I really don’t think charging EVs from regular outlets is at all realistic for the vast majority of people.

Unless you live on the ground floor, you’d have to drag a long ass cable through one of your windows. One of my neighbours actually does that, but just imagine everybody doing it. Not to mention the grid would most likely be unable to handle the load.

I’ve never seen public outlets, aside from USB ports in public transport, so I doubt it’s a thing.

Honestly sounds like a reasonable idea, and not just for EVs. The problem is that more and more countries are steadily moving away from public goods, so every building/complex would have to organize it individually.

Arguably, EVs work even better for places that don’t have infrastructure. Which is easier? Building a network of fuel stations (which need electricity) and keeping them supplied or putting in solar panels in people’s villages?

Absolutely, agreed. But keep in mind the fuel stations are already there, because most countries spent the last 150 years building them everywhere.

It’s an unfair comparison, of course, but it’s also impossible to make a fair one. As it stands, pretty much all developed and a lot of developing countries are already well connected when it comes to gas stations. It’s a lot cheaper and easier to keep them going, than it’d be to replace them all with EV equivalents.

Then there’s the question: does it really make sense to spend the next 50 years upgrading all that infrastructure? When, at least in Europe, public transport is already present everywhere and well developed?

Would it not be a whole lot easier and cheaper to just get rid of fuel stations, and keep expanding public transport, which emits dozens of times less CO2 per passenger than cars do?

Now, obviously, there are still uses for personal vehicles, even if public transport is great. It’s not a question which one to focus on exclusively, but which one to propritize.

Those will be able to add significant amounts of range each day using just the solar panels on the roof.

If this can be done well, then yeah, infrastructure problem kind of solved. Then you’d just need to wait for people to upgrade their existing cars, and afterwards all that gas infrastructure is basically redundant.

(most, maybe even nearly all, people have or can have a way to charge at home)

What? Most people where?

I live in a fairly rich European country, and EV chargers here practically don’t exist. Almost everyone lives in apartment buildings. If you’re lucky, yours will have 1 or 2 chargers in the underground parking lot or somewhere close by outside.

It’s even worse in Eastern and Southern Europe. Outside of North America, Europe, and China, EVs, as well as chargers for them, don’t exist at all.

Are those ‘most people’ you’re talking about actually just <5% of human population that happen to live in North America or Western Europe, and happen to be wealthy enough to afford that?

I, too, have spent my childhood in a country where the PSP was greatly more popular than the DS (or any other Nintendo console).

Looking back on it, I really don’t think the PSP was at all impressive. But it definitely showed there’s great interest for handheld consoles, especially in countries where Nintendo wasn’t really selling theirs.

Earlier this year I got a 3DS for the first time, and it quickly became one of my favourite systems of all time.

I don’t have any DSes, and I don’t think I’m going to spend money on one, since a 3DS can play all DS games. I know it’s not a perfect experience, but it’s more than good enough for me.

Why does it look like a Fall Guys character

Personally, I just don’t see any point in developing anything for closed platforms like MacOS or iOS.

At the end of the day, you’re just making Apple more money for free, on very bad terms. They have all the control; you’re just an unpaid intern.

Who knows when Apple will stop supporting half the libraries your project relies on?

Instead, you can develop for open platforms, which genuinely makes the world a slightly better place. In addition to you having a guarantee the project won’t have to shut down overnight.

So when I hack a bunch of companies, I go to court, pay fines, and potentially face prison time, regardless of if I notify them kindly.

But when OpenAI does it, they get… congratulations and more investment? Is that how it’s supposed to work…?

She’s just one of countless American assets ruining the entire EU from the inside.

All that scum belongs in camps in Siberia.

So the European Comission will not act on the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative, because it wants to focus on deregulation, because apparently current regulations are too much of a burden on businesses (source needed).

And the same European Comission is perfectly fine implementing new regulations for the purposes of… ruining everything for everybody and establishing close to the most totalitarian regime in existence right now?

See, there’s always space for new regulation, as long as it benefits the oligarchs, and nobody else but the oligarchs!

This is one of the very few areas that AI is really beneficial to. Probably because it includes a lot of backwards engineering and rewriting instructions for different architectures.

You know… the kind of manual labour AI was supposed to handle, so that we could focus on more important tasks. And precisely what 99% of actual AI usage isn’t for.

I’m not very familiar with the project, but their GitHub repo shows Claude as top 3 contributor by commits, and top 11 by additions, so clearly it’s being heavily used.

If you want to check for yourself:

• https://github.com/sharpemu/sharpemu/graphs/contributors?selectedMetric=commits

Have you even read the website you’re linking?

I went through it, and there’s nothing of note there. It basically boils down to somebody calling a bunch of people weirdos, with some arbitrary claims, and links to irrelevant, even contradictory information.

On August 3rd, 2026, Louis posted a video about openly transgender Colorado state representative Brianna Titone, and in the YouTube comments posted a remark explaining his position on transgender issues, which can be paraphrased as “I think transgender women are men but I’m willing to overlook it if we have common cause”.

The ‘source’ provided here only links to the video. Good luck reading all the 423 comments, and figuring out which one is him saying anything close to that paraphrased statement.

They’re also calling Louis a weirdo for being an associate of Eron Wolf. And if you go to Eron Wolf’s entry, he’s a weirdo, because… he’s an associate of Louis Rossmann. Yeah, that’s makes perfect sense.

Eron is the modestly wealthy founder of FUTO, an organization that funds software projects. He doesn’t like the Open Source Definition (…)

This is one of the few technically accurate claims on the page, but it’s manipulative. The relevant part of FULU’s statement is:

Our use of the term “open source” thus far has been not out of carelessness, but out of disdain for OSI approved licenses which nevertheless allow developers to be exploited by large corporate interests. The OSI, an organization with confidential charter members and large corporate sponsors, does not have any legal right to say what is and is not “open source”. It is arrogant of them to lay claim to the definition.

I think it’s perfectly reasonable.

I’m guessing the website author is hoping you won’t actually click any of the links, because none of them support their claims or the points they’re trying to make.

I’d say this just looks like a billionaire-funded smear campaign.

I would rather give Signal my phone number than use a smartphone with Google services.

Yes, the Comission is a problem, but sadly, it’s not the only problem.

The European Council is just as big of an issue. It’s mostly made up of member states’ heads of state/government, so technically it’s democratically elected, except the Comission’s president who also gets a seat there, for whatever reason.

However, members of the Council almost always push for their countries’ best interests, instead of the EU’s as a whole. And they’re an even bigger issue when they happen to be anti-EU, like about half of the current Council.

Which essentially means the only EU body that is fully democratically elected, and elected on an EU level is the Parliament. Which coincidentally has the least influence, and which isn’t free of its own issues either.

The Parliament’s current president - Roberta Metsola - appears to be friends with some American billionaires, and her husband is the head of an American lobby.

Does that sound like a conflict of interests? Well, that’s probably because it is. Usually, all MEPs are legally required to disclose such conflicts of interests, but for some reason she never had to.

In case you may be interested, she’s also anti-abortion, part of Malta’s nationalist party, and one of the main pushing forces behind Chat Control.

Read more here: https://www.politico.eu/article/roberta-metsola-lobbyist-husband-ukko-european-parliament-president-transparency/

When a citizen’s initiative presents a serious issue, gets a record number of signatures, and provides some good, easy to implement solutions - the European Comission says it’ll do nothing, because it wants to focus on deregulation.

The same Comission is perfectly fine with implementing new, insanely vague and/or complicated laws that benefit literally nobody other than big tech companies, at the expense of everyone else.

And then the same Comission wonders why anti-EU sentiment is growing.

We’re slowly but steadily getting to a point where the EU has all the dystopian surveillance and control measures in place as China does, except without any of the benefits that come with them.

I’d say this is by far the biggest issue with EVs. Well, not necessarily with EVs, but with new cars in general, most of which happen to be EVs, and their share will only continue growing.

Sure, it’s a nice car, somewhat better for the environment, pretty cool. But it’s also a giant surveillance device that gathers more information on you than your smartphone, smart tv, and computer combined.

And it has a kill switch, too. If the government being able to remotely shut down your car wasn’t bad enough - this research shows that virtually any hacker may be able to do so as well.

His Windows being unlicensed makes perfect sense. Why would he give money to Microsoft? In fact, why would you?

As for the PC - there are no Russian PCs, so he has to use something foreign. DELLs are very solid, and great for the price if you get them refurbished.

Not as solid as Lenovo, which also has considerably fewer American companies in its supply chain. But maybe they just got a good deal on a bunch of DELLs.

Linux doesn’t have to be private or secure. Just look at Ubuntu.

Name one thing that can’t land you in prison in the US. I’ll wait.