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Cake day: July 11th, 2023
  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.workstoNews@lemmy.world•You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules
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    3 days ago

    Elections have consequences, everyone who stayed home and allowed Trump to be elected to two terms has enabled this.

    I honestly don’t know if the US will actually be able to recover from those 6 (and counting) years, as an Aussie it feels like we’re watching the equivalent of the Fall of Rome in real time.

    That bastard has managed to isolate you from your allies, line his pockets with billions of dollars, nearly bankrupt your country, destroy your military credibility, pollute your water, air & food, roll back your rights, and so much more.

    It will take at least a generation to undo this damage, and I don’t think there’s enough political will to do what would need to be done to arrest this decline.

    You will likely fall into oligarchy, to become another Russia in my lifetime. Just another regional brute, living off the fear and intimidation you were able to impose on your glory years.

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.workstoPC Master Race@lemmy.world•Great, now motherboard prices might be next to spike thanks to component costs increasing by up to 50%English
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    5 days ago

    I think it’s going to be a combination of factors - I remember there being some news a few years ago about a fresh water shortage in Taiwan straining PCB production.

    There’s definitely going to be some shift in IC component production too, to supplement the seemingly bottomless demand from data centres.

    Coupled with the fact that yes - customer demand is down quarter-on-quarter; they will need to lift pricing to make up for the shortfall in Gross Profits, in order to cover their fixed Operating Costs.

    So it’s literally a case of x + y = industry is pretty fucked.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if a few of the legacy brands, who haven’t already expanded/pivoted to peripherals and other markets will go out of business or be bought-out by private capital or competitors before the dust settles post-AI market crash.

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.workstoAustralia@aussie.zone•EV sales outpace petrol cars for first time as Australians dodge soaring fuel costsEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I’ll be the first to admit, the main tipping point for us was FOMO over the the novated leasing FBT getting reduced from next year onwards.

    Still waiting on delivery, but damned happy we finally pulled the trigger.

    Every time I do the back-of-napkin math (solar panels, home battery, EV) - it makes me smile.

    Especially while the electricity providers are offering overnight EV charging plans (5-8c/kW) - going to try and piggyback that into charging up the home batteries to cover our power bill during the day, which then gets topped up by the panels throughout the day.

    ~$2,500 saved on fuel a year, ~$500 a year saved on home electricity.

    That’s a significant chunk of change back in our pockets.

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.workstoAustralia@aussie.zone•Australia’s EV sales are skyrocketing. Our charging infrastructure may soon struggle to keep upEnglish
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    10 days ago

    These are called “range extenders”, and I’ve had some limited experience with them using a loaner BMW i3 a decade ago.

    The issue is, that it’s a bit of a “worst of both worlds” scenario: you’re always lugging around d the weight of two propulsion systems, impacting electric range. You also lose a tonne of storage space as a result, and there can be reliability concerns with stale fuel etc. if you don’t use the extender often enough.

    Toyota’s hybrids have been around for ages, and are a more “practical” implementation of this principle - but ultimately it’s all a bit of a fool’s errand in trying to rationally account for irrational range anxiety.

    We’re expecting delivery of our first EV a little later this year, but just knowing that all we need to do is plug the car in when we get home and wake up to a “full tank” the next day saves us so much time and hassle having to go to a servo every week.

    Ultimately as battery technology is rapidly improving, and will continue to do so as global demand skyrockets. The resulting density improvements, mean that EV range will surpass regular ICE vehicles in the next decade or so.

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.world•Sweetener used in chewing gum and jam linked to strokes and heart attacksEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Fun (?) fact, the reason why those sugarless Haribo Bears are so infamous isn’t because of Xylitol - but rather Maltitol.

    I’m pretty good with most artificial sweeteners, but anything more than ~10g of Maltitol over the course of a day creates the sort of farts that clears rooms - and anything approaching 20g causes such horrendous diarrhoea that I wouldn’t even wish it upon my most constipated enemies.

    Not to mention that Maltitol is also a bit of a bastard in that it still partially raises blood sugar levels - so most strict keto diets either abstain or count it as ~50% carbs.