zurohki @ zurohki @aussie.zone

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Yep. You need 4G to connect to the network and VoLTE to make calls over native 4G. If in doubt turn off Wifi then make a voice call. Look at the phone's screen to see if it still says "4G".

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Sudden onset defenestration. There's an epidemic over in Russia.

If you live in an apartment and own a car, you're parking it somewhere. Get chargers installed there.

It might mean talking to the local council about roadside chargers or talking to strata about installing a charger in the basement car park, but it's not an unsolvable problem. Though actually solving it might mean waiting until more voters are pressuring council.

Every other country already has similar standards, though. So they don't need to design anything new, they can just actually start selling those cars in Australia instead of their obsolete junk that can't be sold anywhere else.

Well, fuel cell EVs already need a battery because the fuel cell can't do regen. So it's already a hybrid, you're just making the battery a bit bigger and adding a plug.

The companies that left can do their own advocacy though, without Toyota pushing fossil fuels and claiming to speak for them.

The best technology doesn’t always win a standards war. There are some benefits to green hydrogen cars over BEVs, just like Beta had some benefits over VHS.

As far as I can tell, the only benefit is green hydrogen can be faster to fill as long as the filling station has had a rest between cars.

The disadvantages include some killers: the woeful energy efficiency ensures the cost of driving a FCEV can never be less than three times the cost of driving the same distance in a BEV, and that's even if someone just waves a magic wand and a trillion dollars worth of hydrogen infrastructure appears out of thin air.

Fuel cell EVs kind of make sense as plug-in hybrids, where you have around 80km of battery range for daily use and use hydrogen for longer trips. You need a lot less filling stations and spend a lot less time using expensive hydrogen that way, but that's not Toyota's vision.

Comparing charging infrastructure and hydrogen infrastructure isn't really an apples-to-apples comparison, because charging reuses a lot of pre-existing infrastructure. You can buy and drive a BEV with zero charging stations, just plugging it in to an outlet in your garage overnight. In the early days there was a lot of charging from caravan parks and the like. I've got a portable charger that plugs in to the three phase outlets you find in parks and showgrounds. There's no hydrogen equivalent to any of that, 100% of your energy needs to come from a FCEV filling station.

Nokia phones and Kodak cameras were huge once. Then technology advanced and they didn't.

Don't forget mandatory voting.

Making everyone vote even if they don't really care means that working your supporters up into a frothing rage doesn't work. They're already all going to turn up. If you want to actually win elections, you suddenly have to win over the middle.

Before birth, obviously.

TIL there's an Amazon app store.

FTTN can in theory get higher speeds, but hardly anyone has a line short and high quality enough to actually achieve them so NBN Co doesn't even bother.

But it’s okay, he forgot too.

Dark humor is like food. Not everyone gets it.

At 26 grand, you're approaching the 38 grand that a Dolphin costs. And that'll get you a brand new vehicle, bigger battery, CCS2 and a manufacturer's warranty.

That's due to battery prices. You can't pay $25,000 for a battery, put it in a shitbox and sell it for $30,000 because nobody's going to buy a $30,000 car with the features and quality of a $5,000 car. Batteries can only be maybe a third of the cost of a car, so everyone's been targeting the top of the market with expensive EVs.

The good news is, battery prices are continuing to plummet each year. When you have $2,000 batteries, $12,000 cars are doable.

I'm not sure I want a system which rolled their own date handling holding my credit card details. Wanna bet they rolled their own crypto too?

Only if you wake up, otherwise a coup de grace automatically crits regardless of AC.

It repeats things that sort of sound intelligent to try and convince everyone that actual intelligent thought is taking place? It really is just like humans!

So, uh... When's the last time you got your eyes tested?