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  • Ok, thanks for the heads-up. I'm running it in a local VM and for some reason my host Arch system is significantly faster at downloading and installing packages than the blendOS guest. Not sure why, but just thought I'd mention it.

    Edit: never mind, I messed up the first installation so had to do-over, and the slow download speed seems to have recovered this time.

  • Follow-up question: I'm in the US and the initial installation is taking forever. Pacman seems to be running at just 60-80 KiB/s when I normally get 5MiB/s. IS there a way to have the installer choose a local mirror before downloading all the packages?

  • Cool. Will definitely be giving blendOS a spin in a VM.

  • Very intriguing. Is there a wiki or support forum in the works, too?

  • It's a bit premature to be making that prediction. If no further evidence comes forth that it isn't a random shitposter, then it's a complete nothingwurst.

  • Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the heads up.

  • It's not exactly the same complaint at all. You got a single comment removed from a single thread by a single moderator.

    The equivalent would be if the admin of lemmy.world stepped in and not only banned you from World News but also every single other LW community you posted in, out of spite.

  • I think you have a very different definition of "perfectly reasonable" than most people.

  • I've defended lemmy.ml in the past when people have blamed the entire instance for the actions of a solitary, overzealous moderator, but this genuinely concerns me:

    This must have been action taken at the instance admin level, considering all those communities have different moderators.

    Is there any way to probe the modlog to see which account it was?

  • Bless Jon Stewart. It's so refreshing to see someone accurately describe how things actually are in the US' utterly batshit political/media landscape.

  • I'd be interested in buying a Nothing phone if they weren't all so huge.

  • It has been a common belief in philosophical circles for centuries, but not among physicists. Both Newton and Einstein thought of time as being one of the fundamental properties of the physical universe.

    However, in the past decade or two, some theoretical physicists have now come back around to the idea that space and time could instead be emergent properties of a deeper, underlying reality.

    If you really want to go cross-eyed, read up on the holographic principle.

  • It's not so much of a problem for brand new models but there are still many older ones that suffer from battery failure and degradation outside of warranty.

  • That certainly is news to me. After all these years and the almost total lack of hydrogen infrastructure in the US, I had assumed that it was considered a dead end.

    That said, it does makes sense; I hadn't considered that hydrogen tech was more in competition with ICEs than with EVs.

  • Possibly, lol. Although going from Samsung's to their own completely custom silicon will be the best chance of seeing some actual improvements.

  • On top of that, there's the fact that Toyota have been investing heavily in hydrogen fuel cell technology for years, instead of BEVs. They put their bets on the wrong horse, and have been slow to adapt as a result.

  • Hybrid engines have been around for quite some time, though, and they can be just as reliable as ICEs.

    On the other hand, the weakness of EVs right now isn't just the charging infrastructure - it's the batteries. They're big, heavy, and very expensive to replace. This is especially true given all the new electric pickups/SUVs coming onto the market in the US. Battery tech needs to mature a while longer, IMO.