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2 Wheeler EV penetration is increasing in India. "2W EVs form the majority of EV sales today, accounting for 85%–90% of all EV units sold in India, followed by 4W EVs (7%–9% of sal…

I am finding it hard to come to terms with the power and thermal figures. The CPU draws 320watts and likes to operate at 100 degrees Celsius. The CPU uses adaptive boost technology…

From the article "AMD Spartan UltraScale+ samples and evaluation kits are expected to be available for sampling and evaluation in the first half of 2025." For hardware products, wh…

duckduckgo. It is getting better. I rarely need to fall back to a Google search. ChatGPT 4 is good at getting to the specific information that I am looking for and I can get the so…

It is better for shops to just sell jute or cloth bags at retail price for carrying goods instead of allowing users to buy any type of plastic bag. This is how it is done in India …

While 28 tonnes appears to be a lot of material for generating 1.2MW of energy, it compares favourably when you look at wind turbines. How often does this need maintenance though?

One of the more annoying things with Windows for me is when when Windows Update fails stating that KBxyz failed to install. It is a nightmare to find the right version of the updat…

I don't understand why you don't have companies like Tesla building fuel cell (hydrogen) solutions for commercial use cases. Here is an article that explains it - https://www.bmw.c…

My rear view camera regularly gets covered with dirt and grime after a highway run during the monsoons. The car has both camera and radar so that I can have reliable assistance whi…

I was on the fence about closing my account. This was a good motivator to actually do it. It is hard to understand who PayPal is trying to appease.

We use several hundred laptops from Dell that run Linux (Ubuntu & CentOS) as the primary developer laptop in our organisation. They work well. Of course every now and then some use…

The whole OpenGL versus Metal situation doesn’t help in porting games to macOS. Also, Crossover ports no longer work. Getting a nice console has been my solution for gaming.

The whole OpenGL versus Metal situation doesn’t help in putting games to macOS. Also, Crossover ports no longer work.

I just finished seeing the movie Sonic 2. Are you Dr. Robotnik by any chance? Seriously though, the floppy drive is the icing on the cake. Great build.

What about security patches for the Pop _OS specific desktop components? The underlying Debian components are maintained elsewhere.

Starlink cost is 499$ for equipment and 99$ per month? That is way too high for broadband prices in India. Fibre internet of 100 Mbps is about 18$. Mobile 4G is even cheaper.

No code has the potential to be a Visual Basic for the enterprise for tasks that are cookie cutter. However the adoption cost is very high for tools like Appian.

Have they fixed the problem though?

Robolox is back online. https://twitter.com/roblox/status/1454994222583455744?s=21

Apple's Open Source repository has the current version of Catalina's core. https://opensource.apple.com/release/macos-10145.html Why is PureDarwin on an older version? Lack of volu…

How is your battery doing? Try changing it to make sure that there is nothing throttling performance. iOS 13 is snappier on the 6S. They did a lot of work on performance improvemen…

I don't see policy moving in that direction as a result of this incident. The leaders are happy to find alternative sources to buy oil from.

There are ways to make AdBlockers work with Safari 13. It is a question of someone taking the effort to adhere to the new design enforced by Apple for Safari extensions. I switched…

There is an undisclosed RCE that prompted Apple to act. https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/1148819622558236673...