If you only have 10 minutes left on a break you can save the half hour read till later.
unmagical
joined 2 years ago
Not everyone needs to know how. Yeah the DRM hurts repairability, hence why the post in this c/. But the article is positing it as a move that will make them pointless to steal because they will lose all their worth from being locked down--my point is that that is wrong. The battery has value because the thing that makes it an actual battery isn't disabled or destroyed. They just put a simple lock on the regulator.
The actually thing that is holding power still holds it, and that power can still be accessed. This is already happening with things like DIY power-backups for houses, but the uses for those cells exists far beyond that--refurbs for other bikes, scooters, or other personal transport options; vapes; off grid packs like the jackery; flashlights; cameras; etc. If something runs on a battery it can be made to use the easily accessible parts from a stolen pack, and there's nothing that a manufacturer can do to stop that.
Tldr, there's still worth so they aren't "worthless," and they remain worthwhile to steal.
Cut it open, remove the cells, sell on ebay as "reclaimed, good" cells.
This DRM just moves the goal post like 5 feet. It does not actually remove the value of the battery.
God, can't fuckin w8 for the left to think it's brilliant satire that shows the culmination of our modern policies, the right to think it's a brilliant depiction of an ideal world, and everyone to hate it because it's a video game movie.
I'd watch it.
This doesn't seem like it would make them worthless. It would just make it that you can't power a bike off a stolen battery.
It doesn't destroy the actual cells and there's definitely a market for used EV cells for DIY or refurbished power storage solutions.
Why is the entire population of the US not automatically eligible in an eavesdropping case?
I don't have an iphone and thus no siri and thus no eligibility, but I'm constantly surrounded by those with iphones that apparently eavesdrop. Seems likely that a non-apple customer's conversion could have been caught in that drag net.
Fedora
Dude has been breaking all sorts of laws his entire life. Including during his first administration. His policies consistently hurt the majority of his constituents for the sole benefit of himself and his cronies. His behavior and rhetoric have made America even more of a laughing stock on the world stage and his campaign promises have near single handedly strengthened America's "enemies" and pushed away our "friends."
Trump did 3 good things in 4 years of office:
- Legalized Hemp
- Banned bump stocks (overturned by the judges he appointed)
- Expedited the covid vaccine production (botched everything else about the pandemic response including vaccine distribution)
Trump has flirted with a presidential run in 1988, 2000, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 under the Republican, Reform, and Democratic party tickets. It was only the republican party that he found bolstered enough support for him to win. He left the Reform party for the Democrats after involvement from David Duke. But later refused to disavow a direct endorsement from David Duke.
What does that tell you about Trump?
It tells me that he shops around looking out only for ways to bolster himself, his wealth, and his power. He doesn't have a consistent moral and he doesn't stand for America. He stands for Trump. His next administration is the wealthiest in history and his announced policies will siphon more money from the working class to him and his oligarchs. That's why I say that Trump's a RINO--he tried out a bunch of different parties and despite not sharing the traditional beliefs of the Republican platform calls himself a Republican because it serves him.
He's talked about invading our closest allies which has led directly to an increase in military recruitment not to fight our common enemies but to fight us directly.
He's talked about blanket tariffs on all foreign goods. These tariffs will be paid by the American public. This will encourage American companies to raise the price of their own goods to: 1) recover the extra cost of imported materials, 2) close the price gap between their own goods and the now more expensive foreign goods. This will also encourage foreign governments to establish retaliatory tariffs on American exports which will also lead to American companies raising prices to make up for lost sales. This won't just affect things like toys or electronics. American food is imported, lumber for home construction is imported, oil for gasoline is imported, electricity is imported. Literally everything in America will cost more if his tariffs go into effect.
I can afford that--can you?
Trump found a group of people that will blindly follow him and he manipulated and lied to them to convince them to give him power once again--even after getting our spies killed, leaking our nuclear and security secrets to our enemies, attempting a self coup to remain in power, and botching the plan to leave Afghanistan.
Trump supporters are not necessarily stupid people and I don't think someone is necessarily stupid for supporting him, but they haven't taken the time to look into and understand the effects of his claims, they were lied to, used, and led astray by a populist strongman who doesn't care about them and who will actively work to better himself at their expense.
GNOME looks like it is touch friendly, but try to run it on a tablet and it's really fucking not. I had to DL a bunch of tweaks tools to make it useable at all and now the tablet breaks whenever there's a Gnome update that the tweaks weren't designed for.
- How do you know anyone here's angry?
- How does presenting a logical argument against the existence of god hurt people?
- How do you know the people this template is addressed to have done nothing to people here?
Yeah, hurting people doesn't make you right. Being right does.
I, uh, hate that radius calculation. Why does the radius need to be reactive? What do you stand to gain over just setting to like 3 or 4px and moving on with your life?