Huh interesting! I see playing on their website that an equivalent laptop is more expensive in the DIY version, it’s just that the starting price includes no RAM, storage, etc.

So the DIY is for people who want to bring their own parts, not for people who want to get all the parts then save money!

Framework sells DIY kits so the European dude assembling the laptop could be himself!

This is pretty much my life at work. “Here’s how AI can do something with 95% accuracy, beating out the alternate rule based method that only delivers a 100% accuracy rate”.

Damn I think we are getting fucked over on EV prices. I don’t know about 6 years ago but now an Ioniq 5 costs $70k NZD for the cheapest model, that’s 35k€.

Yeah 10k miles is more than what I drive in a year and they’re doing it in a month 😅. I am thinking that $480 may be at retail DC charging prices rather than home power usage prices because I’m not sure who would drive that much and not be driving for work (which would then be an unreasonable comparison to others buying EVs).

Yeah there is quite low maintenence on EVs but they are said to go through tyres faster (on account of the weight). I figure any maintenance difference is probably not that big compared to not using fuel though.

We bought an almost-new (ex-demo) EV about 6 months ago. We get free power (due to accidentally OPing our solar it’s use or lose) and we paid a little over half the price of what the car would be new.

With mostly free power (still have to pay when we travel away from home) it’s going to take about 16 years to pay it off in fuel savings for us - and that’s not accounting for the interest on borrowing the money or the opportunity cost of investing the money elsewhere. If we had paid full price it would have been more like 25 years. This is based on before times fuel prices though, right now the numbers probably look better.

I think you have to do a lot of driving for a new car to pay for itself. We do a lot of WFH and when we commute it’s with public transport so I think that really eats into any savings because we only do like 12 000km a year.

Ah nice, that 25000km would be way above average where I live but sounds like it has worked out for you!

20k is also less than I was expecting, I don’t think we had many options for new EVs where I live 6 years ago. Tesla, Ioniq, Atto, Leaf. I wasn’t looking back then so maybe there were others I didn’t know about.

Haha there you go. You still must do an insane amount of driving to go through $480 of power a month though.

According to this page it’s about that 25% of the whole tyre, where more than half the tyre is not rubber/synthetic rubber but other stuff.

So there is more synthetic rubber than natural rubber. But the mind-blowing thing for me here is that I kind of assumed the whole tyre was synthetic, but they are only 25% plastic and still are the biggest source of mocroplastic.

It’s probably about how much you have to drive. And remember this is for new cars, it implies second hand has been ahead for a while.

What did a new EV cost 6 years ago? Maybe $40k USD? So you need to save over $6000 in gas each year. This needs to be $6000 more than the electricity cost of charging your EV. It feels like you must do an above average amount of driving for the savings to pay for the car in 6 years, or otherwise I’m off with my price guess or you get free electricity (e.g. solar).

Basically concerns from contributors about the governance structure of the project and how their drive for profit may impact it. And how this FOSS project with significant community contributions has it’s shareholders (yes it has shareholders) considering it their sole property.

There’s a little on Wikipedia here.

And an open letter: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

Last I remember they had said over and over that they were not working on it because their only Linux team was focused on Proton VPN, it seemed to be excuse after excuse for years.

could be a simple “redirect to a different instance” button, where you could select yours

Though not perfect, that would be a vast improvement on now. There are thousands of instances (remembering content is shared to Mastodon and others), and not every instance knows about every other, but you could auto-fill from the list the instance knows about, and if you end up back on that site it should remember what you selected last time and prefill it. Great idea!

Or the site could check for the cookies of known servers

This is simply not possible because browsers don’t let a site do this.

I guess the question is… how? Browsers isolate what they know about you to domains. When you go to Gmail, it doesn’t tell Gmail that you have a Hotmail email.

As far as the browser knows, lemmy.world and lemmy.ca are as different as hotmail.com and gmail.com. The token that knows you are logged into lemmy.world is not sent to any other site, that would be a huge security risk. And the browser doesn’t know what is being stored in the cookies, just that it’s there and it should only send it to the domain it came from and never another.

I don’t disagree that this is a big problem. I just don’t know how it would be solved while keeping the fediverse decentralised.

There must be some sort of way to do it.

Lemmy doesn’t handle this nicely either, though I still use this extension last updated 3 years ago: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant

If you’re the one posting a link, you can use a service like https://lemmyverse.link/ which will redirect a user to the same items on their own instance (after they set their instance the first time), though that site is run by the guy behind lemmings.world that’s shutting down in a couple of months, so it’s future may be a little uncertain. I’ve also seen https://threadiverse.link/ but I don’t know who run it.

Have you tried owning the place you work?

Not sure how heavy that is or how the condition changes it, but it’s in the ballpart of $0.10 per lb.

So it’s definitely not $1000, and $100 is like half a small car’s weight in steel.

I recently got one of my kids a Kobo Clara Colour and it’s great! The Clara is the smaller sized screen, they have a normal sized model as well.

Two awesome things. One, can borrow from Libby directly. Two, with a small edit to a file on the Kobo, you can sync it to Calibre Web so all those books appear magically as books in your account on the Kobo for wireless browsing and downloading!

So if there’s something my kid wants but can’t find on Libby, I can add it in Calibre Web for them.

I thought the US had some law about unsubscribing within two clicks r something?

I guess it depends on the specifics of what you are worried about. I have a catchall set up for a domain I own, and so I can make up an email on the spot. I’ve never had trouble getting those accepted.

But for random internet stuff I tend to use either Firefix Relay or Simple Login. I use these most of the time and don’t normally have issues, but if I do then I use my own domain.

I think these relay email services (which are not temp/disposable emails btw) let you set up with your own domain too.