I spent like 3 days shuffling stuff off an NTFS partition and into a btrfs one last week. It’s doable but takes a while especially if you don’t have much space to put things temporarily. Should probably mention I did it on cachy for the most part, had to use the mount ntfs-3g command a bit

Yeah I had a mild panic before realising that I haven’t actually used aur for anything yet

Id3 is actually nice to drive though, the range is reasonable and the features it has are polished. It’s also funny being able to keep pace with the people who think noisy car means power.

Well the infrastructure is getting pretty good. A few years back yeah it wasn’t great but there’s been a ton of buildup. I haven’t had issues of being far from a reasonably high speed charger in any trips I’ve made in the last 3 years or so.

I’ve just started messing around with cachy after using mint for a month and a bit, honestly kinda liking it with KDE over mint now.

Most countries don’t have laws against recording public areas though, and generally as long as it’s not for commercial use even the ones that do haven’t set a precedent against it. The problem is when people are being recorded in compromising situations and in those cases it’s usually illegal.

Recognising objects and what to focus on. But most autofocus is more than good enough and you can set zone focus to catch most things with a recent enough (like the last 10 years) camera. There’s uses for decent subject tracking but from all I’ve seen the improvements that ai adds are tiny at this point, it’s more for things like sports or dancing or whatever where facial features will be obscured and you want it to predict where they’ll be without actually seeing it.

I mean if it’s actually bringing a tangible benefit I don’t see a problem with ai being used in autofocus, it’s actually one of the useful things it’s supposed to be alright at. That being said it’s probably not efficient to run an actual neural network on a camera.

Yeah I grabbed a… Mele quieter or something back in November to replace the noisy greenpower thing I’d had for about 2 years and I got a bit more back than what I spent on it, looking at the mele tiny pc today and it’s doubled in price since I got it. So far it’s been nice though, passive cooling unlike the noisy fan on the other one.

Yeah I unbound the middle mouse thing when I switched, it was annoying

Chlorine trifluoride? The best part of that quote is the end imo. It’s an amazing oxidizer but it’s also hugely impractical to store or work with.

I mean our flag is just a flag, how it’s flown is largely irrelevant.

I hope we can get a recipe, that sauce looks yummy

Ofc but I made some big assumptions with regards to ambient temperature, battery mass and lack of functional cooling. 5 minutes is absolute worst case with 70 degree ambient air.

Compressor heats up coolant, coolant exchanges heat with outside, cools down then evaporator cools it further, heat exchanges with cold loop then goes to be compressed again. It’s the same principle that freezers and ac use, with the phase changes of the coolant you force them to move thermal energy in the desired direction.

Depends on the type of cooling, but even the less efficient cooling systems will be using a tiny fraction of the battery output, like less than 1% for most. Passively cooled batteries are going to have problems for sure but even then I’m not convinced there would be enough heat transfer for long enough from a 70 degree road surface to actually be a serious problem. The road itself would be cooling and unless you’re just sitting over it for a long time it’s not likely to become a real problem. A somewhat pessimistic (for volume, not for actual capacity) estimate would be 300kg of battery mass for 100kwh. Assuming middle range lithium ion thermal capacity that’s about 300kj per degree k. So for maths convenience let’s assume the car is 10m^2 on the underside and that’s all in contact with the battery, going by the previous estimates (again, worst case for battery overhead purposes) and assuming the air is moving and already preheated to 70 degrees c it would take around 5 minutes to heat the whole battery to 70. Thanks for the maths problem though, was interesting to look into this stuff, I’ve made some big assumptions but it’s looking very unlikely you’re realistically going to have big issues with overheating unless you spend an inordinate time with an EV sitting over hot asphalt, I didn’t consider radiative heat transfer but I wouldn’t think that would make a huge difference given the albedo of asphalt also the ambient air would probably help cool more than I considered. It would be neat if someone with more knowledge on the equations has input though.

I’m going to bite the bullet in the name of science here… What cookies?

So how does having an open top and a larger vehicle for the same storage space make more sense? Not in trades just have a vague sense of 3 dimensional space and efficiency.

Yeah the effort and disruption was my main reason for holding off for so long, then I set up a dual boot on my desktop and laptop and honestly after spending a week away with just Linux laptop I didn’t have the patience for windows when I got back. So far there’s been some fiddling around but a lot of my games have worked fine. No idea about those games but protondb can give an idea.

Shit like this is exactly why I’m mostly free of windows now. Sure there’s some bits and pieces that I’m keeping just in case but I’m not regularly booting windows for anything now. It’s been about a month and besides some minor things it’s been nice.