years that traffic will get much worse when we get to mostly self-driving cars. Many of the holdouts will decide they can act dangerously on the road because the self driving cars will get out of their way.