They're goining to replace them with Trump coins, aren't they.

The problem isn't terrorists, it's idiots flying drones in dangerous places. Like that one that forced the fire-fighting planes to be grounded.

He'd have to beat off the Doge guy first though!

Because they suck!

Also CS isn't "programming" so you don't even have to teach any language in year 1.

Who are these tech CEOs and board members that are renting out office property?

This claim gets repeated all the time but there's never any evidence of this supposed conflict of interest. The only case was with that WeWork dipshit and well that's no longer an issue.

They can just be dumb and/or control freaks.

Anyway. How's the weather?

Electricity isn't 34 euros/kwh in Cyprus https://countryeconomy.com/ene...

Also these heaters work in winter when it's cold and, less well, even when cloudy. Worst case, you fall back to whatever other heater.

Lots of sunny sunny countries do not, in fact, use these solar heaters as much as they could be.

If you don't, just use Firefox then? Which still exists?

Hardly anyone uses Firefox though, so it might be worth experimenting a bit rather than continuing to do what doesn't work.

Like the United States?

Well they've been around and not that many people bought them.

It's great if it fits your usage. I think it would be nice for my parents too, who mostly just need to go the next town over or to the shops etc.

The problem is that paying 20k EUR for a tiny electric car with limited range and slow charging isn't a very attractive proposition for most. It's almost double what the ICE version costs which is pretty efficient and can still be used for a long highway trip if you need that occasionally. Not to mention used options, for like $5k you could get a Yaris or Honda Jazz or something like that.

Yeah and I drive a 20 year-old Miata but I think we're the exception. The average new car costs almost $50k which is plenty of budget for an EV.

I'm not buying an EV either because the Miata costs basically nothing to run, but how are EVs any more "disposable" than anything else. They've now been around for at least a decade and other than some shitty Leafs with shot batteries, they're still driving around fine.

MS has been doing this for years, even the summary says from like 2015. Ten years lol.

Most of the control panel functionality has been moved to the new UI a while ago and it's not really necessary to go into the old CP UI. Some of the more obscure settings still launch the old applets but at this point the control panel as such can probably go away fairly safely.

Of course some people will whine about it but they'll also whine if Windows is using some UI from the 90s too.

Got a used one a few years back with a known fault that could be fixed by soldering a resistor.

I certainly could've rolled my own but I'm glad I didn't. It "just works" out of the box but still has enough flexibility to run whatever services you want, as you can run VMs or Docker containers. Happy I went with the 4-bay model and started with 2 drives, I ended up using 1 more older drive as a non-redundant storage for media, and still have one slot to expand the array.

It's an older Atom CPU which doesn't have hardware encode or AI acceleration and is in general somewhat slow, but not bad enough to be a problem for its intended use. Newer models would of course address this.

Yes.

But also the US like most Western countries have levels of bureauacracy, studies and reviews. And of course things like environmental impact studies are important and all, but holy shit.

As a fun example, someone showed me the Vermont BRT project in LA that I now keep going back to. They initially started a study in 2011 to identify the candidate locations. They indentified Vermont in 2013 and and today... nothing has been built 13 years after they started.

IT'S A FUCKING BUS LINE. Sure, for BRT you might need to build some new stops but c'mon. The estimated completion for BRT was 2028 and who knows if that's on track, and 2067 for rail. Twenty sixty seven. Like half of the population won't live long enough to see... an urban light rail line. Not fusion power.

Not trying to shit on this specific project, they seem to be doing all they can to move faster, but the overall system is just nuts.

https://threadreaderapp.com/th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's really funny because Americans always manage to find excuse for their dogshit infrastructure.

I think last time it was about the electrical grid. After some back and forth discussion, it turned out that the population was, at the same time, too dense, but also not dense enough to support a robust grid.

Really weird how it always happens to be JUST the exact conditions where better things aren't possible. The whole country is too big to cover with rail, but the North-East or California are already too built-out to allow new rail, and the land isn't perfectly flat and empty anyway. So I guess nothing can be done.