The best argument against the blackout bit: Ukraine Every single used budget EV was bought up by Ukrainians when the war started. Nissan Leafs, older Hyundai Ioniqs, Renault ZoesGas stations were bombed and the whole logistic chain for delivering gasoline and diesel was disrupted or prioritised for the military But everyone had power at least for a part of the day, so they could charge EVs.
My dream car is one of those UN spec Toyota Land Cruisers that can run on any dirt water that resembles diesel and can be repaired with a roll of duct tape, a large spanner and a hammer in the middle of a jungle.https://www.offgridweb.com/transportation/toyota-gibraltar-the-secret-factory-that-builds-trucks-for-the-un/They don’t meet any emissions requirements though so they’re fully illegal in any western countries 😅
It’s literally a Raspberry pi 3B+ and a USB hard drive in a plastic storage box at my parents house 😅
They’re 100% going scorched earth if China manages to make landfallThey’ll literally put the world to a post-apocalyptic state, we can’t get new chips for any electronics in quantity for a good half decade or more.
A second offsite NAS (my old one) with the same capacity for the larger filesBackblaze B2 and a Hezner storage box for Really Important stuff.
Telegram has first party bot support, Signal doesn’t.That’s the #1 reason I still have Telegram installed.Let me have my own bot, officially, connected to Signal so I can do my nerdy automation shit through it and I’ll move over fully.Please don’t link me any of the “just use a prepaid phone and…” hacks. I don’t want that, I want first party support.
Do you believe you will still be working in said company in a year without using LLM?Are your skills so specific you’re irreplaceable? Or are you as productive without extra tools as your coworkers with them?
Online AI might crash, burn and go awayBut open weight local models are here to stay and not going anywhere. We’re not going back to pure intellisense and simple tab completes
The best argument against the blackout bit: Ukraine
Every single used budget EV was bought up by Ukrainians when the war started. Nissan Leafs, older Hyundai Ioniqs, Renault Zoes
Gas stations were bombed and the whole logistic chain for delivering gasoline and diesel was disrupted or prioritised for the military
But everyone had power at least for a part of the day, so they could charge EVs.