Hydrogen for cars is a nonsense. It is so inefficient. Unless you are making it from oil, which why the oil companies are pushing it, you lose loads of energy making it. Then it has to storages and transported, which is hard. Then the car use of it is inefficient too.

So ignoring the oil industries’ “blue hydrogen”, and looking only at “green hydrogen”, you are looking at about 22% of the energy generated ending up pushing the car forward! With an EV it is about 73%. So hydrogen car are over 3 times more expensive to run.

Plus you can just plug in an EV anywhere. With an EV, if need be, you can charge, slowly, off a normal home socket. Of course, normally, you fit faster charging at home.

Hydrogen cars is lie pushed by big oil.

Maybe. But not all police forces and legal systems are like this. In the developed world, the US is a bit of an outlier.

I’m sure that is the motivation of some, those involved, but the vast majority of support will be voters who think deterrence works.

The logic is deterrence.

I mean it’s stupid, but that’s what the supporters think.

The thing they are missing is that no one commits a crime thinking they will get caught. So ever increasing the deterrence doesn’t help.

Drugs is a public health issue, no really criminal. Prohibition doesn’t work with things done at scales like drugs and alcohol. You’re just feeding the criminal gangs.

I heard it rumoured it was written in 32bit x86 and was a mess. That meant porting it to ARM was basically a rewrite. There are open source rewrites. But nothing would ever play everything the same. Flash was riddled with security flaws of both format and implication. Adobe joined im killing it became it was a risk to Adobe not at an asset. Despite it’s dominance at the time.

Yep. Phone have gone horrible wrong and ended up in a duopoly. It is hard for new phone platform to get started. Hell, it’s a pain in the ass just have Android without Google services installed. It’s such anti-competitive and anti-privacy mess.

Thank you, but I’m getting on a bit now. I’d settle for my wiseness approaching my years!

I’m not sure I have favourite internet decade. Even today has it’s upsides. Probably more open code used running and accessing the internet now than ever. But we now have new problems!

I know smart people, who have used the internet to achieve a high technical skill set, who also believe some pretty crazy conspiracy stuff. Infectious miss-information is everywhere and no one is safe.

I’ve been using the internet since 1996. Newsgroups is about all that was good back then. Oh and email.

Chrome has become the new IE6 and Google the Microsoft of the internet.

Today is a bit of a low point, but I don’t think there was any perfect time.

Flash was a major issue during a lot of the “golden years” people are romanticizing. ActiveX was also, and still is, an issue for some parts of the world. Silverlight as well to a lesser extent

If there were any golden years, they probably were when the big three had similar market share between 2009 and 2014. But it was clear what was happening over those years, Chrome was eating IE and waning FF.

Yes apps are bad news.

The EU is still fighting monopolies. The US needs to too, but it’s such a deeply unhealthy democracy now, it may be a while before it gets back to it.

Argh. Fixed. Thanks.

Lemmy just about keeps me here. It’s a little anemic, but not due to lack of niche, but lack of normies.

Plus Lemmy hasn’t turned out to be full Nazis like voat did. I find more on Lemmy than Mastodon.

Edit: Fix! I clearly meant Lemmy not Lenny.

DKMS is what you want rather than do it manually.

What on earth are you guys doing having to search the internet for drivers for Linux??? You not buy things that have Linux support advertised? Not looking for good reviews by other Linux users?