Democratisation of powerful tools won’t work because it’s easier to use for destruction than for the opposite. Every psychopath designing superbugs and inventing future weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86k8N4YsA7c

More like; it’s cheap when you have no tolerance and no daily habit. You start paying if you let your consumption grow 50-fold.

https://www.quora.com/Will-there-ever-be-an-ergonomic-laptop/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Because things too, on average, lose value over time when materials degrade and better models come out. Inflation saves the trouble of reducing the old price.

I just wish the new models were better than the old ones.

Odyssey 5 (2002)

… five space travelers … witness the destruction of the Earth; they are given the opportunity to travel to the past to identify and prevent the cataclysm.

Rubicon (2010)

… an innocent character is caught up in, and slowly unravels, a major conspiracy.

Fantastic picture quality (for me, a hi-fi geek with a JVC projector). I forget to follow the plot while admiring the cinematography.

I fixed mine too. Copy-pasting from email broke it.

https://lemmy.world/post/27344091

Hardware-level components like Titan M can execute processes that users cannot audit or disable, raising concerns about opaque data collection.

I recently installed /e/OS on my phone. It’s based on Lineage OS, which is based on AOSP.

Battery lasts a week in sparse use.

Its main feature is privacy. Tracker blocker pictured:

Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems

Microsoft - A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm

Microsoft will keep stifling competition “until the regulators have their foot on their neck,” argues Cal Berkeley professor

Blu-ray is way better. I checked.

Nazi pig: “Those pigs weren’t real pigs, they’re vermin that should all be butchered.”

See how Japan handles that problem: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ltkiq (jump to 19:42)

I’m good at finding sources, not citing them properly.

I used to work at a university traffic research unit. I tried making a pedal-electric car but failed.

Luckily we have Podbike: (I like it, but the price)

They should invest more in design for manufacturability to improve quality-per-price ratio.

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The little table about cars and trucks compares the crossover speed above which tyre noise surpasses drivetrain noise.

Graph:
Car noise sources, ICE drivetrain with a notchy transmission.

Meaning:
The constant traffic roar in the suburbs will continue, because at dual carriageway speed, eliminating drivetrain noise has minuscule effect on total noise.

Motorway noise won’t be reduced by electrification:

Graph: Car noise sources, ICE drivetrain with a notchy transmission.
The little table about cars and trucks compares the crossover speeds above which tyre noise surpasses drivetrain noise.

Meaning: The constant traffic roar in the suburbs will continue, because at dual carriageway speed, eliminating drivetrain noise has minuscule effect on total noise.

Urban planning won’t be improved:

Heavy metal pollution will be reduced:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1352231012006942

As, Hg and Se exhaust emissions were dominated by fuel combustion while Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn exhaust emissions were dominated by lubricant oil combustion.

Microplastic pollution will increase:

We’re making the same mistake with AI as we did with cars; not planning human future.

Cars were designed to atrophy muscles, and polluted urban planning and the air.
AI is being designed to atrophy brains, and pollutes the air, the internet, public discourse, and more to come.

We should change course towards AI that makes people smarter, not dumber: AI-aided collaborative thinking.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-better-to-work-on-intelligence-augmentation-rather-than-artificial-intelligence/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

The stricter it’s “controlled”, the more out of control the black market is.

San Francisco has spent so much money trying to solve the fentanyl crisis and yet it still persists.