I don’t think it was money that changed youtube, i think it was the algo, it now promotes viral content that for some reason has a persons face in the thumbnail with an exaggerated face :O

super necessary if we expect anyone (outside of hobbyists) to even think of putting their content on the fediverse first or at the same time as other platforms

Quickly and effortlessly get some music playing that can act as a backdrop for your real activity such as working, driving, cooking, hosting friends, etc. Keep it rolling indefinitely. The particular songs don’t matter much. They are fungible as long as the general mood stays consistent.

can’t relate

i find new awesome music all the time, i only found i loved hardstyle 8 years ago, techno 5 years ago, vaporwave like a year ago

This is a fantastic service if you’re not that interested in music and are just looking for the aural version of mediocre Ikea artwork to cover the bare walls of your day

if you want to make it harder for yourself to discover new music then cool, but don’t imply that because you used spotify as a sort of cafe jazz background radio that we all use it like this

does your blog have a blackhole in it somewhere you forgot about 😄

the one with the quadrillion hits is this bad boy: https://www.babbar.tech/crawler

Babbar.tech is operating a crawler service named Barkrowler which fuels and update our graph representation of the world wide web. This database and all the metrics we compute with are used to provide a set of online marketing and referencing tools for the SEO community.

what’s up?

great but only downside not made in Europe

Why do we need to offset other countries coal use? They’re the ones buying it and burning it, not us.

In particular Indonesia:

Yet Indonesia added 1.9 GW of coal capacity in 2024, the third most in the world, behind China and India. Some 80% of this new capacity came from so-called captive coal plants, built specifically to serve industrial estates processing nickel, cobalt and aluminum for the booming electric vehicle market.

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/indonesia-defies-global-coal-retreat-with-captive-plant-boom/

How ironic.

Thanks for making Queensland look good I guess? Even our worst state is still doing better than them.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/AU-QLD/live/fifteen_minutes

for some reason I read that in Jeremy Clarkson’s voice

just constantly amazed at how they keep making progress, despite solar panels being ultra cheap already it feels like we’re heading towards transistor style solar cells for pennies

aussie.zone sh.itjust.works lemmy.world

all were down for me

That’s true but for example with battery storage, prices were on their way down then Russia invaded Ukraine, gas/coal prices shot through the roof as Germany slurped up all coal and gas they could get and that triggered a massive spend on renewables which increased the prices of solar batteries from august 2022 peaking in nov 2023:

https://www.solarchoice.net.au/solar-batteries/price/

Looks like AI is the Germany of PC hardware:

https://au.pcmag.com/news/114129/ssd-storage-prices-to-climb-as-ai-demand-meets-tight-nand-supply

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-prices-surge-171-percent-year-over-year-ai-demand-drives-a-higher-yoy-price-increase-than-gold

yeah I have a domain and static ip, once you figure out in the domain name providers DNS manager to point the domain at your static IP it’s really set and forget

but at the same time make sure to keep your stuff up to date because you’re now exposing it to all the chinese and russian bots trying to hack you

Yes that’s one of the downsides, unfortunately many people in my country don’t care

https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/australias-best-selling-evs-in-the-first-half-of-2025

Tesla may have experienced a sales slump in recent months, but it’s still Australia’s number one electric vehicle (EV) brand by a huge margin.

So since there are more Tesla EV’s than any other company they are going to be the most on the used car market and get cheaper prices

Pros:

• Cheap
• EV
• Has decent distance

Cons

• Musk

yep, seeing 2019/2020 model 3’s starting to head towards 20k here in Australia, absolute bargain

yeah it’s absolutely mental hyundai have done this tbh, I do wonder since there is so little maint to do on EV’s whether it’s an attempt to throw their service centres/dealerships a bone… but damn does it come off as silly

do you think the average ev driver around the world is worried about road salt?

2012 Prius, 202k miles, still with original brakes.

2017 Prius Prime, 110k miles, still with original brakes.

Both inspected annually by our mechanic. Both still going strong.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1agr1tw/ev_brakes_last_longer/

All the “what maint’s do you do on an EV” I’ve read are like tyres + some other bits and bobs I can’t remember

Look at what type of EV it is

edit: just realised you might not know, it’s an N line Hyundai Ioniq

It’s designed for a race track, this is why I said

tbh i don’t really know of any real maint for a standard ev outside of tyres

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FatahRuark 12d ago

That sucks. I don’t have much else to add, but I’m impressed you’ve worn out brake pads on a EV so quickly. Hopefully the reason is you’re pushing it hard and having fun! The N looks like a super fun car. I’d love to try one someday.

SoultronicPear OP 12d ago

I’m definitely having fun; the wear is from track weekend visits (where the I5N holds its own amongst everything from muscle cars to Porsches). When the track weekend is over, it magically becomes a practical hatchback.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ioniq5N/comments/1ojjp6m/hyundai_declares_war_on_right_to_repair/

feel free to provide the stats on how many brake pads for ev’s are being replaced every day