reddig33

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Part of the larger federal grid infrastructure updates announced today.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

They will just take them back and then ship them to other countries where they pile up like they do now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago

What a stupid ruling. Puffery is when you say something is “the best” or “it’ll change your life”. It’s not when you use technical terms like “contains bleach” or “self driving”.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)

Lucky you. Neither of the EVs I’ve owned have worked this way. The guess o meter automatically goes down when the AC is turned on.

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/what-ac-does-to-your-ev-range

“A study by AAA found that a temperature of 95 degrees outside translates to a 17% range loss.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Loving the 1970s rock star outfits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Twitter is gone. It died the day Elon fired most of its staff.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Got passed by a Toyota xD van today and was thinking about how well these would sell in the US with a decent battery in them. The rectangular design means you could double stack the battery capacity underneath the floorboard space.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (15 children)

As someone who drove an original fiat 500e with a similar range, I can assure you this is not enough battery for anywhere but the market it’s designed for (South Korea). You will eat through that “best estimate” of 120 miles in a day’s worth of driving, especially with additional passengers and the AC running.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s fine but people elsewhere shouldn’t get too excited about it. When the price is listed in US dollars as some sort of bargain instead of the currency where it’s sold, it gets misleading.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Nice design, but only goes about 100 miles to the charge. That’s unacceptable in today’s market. It will go even fewer miles with additional passengers and the air conditioning turned on. I’d imagine they put a small battery in it to hit that lower price point.

 

So I had to pull up some huge rosemary plants in the front yard to have some plumbing work done. I noticed that the rosemary I’ve bought to replace it has completely different leaves. The old plant was more like an evergreen with oily needle-like leaves. The new plant has soft flat leaves but still smells like rosemary.

Are these two plants actually related? Are they both edible? The “evergreen” One was fairly hearty and grew quickly. Will the other variety act the same?

 

“The local utility says it’s going to need a million gallons of water per day and 150 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 100,000 homes per year. “

I wasn’t sure what they meant with that water usage. Like does the water get recirculated and it’s a one time expense? Or is it a million gallons discharged into a river or sewer ever single day? Is it tainted? Or just evaporates from a cooling tower? Seems like a huge waste.

 

So I’ve got an old Mac I use as a Plex server and I’m considering installing Ubuntu on a DOS-formatted partition I’ve already set aside. What I’m wondering is:

  • Do I just need this one partition, or is it going to need an additional blank partition for VM/Swap?
  • can I install Ubuntu on an external drive and then clone or dd the external install onto the internal partition I’ve set aside?
 

But that’s ok because Nestle will upsell it back to you in a bottle labeled Ozarka after they’ve finished pumping it all from Canton.

 

Because of Texas’ messed up “Robin Hood” school funding, a chunk of that increase would go to the state, not to Austin ISD.

https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2024/08/austin-isd-is-asking-voters-to-approve-a-new-tax-rate-to-help-fund-pay-raises-reduce-deficit/

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