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.

Probably time to either feed him and change his diaper.

My toddler too started screaming when we wanted one of these two things.

Steam released the CAD files of the Steam controller, on gitlab, under a creative Commons license !

I was on the edge about wanting to buy a steam controller but now definitely want one. I’ll keep an eye open for when they are back in stock.

Is that hard rock or piles of dust? 🤨

Yes

Ion thrusters are an example of electricity used for space propulsion.

In ion thrusters electricity is used to create a magnetic field that accelerate the propellant particles at very high speed. This way the propellant of used much more efficiently.

Edit: I forgot to mention that it’s not a concept, it’s actively used in a lot of satellites

In a crisis, every bike is a dirtbike.

In time of crisis bikes are THE best transportation mode.

15 years !

Haha, this is clearly engagement bait !

I remember these memes from when I was at university, which was only … 15 years ago. Fuck!

In Paris a lot of apartments had a cellar opening on the outside.

Like this one:

Unfortunately a lot of them have been removed since it’s much easier to have everything in the fridge at constant temperature and energy used to be cheap.

My dog would sit in front of is and whine of we don’t take the harness off after a walk.

Even without pumping, hydroelectricity is great to complement intermittent storage. A dam is storing a lot of potential energy that can be released or not at the right time.

There is a big dam close to where I live. In winter the level goes down progressively and as soon as spring comes back, the solar panels are producing again and the electrical demands goes down so the lake level goes back up progressively.

In summer the lake is full so all the tourists can enjoy the activities on the water.

When we believed the future would be better.

Now when we looked at the future we see climate change, rise of fascism some the world, destruction of the biodiversity …

the devices can be powered by on-site battery packs topped up by solar panels.

I believe this is the case for a lot of the very fast chargers, it’s easier to install batteries pack to smooth the consumption rather than upgrading the grid to handle the occasional peak consumption.

The possibility to easily change the USB port definitely weight in the balance in favor of a fairphone when I picked a new phone.

Now two other members of my family have a fairphone 5 as well.

English isn’t my first language so it’s hard to find the word to describe it.

It’s definitely a unique drink, very herbal. The green is not on the herbal side, the yellow a bit more on the spices like vanilla, liquorice.

The best way to drink it is to slowly sip it in a wide glass. Like a perfume, the flavor profile change with time. So the first sip will not taste the same as the second sip.

I sometime “forgot” a glass for an hour and two and when I came back it was a completely different drink, sill as delicious as the beginning.

On the expensive side, one recently seen this display in a monastery’s meeting room in France. 3m high, 5m wide filled with bottles of chartreuse, some more than a century old, some very rare editions where less than ten bottles were produced.

Any of these bottles could be sold for several thousands.

Wrong, there was a vote few months ago at the UN to make food a human right. Only two countries voted against it, the USA and Israel.

So the US don’t consider food to be a human right.

5 min charging, but 15 min to park the car, plug the car, find that you need to download an app, scan the qr code, download the app, create an account, verify your email, verify your phone number, no I don’t want a subscription, no don’t send me customized emails from your partners, enter the 10 number of your credit card, verify the paiement on the bank app, click on “start the charge”, it failed because the car was already plugged, unplug the car, redo steps 4-12, start the charge, plug the car and it’s finally started charging.

This is my biggest issue with EV charger, having to jump through all that to charge the car just because they want to have their app on my phone.

With today’s technology, we could just arrive at the station, plug the car and that’s it.

The station can recognize the car, could get the paiement data from a shared database between chargers and start charging both my car and my credit card automatically.