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  • MrAlternateTape@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhy Americans aren’t buying more EVs
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    13 days ago

    Of course he does. But a standard house power connection does not deliver the amount of power you need to charge a car.

    So you need to build a charging pole at your house if you want to charge ar home. Which is another investment.

    And if you are in a somewhat remote area and there are not many charging poles around you, you are also very limited in how far and how fast you can travel.

    So there really is no point investing in a charging pole and an EV car if the car is not capable of doing to the same things that a gas car can do.

    EDIT: thanks for the responses. I’m still not convinced that electric is a good option for me, but some issues seem to be fixed or not as bad as I thought.

    Still, within my price range it will take a while before I can pay one.



  • I understand why you ask this question, but really the fastest way to learn is to decide what you want the computer to do and start looking for that.

    One thing will lead to another and you’ll learn lots of things that way, while you’re immediately using it.

    Tutorials and courses can work, but usually it works best if you use whatever you are learning.

    So come up with an idea for a program, and start building. There will be mistakes, anger, frustration and cursing involved, but you will learn a lot.

    First at the lower level, and later on you will probably start wondering how to structure it all. And then you’ll learn about that too.

    My point? Just dive in, fall on your face a couple of times and you’ll learn a lot in a short time.



  • It’s actually a classic programmer move to start over again. I’ve read the book “Clean Code” and it talks about a little bit.

    Appereantly it would not be the first time that the new start turns into the same mess as the old codebase it’s supposed to replace. While starting over can be tempting, refactoring is in my opinion better.

    If you refactor a lot, you start thinking the same way about the new code you write. So any new code you write will probably be better and you’ll be cleaning up the old code too. If you know you have to clean up the mess anyways, better do it right the first time …

    However it is not hard to imagine that some programming languages simply get too old and the application has to be rewritten in a new language to ensure continuity. So I think that happens sometimes.


  • There’s so many distro’s to choose from that can all be productive.

    If the question is this short, my answer is too: Go try at least 10 and then come back to tell us what you liked and what not.

    Without any further information it’s like going into a forest and asking people to point out a tree. Unless you look for some specific tree all will do…

    Edit: Fat fingers




  • As far as I know, other distributions just don’t show these errors, but Ubuntu choose to show them.

    Most of them are just due too a BIOS implementation that is not entirely up to standards, from what I understand. It seems some manufacturers have chosen to make their system easier to use with Windows instead of strictly enforcing standards.

    I just ignore the errors. As long as everything works properly, I feel fine with that.



  • If that is the only thing saving you from RSI you’re going to get it anyway.

    I’ve had the pleasure, and your body posture and mental state of mind are much more important. Getting up every now and then is also important, changing seat position helps, and doing some sport also helps.

    Both of my arms did hurt so much I could not cut my own meat. Mouse or no mouse:(.

    Am much better now though.



  • I was installing Ubuntu for the first time on my laptop. My laptop had two hardisks, an SSD with Windows and a drive that I could switch out for a CD-rom drive by hand.

    I decided to install Linux on the second drive. So I install, reboot, and Grub loads up…and tells me it cannot find the drive.

    I eventually find the command fwsetup, which lets me boot into the BIOS again. Of course I don’t know what is going on, zo I just reboot and now it loads my Windows installation on the SSD.

    So at least that is intact. I reboot again, and I’m stuck in the Grub bootloader again. The second drive just would not load properly to boot from it. Very annoying. I tried everything I could think of, everything I found on the Internet, it just would not boot the Linux drive.

    In the end I just split my SSD and installed Linux next to Windows. I did split the second disk too, so my home directory is on the second disk and now everything works.

    However, it’s a Toshiba laptop that gave me lots of trouble before with installing Windows before. I have decided that this is how it will run and I’m not messing with it again. The panic when I feel I broke it again is just not worth it.


  • I suspect most vendors just dgaf about being linux certified. They just build their hardware to work with Windows since that is what most people will use. If the hardware happens to work with Linux too, great. But it’s much more important to make sure it works with a system that over 90% of your users use.

    If you build laptops that you deliver with a Linux system on it, then yes, you will make sure it is Linux certified and it works properly.

    It’s not difficult to imagine that for most laptops that are made, Linux wasn’t even considered for a second.