Entirely valid and I agree that continual growth is right at the heart of most of our problems. I guess most of my frustration comes from the fact we’ve had at least 40 years of warning, 20 more years of proper, severe warning and promises for action and now that we’re seeing day in, day out that all the warnings were right, we’re still not moving with any real purpose. I genuinely thought that COVID would show us what we need to do and how we could do it but nope, slipped right back into business as usual.

That wasn’t always a thing. This is a new and rapidly evolving area with issues that will be solved. Hell, battery chemistry is changing rapidly already. ICE cars have been death traps for most of their life and are still at higher risk of going in flames and just as violently, case in point the car carrier that went on fire that everyone just knew was an EV, wasn’t. It was a shitty old ice. Luton Airport too. Everyone knew that was a. EV. Was a shitty old diesel and that car park suffered serious structural damage because of it. In addition the AA claim that the majority of ICE fire are because of the 12v battery. None of this is new it’s just different.

We don’t have time to perfect and mature the tech though. That was 40 years ago. Now it’s whatever fucking works that isn’t fossil fuels and burning of them. It’s a damn sight safer than an ICE which is actually carrying extremely combustible liquids in it too. It’s not perfect but it’s better and this kind of " we have to hold off" is effectively supporting the status quo which is fuckig everything up as it is.

Can confirm. Have become a total energy nerd. Want more solar. Want heat pump. Watch how much we spend and how much we make every day. Tell everyone about it and have no shame. It’s a hell of a drug.

Good news. I installed 14 last year and expected if all went well to have them paid off in 12-14 years. Going by the last 10 months it will be less than 6. That’s from a combination of savings (1/3 of the energy bill) and also selling the excess to the grid (£164 worth so far) and all of Ttat’s at 55-ish degrees North too on a not ideal roof. Anywhere south of me should absolutely have them covering their roofs, there really isn’t a good reason not to.

Next up is top up insulation and replace the boiler with a heat pump. Possibly a second battery.

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Oh look. It’s this one again. Honestly that list is like the worst fanfic from the people who would be banned by the horney hammer. Stop being suckered in and let the stories an characters tell their own story. You know why no one goes on about this shit in Star Trek? Because it’s not supposed to matter. Aspire to this.

I just started watching this again this morning. It’s a huge slab of nostalgia for sure, the music is cracking and some of the art styling and designs are ace but I’m not sure if it’s actually any good. It’s hard to separate the nostalgia from the critical thinking.

Let them get back on track with their DLCs and then we’ll see the money printer whir back into life. Paradox gonna paradox.

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Edinburghlive is a shit rag BTW. It’s a clickbait farming site, always has been be careful with trusting it.

https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-5?variant=42531604955331

£59.30 for the 4gig. £79 for the 8gig. No idea why people are going off thinking they need to spend £165.

Pre-order info page with dates etc:

https://support.thepihut.com/hc/en-us/articles/13847961024925

Because tribalism! If you don’t think like me then you’re the enemy and must be told that you are. Classic reddit lemmy.

You inferred.

This is what I do when it and about.

So, when are we changing this forums name from Technology to it’s actual purpose of late “every click and rage bait post about Tesla and Musk so people can circlejerk worse than reddit”?

And then all the people cheered and raised me aloft on their shoulders and made me their king. Which was nice.

One of those spinny things on a stick outside or by that orange ball in the sky.

Do the sums for a petrol car and then do the for any EV. Spoilers EV is always lower. And a EV only gets cleaner but an Ice still burns oil in some fashion for the rest of its life and burns it worse. I swear Americans are quite possibly the worst and most tribalistic people on lemmy

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