I got a surprising amount of use out of a similarly configured C720 as a general purpose portable machine.

Have you never heard the phrase “died peacefully in his sleep” or “at least it was quick”?

Musk coveted Twitter, and we all know how well that went…

Essentially no processors follow a standard. There are some that have become a de facto standard and had both backwards compatibility and clones produced like x86. But it is certainly not an open standard, and many lawsuits have been filed to limit the ability of other companies to produce compatible replacement chips.

RISC-V is an attempt to make an open instruction set that any manufacturer can make a compatible chip for, and any software developer can code for.

Built in fuses protect only downstream of where the fuse is. The supply flex is therefore not protected, despite often being the most damaged part.

Local fusing provides notable advantages, even without ring finals. In particular, one failed appliance doesn’t necessarily take out the whole circuit, and lower draw appliances can be more closely fused (e.g. 3A) reducing available fault energy.

Kinda yes, kinda no. There have certainly been times, particularly after 9/11 and various crises, when demand dropped significantly.

There’s also airliners that just haven’t sold well. A340NG, A380, 747-8, 767-400, the MD-11, until recently the Cseries/A220. The A330neo has also not sold particularly well and you could probably get a slot within a year easily.

The question is, does an orange head on a spring truly count as a Heathcliff?

You’re better off putting the panel somewhere where it always gets sun, and isn’t extra weight you have to haul around.

Leafs have battery packs with no active heating or cooling, which significantly impacts their performance in bad weather and when fast charging. Coupled with very small packs in the early models, and you have a recipe for a bad experience.

Bear in mind also that the extra weight and possibly aerodynamic compromises actually reduce range. In some cases, particularly at night, in poor weather, and at high speed, the panels would be a net negative.

They would only be useful if your car sat around in the sun for long periods without access to a charger.

And the Blackadder equivalent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6mJw50OdZ4

Does anyone know if it’s possible to watch the whole episode in video form? It seems like it’s either full episode audio only, or video highlights.

I’ll take ‘Violations of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act’.

Ehh. Plenty of places you can go buy land and try, but you need a decent population mass (i.e. commune) to actually be somewhat self sufficient. Without money, you’re not going to be buying any tools, construction materials or any other supplies.

Medical treatment also ends up being questionable - if you’re in the US, you probably get nothing unless you’re about to die. If you’re elsewhere, other people’s taxes pay for it…

Lemmy.ml has a whole bunch of swear filters.

HDMI and DP do not carry their signals in the same way. HDMI/DVI use a pixel clock and one wire pair per colour, whereas DP is packet-based.

“DisplayPort++” is the branding for a DP port that can pretend to be an HDMI or DVI port, so an adapter or cable can convert between the two just by rearranging the pins.

To go from pure DisplayPort to HDMI, or to go from an HDMI source to a DP monitor, you need an ‘active’ adapter, which decodes and re-encodes the signal. These are bigger and sometimes require external power.

Waze is of course owned by Google…

Well, there is an ‘if true’. And it’s hard to prove a negative.

At least this one seems kinda skeptical about what they read and wants to find the actual statute.