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  • Also grid storage doesn’t have the sort of deep, rapid discharge/charge cycles that EVs go through. Once an EV battery is no good in the car, it still has about 80% of it’s useable capacity left. Meaning, there will always be a need for “new” EV batteries, but grid storage would saturate and leave surplus batteries. Not to mention, as the grid storage batteries fall out of their useful life for that purpose, they can be recycled into new EV batteries and begin the cycle anew.





  • You need to do more research. Valve has in total about 300 employees, and maybe a dozen work on SteamOS. Their priority will always be to maintain it for Valve-produced hardware. If you’re expecting golden unicorns from SteamOS on a PC, you will be very disappointed.

    To make matters somewhat worse it’s based on Arch, which is one of the more difficult distros to work with from a user perspective - Valve uses it because it provides more flexibility to aggressively optimize it for their specific hardware. You will not get the experience you are thinking you will get from it.

    Fedora on the other hand is based on and funded by Red Hat, which is one of the largest names in enterprise Linux. It’s been in production for PCs for over 20 years. On top of funding, Red Hat also has employees working on it.

    Red Hat was purchased last year by IBM for $34B USD, roughly 3x what Valve as a whole is estimated to be worth. If you want a so-called “mighty corporation” backing your OS… valve ain’t it.





  • No worries, nothing grouchy sounding there :)

    My statement is sourced by me working in R&D in the automotive industry on these modules… an ESP32 does not come close to the amount of computing resources needed to move and process the absolute boat load of information required to make decisions for autonomous driving.

    Flying around doesn’t need the same level of object detection, path-finding, decision making and so on that a vehicle that is capable of killing anyone in or around it needs. And on top, it has to be able to do that at highway speeds, without ever making a mistake - because of the killing everyone in or around it part.

    Further, it needs to deal with all the random stuff all those people are doing around it all the time… again, without ever making a mistake.

    So it needs to be able to see something, identify if it’s something it needs to be concerned about, figure out if it might be doing something that needs to be addressed, make a plan, then execute it… in like a few milliseconds. with a virtually unlimited number of potential obstacles, while obeying traffic laws, and still get the occupant to their destination.

    Without killing anyone.

    And that’s just the ADAS subsystem.



  • With the current level of tech in a car, you’re already likely pushing 300GB in total. There’s dozens of high-compute ECUs doing all sorts of things, running some *nix OS and using anywhere from a couple GB to well… way more.

    to reach full driverless capability, those will need to become more powerful, the software will require more memory, and the number of compute modules will likely increase as well for sensors and other stuff.

    300GB IMO is probably a conservative estimate.






  • Grocery is already going online, look at all the companies sponsoring youtube vids. The margins for what you’re describing are, at the absolute best, razor-thin.

    E-tags draw significantly more profit from things like one-day (loss leader) flash sales, or in-store specials, or other conventional retail pricing tactics.

    Take a 4-hour sale on some popular product, put an ad up on Instagram to get people in your store on the way home from work and you make a mint. You don’t need E-tags to do that, but it means that you don’t have to pay someone to change out the paper tags on that product twice in their shift.

    You’re getting distracted by the least likely way they’ll fuck you over, when they’re just sticking to tried-and-true collusion.



  • Surge pricing really only works when you put the customer in isolation. Uber can do it because you’re the only one seeing the rate for the trip you want to take. Amazon can do it because you’re shopping while taking a shit at work. Nobody else sees the prices in your online shopping cart, that’s not the case in retail.

    The profit motive behind these tags is wage savings. It saves in the time it takes to change out price tags when the prices do change. It saves in the time used in finding and replacing missing or damaged tags. It saves in the amount of manual price corrections at the till when the tag doesn’t match the till because the tag wasn’t updated - or the lost time and revenue if someone abandons their cart because of said disagreement.

    Could they do what you’re saying? Technologically speaking, it’s been possible for several years - we’ve had these tags on most major store shelves in Canada for a very long time now and apps tracking our every move. Why hasn’t it happened already? These stores have had everything they need to implement this scheme, and of all the shady cunts in this world, Galen Weston would have by now if it could have turned a profit.

    It’s easier to just price-fix the bread and pay a fraction of your profit in lawsuit settlements decades later than to do what you’re describing.