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tankplanker

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  • BMW struggles to keep up with demand as new iX3 sells out through 2026

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  • Model Y is more than a generation behind now and it gets nowhere near the advertised range, Tesla are one of the worst for that. Obviously you aren't going to be getting 500 miles in real world driving in the other cars either but you will be a lot closer to the advertised range than the Tesla.

    The Volvo is working on about 4.4 miles per kwh, which seems extremely optimistic for anything but hypermiling in the summer. I am expecting about 425 miles in the summer, or about half that if towing.

    I tow with my Ioniq 5, just over half my annual mileage, so I have been waiting for this group to launch as its going to be a huge increase in range. The extra range means I can drive for four to five hours without a charge, which is more than I want to anyway as my (and my dogs) bladder wont last that long.

  • How important is a DE to you?

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  • Distro is more an alignment of philosophy between you and the distro. Something slowly updated but really stable? Debian. Something cutting edge, but with lots of guides? Arch, etc. etc.

    Any of them can pretty much run any shell, DE or WM, and as that's what you spend the most of the time interacting with, that's a more personal touch point. The distro is really just the package manager that you regularly interact with, and thats easy enough to hide behind something like topgrade.

    I have only used Sway for a few years and anything else feels bloated and slow to use to me now. I spent a long time tweaking to get it how I wanted both in terms of add ons and config, then setting the keyboard shortcuts that work for me. I even have a bunch of them configured on my actual keyboard on layers to make them even easier to activate.

    Its worth the investment for me as its now transparent to my workflow. I run the same config across all my machines and its been a stable config for the longest time. Long term stability is the key for me.

  • Hiromu Takahashi to leave NJPW

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  • Any ideas where he is off to?

  • Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquires xAI, merging his two most ambitious companies | CNN Business

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  • He is also tying it to a company (SpaceX) that the US government relies on, so in the event one of the other basket cases drags everything else down he is trying to ensure he will get bailouts. Any sensible and non corrupt government would just require the dead bits cut off, but we know that isn't what is in place right now.

  • Barnsley rebranded UK’s first ‘tech town’ as US giants join AI push

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  • "In the latest move in Labour’s drive to inject AI into Britain’s bloodstream, the government has announced four US tech companies – Microsoft, Google, Cisco and Adobe", ah, a complete scam it is then.

  • What's one lifestyle or hobby you wish you got in to but never did?

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  • Skiing is still top of my list for this but I know I would be too clumsy to do it at a level I would be happy doing. Plus I really really hate ski lifts and cable cars, they scare me to the point I will just avoid anywhere that relies on them to get about.

    Diving is something I want to do, but not yet made the time or money available to learn, I know I will at some point.

  • All aboard! UK's first rapid-charging battery train launches in London

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  • The fast charging at the platform is the most interesting thing here, three and a half minute top ups are up there for turnaround times. If it proves to not excessively degrade the battery with high number of charges then it makes much longer routes with charging points as and where local infrastructure can support a charging point. Would greatly reduce the cost and disruption to implement proper electrification for routes that would struggle to justify it otherwise.

  • How much do you pay for food each month?

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  • About £600 a month for two adults and one medium sized dog. Some shared stuff that my (adult) kids also use like cooking oil, milk, washing powder etc. also use. They buy their own meals and snacks to cook themselves.

    Thats cooking from scratch majority of the time, gluten free, which costs more.

  • The BBC’s proposal to switch off Freeview is a threat to its universal service | Letter

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  • If you look at the rate its dropping it will be close to zero in eight years.

    The people left could almost certainly get by with a 5G (or likely 6G by that point) setup properly, and the extreme edge cases left with sat based internet like Starlink.

  • The BBC’s proposal to switch off Freeview is a threat to its universal service | Letter

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  • Yes, thats clearly a common setup requirement for the majority of people on freeview who don't have more than 10 Mbps broadband.

    There are always edge cases, they are rarely helpful in understanding problems like this as the cost to support them far out weighs the number of people it helps. I would suspect if you means tested this group most would fall outside of qualifying for assistance anyway.

    I used to run 3 4k streams plus social media use for 4 adults on what was often 65mbps. You only need a reliable about 5 Mbps for a HD stream for iPlayer, the 10 Mbps more than covers this for the majority of people in this situtation.

  • The BBC’s proposal to switch off Freeview is a threat to its universal service | Letter

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  • Most of the research pushing against the switch off is driven by Arqiva, who runs the transmitters, lol.

    I cannot see how in 8 years the vast majority doesn't have some sort of suitable broadband just to exist let alone replace an old freeview set that will likely need replacing in that time frame anyway.

    We are already down to 3% of households now, and less than 50k households that do not get 10mbs+. In eight years we will have fixed almost all of that, and aged out a lot of the older demographic that has worse adoption.

    Cost aspect I get and agree with, we should be ensuring people on pension credit and other low income benefits get free broadband anyway, its getting increasingly difficult to interact with Government and Local Services without it.

  • Pornhub, YouPorn, Redtube, and other content sharing platforms will block new users in the UK starting next week(February 2)

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  • It was planned from the beginningas the real drivers behind the detail of the legislation, the security services, knew people would use VPNs and those have always been the main target.

    Its why the legislation was written in the first place. Most people's identity is already tied to their connection via big tech social media. Its the people who use VPNs they can lose track of.

    I would expect this to be a live requirement by the end of the year at the latest.

    Just be glad the client side scanning keeps getting rejected thats in the same legislation.

  • Pornhub, YouPorn, Redtube, and other content sharing platforms will block new users in the UK starting next week(February 2)

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  • Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows

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  • Loads of insecure people, most of the ones I see are vanity purchases for people.

    Even the majority of trades people are better off with a transit style van as its more weather and secure for tool/material storage while having a larger load area. Even landscapers do use vans in the UK, although not all annoyingly.

    Sure, farmers might find a 4x4 pick up cheaper and more reliable while good off road than a defender style vehicle, but that's about the only group who benefit from it.

    Even people that work at height such as those who work on lamp posts or power lines tend to have a specialized van or lorry with a lift built in than some shitty pick up.

  • How come some people can work 8 hours straight and then have energy to hit the gym, but if I walk for 1 hour in the treadmil all that I can is lay down for the rest of the day?

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  • I used to do an hour of power lifting in the morning, then after work, two hours of BJJ/Kickboxing/conditioning five days a week.

    I didn't start doing that, I built up to it over twelve hard months with heavy focus on base fitness and flexibility.

    Needed a complete change in diet and mentality to do so. My diet was totally focused on training for the longest time, stupid mix/maxing such as eating lentils over rice due to lower sugar content and higher protein content.

    It was also a massive help that I WfH and have a weights cage at home so that saved an enormous amount of time that I could reinvest in training.

    I cannot train that hard now as I am too old to recover from that much training but I did so for more than a decade. Now I just focus on lifting every other day with stretching/yoga in between.

  • Second lady Usha Vance announces she is pregnant with 4th child

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  • My money would be Elon, via IVF

  • French Art (No Insult)

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  • Spanish Punk

  • Public support for taxation crumbles when unfairness is revealed

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  • More than a few are temporarily embarrassed millionaires, some are unable to comprehend how tax brackets work, and some genuinely believe that the rich would flee if taxed to the same level as say the £100k to £150k bracket, and that this would be "a bad thing".

  • Hands-on: The Punkt MC03 might be the first privacy Android phone I'd actually try [Gallery]

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  • Yeah I saw that and closed the window.

    Their support for signal on their previous phone, my main use case to get one, was a bit spotty as well. If it does not work reliably then the phone is useless to me.

    I do not trust them to support the phone properly which is a real problem if you are expecting me to pay for said support on subscription.