This is pretty much my life at work. “Here’s how AI can do something with 95% accuracy, beating out the alternate rule based method that only delivers a 100% accuracy rate”.

Damn I think we are getting fucked over on EV prices. I don’t know about 6 years ago but now an Ioniq 5 costs $70k NZD for the cheapest model, that’s 35k€.

Yeah 10k miles is more than what I drive in a year and they’re doing it in a month 😅. I am thinking that $480 may be at retail DC charging prices rather than home power usage prices because I’m not sure who would drive that much and not be driving for work (which would then be an unreasonable comparison to others buying EVs).

To be clear and so people don’t get the wrong idea, Graham Linehan is the creator of The IT Crowd, he’s not in this meme.

Yeah there is quite low maintenence on EVs but they are said to go through tyres faster (on account of the weight). I figure any maintenance difference is probably not that big compared to not using fuel though.

We bought an almost-new (ex-demo) EV about 6 months ago. We get free power (due to accidentally OPing our solar it’s use or lose) and we paid a little over half the price of what the car would be new.

With mostly free power (still have to pay when we travel away from home) it’s going to take about 16 years to pay it off in fuel savings for us - and that’s not accounting for the interest on borrowing the money or the opportunity cost of investing the money elsewhere. If we had paid full price it would have been more like 25 years. This is based on before times fuel prices though, right now the numbers probably look better.

I think you have to do a lot of driving for a new car to pay for itself. We do a lot of WFH and when we commute it’s with public transport so I think that really eats into any savings because we only do like 12 000km a year.

Ah nice, that 25000km would be way above average where I live but sounds like it has worked out for you!

20k is also less than I was expecting, I don’t think we had many options for new EVs where I live 6 years ago. Tesla, Ioniq, Atto, Leaf. I wasn’t looking back then so maybe there were others I didn’t know about.

I went PoE, I don’t want batteries to charge and also I wanted something that can play nice with Frigate.

It goes through the wall to a spot in my garage very near where I need it, so I got an ethernet jack installed on the opposite side of the wall to make it easy. I was gonna do it myself but couldn’t get my courage up to drill a hole in a super obvious spot by the front door because I wasn’t sure it would ever be fixable if I screwed it up 😅

In the end I got some bloke in, $125 in parts and labour (not including the camera that I already had) they were done in less than an hour.

Haha there you go. You still must do an insane amount of driving to go through $480 of power a month though.

According to this page it’s about that 25% of the whole tyre, where more than half the tyre is not rubber/synthetic rubber but other stuff.

So there is more synthetic rubber than natural rubber. But the mind-blowing thing for me here is that I kind of assumed the whole tyre was synthetic, but they are only 25% plastic and still are the biggest source of mocroplastic.

It’s probably about how much you have to drive. And remember this is for new cars, it implies second hand has been ahead for a while.

What did a new EV cost 6 years ago? Maybe $40k USD? So you need to save over $6000 in gas each year. This needs to be $6000 more than the electricity cost of charging your EV. It feels like you must do an above average amount of driving for the savings to pay for the car in 6 years, or otherwise I’m off with my price guess or you get free electricity (e.g. solar).

It’s not dictated by them right but rather by how long people take to get on and off?

This isn’t Auckland’s firat train, they should have an idea of the current dwell time, but I’m guessing 75 seconds is what they expect when they open up and everyone wants a ride. That will likely settle down a lot over time.

I now have a doorbell camera (a Reolink one)!

It’s fun explaining to people that my security cameras are not for security, but mostly just for playing with the technology.

And I got the doorbell one partly (mostly) because I work from home most of the time, and want to know if the person at the door is just leaving a package, expecting me to sign for a package, or are trying to sell me something, as only one of those things are worth getting up for.

I had hoped I’d be able to do things like detect if my wheelie bin is out, but the camera doesn’t quite cover the right area so I’ll get another to put over my driveway and point at the kerb.

Basically concerns from contributors about the governance structure of the project and how their drive for profit may impact it. And how this FOSS project with significant community contributions has it’s shareholders (yes it has shareholders) considering it their sole property.

There’s a little on Wikipedia here.

And an open letter: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

Last I remember they had said over and over that they were not working on it because their only Linux team was focused on Proton VPN, it seemed to be excuse after excuse for years.

Haha most if not all of this applies to anyone in the country because they standardised recycling rules a few years back (which is mentioned in the article).

This bit was mentioned in the article:

Irvine has said that the first step to improve Auckland’s efforts of what goes into the bins should be a large-scale public education programme on recycling, funded by central government.

“This was promised, but never delivered. It now needs to be made a priority.”

I wonder which government promised and why it wasn’t delivered (I can probably guess the answer though).

I don’t really think blaming the readers helps. In any widespread problem there is a council/government intervention that can help if we’re willing to pay for it.

could be a simple “redirect to a different instance” button, where you could select yours

Though not perfect, that would be a vast improvement on now. There are thousands of instances (remembering content is shared to Mastodon and others), and not every instance knows about every other, but you could auto-fill from the list the instance knows about, and if you end up back on that site it should remember what you selected last time and prefill it. Great idea!

Or the site could check for the cookies of known servers

This is simply not possible because browsers don’t let a site do this.

I guess the question is… how? Browsers isolate what they know about you to domains. When you go to Gmail, it doesn’t tell Gmail that you have a Hotmail email.

As far as the browser knows, lemmy.world and lemmy.ca are as different as hotmail.com and gmail.com. The token that knows you are logged into lemmy.world is not sent to any other site, that would be a huge security risk. And the browser doesn’t know what is being stored in the cookies, just that it’s there and it should only send it to the domain it came from and never another.

I don’t disagree that this is a big problem. I just don’t know how it would be solved while keeping the fediverse decentralised.

There must be some sort of way to do it.

Lemmy doesn’t handle this nicely either, though I still use this extension last updated 3 years ago: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant

If you’re the one posting a link, you can use a service like https://lemmyverse.link/ which will redirect a user to the same items on their own instance (after they set their instance the first time), though that site is run by the guy behind lemmings.world that’s shutting down in a couple of months, so it’s future may be a little uncertain. I’ve also seen https://threadiverse.link/ but I don’t know who run it.

Have you tried owning the place you work?

Oh nice! I’ve been wanting some fancy thing like this: https://ambientweather.com/ws-5000-ultrasonic-smart-weather-station

But that’s the most expensive one. The cheapest is about $150 USD. But I have trouble buying a cheap one when the expensive ones have so much more, but the expensive ones are too expensive 😆. Also I don’t have anywhere to put it anyway. Not that keen on a pole in the middle of the lawn.