When you design a new device from the ground up you make them fit in a way that allows the remaining space to be a single large rectangle to be entirely filled with battery. This might require custom PCB to have some L shapes. If you want to target a specific weight and having that much battery is too heavy then you make the device thinner. Instead it looks like they took pre-existing components from other devices such as Pixel phones or the Google Home and put them in a larger case.

It’s not necessarily a problem that this device exists how it is, but that it is a cheap way to go about it and yet still sold at a premium price.

Yes, but at $500 the profit margins are still huge. This is like a $200 tablet being sold for $500. It probably costs $50 to manufacture.

Truck platoons on rails. Sounds so cool. Fund it immediately.

We have re-invented trains for the 500th time. Good job world.

Between the legs must be a supremely comfortable spot for a cat.

They are still good for alternative builds of Android such as GrapheneOS. Ideally I wouldn’t support Google at all.

The world won’t be satisfied until we are all driving tanks and live in air controlled domes because we have destroyed the atmosphere.

We are in a hypothetical plot of tiny land that can be thought of as the entire world. If you have an argument to make based on this rather silly hypothetical world we are talking about then feel free to make it.

How rural are we talking about? Miles and miles of farmland between every home? Some sort of personal vehicle would be fine in my opinion when the density of the population is this low. But you could still conceivably have a single train going through the middle with lots of stops. Then you only have to bike or walk a short distance and take a train of some kind the rest of the way.

Agreed. They would just be birthed elsewhere. It has yet to be seen if we can hit a global population cap. It seems like it has to be reached eventually.

It’s more like we wouldn’t birth 900 more people because the density of livable space doesn’t allow it.

But instead of a population of 100 with small houses you will get a population of 1000 because they built 10 apartment complexes. I think I’d prefer the small houses didn’t have lawns and left the nice trees and natural growth.

That sounds like an incredibly silly thing to do. You are more likely to get yourself injured than have any affect on the prevalence of cars.

I’m sorry friend. Stopping is not an option. Drown the memories of your past with the memories of the future.

I wouldn’t and don’t. I can’t tell at all what some software is thinking so I don’t know how to interact with it as another driver or as a pedestrian. When I’m crossing the road in front of it, it may stop because it sees me, but then randomly accelerate for impossible to comprehend reasons. With a human behind the wheel when I look at them and see that they acknowledge my presence I am way more confident that they won’t run me over. Also with being in a car the movements of other human drivers make intuitive sense to me.

Regardless, the solution to the worlds car / traffic problem is not more cars. It’s condensed public transit so the point is a bit moot.

It might be the worst type of train station, but at least it is a train station. As opposed to there not being one. I’d love any kind of trains near me.

Edit: I love the use of Cities Skylines in the video. I am excited for the sequel to come out this year.

Apparently most Americans. I can’t go anywhere in my tiny car without the vast majority of the parking being filled with behemoths like this thing.

Web pages of today have so much added on nonsense. It’s not necessarily data farming, but also the frameworks used to develop the website themselves. Modern websites are basically entire software running in the browser even when it is used to run a simple seemingly static page. The purpose of these frameworks is to make complex things more simple for developers to make, but then people end up using them in situations that might not call for it. I think there is a general belief that since computers keep getting more powerful that it is fine to keep making software bigger and less efficient.

Is there a convenient way of doing this? There is no way I can always babysit my device and wait for it to reach 80% and then remove it from the charger.