Oh FFS, we will willingly ‘take one for the team’ here. Just look at what a load of crap it is, it’s the tech equivalent of Brexit, we were not informed how it was going to work, no one got what they wanted and we’re all worse off because of it.

If the UK can’t be a good example at least let us be a dire warning

They really don’t care at all, YouTube is already trialing age verification, these companies have regulatory hoops to jump through in every country they operate in, it’s easy for them to comply and it will have a negligible impact on revenue.

You should write to your MP, send them an email, call them of visit one of their surgeries.

When the BBC started requiring a login to view the content I pay for, I stopped using it. When Facebook were neck deep in the Cambridge Analytica scandal I deleted my account, and when Reddit started their API extortion, I moved to Lemmy.

If you are here you are also a digital nomad like me, if you let the politicians and corporations carve up the internet then soon we will have nowhere left to move. Time to make a stand.

TLDR: Tesla is not selling many cars which means it can’t sell EV tax credits to other auto makers. Please make your bots post a brief synopsis.

Farrage is already peddling the project 2025 playbook and the morons that vote for him are lapping it up.

This is the only justifiable way to acquire a Dyson in 2025. I saved a friends vacuum from the bin by dismantling it and pulling a clog out of a pipe, so many I’m sure get thrown away because people just don’t maintain them and assume they are broken.

There is some magnet or sensor in the filter and if they is some small misalignment it refuses to work, I’ve had to replace the filters on at least 2 Dysons because of this ‘feature’. I’m not sure what it achieves… other than ensuring you need to replace parts after you’ve cleaned it a few times and the fit gets sloppy.

That’s fair, I’ve told her now… no more surprise Dysons. Just thinking though for the ~£500 a new one would cost I could buy a lathe, and enough tooling, titanium, glass Fiber reinforced plastic etc to remake every failure prone component.

That is a fair assumption but I only bought the first two… the other three were “joint” purchases, where I came home to a new vacuum, and phrases like, “I can’t carry the old one up the stairs”, “we needed a new one, and this is purple!”, “the old one doesn’t get the dog hair up properly, and this one has an Animal head” etc.

You do have a point… but this Dyson is my ~5th I think in the last 20 years, I think the motor went on my first one, then the on button/control board failed on the next, after we are into the battery era and I still have them but they are now ‘garage vacuums’ where genuine batteries are no longer available but they share a cheap eBay battery which needs replacing again.

Thinking back I think I needed to replace a roller belt on the Sebo about 15 years ago, for around £2 from a shop in town. Given the vacuum was probably 25 years old at that point impressive the parts are available and so cheap.

I’m not sure this did change, at least I can’t find any reference to it, other than a potential proposal.

I’m in the UK, short-term cheaper alternative is keeping your existing gas boiler until it breaks down… so roughly 20-30 years. The government gives £7,500 towards a heat pump but that has resulted in prices staying artificially high and virtually every install for a 3-4 bed home comes in at £10,000. A new gas boiler is around £1,500-£2,000. Due to some other short sightedness, any heat pump which also cools is not eligible for the £7,500 grant, which is really problematic when temperatures keep rising.

Bought our first electric car this year and will never go back to Diesel. If heat pumps weren’t so expensive I’d have one installed tomorrow.

User replacement of “Activation Locked” new, 2nd hand, and OEM parts can be done, should be done, won’t be done.

Competition does not work for an industry where each product is infinite so can’t ‘run out’, but is subject to exclusivity agreements.

How about a battery the same size and weight as the 22kWh leaf battery?

Edit: I actually just looked up the 2010 Leaf pack and it’s 294kg, with CATL prototyping 500Wh/kg cells a 100kWh pack leaves 94kg for a nice box and BMS. Maybe this challenge is too easy.

With current technology yes it’s impossible, although those doughnut motors are next level, so you are spot on with tweaking the definition of efficiency. Things we can do now are as you mentioned wind resistance, Lucid have achieved over 5mi/kWh in a large luxury vehicle focusing on that.

You can focus on rolling resistance of the tyres, or my making an ultra-efficient smooth self-driving system.

Next is weight, making the car and batteries as light as possible. Although this would reduce the regenerative braking, the inefficiencies in that system would also be reduced.

Ancillary power, most cars have reasonably efficient heat-pump and electrical systems but shaving a few milliwatts from each system and cutting out a few truly unneeded systems will cut down on wasted power and weight. I like the Ami and it’s, ‘you already have a screen, entertainment system, and sat nav on your phone’ philosophy.

Now we get to the tweaking of the efficiency definition… how about we say you can have as many kWh as you like as long as it’s no bigger and no heavier than the origin leaf 22kWh pack?

Maybe adding solar or other micro-generation with an assumption on % of day/night driving and average power achieved by micro generation.

Or by massively improving the efficiency, rather than just the size of the battery… although as the original Leaf only had a 22kWh battery that would be 17mi/kWh, which is probably a bit optimistic.

Now you’ve done it! Just got clearance from the finance director to plan a day in Cambridge for some punting and Pi.

I really have no excuse, I don’t live far from Cambridge and I guess I’ve just only ever seen Raspberry Pi content from American YouTubers like Jeff Geerling.

Since Maplin died I’m not aware of any tech stores I would go to when in search of something like a Pi or Arduino.

I’ve got an old Atom mini PC which I’m planning to install HomeAssistant on, but once that’s operational I’ll get some Pi bits and look into web hosting, email, NAS and voice assistant options.

Still in warranty or less than 3 years old? I saw the Reddit post on this issue, might still be worth asking, they may have developed a hardware of software fix, and if not they may allow you to switch model.