I would argue that even if you did get a used one with new batteries, you'd still face degradation down the line and additional problems that would or could be mitigated in older ice cars which are much more likely to have replacement parts available (even if those replacement parts don't come from the same type or brand of vehicle). For instance. I know for a fact that there's a trend of using Honda engines in older first Gen mini coopers. Buying a rebuilt engine has the potential to be pretty cheap.
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What feed. My Facebook exists to face tank all the photos my MIL shares. That's it. I don't like... Use it. Open it? Scroll the feed? Absolutely not. Don't have insta. Don't have messenger.
I use it to charge my work phone in the field if I need to. I've also used it to charge my headphones or similar (also in the field). I always feel like there's lots of use cases people miss because they don't use a feature so they don't care if other people do.
I don't care. Mostly because we already have examples of what classes were like without them and the people who are reliant on them now will adapt and learn to cope if they're taken away.
Additionally, people only think about what phones could be used for in class that they'd disapprove of, rather than things it might actually be useful for. I've personally had great success with recording lessons/lectures, and being able to refer back to them. This allowed me to ask more questions and take more time to understand the subject. Taking photos of diagrams? Awesome. Having a note document that I could reformat that was legible? Awesome.
The average car in the US is 12 years old. That average is higher in other countries. But regardless, that's not because cars are unfixable. It's because most people opt to buy a new or newer car when they feel like the vehicle they currently own is more expensive to fix than they'd like and a lot of that has nothing to do with the longevity of the vehicle and everything to do with how vehicle purchase can be financed vs how car repair can be financed.
It also has a lot to do with people who don't or won't fix things before they snowball, and or become astronomically expensive problems. Taking care of a vehicle is about doing regular maintenance (which most people don't do), and getting at the very least an annual inspection (which most people also don't do unless they're forced to).
I won't be buying a new car ever. I can say that with absolute certainty. I have rehabbed my current car in just about every way I can. Machined/honed block, new valves, new piston/lan rings, new head gasket, new water pump, new thermostat housing, new valve cover, new injectors, rebuilt transmission with new clutch, all new hoses, all new gaskets, new HP fuel pump. I will continue to do so because to me it's worth it. Doner cars are readily available, but I probably won't need one specifically because my car is considered and enthusiast car. I have walked into a dealer and ordered parts and my car is 15 years old. I also owned a 20 year old version of this car with the same ability to order parts directly from the dealer.
Most people aren't buying used unless they have no choice. They will continue to buy new cars regardless of the controversy surrounding them.
I think it's a bit disingenuous assume that older cars will not be available. Especially considering that the EV's that are new right now aren't going to survive 25 years without costly repairs of their own. I'd salvage an engine from an older car. I wouldn't salvage a battery pack from an older car.
Not worth the cost of admission. The amount of money it costs to refurb that battery pack is still too high.
It is a reason to not buy a new car which means people who aren't buying new cars won't be buying EV's.
Doesn't look like it would affect a system that doesn't run copilot, but I'm not positive of that based on what I read from the linked blog.
Pretty much. We all know this isn't about protecting kids, it's about over policing people and invading their privacy.
A tech savvy child who can Google free vpns.
https://lemmy.world/comment/18865484 Your welcome to read my other comment, but I doubt you are knowledgeable about this subject.
If you are woried about the swap I'm sure care exaust and tires particles which are know to damage environement a lot. Trains are electric so at least polution will be localized near power plants and thoose can be eventualy replaced by renewables.<
Okay. So firstly, "the swamp" is an important and endangered part of the environment. It absorbs flood water and run off, it is a sink for greenhouse gasses, and it absorbs a lot of the toxic pollution from cars including exhaust particles and the shed particles from tires. In Florida and Georgia specifically, flooding is a major factor in the civil engineering and design of roadways and population centers, and the elevation is mostly at or below sea level. Both of these states are prone to weather patterns that lead to storms, hurricanes, flooding, and tornados
There is 4 lanes, you can remove one or two and set train tracks which don't have a lot of constraints compared to cars due to train wheel being steel and having better adherence.<
So we're not just talking about one set of rail on I95?
I'm going to preface what I say next with two points. One, there is already a rail system down the East Coast (including the east coast of Georgia and Florida), with an Amtrak line that runs stops between Georgia and Orlando Florida. Two, at least part of that railroad line is endangered because a lot of the East Coast, including parts of Georgia and Florida is sinking due to salt water intrusion.
Additionally, I95 (one of the major interstate highways that runs from through Georgia and Florida) is also running along the eastern coast and is endangered more and more every year because of the same salt water intrusion and sinking coast line.
There's two options for rail. Diesel powered rail which would require refueling stations or at the very least places to store the fuel. But I doubt that's what people mean when they say passenger rail. This would add to traffic (fuel delivery and maintenance isn't going to be done using this train) because trucks would be required to carry that fuel.
You'd also still need to build ingress and egress points for the rail, things like park and ride, things like stations, things like dropoff areas. This will have to be in addition to what is already there because what you're expecting is that more people in Florida/Georgia will use rail rather than drive. So no. We aren't just taking two lanes off a highway and dropping in some railroad tracks. That's not how that works.
To move the same volume of people in the event of a tropical storm, hurricane, or flood, a train has to be able to be powered. So I'm going to assume (since most people who argue for trains are people who think it'll be more environmentally friendly) that we're talking about electric rail. Meaning you're going to need electricity to power those rail lines. What happens when power isn't available? Where do we put electrical substations? Where do we put the rest of the infrastructure to support the rail? I'm guessing we're clearing swamp land for that.
People who still need a car for whatever reason<
Evacuation due to weather is a big one. Can you evacuate on the train? If it's running, sure. Should you? Questionable. Is it easier and are you more likely to be able to take things with you that you don't want destroyed in a different vehicle? Pets? Old people with equipment like wheel chairs and other aids? And before you go "of course!" I'm going to remind you that buildings that are fully up to fire code expect paralyzed people to just figure it out. Elevator? Don't use the elevator. Stairs? Guess I'm dragging myself down the stairs if I'm able bodied enough to do so. My multi-thousand dollar piece of medical equipment? Unless someone is willing to help me drag it down serval flights of stairs, the recommendation is to leave it. And it may not be reimbursed or replaced by my insurance company. Assuming I have insurance.
Tickets on the train that is already available? $140 a ticket one way.
High speed rail doesn't pay for itself, and to get Floridians to use it you're going to need to make it affordable. This will raise the taxes of Floridians just to build, and they don't pay state income tax. Meaning this is going to be paid for using federal funding (which Trump has cut repeatedly in the last 6 months), sales tax, tax on titles and tags, and property tax which sounds great until you realize that those people who still need cars when and if this is built will absolutely still use cars, and the people paying the property tax will fight this to the death.
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theythe "in good faith" bit and respond to it but I'm trying really hard to be chill about this since I'm obviously not talking to someone with any background data for this subject, up to and including anything about Florida, and its water table, or it's elevation compared to sea level and the kind of storms and acts of nature it normally gets.There are other factors too, but I've spent enough time on this specifically.
So if you would like to continue this conversation in good faith, do some research please.
So what you're saying is you advocate for the government to clear swampland (fuck the environment I guess), and continue to disenfranchise Native American peoples because you want high speed rail so badly?
Yeah. Yeah. I know you didn't say that. But that's what can be extrapolated from your assertion that the government and billionaires could if they wanted to. Don't normalize this shit. It's wrong for the government to seize things that don't belong to it regardless of the purpose they plan to use if for.
Just curious about what your thought is here? How straight are the roads? How often do they have to be resurface or maintenance? Just because there's a road or highway, the area must be able to support high speed rail?
ItOr even regular speed rail? Should they continue to clear swamp land in order to erect high speed rail? Is the plan here to usurp the highway for high speed rail? If so, what happens to those people who still need a vehicle in order to get where they're going? What happens if they need that highway?"The Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre (177,000 ha), peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida line in the United States. A majority of the swamp is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee Wilderness. The Okefenokee Swamp is considered to be one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia and is the largest "blackwater" swamp in North America." -Wikipedia
Add to this Indian Reservation land, National Park/Preserve/ Wildlife Refuge land, the Everglades, other swamp/marshland, etc and you start to see that there's several environmental challenges to a rail system from Georgia to Orlando Florida.
My advice (even if you do decide to use a separate device for gaming) is to get rid of anything that does telemetry, tracking, ad service, or AI. If you have a pro version or enterprise version of windows 11 you can use Group Policy Editor to remove or disable a lot of stuff and what is left is usually taken care of by Registry Editor in the command line. You can find many guides online that will walk you through how to debloat and remove a lot of the stuff MS uses to track you. I recommend this for anyone who uses windows.
There's also a lot of stuff you can turn off from the setting menu that may help if you're privacy conscious. It also might not hurt to make your account local rather that one attached to outlook or MS services (I recognize this may not be possible depending on what you use for work).
You may also want to try a different distribution of Linux that's specifically made for gaming. I don't know what kind of graphics card you have but the proton compatibility layer has been getting better overtime and so you might give that a shot.
I have fiber internet. I don't understand this question. Are you suggesting that nowhere in the US has this technology? Like. This situation (where a private company sues a state, county, municipality etc to stop the rollout of fiber internet (or even another private company) happens so frequently that it's unreal.
There's plenty of places that already have fiber. And those private companies for the most part want to continue growing that user base by rolling out fiber in new markets.
And if it's the state actually controlling the rollout that's better than them just paying a private company to do it? If this weren't a threat to Musk and Starlink he wouldn't be suing.
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I don't think you're really addressing what I said. You took one thing out of it you didn't like to argue about and left the rest as if it didn't exist.
There is nothing stopping this establishment (regime, government, whatever you want to call it) from deciding that the Real ID is the only valid government ID and that state ID or Driver's License isn't a valid form of identification. You posit that the Real ID could in some way be invalidated or change the rules making it unstable for things like voting or identification in certain circumstances and that this is a reason to get a passport or a State ID.
This neglects states where it is illegal to have both a state ID and a driver's license, people who can't afford both, people who can't afford a passport etc.
Most state websites will mention somewhere that a state ID acts as a form of identification within the state. Meaning the federal government could absolutely not consider it a valid form of identification. Other states aren't even required to take your state ID as a valid form of identification.
You're also neglecting that plenty of states haven't enacted a mandatory Real ID program yet or it hasn't gone into affect yet, however that may happen in a year, two years etc and so not getting a Real ID upon renewal will end up costing them more money they don't necessarily have.
Your reasons for not getting a Real ID aren't even particularly clear and you didn't answer any clarifying questions.
What makes the Real ID more dangerous than a State ID or Passport?
How much more expensive is it to get a Passport than a Real ID?
Is the process to receive a Real ID in some way more of a risk to personal privacy?
If it is a risk, what are the risks to personal privacy while getting a State ID or Passport?
Is there a reason to believe that this regime or one in the future will preclude Real ID from being used to prove things like citizenship status or voting rights?
You left out the part where they wanted to express how much fun they were having.