See what happened to Xiaomi bootloader unlocking for an example of this in action.

Usually these sort of studies include embodied emissions including all of the inputs that go into building the car. This article here: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-do-electric-vehicles-become-cleaner-than-gasoline-cars-2021-06-29/

focuses on new-to-new comparisons, but if you subtract the embodied emissions of around 8M tonnes of CO2 for the model 3, it looks like the break even point using the US electricity supply in 2021 is around 4.5 years. And that is probably a bit conservative given that:

• The energy supply has gotten cleaner since then
• It is compared to a Toyota Corolla which is a quite efficient petrol car (although bulkier SUV EVs etc would come out worse too so it depends)

Of course, it also depends on how much the car is used. If you use a used ICE car extremely infrequently the crossover point will be later.

Here’s a research article I have gotten around to reading yet but you may find interesting: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S095965262300269X

You might have to go to annas-archive and the like to get the content however.

Emissions from building a EV is from memory less than the emissions from continuing to run an ICE car after only a few years. And rapid adoption would encourage more renewables into the grid and in homes further increasing the EV advantage.

I think all of these have sdcard mods now (and the 360 had long had HDD mods from memory).

They’ll just shrug and say it was worth it. Like that kid that died from measles whose parents considered death to be a better outcome than getting the vaccine.

I think country TLDs don’t have WHOIS privacy protection if you care about that.

The risks of auto-updating now include “devs losing their shit” which has become increasingly common.

I like that matter provisioning requires verification of their certificate, but I don’t like that certificates can expire or the certificate authority can shut down. Although maybe that’s all taken care of by the DCL? In which case that’d be fine.

It’s also pretty obnoxious that it requires an Android phone with Google play services enabled (and even a Google login IIRC) or an iOS phone. There are ways around this, but they are pretty complex and not well documented.

Visual novels are well represented and sometimes more complete than their PC counterparts as it has become pretty dominant in Japan. Other than that, I’ve never really gotten into Nintendo’s first party games either. Somehow, they just don’t hold my attention.

Actually, if high oil prices stay for a long time, which I doubt they will, it might be a gain for environmentalists, as it drives down car use and up EV adoption

This is one of the few silver linings. As a consequence of the oil crisis in the 1970s, people purchased smaller cars for decades. Only after the memory started to fade did people gradually switch to the behemoths we see today.

If any ai Ia involved they will dismiss not only it but you and it’s a really irritating habit that is starting to emerge.

It’s perfectly understandable. It used to be that a project that had the appearance of a significant amount of work and polish put into it could be reasonably trusted. With the rise of LLMs, that assumption has gone completely out the window as people can churn out appealing looking slop in record time. In addition, LLMs are dominated by the most transparently evil tech companies in existence, and the fully open models aren’t yet good enough, and are still built on the backs of the absurd amount of energy usage used to train the models.

That all being said, I don’t think the OP is being malicious and I appreciate the disclosure but I’d give this project a year of maintenance before I would reasonably trust it.

I’ll add that often random appliances and the like are using Tuya firmware so people might not be going out of their way to buy explicitly Tuya devices but still want to use them with HA. Some of them can be flashed with ESPHome but it’s more likely to require soldering these days.

Once businesses were on board, Facebook hoped to sell them analytics tools, too.

Then once we’ve got them hooked, it’s Enshitttification Time!

I’m guessing the code is a broken mess and it would be not much more work to just remake it then fix said mess.

The main benefit of Matter is that it is split into two layers (Matter and Thread) where as Zigbee is essentially one layer that handles everything. This makes Matter more flexible, since it can work over both Wifi and Thread (and any future protocol at the same layer). At the moment there isn’t a huge advantage, but in the future if the standard succeeds, you would hopefully be able to buy most smart devices and use just one protocol (Matter) to control and integrate them.

At the moment, the main advantage I can see is that more wifi smart devices can be locally controlled because they have Matter support (which requires it). Which historically, was limited to HomeKit over WiFi, ESPHome/Tasmota flashed devices, and sometimes through Home Assistant integrations that found a way to locally control devices for a given company.

Because I didn’t really explain Thread, I’ll just quickly say that it’s a protocol much like WiFi and the “closer to the hardware” part of ZigBee. I’d prefer buying Matter over Thread vs Matter over WiFi devices, particularly if you’re planning to build out a Thread mesh network (the Matter over wifi devices won’t help in that).

I’m going to echo the zigbee recommendation for bulbs. Can be had for dirt cheap and work reliably (and there’s high end options too if you want that). And are fully locally provisioned and controlled.

Matter over thread is also becoming an option but the default provision option requires Google (including play services and an account) and they tend to be quite a bit more expensive.

I’m guessing it’s because he gently criticised Christian Nationalism, and Trump can’t allow that.

Streisand effect on their part, with the interview accumulating millions of views.

I’m not sure if there’s reliable ways to detect it automatically, but seeing if they have any sort of presence outside of where you are purchasing it would be a start. I’d normally say look on MusicBrainz but even if the bundle above is legit, it’s not the sort of music that would end up on there I suspect as the website owner appears to be the creator and there’s no obvious artist attached to it.

Anyway, that bundle seems suspect to me.

And the Black Mirror episode Be Right Back.