dgriffith

If it's classed as a "major" fault that essentially renders it unusable, the customer gets to choose the remedy, not the retailer.

This is usually so the customer can get their money back for a shit product, but there's nothing stopping them from a replacement.

Umart's claim that it's "an upgrade" doesn't hold much weight. If you buy X gigabytes of ram and it fails and you want a replacement with the same X gigabytes of ram, that's not an upgrade. It's restoring the status quo of the original purchase where they got a physical quantity of a product.

I'm not sure, but if cake is being served, count me in.

I take umbrage at item 4, but I don't have the time for the correct kind of reply.

If you could go to chatgpt and put in this prompt for me and then read the result, that'd be great.

"Please make a long, meandering reply to the assertion that Nic Cage should not be in movies, stating that Nic Cage is perfect for those movies that need that Nic Cage energy."

Yeah that's just the norm in Australia for nearly every year as almost the whole country experiences just two seasons - "wet" or "dry".

P.S. sorry about giving you the idea to plant all those eucalypts over there during the gold rush, that was a bit of a mistake.

How are these any worse than the MAMILs?

Let's see, they are:

• Generally faster and more unpredictable.

• Heavier, compared to MAMILs endless quest to have the lightest rig possible to get that PB time to work. So when they hit a pedestrian, they hit hard.

• Driven by kids without a fully formed concept of risk and consequence.

• Who are not wearing hi-vis lycra and safety gear.

So overall, I'd prefer middle aged men in lycra.

Don't worry, general physics means that this is just another investment scam.

I'll explain it out so you can get the general idea;

In order to reflect a sun's worth of sunlight, you need a reflective surface in low earth orbit that is somewhat larger than the angular size of the sun from our perspective on the ground. Imagine just using an ordinary mirror at home, you need to see the whole of the sun in it, and that works out to be about a little mirror about the size of your thumb at arm's length. In low earth orbit that mirror ends up being about 2km across.

To get that kind of reflective surface area in orbit you need about a couple of thousand 50 metre wide reflectors on satellites, just to reflect light to a single location with the rough equivalent of sunlight.

And then at the height of low earth orbit the earth eclipses the sun for quite a bit of time, so the sats that can see the sun during the night below on Earth are actually only able to do so for a couple of hours before sunrise or after sunset. So now you need to launch 10x more sats so that the sats that can see the sun can reflect light to where you want it.

So let's just say 20,000 sats to start with.

With some clever engineering, you could probably make them the same size as SpaceX sats, and they launch about 25 at a time for a customer cost of about 70 million USD.

My calculator says that the launch cost for this is 56 billion USD. And then sats in that orbit with huge, high drag panels will get pulled into the Earth's atmosphere after about 5 years, so you just need 56 billion up front plus about 10 billion a year to maintain the constellation, forever, and with all of that stuff flying around up there you can direct 1 suns worth of solar energy to 1 location.

Now you could take that array and split it up and provide, maybe a moonlight effect to a hundred places, and maybe, maybe, a hundred someones might pay the hundred million a year to feebly light their city streets or something. Seems a bit of an ask when there's plenty of ways already to turn night into day locally for a lot cheaper.

BUT - you could also repurpose those 20,000 sats to provide a dozen sun's worth of energy to any point on earth during the day when about half of them can easily see the sun.

This sure sounds like a practical equivalent of a death ray to me, which means all this bullshit will never get anywhere because no country in the world will allow anyone to build it.

So rest easy, this is just another way to scam venture capitalists and won't go much further than these press releases.

No no, the article clearly states that locals are INFURIATED, all of them. There's no mild annoyance or irritation, it's fury or nothing these days I'm afraid, that's just how it is.

Flying toasters need to make a comeback I reckon.

Lithium ion batteries have a sweet spot of around 60 to 80 percent charge where very little wear takes place to charge or discharge. If you could keep it to just that 20-30 percent usage in that range it would pretty much last ten thousand cycles.

Charging to 100 or discharging below 50-60 percent accelerates the wear on the battery, but it is still much better than the wear rate on lead acid batteries that are cycled in a similar manner.

The picture you offer for comparison is literally a truck load of batteries though. Seeing that an EV's battery typically fits under the floor pan of the car, are we talking like, the equivalent of 10 cars worth of batteries in that pic?

But once the interior of a car catches fire from whatever starting source the pictures all look pretty much the same as they're all filled with lovely hydrocarbon-based plastics that all burn in the same manner.

Kyle and Jackie O’s controversial breakfast radio show taken off air after hosts fall out

And nothing of value was lost.

I'm sure we did a cycle of network booting thin clients and windows terminal services about 10 or 15 years ago. 🤔