Ars Technica, owned by Conde Nast and The Wired Group, both of which are owned by Advance Publications, is a zionist pro-billionaire propaganda outlet.

Fun fact, the owner of Advance Publications, officially listed as “the Newhouse Family,” also has a majority share in reddit and sits on its board of directors. In case you might be wondering where you got your bias towards it.

By the time a battery pack will die (outside of warranty), you will have paid for on an ICE car (according to manufacturer recommendations and warranty):

35 oil changes

At least 2x drive belt

At least 2x transmission fluid replacement

At least 2x full vehicle brakepad/rotor sets

At least 7 fuel filters

At least 1 fuel pump

At least 1 alternator

At least 2x timing belt

At least 2x water pumps

Assuming you have the capability to do all that yourself, and the tools, that’s still more than the difference in cost for purchase price of the ev vs ice vehicle.

Add in the fact electricity will always be cheaper than the same amount of fuel, and you easily save more than enough for the next battery pack that’ll last another 8 years or 175k miles.

The difference is (as long as its not self-driving) EVs are stupidly simple devices. They have less technology than smart phones. It would be great to have regulation to force standardization and open-source firmware, but genuinely we already have plenty of software and controllers capable of fully handling any EV, VESC being the most popular example of this.

And yes that controller both handles electric aircraft and RC cars. Because EVs don’t really differ from the model scale to the extremely large scale.

Firefox is unlikely to ever sell your data or redirect websites or participate in a cryptoscam or show you advertisements with an adblocker on. Brave has done, at one point or another, all of that.

Plus firefox is not manifest v3, so you can actually have a safe browsing experience whereas all chromium based browsers are now inherently more vulnerable to malware thanks to google.

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Fun fact, the devs encourage people to share a serial-key to those wanting to try out the game, so you don’t need to purchase it in case you wind up not liking it.

Here’s a serial-key courtesy of an edgy vtuber that uses a war criminal as an avatar: TEITW-HP9ON-A7HMK-WA6YA

Again this is not piracy, the Devs actively encourage this. Which is awesome. So if you like the game, buy the game, encourage this behavior.

You can, sure. but then you have a new file that is entirely distinct from the original model (as far as computer hashing is concerned). So you have to do several steps to legally comply with this:

1. Receive gcode file

2. use costly ai to convert the gcode to a 3d model.

3. use costly ai to try to figure out what the 3d model is.

4. do all of this either via a remote connection, or on a processor weaker than the median game console from the 1990s.

5. repeat for every single attempted print, which can be several dozen per completed product depending on how annoying the calibration was that day

So if you’re a 3d printing business you now have to have your own data center basically dedicated to the tens of millions of potential prints you’re going to receive, because it’s near impossible to fingerprint g-code as it’s dynamically generated from each different CAD software differently based on thousands of settings.

Essentially any 3d printer manufacturer is going to just say “not for use in california” instead of paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year to try to comply with this.

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Code was in use relating to the set of instructions used to control a computer in 1946; with it becoming a verb by 1986. Programming was from 1945 as a first use in regards to computers; meaning "cause to be automatically regulated in a prescribed way.

Now the funny thing is the noun ‘Program’ in regards to computers in 1945 meant “series of coded instructions which directs a computer in carrying out a specific task”

So if we really work through the etymology a bit, coded instructions was first, then Program/ming, then Code and coding; though certainly ‘encoding’ would have been used before programming given the definition of ‘coded instructions.’

So… Blame Ada Lovelace for not coming up with something catchy like ‘lacing’ which would have been far more camp (and much more accurate to the gender of early programmers).

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They believe creator should be paid. That’s about it.

Theoretically it lets you skip the occasions when Noutube/[insert youtube front end]/uBlock origin has issues blocking youtube ads, but that’s rare nowadays.

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