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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Why would it be more of a luxury? Fuel and maintenance should be cheaper, and with proper investments the cars should be cheaper as well. A lot of the battery research right now is showing batteries that could last say 1,000,000 miles. If you get decent standards for such, you could have parents getting a new car and moving their old battery into a cheap EV for their teenager. If it had 200,000 miles on it, they can keep moving it to their next vehicle, and next vehicle if they keep wanting to get new features. The average American drives 14,000 miles a year. In theory they can pass that battery down to their teenager as well, but at that point it’s probably better to just recycle it or use it as a backup generator for the home.

    Making repairable, recyclable, reusable batteries takes one of the largest costs down by a long shot.

    Notre; Obviously batteries don’t last miles, but for sake of this discussion it made sense to put it this way




  • I’m hoping for a small handheld unit that has cellular. As someone who doesn’t use Nintendo usually, basically a mini-switch2 with cellular that I can install my own os (maybe steam is, not sure yet) I won’t love it

    Edit: mobile is only mobile if you can walk with it, if it doesn’t have cellular, it’s a cordless phone. (Maybe I’m old, but cordless phones can’t leave the living space and work)


  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldOPtoTechnology@lemmy.worldBest Phone I've Ever Had
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    I had my LG Rumor2 at that time, but that was just me. It fell out of my pocket going 45mph on a highway, survived… I opened a cooler at Sam’s club and the moisture made the screen no longer flip and die. It was sad, but I enjoyed every phone I’ve had… Each has their pink sun glasses. But I must say… Never have I sat a flagship on the shelf and just used a phone with a cracked screen that is only 1/5 the price till now. I spent to much time focused on what features were, and the last year I have learned what use is like. I see 0 reason to use the pixel 9 pro, when it maybe runs laps supposedly around this. I had to change settings to make my spouse (Samsung 24 user) even able to think that phone was usable. (She doesn’t want gestures, there are no dock buttons by default).

    Force quitting an app is like figuring out thermodynamics… As someone who studied thermodynamics. Rediulous









  • I have 2 50ft strands I bought on clearance of LEDs, they don’t create much heat either. So much so I actually used 40ft of one strand in a Styrofoam cooler that came from a Christmas present (food) as my incubator for chicken eggs. I ran the cord outside the box laid the round part in the box and pulled the end out until I got the temperature I wanted. 40ft of LED’s in the box left me at 100f/37.7c. perfect for the eggs basically. Point being… They have been on for a year now without issue, use little electricity, and even in an insolated box, create fairly minimal heat.

    Think I paid $15 on clearance for both sets at Walmart January 3rd or something.

    The other I strung up at indoor decor that rarely gets used.