I have an EV but did not know about BYO cable, so I went to check what it means and yeah, every AC charger I’ve encountered in Europe is like that. Just a plug, in some cases it’s even protected with a metallic cover that unlocks once you’ve entered your payment information.
It does not work for fast DC charging though.
About reparability, kobo has a partnership with ifixit for parts and repair guide.
This is what peak corkscrew looks like in my opinion:
It’s almost like it was pure green washing and they never had any intention of reducing greenhouse gases
Yes, the brand has been bought by SAIC Motor, a Chinese manufacturer.
They have been doing some nice stuff recently, I own a MG4 (EV), I know a few people who own one as well and I’m quite happy with the car
You can very much travel long distance with EV. With current batteries and charger you need a 15-20 min break every two hours which is what people should do anyway.
There is the new MG4 that has semi solid state batteries.
that means a screaming combustion engine, not a whirring electric motor.
Buyers of luxury car want to make noise, literally and figuratively.
The problem is that an electric engine is too quiet, it’s not disturbing anyone. On the other hand a loud combustion engine is impacting people’s life, positively by enjoying the look of the car (rarely) or negatively by intruding into their audible space.
People with the money to buy luxury car wants that, they are buying a status and the power to intrude into people’s life.
It’s getting close to an electric Jimny.
Similarly in France the “Gendarmerie nationale”, a branch of the French Armed Forces that do the police has been using “GendBuntu” on all their desktop since 2008.
It’s a version of Ubuntu developed specifically for them.
When burying a dead animal, especially a big one like a house, you can contaminate the ground water and the pathogens stay in the soil for a very long time.
It mostly depends on the soil.
For anyone interested in deadstock disposal (who wouldn’t be) I found this great resource : Best Management Practices - Deadstock Disposal
In Ontario it seems that 22% of the farmers are burying their deadstock and 20% of them are composting it.
People dying from the heat are older people or people already in bad medical conditions. Not kid or healthy people.
AC could have an influence but the excess mortality due to heatwave is also happening in countries with a lot of AC like Australia : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412025004982?via=ihub#t0010
In my village there is a donation place drop stuff they don’t need anymore and take what they need. Half of our kid clothing, it’s great ! A lot of my kids clothing come from there, and go back there once they outgrew it.
Same for me.
A friend in high school gave me one of these CD, I think it was 7.04.
From what I understand, the insurance business model is to transform individual unpredictable events into very predictable statistics.
A house burning down ? As an individual it is devastating, it’s a lifetime of savings that burn away. For the insurance company, it’s part of the statistics.
The problem of climate change is that it brings unpredictability at the insurer scale.
This is what my ISP provided, a microtik router with openwrt flashed on it
For what is worth, I have a MG4 first generation and I really like the car.
When I was in college and quite sleep deprived I had a few mornings where I would wake up, scroll through memes, get a shower, get ready to go and … Actually wake up for real.
I hated that because I had to go through the hassle of waking up twice but the memes in my semi awake dreams where quite good !
Me, trying to find where did I put the tool that I had in my hand 2 minutes ago