Current Li-ion batteries have numerous issues, but fortunately there are several alternatives too. Bringing a new battery chemistry to production scale hasn’t been easy, but we’re taking small steps like that every year.
We may still need lithium, nickel or manganese in the near future, but the demand for cobalt (per cell) has been decreasing gradually. Who knows which alternative ends up dominating the market after a few decades
And when people send me FB links that only display the login wall.
Yeah that’s funny how a gaming laptop with a beefy i7 can’t be upgraded but an enterprise laptop with whatever pitiful i3 can be. Even though gamers see windows as their primary OS, Microsoft clearly doesn’t see gamers as their primary audience.
Reminds me of the amazon products titled: “I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy,”.
I think we’re way beyond the point of no return. The internet has been ruined for good.
I was wondering the exact same thing. Nobody uses ats and hashtags on Lemmy, but on Mastodon, that’s the only way to tie the conversation fragments together. This is just ActivityPub doing its thing. Welcome to the Fediverse.
Google gets more money if the video has more ads. Google also pays more in bandwidth and storage if the video is really long or high res. Also, advertisers don’t like drugs, violence or guns, whereas makeup and mobile phones are totally fine, so those videos are a suitable background for ads.
All of these variables go into the calculation that determines the sweet spot for Google, and the search results are ranked accordingly. You may be looking for an hour long video essay on the torture methods seen in the Hellraiser movies, but Google really wants you to spend more time on 5-minute crafts instead. Actually, 30 s shorts would be even better, as long as they keep you preoccupied.
Having tried to photograph purple flowers, I can confidently say that the human eye+brain combo messes around with the colors a lot. You can spend a lot of time trying to take the most authentic photo you can think of, but you’ll somehow still be dissatisfied with the end result, because that’s not what the flower looked to you in real life. Naturally, you’ll assume that your experience of the colors is exactly what real life is, but your camera still somehow comes to a different conclusion. Most likely, that’s because the camera doesn’t do all the fancy color corrections and distortion your mind does automatically. It’s also possible that cameras are really bad at seeing shades of purple.
Fun fact: These fancy automatic corrections also fail under certain circumstances and produce interesting visual illusions.
If you’re using a camera as a scientific instrument, normally you try to make the picture as real as possible. Conjuring up imaginary detail just isn’t acceptable.
However, you can use false color to highlight whatever it is you’re interested in, and this is a common practice in areas such as electronics microscopy, thermal imaging and astronomy. Even that might not be acceptable is you happen to be interested in the color of different things.
In normal everyday photography, the user usually isn’t interested in authentic textures or colors. Fake internet points are far more valuable to most users, and Samsung knows this.
How about internal deflagration or detonation engines?
Because those videos give Google the best ad revenue. Who cares what the users watch all long as Google gets rich along the way.
The search was already so abysmal that this doesn’t change much.
Sodium batteries would be a welcome change. Solid state batteries are another interesting technology that looks promising.