100% this. In the US there is minimal actual use case for uberfast DC charging outside road trips. Along highway corridors you can argue that there should be stations like this.

A more important implementation would actually be to have a normal AC plug at the curb in almost every public parking spot at residential, retail and office locations in the US. Slow-charge your car with a portable charger while you’re at work and overnight while you’re at home. This would cover 90% of use cases, and for those who it doesn’t, DC fast charging.

Literally don’t care what they are. Not relevant to their FOSS or general technology content.

I am all on board with letting people know when open source is a bit too aligned with major companies or is somehow compromised.

I have no intent or need to use Omarchy.

This sites list of YouTubers to shun however is a bit too “purity test” for me. The reasons listed are, let’s say extremely tepid in many cases.

I’ve never heard Jeff Geerling talk about any issue other than homelab stuff like hardware pricing and availability. His religious and personal views were not apparent to me at all.

I watched the Louis Rossmann video mentioned with the CO State Rep, and Louis was respectful and platformed this individuals commentary on the subject of privacy issues for a long time in the video. Generally Rossmann seems to criticize the living hell out of politicians left, right, and center.

I guess all I am saying is… Use whatever products you do or don’t want to for your own reasons but, I disagree with the concept that I should brigade specific creators because they support Open Source but not 100% of my particular basket of other issues. We need Open Source to grow and need to reach out to diverse groups who can find value in it.

I will continue to listen to both Craft Computing Jeff (as far left as it is possible to be on social and gender issues) and Jeff Geerling (who is apparently conservative on these same issues) because I’m listening to them talk about homelab stuff, not telling me who to vote for etc.

Just worked for me. So maybe they implemented a workaround.

The other big thing for me is carrier unlocked and also still supporting physical SIM.

Hoping the Motorola flagship meets those criteria.

I personally think these types of non-conventional batteries are going to be the future of storing energy for use at offset peak usage times.

It would be great if every city could construct multi thousand megawatts of grid scale battery capacity but that probably isn’t feasible with traditional chemistry batteries. But, in some areas the same effect could be accomplished with something like “potential energy batteries”, for example, using massive solar arrays to pump water into an elevated reservoir during the day at peak solar generation, then releasing that water to drive turbines and generate on-demand electricity at other times.

I don’t use Duo specifically but my work has a different authenticator app.

(Duo looks like it requires Play Services but I am not sure on the strict integrity check.)

In my use case, I found it worthwhile to just buy a second vanilla Android normie phone (spent like $200 on a decent but non-flagship device). It has all my required work apps like authentication and the pager/notification app. The phone doesn’t have a sim and is WiFi only. In the rare case I need to take it outside my office I just do tethering/hotspot from my primary phone.

I never cross-contaminate work and personal stuff on the same device.

One lesson everyone should learn is anything you do in politics can eventually bite you in the ass.

When Harry Reid ended the fillibuster for (non-Supreme Court) judicial appointments in 2013, Mitch the Cocaine Turtle admonished “you’ll regret this and maybe sooner than you think”. Smashcut fast-forward and he was able to manipulate court appointments.

Likewise there are now some Republicans who want to nuke the fillibuster entirely to ram through the elections bill. Well what do they think is going to happen in a few years when they no longer have a majority? Dems will also be able to ram through anything and everything with a bare majority.

Same thing with these state level initiatives. There is no way to create a “magic tool” that your opponent can’t also use against you eventually.