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So get rid of all the flock cameras then?

Ita starting to get annoying the delivery options though. Yesterday I saw £2.50 for delivery to my home, or £4.50 delivery to one of the 20 parcel lockers near me.

If you work, and live in a town or city, parcel lockers are a win for everyone.

Also, I think its 40p per delivery with EvRi, and you should see how they "sort" rhe parcels at depots. That expose a few years ago went to one of the most organised, worker friendly depots.

Power back to grid is difficult.

You either go the "government standardised way", how the Uk has been trying to do it, and get accused of a mass population control scheme conspiracy.

Or you go the expensive individual systems way, where the conspiracy theorists all seem to shut up, that locking people into a brand system to power their homes is somehow not a control scheme.

I also think, if you were doing missions for factions and called in a vehicle, it would be delivered with a faction specific helicopter?

There is little money in it. You first have to encourage automakers to all agree on one batrery architecture, ans they all gave their own stuff. Tesla still uses cylindrical cells, thousands of them soldered together. While some Korean companies go for giant flat cells like laptop batteries.

Most modern EVs use structural batteries, so they are a fixed part of the chassis. Convincing everyone to go back to a separate chassis and battery will be difficult, and expensive.

And then there is the charging. There is almost no money in public chargers, so suddenly having a facility that can do the work and space needed for hundreds of batteries will be difficult. It has been tried before in Israel, I think they had 60 stations, and they quickly went bankrupt. Or in Vietnam for hire e mopeds. No idea what happened to them, as many of their batteries quickly broke. A bit like those supermarkets where you can take your scanner with you and scan as you shop, after a year half of them, and half the charging docks are broken.

The only company I have worked with that had a successful battery swap system was coaches. They would put the batteries in those metal supermarket milk trolleys, and just wheel them in and out of the cargo hold in the bottom of the coach. Easy to convert, huge amounts of space to move the battery in and out.

The other side is, fast charging has come so far, battery replacement in cars isn't really needed.

Glitter is fucking awful. It gets everywhere, and is a pain to clean up. Most things sold with glitter do not properly seal them, so it all falls off. I have a can of hair spray to use on Christmas cards that I receive that have glitter.

Looks like too much spray, and not enough shaking. Good temperature for spraying though.

Lol no worries. I imagine this is exactly the same how so many people feel for the pimple stickers. Just enough to be interested, but not enough to look it up.

Difference is something on someone's face, vs something on someones arm you might see during the summer when they arent wearing a jumper or coat!

The (hopefully fun) experiments you did at school of dropping a ball of lithium into water probably used more lithium than most batteries.

That used to be the advice years ago how yo "dispose" of puffy lithium RC cat batteries, was put them in a metal bucket of water (hopefully they sink), and stab them until they started bubbling, then leave them a few days. Wild times. Makes me think of the old 50s and 60s advice how to dispose of old engine oil with a hole in the ground 😳

Yes and no. I spent like 15 years of my life trying to switch over to stuff that was USB-micro, then eventually USB-C powered. And now i will always be encouraged by things that are either externally powered (can choose my own battery bank) or just uses AA/AAA/18650 batteries.

its not necessarily the embedded battery issue, i used to have plenty of cameras, phones, handheld games consoles with removable batteries. its that each specially shaped lithium removable battery is now impossible to get ahold of.

lithium batteries are MAGICAL with how fast they charge, and how you don't HAVE to charge them to 100%. I remember some of my RC cars used to take 8 hours to charge, for 25 minutes of play. Then in 2000 i got one with a lithium battery that would fast charge in 25 minutes for 10 minutes of play.

But the balancing you have to do with lithium batteries is crazy. with devices like smart doorbells, phones, laptops, we never really notice it, as we are constantly discharging and charging them. But that RC drone you got 4 years ago for Christmas, and has sat at 0% battery for the past 1.5 years, that will be a problem when you come to charge it.

wow. first, as many others have said, i am glad you are safe, and i am sorry that you have lost your device. contact retroid as they may be able to help you.

I assume that the battery had slowly de-stabilised at zero charge for a long time, and then charging it up pushed it over the edge?

every 6 months i make sure to charge all my electronics to 80% (so they aren't too high), and the ones i notice that consistently get to 0% or very low i charge more often.

But the software / charging circuits in the device should have been able to tell you there was an issue and not charged.

Water is the best place to put a burning lithium battery, but use a metal bucket.

The water causes the reaction, and that will neutralise the lithium, and the water catches all the smoke.

No, because i already do at least 2 hours of walking to and from work every Monday to Friday, then on my feet all day, and i just don't have the energy to then do additional sessions, or most likely the time to then travel to and from these recorded sessions.

Ironically the other way around happened at work. They would give you £5 for every 100,000 steps you could do.

(we then found out the company was running the same project in America where it was $50 for every 20,000 steps).

Apparently the British side of the business (6 times smaller than the US side) "bankrupted" the system because everyone was already doing so many steps, and it did very little to encourage people to do MORE, just actually wear fitness trackers more. They paid more money to the UK team than the US team. wild.

They are quite new though, so i can see why people get confused. a bit like those permanent arm mounted blood sugar level monitors. it was at first strange to see people walking around with these large plastic disks on their arms, but quite normal now.

They never had anything like that when I was a kid (microplastic deep pore scrub generation) and its not like i have ever seen them for sale or adverts for them.

Apparently a much older co-worker walked up to someone working in a shop to ask them where something was, they turned around, and they had 4 of them on their face, and it stunned them for a bit wondering why they had bright green stars stuck to their face 😆

BECAUSE REASONS!

Because I rely on stagecoach, legally my answer to that question has to be "no" though!

Lol one role i applied for, got to a 2nd interview with, turned me down because I couldn't drive. Theybhad been looking for someone for more than a year with the skills I had AND a licence.

Maybe theu should get the hint that those people Just dont exist.

30 miles a week, like 30 miles each way per day? Hellcfucking no.

30 miles total per day? As long as they give me all the time i need to get to and from work, then that might be a stretch (I used to walk 8 miles total per day to and from work and that nearly destroyed me.

30 miles on a Monday, and 30 miles back home on a Friday? Tempting, more tempting than the others.

I have seen a few things. Keyring like this are common, so are 3d printed vase mode eggs, where part eay through they put a mystery item in them.

Another eas a spinning helical garden ornament made with Silk Filament, and thr quality on the print was amazing.... the CAD file less so, and you could see the polygons quite clearly.

This is what is confusing about "data consumers". These companies could easily set up a feedback loop to the people making the map and say "200 cars have been through here, and they all have said its a 50mph road, not 60mph", create a note, and trigger a survey.

Botley road in Oxford. It was £230mil for a 140 metre section of road, under a railway bridge. Only reason it cost so much was because the railway, and footpaths had to stay open all the time.

All the motorists kicked off that it was temporarily closed to cars, but has opened again now.

Yearly theory up, yes. If you fail two in a row, you get suspended and called in for something, likely not even a practical test.

Do we:

A) make another videogame in this videogame franchise

Or

B) Make a Mr Beast episode.

A new "cheap" road project is nearing completion in the Uk at about £100million per KM (they just finished one that was £1.7billion per KM but that was "short" so costs are bound to be higher, right?).

But what gets in the news? the £0.5million per KM cycle path that just opened near me, and how a path that connects FIVE schools / colleges is a waste of money.