That would require the car to have a fast charger on board. That’s a lot of extra cost and weight.

It would be much better to have a robotic connector that automatically connects to the car when you pull up to the charger.

With a 50 kWh battery, that’s 5 kWh wasted per full charge or 90 cents at the average US electric rate just for being too lazy to plug in a cable.

I’m surprised they don’t have torrent downloads for it. That would save on bandwidth costs and it’s more reliable since torrent clients verify the checksum and automatically redownload any corrupted blocks.

My phone has an unlocked bootloader and I still can’t install LineageOS because they don’t have an image for it.

So what’s the actual brightness? Peak brightness is meaningless since it doesn’t tell you how viewable it will be in sunlight.

It’s probably an mSATA SSD. They look like a mini PCIe card, but they are keyed differently and use SATA.

At least the streaming sites seem to be taking the media companies attention away from the other methods of acquiring content.

TV seasons usually get uploaded to TorrentLeech pretty quickly. They are freeleech too.

It is not recommended to run the arr stack through a VPN because cloudflare will cause problems. Only the torrent client should go through the VPN.

You can also use exFAT if you want cross platform support. It’s had a Linux kernel driver for quite a while now.

Maybe we shouldn’t make most of the internet reliant on one company.

Some people modify phones to run without an internal battery. That’s a bit of a pain since the screen will have to be detached and there will be wires hanging out though.

Laptops are easier. Most of them will still boot with the battery disconnected. They will usually show a warning during boot and some of them will require you to press a key to continue booting. Running without a battery may limit the performance, especially if you’re not using the highest wattage charger the laptop supports.

If you leave the phone on the charger for years, the battery will swell up and split the case or crack the screen.

Almost no one is using NiCd anymore. It’s not hard to design something to run properly from alkaline, NiMH & Li-Ion cells. We have efficient switch mode power supplies that can step the battery voltage up or down to whatever the device needs to run.

Pouch cells suck, there are no standard sizes and they like to puff up and break open the case of whatever they are inside of.

Low self discharge NiMH batteries work great.

Batteries still wear out because of age regardless of how many charge cycles they’ve had.

That hardware still has plenty of power for basic use. It should be good for another 10 years running Linux.

I had an upgrade fail and completely break the install a long time ago. I haven’t tried a distribution upgrade since then. I just format and install a new distro every couple of years. It cleans out all the crap I end up with from 3rd party repositories and stuff I’ve compiled from source. I’m sure upgrades probably work a lot better now though.

I did have Arch running on one of my laptops for quite a while, but I quit using it after it started falling apart.

I’ve got a 16MB MMC card that I use as an offline backup for my password manager database. It’s old enough that it uses SLC flash, so I don’t have to worry about data retention time.