No, it's been through serious development, with several projects and grants through the US government (US DoT/FHA, US DoE). But in all testing, it's had multiple safety issues for car traffic (durability issues with the lighting elements that make up the road markings, for one example) that has kept it from any possible approval as an actual high-capacity road surface.
They haven't had any sustained or spreading success because they keep shooting for the hardest goal... but likely they'll have to eventually scale back if they want to gain any traction (no pun intended).
Solar Roadways has been trying to make it work for a while, but I think they will end up being a project better geared for driveways or parking lots or bicycle highways rather than replacing asphalt roads, just based on the enormous amount of issues they've had in the past in trying to shield and protect the lighting elements.
It could still do a lot of good even in the more limited applications, though, so I'm still hoping for their eventual success, even if it ends up being on a smaller scale than what their initial goal was.
It actually did replace my laptop when I got it last year. My dying, ancient laptop finally kicked it just a couple of days before the Deck arrived. I never had one iota of desire to get another laptop.
Of course our use cases are radically different, but I think that displays the versatility quite well.
You do realize that the actual issue is that this is kind of thing is going to be normalized, so that it can spread like a plague across the corporate-touched internet, objectively making the entire thing as a whole objectively worse... right?
Because it sure doesn't seem like it with that reply.
Not many potential ones out there, I'd wager. I'm in my 40s and have only met two for-certain candidates, been married to one of them for a while. So if you get that true click, good for you.
You could argue that people would burn out on eternity, but I doubt you could make the same argument for life extension / stopping of aging. People would be free to live for a long time, and when each person decides it's enough, one can check out voluntarily.
I think it's more directed to victims of abuse or domestic violence, who sometimes try to keep a phone hidden from their abuser that is outside of their abuser's control.
If we ever achieve long-term life extension, I could see monogamy being tossed. Being with a single partner for life can serve well if it's the ideal of both parties in the relationship. But extend that lifespan to multiple times the current one, and I can see it getting pretty iffy.
In gaming mode, you can use Ctrl-1 and Ctrl-2 to access the menus, but for reasons unknown, these don't work in-game.
In desktop mode, if you dock the Deck, you can try changing the display settings manually if it doesn't auto-adjust. This is under the System Settings app.
I guess if you're going to unknowingly interact with a serial killer, being their job trainer is one of the luckiest things you can be. They can't off you, or else they won't be able to learn enough to do/keep their job.
I didn't fully stop using Reddit, but I can safely say I've had about a 95% reduction in total use time there.
After this summer's fiasco, I have a bad taste in my mouth from them (I think many people do) so I am only in a small handful of communities that haven't migrated to the Fediverse. The site in general feels much less busy.
I use warm (not hot) water under pressure. Dry with a clean hand towel. Warning: don't use towels that were fabric softened, fabric softener can leave some nasty, hard-to-remove streaks on the lenses.
It's shortened over time. Original and Delta, it could be somewhere between 4 days and a week. As I understand it, it's closer to 2-3 days on average now.
I honestly think ending aging would be a boon for society. Because the death rate will plummet to accidental deaths, suicides, and homicides only, which are a tiny fraction of total overall deaths.
Therefore overpopulation is going to very quickly motivate world society to get its collective shit together to solve the nagging problems that have been holding us back, and encourage expansion into the rest of the solar system. Because if the issues weren't solved, even the wealthy elite would be threatened.
morgan423 @ morgan_423 @lemmy.world Posts 4Comments 392Joined 2 yr. ago
No, it's been through serious development, with several projects and grants through the US government (US DoT/FHA, US DoE). But in all testing, it's had multiple safety issues for car traffic (durability issues with the lighting elements that make up the road markings, for one example) that has kept it from any possible approval as an actual high-capacity road surface.
They haven't had any sustained or spreading success because they keep shooting for the hardest goal... but likely they'll have to eventually scale back if they want to gain any traction (no pun intended).