Not much different than it is now. Batteries are used by a large number of industries in a wide variety of products and mind bogglingly vast sums of money have been spent on improving them for the last century.

Two years ago? Cuz that’s how old this is.

Musk is only 53, I don’t think “geriatric” is a realistic description of him. Trump yes, but not Musk.

Assuming that any nuclear weapons involved are only targeted at Ukraine I don’t believe that Nuclear Holocaust follows immediately. The United States has a direct line to the Kremlin for things like this and I’m sure that the other nuclear powers do as well.

In this “Russia nuking Ukraine” scenario I think Russia would have a bigger problem with the Europeans than the United States. The Europeans would be seriously pissed off and both the French and the Brits are well able to respond with a range of economic, political, conventional, and even nuclear options.

China would be hella displeased too, and not solely because of Taiwan, but because they would have to immediately choose between supporting Russia or doing business with literally anyone else in the world as the economic sanctions applied to Russia and any of their allies would be immediate and total.

Russia isn’t going to launch because the only possible outcomes is their total isolation from all other nations or their complete destruction in nuclear fire. Putin knows this.

Bring it on bitches.

Samsung DeX shows since many years that a Android with a desktop UI is a possibility.

DeX is infuriating. It’s forever almost good enough to fulfill its promise of being a truly mobile desktop but somehow it’s never gotten there. The biggest problem now is that most android apps don’t present correctly in desktop mode, don’t behave intuitively, and / or look like ass.

Mastodon and open platforms will eventually win out in a divided social media ecosystem anyway, in my opinion.

No they won’t, Reddit killed Internet Forums, Threads has over 200 million active monthly users, and BlueSky already has double the number of users of Mastadon and is adding 10 new ones PER SECOND . Mastadon will be entirely irrelevant by the end of Q1 2025.

What we’re watching right now is the exact same fight that the chat platforms had back in the early 2000s. AOL chat vs IRC vs Yahoo Chat vs Microsoft Messenger. That was temporarily addressed by using multi-service clients like Trillian…and then Facebook rolled in and squashed them all. BTW there are several multi-platform clients out there right now that will allow you to interact with Xitter, Threads, BlueSky, and Mastadon simultaneously just like the Trillian of old.

I’ve been around the Internet since the BBS days and I can’t think of a single time where a de-centralized platform has out competed a centralized platform with “normal” users.

Make sure to actually understand how those “non-profit” websites and services are functioning.

Generally speaking if you aren’t the customer then you are the product. Individual Lemmy and Mastadon instances are getting around this for now because they are small enough that their operational costs can be covered by the ideologically motivated instance admins and users. If Lemmy or Mastadon ever gains wide popularity this will change.

Community search could be improved.

This isn’t a community search problem. I absolutely should NOT have to intentionally visit every single niche community that I am already subscribed too.

The USER needs a way to control their feed, either by throttling large communities or boosting smaller ones.

Let’s say I’m subscribed to [email protected] and [email protected] because I want to occasionally see news.

I have this exact problem and it’s maddening. Fucking “news”, which is mostly just political posts about how shitty Republicans are completely drowns out all of my smaller niche communities!

I don’t know how to fix the problem but the USER needs some way to control their feed. We either need to be able to throttle the larger communities or boost the smaller ones.

Walz was the better candidate.

Why is anyone usi5any of them? They’re all clogged toilets overflowing the same shit onto the flower.

The Biden Administration was “Round Two”, the return of Trump will bring Round Three.

50s / M / North America and I lived “Ye Old Days” when A/S/L was created.

It was a PITA to find because as always the Amazon Prime Video interface is 1000% trash however I can confirm that the Nickelodeon 24x7 TMNT cartoon channel is there. It’s currently playing “Venice on the Half Shell”.

Another vote for Reolink, especially the models with ONVIF support.

Now they’ll move away from EVs with support from the federal government.

Nah, the Big Three have quite a few EV and PHEV models coming over the next 24 months plus Volvo with PoleStar and VW with Scout and several more. EV’s aren’t going anywhere.

According to the sales data I can find Norway has about 130,000 new car sales a year. That’s about 1/4th of California’s 35% goal.

California is much higher scale and that was the point of my post.

I don’t understand the comments attacking Toyota when no auto manufacturer with the exception of Tesla can even get close to the goal. There are approximately 1.6 Million new cars sold in California every year so %35 percent of that is 560,00. Then the next year in 2027 the goal is 43%, and the year after that it’s 51% until by 2035, just 11 years from now, ALL new vehicles sold in California are required to be ZEV.

To give you some scope Tesla makes about 1.6 Million EVs a year globally and the “Big Three” made a piddling 200,000 or so COMBINED in 2023.

So the 2025 goal would require nearly half of Tesla’s entire global output to be sold exclusively in California and by 2027 it would require that PLUS the combined EV output of Ford, GM, and Chrysler. There literally wouldn’t be a single EV for sale anywhere else in the country.

We can scream and fling poo about the domestic auto makers dropping the ball but that doesn’t change the impossible nature of California’s regulations. I don’t see any way at all to meet the 2025 goal and nothing will have changed by 2026.

All this law is going to do is force buyers to out of state dealerships. That’s it.

Which is ironic because the United States has been dealing with the reverse problem for at least two years now! People get to Canada and then walk across the northern border and grab a bus / cab / uber into New York. Cash Jordan, a youtuber in New York City, did a video on this earlier in the year.