Every time I read stories like that I wonder if I should do more stuff with the hyphanet.

I’ll just assume the second word (or the first, doesn’t matter) should have been “correlation”. It doesn’t make sense otherwise.

So you’re arguing that capitalism and its greed are not an ideology?

Ah, yes, green Ubuntu. Nice.

Okay, so that maybe was a bit imprecise… I had heard that argument before, but essentially only from people who weren’t into the topic really. I was just curious if there was a serious source for that. Like, more serious than uncle Günther who flies a national flag in his garden.

But the guardian article mentions the points but comes to exactly the expected conclusion:

The data we have leaves little doubt that resource extraction will be significantly lower for electric cars compared with their petrol or diesel equivalents as recycling increases.

Just like replacing all cars.

I keep hearing this and the opposite

I never heard the opposite. Sources?

EV adoption can’t happen in a second. If more EVs are sold, countries can just expand grids and charging networks with it.

China tomorrow: “Mongolia is part of China”

Who doesn’t like overly specific statements?

It’s a distributed database, of course.

The trouble is at least in my country the infrastructure is just not there

When I read that I just assumed you’d live in some developing country or an extremely sparsely populated one like Canada.

But… You live in the UK?

Sorry, but can’t relate. Had that feeling for the first few trips until the first one where we drove so much more efficiently that we deliberately did not take the first planned stop. I rode shotgun, so I then looked for alternative spots to charge, just to see that there are so many in my country that having planned those routes in the first place literally doesn’t make sense.

Since then we just drive. Once we get below 50 km remaining range, we check some map app for the next charger. Like we did with gas stations.

Also, coming from practicality… it’s just so nice not to have to use gas stations. Like, you usually just always start whatever you do with a full battery because you just charge it overnight. No gas stops on my commute is quite practical.

Literally every single person that I talked to that seriously tried an EV (like, as a daily driver for some time, not just the rental you had for a day) said they were never going back to combustion engines.

I like how they seemingly chose a picture that, despite showing a group of naked people, has no obvious primary genitalia… and then there’s this background dick underneath that guy’s arm.

It’s not.

I work in software. We recently banned that shit. “It’s not going away” my ass, so far all I’ve seen LLMs do is produce a lot of crap nobody could maintain afterwards while seemingly making the people using it dumber in the process.

But I already had my pitchfork ready!

I love that this is how I find out about this.

You must have a pretty specific workflow that fails so completely using Microsoft Office.

My company provides latex templates, so I’m using those. They also provide a gitlab instance, so working collaboratively is easy and reliable.

The second point is that as has already been mentioned, you can keep using the computer after the software support ends, that doesn’t really work for most subscription software.

Fair point.