Rookeh

joined 1 year ago
[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Kevin and Toby as O'Brien and Barclay fixing the transporter again.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Unlike oil, rare earth minerals can be recycled to a degree. What is today your car battery may end up in 10+ years as someone's house battery, or a power bank or other low-load energy store. The raw materials can eventually be recovered to an extent as well.

A resource disaster is inevitable either way as nobody wants to give up the convenience that we have become accustomed to. Encouraging affluent economies to adopt EVs is pure damage limitation at this point, our biosphere is already fucked from over a century of waste emissions, the least we can do is try and find solutions that don't involve burning fossilized plant matter for every car journey.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Sony-Ericsson W350i. Had it for about a year before I got my first Android device, an HTC Hero.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

BeamNG. Logged hundreds of hours just mindlessly driving around crashing into stuff and fucking around with vehicle customisations.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think you'll find the holodeck is the cause of (and occasionally the solution to) most Trek problems.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn't need to be a "green energy paradise", just a reasonably well connected first world country.

Take a look at Electricity Maps. Unless you live somewhere isolated or with very poorly developed grid infrastructure (or some central US states, apparently), you should see a non-trivial amount of electricity being generated by non-fossil fuels. For example, at the time of typing this 77% of the electricity I'm using is low-carbon and 50% of it is renewable.

That's the kicker. EVs don't have to rely on fossil fuels to operate (but they can make use of them depending on the grid infrastructure). ICE cars on the other hand are burning fuel wherever they go.

Walking or cycling will always be the least polluting means of getting around, but if you really need a car then you could do a lot worse than getting an electric one.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

Also the recent SNW crossover where she >!is thirsting over young Spock!<.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

Part of the ship, part of the crew...

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Doesn't really surprise me, I've had a Steam deck since launch and the performance on Windows titles has always been impressive, even considering its relatively low-end hardware.

The only thing preventing me from dual-booting my desktop is lack of software RAID support in most distributions (by this I mean RAID configured in the BIOS but not using a dedicated hardware controller).

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