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  • That sounds like the non-techies would be able to fix it themselves on Windows without you being around, which in my experince isn’t the case.

    It might be different for you with a lot of tech-affine people in your family. But for those of us being forced to be the tech support anyway, it can really make a difference if you have to fix a Linux issue once in a while or have to reinstall Windows for the 5th time this year…




  • That’s a moronic idea anway.

    Yes we can perfectly well ban an anti-democratic party even when 20% or more are voting for them. Why wouldn’t we? Just like we can perfectly well prosecute 20%+ of the population when they actually commit crimes.

    Sorry, but democracy DOES NOT mean that illegal actions are permitted because enough people agree (and a minority is also far from “enough”), just like democracy -contrary to what populism wants us to believe nowadays- DOES NOT mean lies (nicely called "alternative facts as an euphemism) become truths now just because enough people believe in them.


  • They don’t hate them. They just want to cut all support for citizens to have more money available to finance more tax cuts for rich people.

    But to do this you need to somehow convince the masses that money spend on them is a bad thing. For decades trickle-down fairy tales of how spending money on the already rich ones will help the economy and then be beneficial for all worked. But not anymore. So the next phase in desinforming gullible voters is much more dystopian and involves straight out brain-washing to decouple them from reality and make them believe that people actually helping them are evil and need to be fought.


  • Batteries losing more than 20-25% of their capacity in 150.000km had a defect in production already. You can find similiar numbers in any OEM’s warranty. So a non-defective battery will provide at least 80% of its capacity at 150.000km. The average car manages about 250.000km over their life-time of about 15 years (reference numbers from the US, so the most pessimistic view as barely anyone else in the world is matching those distances).

    You are not completely wrong. Used batteries will be a problem… somewhere far down the road because electric vehicles are expected to easily manage 800.000km or more (less moving/wear parts).

    But we are not there yet. The whole EV market isn’t old enough to have produced these long-lived vehicles and we are back at my original point. Today it’s not about battery degradation but about EVs not getting old fast enough to already have established a robust used market. In fact the first big batch of EVs on the used market is often not expected for another 2 years (see here for example, and that’s again rather new vehicles because of a loophole for leased cars in the EU).

    In short: There isn’t a huge used EV market yet and (more importantly) the demand is stifled by battery degradation fairy tales not relevant (EVs old enough for this basically don’t exist yet) and political mismanagement subsidising new EVs.


  • With nuclear, you’ve got a raging anti-nuclear crowd.

    No. With nuclear you have very real unmitigatable risks and very real insanely high costs. Which also don’t solve anything as nuclear production isn’t fitting demand fluctuations either, so you still need mass storage (or waste overproduction 90% of the time, combined with already insane costs).

    The raging crowd is the pro-nuclear cult on social media that ignores reality and sputters sci-fi fairy tales all day long in the name of their savior.



  • What do you think the average 10 year old car has done to that point? Battery degradation is hugely overrated and stories are based on tech already left behind.

    The actual problem for the used car market is the opposite: EVs live much longer than traditional cars and thus don’t lose their worth that rapidly, while on the other hand new cars still see a fast development cycle while also getting cheaper.

    So no, it’s not a problem of used EVs per se and that their expensive batteries are allegedly dying. It’s the fact that a new EV just a couple of years later is ahead 1-2 generations and also cheaper.




  • In that fairy tale reality were European industry actually is lagging behind and needs protection you would be right. But that’s a lie. Those chinese electric motors are European designs. Their battery design was (and still is) researched in European labs.

    Also those cheap Chinese EVs aren’t real. Prices are alwas adapted to market, its buying power and -more importantly- the bare bones versions will not be allowed on European streets anywhere. So in the end we get “cheap” cars for 10% less than domestic producers. When the fuck has 10% higher prices for solid quality ever been a problem. But instead we get flooded with stories of how European production can’t compete anymore… as if wages, energy, raw materials hasn’t been more expensive in Europe since basically forever. Really sad how our industry decayed nearly a century ago… oh, wait. It didn’t because there is an actual global market for high quality production with high standards.

    The only actual difference is that China is actually producing stuff on scale while European companies spend decades on rejecting any innovation because lobbying politicians was cheaper and brought more short-term gains for shareholders and CEOs.

    And they do exactly the same thing now. Sure, protect them from competition for another few years so they can keep worshipping the allmighty diesel. If we are at let’s scrap all environmental goals because they are obviously not doable with an industry refusing to even try. Then that industry will be soon dead indeed and rightfully so as they decided -totally voluntarily- to die off.


  • ARM is shit at hardware discovery in general. So no, chromebooks don’t need a special distro. They however need a kernel adapted to the specific hardware, often down to the model (that’s also the reason Android updates take so long on phones and there is very time limited support… there’s always someone needed to adapt new updates to the specific hardware for each device, so they don’t bother for anything but their latest products).