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Of course. People been modding/building ICE vehicles forever. ICE are more dangerous.

In the end, that what we want. Open Source everything. Then everything can be repaired and learnt from.

This was happening before EVs.

Hydrogen for cars is a nonsense. It is so inefficient. Unless you are making it from oil, which why the oil companies are pushing it, you lose loads of energy making it. Then it has to storages and transported, which is hard. Then the car use of it is inefficient too.

So ignoring the oil industries' "blue hydrogen", and looking only at "green hydrogen", you are looking at about 22% of the energy generated ending up pushing the car forward! With an EV it is about 73%. So hydrogen car are over 3 times more expensive to run.

Plus you can just plug in an EV anywhere. With an EV, if need be, you can charge, slowly, off a normal home socket. Of course, normally, you fit faster charging at home.

Hydrogen cars is lie pushed by big oil.

Maybe. But not all police forces and legal systems are like this. In the developed world, the US is a bit of an outlier.

I'm sure that is the motivation of some, those involved, but the vast majority of support will be voters who think deterrence works.

The logic is deterrence.

I mean it's stupid, but that's what the supporters think.

The thing they are missing is that no one commits a crime thinking they will get caught. So ever increasing the deterrence doesn't help.

Drugs is a public health issue, no really criminal. Prohibition doesn't work with things done at scales like drugs and alcohol. You're just feeding the criminal gangs.

We want them at office car parks, super market car parks, restaurant car parks, etc. Anywhere you going to leave your car for hours. It doesn't need to be rapid.

In the future, when cars are largely V2X, while just sat there, they can be local power stage. Buying and selling power, making you money and smoothing the grid.

Cars are sat most of their lives. While sat, they should be plumbed in and their huge batteries made use of.

From the 80s

I heard it rumoured it was written in 32bit x86 and was a mess. That meant porting it to ARM was basically a rewrite. There are open source rewrites. But nothing would ever play everything the same. Flash was riddled with security flaws of both format and implication. Adobe joined im killing it became it was a risk to Adobe not at an asset. Despite it's dominance at the time.

Yep. Phone have gone horrible wrong and ended up in a duopoly. It is hard for new phone platform to get started. Hell, it's a pain in the ass just have Android without Google services installed. It's such anti-competitive and anti-privacy mess.

Thank you, but I'm getting on a bit now. I'd settle for my wiseness approaching my years!

I'm not sure I have favourite internet decade. Even today has it's upsides. Probably more open code used running and accessing the internet now than ever. But we now have new problems!

I know smart people, who have used the internet to achieve a high technical skill set, who also believe some pretty crazy conspiracy stuff. Infectious miss-information is everywhere and no one is safe.