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julianwgsto Automotive Industry•BMW CEO calls EU's 2035 combustion engine ban a ‘big mistake’, sees strong 2025 salesEnglish3·18 days agoThe only viable solutions are e-fuels, which produce fuel from electricity, water and CO2. However these are usually used as distraction, because they cannot be produced at a relevant scale for a reasonable price. The hope is to just burn fossil fuels as long as possible by providing an alternative that will soon solve all the problems. Currently there are only a couple pilot plants working. The price is around 6€ to 8€ per liter and is not expected to go down significantly.
For other industries such as steel (in the form of green hydrogen) or aviation these e-fuels are the only option to decarbonize. They will pay whatever they need. Better not compete with them for this scarce resource.
julianwgsto Automotive Industry•BMW CEO calls EU's 2035 combustion engine ban a ‘big mistake’, sees strong 2025 salesEnglish6·20 days agoCombustion engines are not getting banned. Burning fossil fuels is. That is big difference.
julianwgsto Buy it for Life@slrpnk.net•AKG Q701 - These headphones just won't dieEnglish5·28 days agoThank you! Have to try that with mine 😊
julianwgsto Buy it for Life@slrpnk.net•AKG Q701 - These headphones just won't dieEnglish11·28 days agoTIL that you can replace the pads. My AKG headphones pads are worn out and I thought I must buy new ones. Where is the best place to do it?
julianwgsto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Which country gets the most paid time off?English72·2 months agoThis is most likely very inaccurate following what the law says. In Germany a full-time employee has the right to (must take) 20 days paid leave, however many people have 30 with just very few having the minimum of 20 (I don’t know anyone in in their 30s have this few). It is mostly for student workers or other in between jobs. The statistic instead should be based on average paid-leave taken.
julianwgsto Data is Beautiful@mander.xyz•Replaced my electric resistance water heater with heat pump, dramatic reduction in energy usageEnglish6·2 months ago“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
It would be interesting which city and which bus brand 🙂
julianwgsto Automotive Industry•Chinese car brands double share in Europe in H1 2025 as strong growth continuesEnglish2·2 months agoImportant to know when talking about relative growth:
This brought the market share of Chinese brands in Europe to a new high of 5.1 percent
Some examples
- You need to pay a lot of lawyers on both sides
- You can get fired for not having kids, being young or not married
- People who are bad at their job are hard to lay off (this can include well payed managers)
- Companies find other creative ways to lay you off (if you charge your phone at work, you are stealing electricity)
Come to Germany and see for yourself :)
That‘s how it is in Germany. You can only get laid off without a negotiated severance package, when the employer is in financial trouble. Even then you need start laying people off the employer needs to do it according to the social contract (e.g. single mothers last). Both is really hard to proof (in court) so usually everyone gets a severance package anyway. This means when you hear about big layoffs in Germany usually all of them get a severance package or agree to something else. These layoffs are not comparable to the USA. This is the shortened and positive descriptions of the process, but of course there are also (justifiable) downsides of doing it this way.
julianwgsto Automotive Industry•Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi with little fanfare, sending a BIG messageEnglish1·3 months agoBut others do get excited. Thanks for sharing the link :)
julianwgsto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platformEnglish20·3 months agoI don‘t think it is a binary situation: Complete self sustainability vs. full dependence on large corporations. Rather it is a spectrum and everyone feels comfortable somewhere else on it. Also I don‘t think the ends really exist, as someone else will always have power over you (you can‘t reasonably maintain everything yourself) and you can always migrate/quit from a service. Over time your position might change. For me personally I think Tailscale is a great service and for someone just starting out I would definitely recommend it. I think a lot frustration can be avoided when you don‘t set your self-hosting goals to high at the beginning. You can always update your setup later on.
julianwgsto Open Source@lemmy.ml•[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!4·4 months agoMy opinion: Figuring monetization out while keeping most of your audience happy will be the most important step to be a viable alternative to YouTube. Big YouTubers like LinusTechTips, Corridor Digital or something like Nebula already have their own service, because it is worth it to have fewer people pay more. Sadly everyone of them develops their own solution which are not interoperable. Are you in the talks with anyone to migrate to PeerTube backend? I think this would be such a gamechanger.
julianwgstoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•inspired to find a man to take you for a ride to spaceEnglish2·5 months agoCan you post it here?
julianwgsto New Communities@lemmy.world•Climate Change - Discuss climate change where mods do not suppress ideas in order to control the narrative.English3·5 months agoI cannot judge the merit of the paper itself, but Climate Healers seem to be a vegan focused non-profit. So they could be arguing against animal agriculture for other reasons than climate change. Which can be valid reasons as well.
I don’t know about the specifics of the ban described in the description and I am glad that you try to offer an alternative to the established communities. The more the merrier.
julianwgsto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Starting from the center of Ascension Island, which countries' coastlines can you reach in a straight line?English6·6 months agoThis would be so cool as an interactive web app
julianwgsto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•ChartDB – Open-Source Database Diagrams | Self-Hosted Alternative to dbdiagram.io & DrawSQLEnglish7·6 months agoThis is really cool and I will definitely try it out! Am I missing something or is there really no contributors license agreement?
julianwgsto Data is Beautiful@mander.xyz•Nuclear Energy Production in selected countriesEnglish61·6 months agoI did some research on that graphic. The image originates from this article: https://www.datapulse.de/en/nuclear-energy/. It has a pro nuclear power tone: „The discussion for or against nuclear energy is likely far from over even after shutting down German reactors domestically.“ This is rhetoric from the CDU, FDP or AfD, even though no energy provider agrees with this. Also the article doesn‘t mention the problem of nuclear waste disposal, which for Germany is not due to be solved until 2046.
Digging around in Data Pulse affiliation I couldn‘t find much. May be someone else can find more on this. The CEO Nicolas Caramella has founded Data Pulse in 2023 with only prior experience in different marketing / SEO positions: https://de.linkedin.com/in/nicocaramella
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