The issue with battery-powered long-distance air travel is that you have to lug weight of those batteries with you for the entire trip.
The whole problem would be considerably more tractable if airliners could do as rockets do---jettison exhausted fuel storage as they go, especially since maximum power requirement is at takeoff. We've done the math and it absolutely works, we use our support drones to catch and reuse the jettisoned batteries.
Well, most of the time. Sorry about your cow; we'll get you a new one.
I was today years old when I realised that the reason that the intro to every youtube video sounds like setting an ad break, is that it is setting up an ad break. I've had whatever they call the no-ads subscription to google for years, and hadn't realised how awful the default experience was. How do people stand it? Where are the pitchforks?
The owner of the facility was famous. Well, Meta famous if you know what i mean. Famous for being a famous rich asshole, dedicating his twilight years to outliving all the other famous rich assholes.
Collectively the six trillionaire oligarchs who had built their burrows—each on their agreed post-apocalypse continental domains—had all hired the same experts to design those enclaves. Location: deep in the ancient stable rock of a continental craton. Supplies: Food, water and medicines to last a century, until farming could resume. Knowledge: a full archive of the Internet. Technology: every conceivable machine and the parts and tools to maintain them. Serfs: entirely separate accommodation for necessary technical staff, and hibernation for many more. Security: no, not the armed-thugs-with-shock-collars you’re thinking of; spider drones are what’s in favour with apocalypse consultants this decade.
When the Event came it blindsided even the Six. While everyone was watching the climate fall apart, the brown dwarf grazing the Oort cloud went unnoticed, obscured by the glare of the Starlink Belt. A million comets had their orbits stirred up by the visitor. It only took one, impacting in the south atlantic ocean, to tip the biosphere into chaos predicted to last three to five decades.
The balloon was up, the Six and their families executed the well rehearsed Plan Scram, and settled into their cosy bunkers to wait out the Dark Times. Serfs (sorry, “employees” in this decade) likewise. Human security personnel (unknowingly already inoculated with a delayed death sentence once their mechanoid replacements were online) set about battening down the hatches and bringing up the Evironment (2.0).
“Hey Sarge, this droid won’t boot!”
“Yeah this one too. What does ‘502 License server unreachable’ mean?”
Some historians say that the oceanic impact wasn’t the killer blow, but instead the broken off fragment that impacted an ancient site—exact location and purpose lost—known to us only as “us-east-1”. #BonusPanel
My Fitbit Charge 5 won't hold a charge as of yesterday. Usually I charge it each 3-4 days. I've charged it 4 times today.
Top search results (NB: I am not soliciting advice) show click-baity pages like "Fitbit Not Holding Charge? Here’s How to Fix it!" (https://thewearify.com/fitbit-not-holding-charge-heres-how-to-fix-it/)
I get that maybe some users may find this useful, but, if I'm searching for this, it's probably because this has just started happening unexpectedly! Sigh.
@mattcen yeah that page is clearly autogenerated bullshit. there’s ten of them for every actual real article for /everything/, suddenly. I’d believe in the imminent world takeover by AI if they could manage to use prepositions or articles at all in their sloptext. Meat flavoured advice avail if you want it.
@mattcen okay the first thing to determine is whether it’s a case of “battery is cactus” or “software/settings went berserk and draining battery”. Do you have a usb power monitor or any kind of amp-hour meter? Fill it up, run it flat, fill it up again - did recharging it take ${approximate rated capacity of battery} (battery is ok, software is bad) or much less (battery is bad). Replacement battery will only be a few bucks.
@jpm@gsuberland for is it not written “let the one who has never gotten scl/sda backwards cast the first reel of bodge wire?” I’ve done this so many times i now design a bodge footprint into every two wire comms connection.
I don't like to make a constant huge deal of it because the world concentrates too much on numbers and the baggage around them, and constant running totals are probably bad all up, but this morning I hit a 30kg weight loss.
Left, September 2023. Right, today. Also yes I am fifty something and my mother bought me a bun hoodie.