Change to Linux on main PC when?

They are a lot more efficient in their class and might convince some ICE drivers to switch. Their range tends to be quite good. Unfortunately they have drawbacks:

• They require a very large battery. If you don’t find >150kW chargers, you’ll be waiting a long time
• More batteries per car = worse environmental impact from production
• Road degradation grows by the fourth power w.r.t. vehicle weight. The big batteries make electric SUVs very heavy
• SUVs are more dangerous for pedestrians due to their size
• In a crash SUVs deliver much more energy, killing more people.

I second this. Drove my Zoe through rain, snow and ice, never had any problem or even thought about with water ingress.

I don’t get it. People are working for free to add a feature to your product which might move more people to buy said product. Make users who use external features acknowledge some waiver that your company is not responsible for damage. If it turns out to be really good, you can fork it, hire the original inventor and turn it into a paid product. Isn’t that a risk-free win? Am I missing something?

I bought the FP3, then upgraded it to an FP3+ when the camera broke. Never had as much fun with a phone before or since. It has been my daily driver for years and it did everything well enough, if a bit slow. My friends either get new phones or use them despite visible damage because they can’t fix them. Now I ordered the FP5 to have the 3+ as a backup and test setup and I am confident I will use the FP5 for 3-6 years again :)

Fairphones are like an odd car: There are sleeker, faster, cheaper and maybe just better alternatives around. However you still like it and just learn where to hit it with a hammer when it starts making funny noises. If you can afford it and like odd devices, it’s for you.

Star Trek: Picard, when the Borg wake up and the Romulans just vacuum them out. In that moment the Cube should have automatically teleported them back inside. If the teleporters were down for some reason, the remaining Drones would just happily continue working in hard vacuum and proceed to assimilate the shit out of the Romulans. What happened was an uncalled for nerf of the Borg.

Remember people: Most alternative browsers are chormium under the hood! Not Firefox though :)

Commie: Never thought I’d die fighting side by side with a Neo-Nazi.

Nazi: What about side by side with a temporary political ally to seize power?

Commie: Aye. I could do that.

Removal of all benefits of civilization to… own the libs?

LISP be like: “There is an error here in this wierd code I just generated and which you never saw before. Wanna hotfix it and try again?”

Note to self: Become a bridge trader.

One thing I don’t get: How were people convinced that an entry in a blockchain somehow results in ownership. People understand ownership and its limits: They lock their bikes when they leave them somewhere, because if there is no enforcement you can lose property. The NFT scammers never mentioned enforcement once, yet somehow you “owned” some ape picture. How did that happen?

I don’t get it. One the one hand people who get behind this kind of article would jump at the change to tell women to “make them a sandwich”. Now that it’s happening… it’s a problem. Wat?

We saw the mass adoption of the internet, which before was mostly used by a small group of techies. Now we might be heading to a split: The mass walled garden and a separate smaller but free internet.

I think this system is flawed beyond repair.

Of course, but will that stop somebody from trying to push it? ;)

Yes. But you are arguing against lots of social programming, cultural expectations and religious backgrounds. It’s hard.

I think he tried knocking down the Ukrainian kid’s sandcastle and it did not go to well.

Who’s the kid that comes over an knocks down your sand castle?

There is a technical solution: Have cameras sign the raw data recorded from the sensor in situ, which allows you to check if a given video was recorded on a given device. You could even add another layer where the device uploads timestamps, frame hashes and location data to a blockchain (finally a usecase!) to pin it to a certain place and time. Sure, all of this can be circumvented with enough effort, but it will make it much harder. Especially if a video can be pinned to a place, you can verify if it matches that scenery.

Every device has a headphone jack if you push hard enough.