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  1. Re:Cold weather? on Next-Gen Samsung EV Battery Gets 300+ Miles of Range From 20-Minute Charge (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, you need to warm the battery first only to charge it. This is why Tesla disables recuperation during initial drive with cold battery. When it is cold it only has reduced capacity + current but that does not matter as during winter you do not need super-sport accelerations; and after 30 mins of driving it gets a normal temperature from invertor+engine heat so that you can utilize its full capacity.

  2. Re:Duo or Allo? And where is text chat? on Google Abandons Their Google Hangouts API (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Hangouts is still XMPP. I use it daily against Pidgin XMPP. Allo and all other proprietary IMs use UDP-based communication. XMPP uses TCP. I have been using XMPP-TCP for years fine but then I used it once abroad on a 3G/LTE network with all its temporary drops and Hangouts/XMPP became unusable, it even got stuck for whole night. Maybe Google has some bug in Hangouts as even TCP with keepalives should timeout in at most several minutes - although that would still be unusable in practice - this is why UDP is used by the commercially successful IM protocols.

  3. Duo or Allo? And where is text chat? on Google Abandons Their Google Hangouts API (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Duo is just a video chat, isn't it? How to do a text chat with as with XMPP (=Hangouts)? Google has Allo for a text chat (based on QUIC protocol) but is there a documentation for the Allo protocol itself? Or even a Free client for it - such as for desktop Linux?

  4. QWERTY on LG Is Abandoning the Modular Smartphone Idea (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    What about to make a new QWERTY phone after 7+ years. No BlackBerry - it needs to have a keyboard on its longer side, have landscape display and have physical arrow keys. More extra keys for shifts+symbols are a plus.

  5. Bolt has no 4WD variant - for snowy roads (plus other disadvantages in other comments).

  6. As long as Apple blocks Free formats such as WebM they have what they want.

  7. The supercharger cables get warm but they charge at 150 kW. Tesla has been experimenting with some supercharger liquid cooling according to googling. But 90% is not just about the cable, probably most of those 10% is lost during the chemical charging of the battery itself. And Tesla battery HVAC runs on full power when the car is being supercharged.

    I do not advocate the wireless charging itself, that is a non-sense IMO.

  8. BS - Tesla can plug in by a robot on GM Partners With Boston Startup WiTricity To Develop Wireless Charging Technology (electrek.co) · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Hate the office life on Are Remote Offices Becoming The New Normal? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    I also work in the garden during day as I do my work-from-home duties during evening (and during pauses between garden work to get a rest). I don't say he does not have a day off but I do not see why he would necessarily have.

  10. Flash is NOT a security issue for Chrome/Chromium on Google Starts Using HTML5 By Default Instead of Flash For Some Chrome Users (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1
    Chrome/Chromium use Google NaCl (=Native Client) + Pepper that jail Adobe Flash to be harmless no matter how insecure it is otherwise.

    Do the editors know this >.< about the articles they approve?

  11. Does it apply for Flash in Chrome/Chromium? on Adobe Flash Responsible For Six of the Top 10 Bugs Used By Exploit Kits In 2016 (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    The article is quiet about Google NaCl (=Native client) + Pepper that jail Adobe Flash to be harmless no matter how insecure it is.

  12. Re:Desktop Windows has more users than X11/Linux on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Android is not Linux OS (AKA GNU/Linux). Android is Android OS - it has its own Java API. It runs on Linux kernel but it could run even BSD kernel and nobody would notice. Android does not even run glibc. I do not know much ChromeOS but it is also not a Linux OS. Are there apps like LibreOffice, Balsa, GIMP etc.? No, they run only web applications (even offline). Not even trying to talk about Linux commandline applications. There is no Linux desktop as while I like Linux apps it is obvious general users dislike Linux apps for some unknown reason.

  13. Please read my comment again. I said "99% of users". Not 100%. And in no way "professional graphic designer"s. Do you read anywhere in my comment word "professional"? Do you read there anywhere word "designer"? No? Great. Do you have anything else on your mind?

  14. People want to run what their friends do run. If their friends run game XYZ but they cannot they are a poor. They do not want to be poor. They can pay (they even do not have to) for MS-Windows to be as good as their friends. It does not matter they can run games ABC and DEF which is superior to XYZ.

  15. You have LibreOffice and Gimp. Both are perfect replacements for 99% of users. But I agree for example the games are not there yet.

  16. Re:I'm curious on Mozilla Releases Firefox 50 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I have tried to switch to Chromium as Firefox is sometimes slow. But Fedora does not package any Chromium extensions and I found no way how to review + install locally the extensions. Later I was told how to do that but that's just too work. A simple configuration items in Firefox (such as GIF animations) need extensions in Chrome. For Firefox some extensions are packaged in Fedora and other extensions I could easily review from a local .xpi file. Maybe some other distro does package the Chromium extensions?

  17. So you run whole house on a single phase? In Czech/Europe I have only 25A main house fuse but 3 times per each phase, that is 75A power total; all is 230V.

  18. s/last one/first one/

  19. By 2000 Mb/s you mean 250MB/s? My old SATA SSD can beat that.

  20. Re:Reduced OS for short term gains. on Google Is Planning a 'Pixel 3' Laptop Running 'Andromeda' OS For Release in Q3 2017 (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    By the time 95 came out Desktop PC's were powerful enough to run the Big Boy OS's however we were stuck on the legacy systems for compatibility for over a decade.

    I have never been stuck on MS-Windows. And even some few unlucky person dependent on specific proprietary software were stuck only for about 4 years until VMware Workstation came out (and then QEMU came out in 2003).

  21. as long as I can buy the media online on EU Commission Proposes Mandatory Piracy Filters For Online Services (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I had to ("had to") pirate several medias in my life as there is no way to buy them playable on a Free device (that is no DRM) and additionally to buy them electronically as I do not have any optical drive and I refuse to deal with the physical media anyway when there is the easy internet transport available. But OK, I won't watch any copyrighted media next time, as you wish.

  22. Re:Who wants this? on Adobe Resurrects Flash Player On Linux (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    I never had that Flash crap from those Adobe turds on my machine. This is why I noticed the YouTube upload adjustments do not work. And the only reasons I have seen YouTube upload is that WebM/VP9 is boycotted by Apple to keep their sheeps paying for everything, including licenses for the MPEG idiocy - and obviously I refuse to host the MPEG shit myself on my servers.

  23. Re:Who wants this? on Adobe Resurrects Flash Player On Linux (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Google requires Flash for any adjustment of YouTube videos during their upload.

  24. Re:Love it. Love it. Love it. on New HDMI Mode Will Allow USB-C Connections (techhive.com) · · Score: 1

    Internal hard drives (=flash drives) are becoming NVMe.

  25. Re:Eye Candy v Functionality on Fedora 25 To Run Wayland By Default Instead Of X.Org Server (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    No 3D is one of the reasons I use XFCE. :-) Besides that it probably would not work well as I have to use fb (FrameBuffer IIUC) driver as Intel driver does crash for me.