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Shouting warm takes into the void, mostly about gaming and tech.
Mine’s never done great without a wall outlet to be honest. With a laptop charger it takes like 45 minutes, with a phone charger it’ll take 2 hours if I’m not playing on it. Tbh that’s based on plugging it into cigarette lighter chargers so idk about on a plane
November 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It’s a video game character haha
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In my experience it’s pretty slow to charge on a plane but on a long enough flight it’ll work
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Infinite money glitch:
“Buy X smart device!”
“Wanna have better privacy? Throw away X smart device, it spies on you!”
“Buy Y smart device!”
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Why are you dressed like the main character in Watchdogs
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Just beat Cyberpunk. On normal difficulty I died 5 times on main quests, and three of those were the final boss. I was “underleveled” too. Never got lost. Like it was super fun but it for sure holds your hand
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Cobalt isn’t as widely used as it once was but it’s still pretty huge.
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Dylan (Taylor’s Version)
Dylan (Slowed + Reverb)
Dylan (Four Tet Remix feat. Damon Albarn and Thom Yorke)
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Source is a bit old but probably hasn’t changed super drastically.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Passenger cars make up like 10% of emissions globally. If we can convert to EVs entirely we’re optimistically looking at cutting that in half. Switching to EVs is a step in the right direction but it’s probably not saving many lives. Choosing not to support child labor is.
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
what
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
let's be honest, most EV haters hate EVs because big V8s sound cool.
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I ain't writing a scientific journal
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
According to this list, yes, primarily working with aluminum. The big thing that children are producing for EVs is Cobalt which is used in the batteries, and they're producing more cobalt than aluminum. Ramping up EV production means ramping up demand for child labor.

www.dol.gov/agencies/ila...
List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor
www.dol.gov
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
You are correct in that it doesn't account for what happens when you throw away batteries, but as of right now you can recycle most of the battery so I don't think that's enough to say we need to stick to ICE.
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
40% is a guestimate because I don't know the actual proven number, in some places it could be like 70%. Its really dependent on where you live and therefore what your power grid looks like. Here's a link to a bloomberg article that does a good job explaining it.
about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
No Doubt About It: EVs Really Are Cleaner Than Gas Cars | BloombergNEF
As electric vehicles become a bigger part of the global car fleet, a contrarian take seems to surface every few months: are electric vehicles really that clean?
about.bnef.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Fair enough. It is important to note that the biggest difference between most distros is just the package manager and DE, once you've tried one Arch-based distro or one Debian-based distro you've really tried them all with enough tweaking.
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is actually a proven number, EVs are actually about 40% cleaner on average I believe. Certainly an improvement although not quite the magic bullet to climate change people seem to see.
My bigger concern is the child labor and unethical working conditions utilized to make these batteries.
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
You could lowkey just replace Ubuntu's DE if you like everything else about it.
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Honestly if it can handle Ubuntu Server it can probably handle Proxmox just fine
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
and tbf you don't need more than 60fps if you're doing standard office work, having more is just burning electricity which across millions of office workers is pretty bad for the environment.
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Some WMs will set the refresh rate to the highest one rather than the EDID "preferred" one though, if you're using Gnome in particular I think it does this.

The reason Windows chooses the preferred rather than the max is cause it can cause issues occasionally, not really their fault
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Windows is actually pretty decent at detecting this from EDID data. If you're using DisplayPort it will almost certainly set it to the maximum refresh rate because the max will be the preferred setting in the EDID data. If you're using HDMI though a lot of times the EDID says to set it to 60.
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I tried to use it the other day and it was updating. Like brother this has been fine since XP it does not need an update
November 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM