Talking about battery replacement for EV is like talking about engine replacement for ICE.

“Sure, ICE car are nice but the high cost of engine replacement after a few 100k km is a concern”

Batteries in today’s EV can last way longer than people expect, changing the battery is really not something that will be fine regularly, not more than changing the engine in current ice car.

My dog complains when we have a new bag of dog biscuit but still give her stale biscuit from the open bag.

Recording camera in public sources are subject to the EU law. You can’t install then without authorization and their use is reglemented.

I don’t know if it’s there case in all the EU but for example in France people need to be informed by a sign of a camera is recording the area, they can’t record the entrance of private houses …

We have that already: NASA’s Space Launch System.

It’s … debatable whether it gives better results than commercial contracts.

There is a french graphic novel from 1974 where the story is exactly that: people spend so much of their live in the car that the government device to just transform the whole country into a giant highway with oriole living in self driving car constantly moving.

There is a reddit post with the whole album there : https://www.reddit.com/r/Giscardpunk/comments/11e2kme/les_mangebitume_jacques_lob_et_josé_bielsa_1974/

It’s honestly quite negligible.

An ebike consumes around 0.5kWh/100km.

In this case I doubt they are trying to sell the piano. They are trying to make it look as expensive as possible so everything else in the store seems really cheap in comparison.

Let’s assume that you are genuinely asking the not a troll.

1. Do you really seriously think billionaires have issue finding money in general?
2. Let’s assume they’re some edge cases where someone is billionaire on paper but can’t raise cash. There was a discussion in France recently when the Zucman taxe was being discussed. In this case the billionaires still have the option to pay their taxes with non-voting shares of their company rather than cash. At this level of wealth you can negotiate deals with the government directly.
3. Last thing, the median household in the US pay around 13% of their wealth in taxes. So a 5% tax on wealth for billionaire would still be much much lower than what everyone else is paying.

You can join movim.eu as well, it’s hosted in Germany and the main maintainer is French

The Lemmy instance slrpnk.net automatically provide a XMPP account as well with the same ID and password as your federated address.

I’m in France.

Rural area can be walkable as well.

I’m living in a village (~1500 people), we have one car for 3 adults and the car is used maybe once a week on average.

Everything else is done walking or biking. Walking the kids to school taking a path along a steam of water, there is several bar and restaurants in the village center, a bakery, a small grocery shop, a local producers shop, a market, barber … I’m working remotely and I have a coworking space in the village as well.

The streets are always busy and everyone say hi to each other.

We just need to have less car centric spaces.

Je suis d’accord sur l’idée de séparer les deux machines, un ordi et un NAS. C’est ce que je ferais à la place d’OP (mais je ne suis pas OP)

L’idée de mélanger mon ordi perso et mon NAS me prend la tête rien que d’y penser ^^

Ça me parait tellement plus compliqué en termes de maintenance, pour gérer les accès, s’assurer d’avoir plusieurs backups et gérer la fiabilité du truc.

Mon NAS, c’est vraiment le truc que j’ai paramétré une fois il y a 6 ans et depuis tout tourne. Le seul truc que j’ai changé un peu depuis c’est le reverse proxy pour que toute la famille puisse y accéder à distance de manière sécurisée. Mon ordi à l’inverse, je change constamment des trucs dessus, mais je ne me veux surtout pas que ça impacte mon serveur de fichiers.

Et en termes de consommation électrique, je pense que OP y serait gagnant aussi.

Honnêtement, je pense que ça vaut le coup de sérieusement considérer l’idée même si ce n’est peut-être pas la bonne option.

It happened to me, I got contacted for an offer (I was working in a niche industry area).

They had above 50 candidates with the required qualifications. After two online interview they invited me for a onsite interview. It’s in another country so they are paying for the flights tickets and hotel.

I’m onsite for the day, I have interviews, visit of the place, the museum, I’m invited for lunch there, more interviews in the afternoon.

In the 3 candidates that were there, one was a guy who already candidated for the exact same opening 5 years ago, did not got selected for this job at the time but they did not want him to go so they hired him on another position until the main position opens again.

So without any surprises, he got selected.

Yes, you need to create an account to edit the map.

Like, a lot of information could simply be pulled from government databases. Yet OSM doesn’t seem to do that, often leaving out information that should be publicly available.

It is already the case, data is imported from public database with compatible licenses.

It does requires a lot of manual verifications and from my experience the data available is not always better than the data already available in OSM.

Then there’s the very weird thing that they don’t have any satellite view

There is satellite view for editing, depending on the area you usually have at least 3 different satellite imagery supplier that you can use for editing

what exactly is the aim of the project?

The main of the project isn’t to provide a final product usable by everyone, it’s to provide the data that can be use by any other app.

Maps have power, they’ve been used through the centuries by those in power as tools of propaganda and control. Today it is important not to let the big tech company have the monopoly on these tools.

Things might have changed since the last time you get to contribute to osm, you should try again. Open openstreetmap.org , click on “edit” and you will have immediately a tool that you can use for editing with satellite imagery. Or go to Tasks.hotosm.org to contribute to humanitarian projects using OSM

They’d beat a pregnant women to death for trying to get an abortion

If you are interested in creating a commercial product based on the Materials, please get in touch with Valve.

It’s the second line of the license file. So the license does not automatically grant commercial right but they are addressing straight away that they are open to the idea.

I don’t know in practice how easy it would be to get the right from Valve to commercialize a product derivated from these files.

I’ve noticed first hand the impact of environmental factors.

I moved from a place where I needed the car for EVERYTHING. This include taking off the garbage. Even going for a walk wasn’t possible without taking the car first.

Most of the food I was eating was imported (mainly from the US). I was able to find few local fruits and vegetable but choices are quite limited and the supply erratic.

Then I moved back to France, I now live in a small village where everything is available at a walking or biking distance. School, work, small grocery shop, bakery, doctor, pharmacy, coworking space, kids activity. I’m might be using the car once a week now.

There is plenty of farmers in the area with local produces and even supermarkets have a wide selection of decent fruits and vegetables but I prefer the local producers as I can.

I stopped working out, I have not purposely changed my eating habits but without any surprise I am in a much, much better physical shape now.

Yes, just like every new electrical generation method is steam, every new method of propulsion in space is throw something at the back as fast as we can.

The exception being Project Orion. The idea behind project Orion is to constantly drop and explode nuclear bombs behind the spaceship at a rate of 1 bomb per second. The explosion of the bomb would then push the spaceship forward.