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I suppose that makes me an idiot?
Absolutely not.
All the cars you list have decent to excellent range.
The argument was primarily used early on in marketing to try to sell cars that were basically only fit as city cars. Cars with LESS than 100km range.
Obviously they didn't sell well, and this was tried for years until Tesla came out with the model S.
Then the competition scrambled, and made semi real cars, but still with less than 200km range. For instance Nissan Leaf and Renault Fluence, Even BMW came out with an i3 model as recently as 2020 that had below 200km range, despite being quite expensive!
Today most even cheap EV cars have better than 200km range, and that may be more relevant, but the batteries have gotten cheaper, so I'm not sure it makes sense to make cars with below 300 km range anymore.
With Your Ioniq 6 the small version has 55 Kwh battery, which AFAIK is the lowest on your list with about 400km range. The models with the bigger77 kWh have about 600 km range. More than enough and would be absolutely fantastic for me.
The 400km is just short of what I want, which can usually be done with about 60 kWh battery.
AFAIK all the cars you list also have decent fast charging, something small battery cars like Stelantis have been behind on too. So if the battery isn't big enough for your trip, you are likely to spend way more time charging, than just the difference in battery size.
Despite there is truth in what you write, we see the FIAT 500 which is probably about the cheapest EV in Denmark currently, it doesn't sell probably because of its sub 300km range. The same is true for every other Stelantis EV that should be pretty popular if you look at how the brands have usually sold here.
I wouldn't call a single car you list short range, and even the shortest range on your list as far as I can tell, exceeds your daily needs by a factor 4.
Basically all your listed cars would be good enough. I could probably live with 400km instead of 450km if it was a good deal.
Obviously other people have other use cases, and maybe 300km is good enough for most, once they get used to it. It could even be less, if/when charging becomes as fast and easy as filling gas (gasoline).
So which of the Ioniq 6 was it? 53 or 77 kWh?
Edit PS:
Another reason for longer range than needed for daily use, is that on Motorway (highway with 130 km/h speedlimit) the range is shorter by as much as 30%, and in Winther it's also shorter by about as much. So in Winter on Motorway you risk having only half the rated range. That would require 3 charges for my longest monthly trip of about 500km. And compared to our ICE car, it would take more than an hour extra to make the drive, because your have to drive slower to not use too much battery, and you need to stop about 3 times 15 minutes for charging.
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I can understand that having your own copy is nice, especially if the service is closed for some reason.
I just don't bother doing that anymore, I prefer browsing my library on GOG instead of a file-manager.
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Being a moron is not a requirement for being Republican, but it helps.
🤔 ...
Nah who am I kidding? Og course it's a requirement.
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Details details. 😋
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The good guy was Hitler and the Nazis, they were always friendly and waving to everybody.
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Still Trump claim Russia is totally without blame for invading another peaceful country. And Putin is really a nice guy who is just misunderstood.
So this is perfectly in line with MAGA crazy mental gymnastics.
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No I absolutely expected it to be sarcasm.
I read the part, and that's quite funny and fitting.
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I don't get it? I searched defense on that page and got nothing.
Is it about being absurd?
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Logically it favors the rich, just like every other aspect of society.
So I guess it's no more insane than so many other aspects of society, like how Enron Musk can get paid more by Tesla than every single worker working there.
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Some companies are just scumbags, and the bigger they are the worse it gets.
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Cool, digital photography is an area that has had insane development IMO.
I'm absolutely flabbergasted by the digital photography capabilities of modern phones. high res, image stabilization, and of course color mapping/filtering.
The processing power needed is insane. 4K movies are 8 megapixel at 3 colors 30 fps, and it's 750 million sub pixels, that need to be processed per second, and we do that on a cheap tiny handheld device! The better ones can handle 8K and that's 3 Billion sub pixels per second!
It's impressive that you have been part of it. 👍 😎
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I have a friend who works for the city and invented a brilliant system to remove weed from pebble driveways, without using weed killers. They wrote an article in the local paper, and he was even awarded by the mayor.
Several people recommended to him to patent his system, and he contacted a patent lawyer to do just that.
The lawyer praised his idea, and stated he could make the paperwork to get the patent, for the small fee of some insane amount.
Luckily he pulled out, and did not go forward.
It turns out that his idea was already in production in Germany. The money to the patent lawyer would have been a complete waste.
The moral of the story is, that the only sure winners on patents, are the lawyers.
Edit PS:
Another story, a guy had some patents he found out were being used by a really big company.
He contacted the company to make an agreement on the use of his patents, and the response he got back was basically: "Sue us".
Those big companies have lawyers on their pay role, patent cases are insanely expensive, in part because patent lawyers are among the most expensive, and it's near impossible to predict the outcome of a case. His chances of even affording the case were slim, and the chance of winning even if he was obviously right were even slimmer. Because the big company will just hire "experts" to claim non violation. And the little guy can't afford to match it.
So again the patents didn't help the little guy.
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The original idea with patents is to help protect small inventors from being run over by bigger corporations.
But the result is more often the opposite, where small inventors that have a genuinely profitable novel product, is quickly forced to bankruptcy by frivolous patent suits, even when the new product is patented, and when bankrupt bought for peanuts by the bigger corp.
The other main basis for patents is that the technology should not be lost, in case of the inventors death.
But the way tech works today, that is no-longer relevant.
5 year patent would absolutely be better than what we have IMO.
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This is absolutely awesome: 👍😎
Project Jengo is Cloudflare’s effort to fight back against patent trolls by flipping the incentive structure that has encouraged the growth of patent trolls who extract settlements out of companies using frivolous lawsuits. We do this by asking the public to help identify prior art that can invalidate any of the patents that a troll holds, not just the ones that are asserted against Cloudflare.
Emphasis by me.
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I'm more shocked how little I need extra space!
I'm rocking an ancient 1TB for backups. And my main is a measly 512GB SSD.
But I don't store movies anymore, because we always find what we want to see online, and I don't store games I don't actively use, because they are in my GOG or Steam libraries.
With 1 gigabit per second internet, it only takes a few minutes to download anyways.
Come to think of it, my phone has almost as much space for use, with the 512GB internal storage. 😋
Maybe I'm a fringe case IDK. But it's a long time since storage ceased to be a problem.
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Sorry my bad, yes that's actually a good point. 👍
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Qalculate is an amazing calculator, highly recommend it.
It's my default in Linux.
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Trump is using the widows response to her husbands death to deliver a joke. Trying to make the whole thing funny.
How is that joke not at their expense, when it’s built on their situation?
Trump is absolutely being disgusting, and half the people here can't even see it?
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Trump is using the widows response to her husbands death to deliver a joke. Trying to make the whole thing funny.
How is that joke not at their expense, when it's built on their situation?
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How is it not at his expense, to make a joke that some women would rather have the money than their husband back?
AOC speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention
https://noshingwiththenolands.com/what-is-the-scoville-scale/ Scroll lidt ned, så er der en fremragende oversigt.
>Russia has launched an offensive into the Kharkiv region, and it has created a lot of alarmist news reports. In reality it is difficult to see what Russia's plan is, and it is not self-evident that it is a smart use of resources. In this video I discuss whether we might be seeing a return to the fragmented command structures that Russia had in the beginning of the war.
My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones, despite the Moto had cheap Panda glass front. Then I bought my $800 glass back Xiaomi 13T Pro in January, and I loved the phone for the camera and good specs. But alas after only 4 months, and single drop of just 30 cm while sitting on the porch, the glass back immediately cracked! The back now looks like an ugly mess, and the high water resistance is very likely gone too. For sure the last time I buy a phone with a glass back!!! I wonder why glass back is so popular, and I curse the media for reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S2 as "feeling a bit cheap", because the back was synthetic, and drop tests showed it was 10 times as durable as the iPhone with its glass back. Samsung did it right in the beginning, glass backs are a curse. PS: I don't use condoms for my phones, if they need that for daily use, it's an obvious design flaw!!! The glass back is supposedly there to give a premium feel to the phone. But because it's fragile, people have to use a cover, but with the cover, the premium feel of a glass back is gone anyways? How is glass back not a design flaw? **EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION:** I am not clumsy, that's why I believe the phone should be able to last without cover. This was the first time the phone slid out of my packet, and I've NEVER dropped it out of my hands. One 30 cm slip and it's broken. Where for instance my Moto had maybe 4-6 in all over the years, and remained unscathed, apart from some tiny scratches. The sliding out of pocket does occur maybe a couple of times per year, but it's a low drop, and the phone should absolutely be able to handle that tiny drop, as it's an item for everyday use. I've also never had problems with scratches on my screen on any phone, which is the reason people use screen protectors I guess, which I don't either, because they are ugly, for instance they create a tiny ring around the camera, and they feel awful IMO, my phone came with it, and it took exactly 10 seconds for me to decide to remove it, because I could feel the edge of the screen protector when using the phone. But please stop with the dropping my phone regularly comments! Just because I dropped my Moto a few times (slid out of pocket) over almost 4 years! Always from low height, which it should be able to handle a few times.
Profits were expected to be halved from the 2022 1.2 tn Rubles, but instead they made a loss in 2023 of 629bn Rubles or £5.5bn.
It used to be very convenient that when searching for something that had a geographic location, Google searches used to show a small map which linked to Google maps when pressed. Now all I get i a tiny useless map, that doesn't have any of the feature of Google maps, and often I don't even get that. Anyone know why that is? And if there is a fix? I use Firefox, but I'm guessing it's independent of browser, unless Google is up to their shenanigans again. I've added Google maps as search option, which luckily is dead easy in Firefox to do. At the same time I added Open Street Map, to minimize Google map use to maybe show them they are losing traffic. EDIT: I think this is the reason as u/garrett@lemm.ee writes: >If you’re in Europe, it may be due to the DMA. > >https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2024/03/06/digital-markets-act-how-the-way-you-use-google-maps-and-messenger-is-changing_6591969_13.html > >> You may also have noticed something new on Google, when looking for the address of a place: It’s now impossible to click on the map that appears in your search results. > >Google is one of the “gatekeepers” according to the DMA (Digital Markets Act). The law recently went into effect. It is supposed to lessen the amount of preferential treatment the big tech companies give themselves. > >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act
The total combat losses of the enemy from 02.24.22 to 01.20.24 approximately amounted to: personnel - about 375,270 (+750) people, tanks ‒ 6171 (+4) units, armored combat vehicles ‒ 11,455 (+10) units, artillery systems - 8868 (+14) units, MLRS – 967 (+1) units, air defense equipment ‒ 654 (+0) units, aircraft – 331 (+0) units, helicopters – 324 (+0) units, UAVs of the operational-tactical level - 6934 (+5), cruise missiles – 1818 (+0), ships/boats ‒ 23 (+0) units, submarines – 1 (+0) units, automotive equipment and tank trucks – 11,848 (+17) units, special equipment ‒ 1389 (+5) The data is being verified. Beat the occupier! Together we will win! Our strength is in the truth! Source Ministry of Defense of Ukraine : https://www.mil.gov.ua/news/2024/01/20/ponad-375-tisyach-osib-bilshe-50-tisyach-odinicz-bojovoi-tehniki-%E2%80%93-zagalni-vtrati-rosii-vid-pochatku-shirokomasshtabnoi-vijni-proti-ukraini/ Translation with Google Translate.
The levvel of anti Ukraine propaganda in USA is insane, here Jake Broe exposes how people like Elon Musk, Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson push a false story about an American youtuber being tortured and dies in a Ukrainian prison.
https://www.mil.gov.ua/en/news/2023/12/27/the-total-combat-losses-of-the-enemy-from-24-02-2022-to-27-12-2023/