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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If it's feature complete, a keyboard doesn't need regular updates. According to the other thread it's not feature complete, so it could be abandoned. Since it's FOSS any enthusiastic person could stop it from being abandoned.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Which chat? There's been too many shut down.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Probably some people, back when smartphones were novel in 2007.

At this point though, it's tacky and implies that you don't care enough about the conversation to turn it off.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (13 children)

If they don't care about privacy and security, they aren't wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is a electric motor overheating dangerous? Surely any electric car is going to have a system to throttle itself if overheating is an issue, and it will need that with or without gears.

The fastest accelerating electric cars are single speed, presumably because it's not worth changing gear when you only have 2 seconds.

I can see why it might be useful in specific product categories, but when it's not helpful for price or performance or reliability, that's going to continue to be niche. The real problem electric cars need to solve right now is cost and a gearbox isn't helping with that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Isn't it best practice to park in 1st? So that if the handbrake fails the engine brake slows the car a bit rather than it being a free falling projectile.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Electric motors have so much torque even at low revs that a gearbox is unnecessary for most people. If you can get enough torque for a fast start in 5th, there's no reason for the gearbox, you might as well save the extra complexity and keep the car permanently in 5th.

Combustion cars have gearboxes because they only work well at a narrow range of revs. Bicycles have more gears than cars because humans have an even narrower range of revs where they work best at.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also r/piracy stayed shut for a while with a direct and easy link to this community. That's how I found it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It gets better. Their Instagram is canadapetcareusa

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why are you surprised that Americans are arrogant?

The trouble is, they get away with it. No other country would be arrogant enough to assume that they are more important than the entire world, so the rest of us have got used to if the country isn't specified, its 'Murica.

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