If the chips were cool ranch domino’s, that’d be 🔥

The average Chinese worker makes about $2.80 US/hour. What’s the Mexican pay rate?

Also, yes, total bullshit that Mexico is exempt from import tariffs and all our US manufacturers have been moving vehicle production down there.

Oooooh. I read it as Ginger pumpkin before clicking and had thought to myself that all pumpkins were ginger anyhow.

It’s an anti socialist agenda, now.

Android has taken away a lot of the manual usage shit when it comes to doing what you want of it on behalf of security protections. Well fuck you, if I want a program to have certain access to things I should be allowed to do it, whether you like it or not. My N20U still can’t have a full and proper root.

Early millennials are definitely thrown in there and remember “before the internet and cell phones” where a thing. I was flipping dip switches on my motherboard to make my swapped out components work. My first pc I got a hold of ran on dos and 5 1/4 floppies. Teens of the 90"s are probably the most pc tech literate ones.

There’s a lot you can still do. All the suspension, battery cooler pump, brakes, wheel bearings, a ton of things to do with the electrical system and lights, fuses and relays, window and lock motors, blinker arms and switches, fluid changes, hvac and ac components, the traction motors themselves…generally the only thing hard for a shade tree mechanic is the battery itself. They’re really heavy and hard to remove.

Now some components are going to be hard to get a hold of because there isn’t any third party companies making replacements, but eventually as need arises, they’ll get made. Until then there’s places like pick n pull where you can go take used parts off used vehicles or buy used and tested components from ebay if the manufacturer won’t sell you something. I bought a new oem hybrid battery just a couple years ago from a Toyota dealership and installed it myself.

Eh…that’s still pretty doable. Many things actually got easier for auto work. A $12 bluetooth obdII dongle and a $4 piece of software on your phone will give you most all the trouble codes you need to diagnose problems, and that’s it it doesn’t outright tell you the issue. Almost no car parts are parts paired and thanks to the internet there’s guides that are way better than a Haines manual to show you how to fix things, as well as a dozen different places to order parts from.

In the past 15 years the only time I’ve used a mechanic was to replace a clutch.

Here I am at 41 and know how to screw with everything. I stayed inquisitive and stayed a tight ass. I think I’ve paid for a professional to do something twice in the past 20 years. I didn’t want to take on the task of replacing a clutch on a front wheel drive suv on the ground in my driveway.

She never had to deal with a 4GB hard drive running out of space :-/

Geothermal heatpumps that gather the heat from underground below the frost line are different and much more time and space extensive than a regular heatpump.

Lithium extraction is a very messy business. I suppose bfe Nevada is the best place to try it in the US and see if it can be done without screwing up or contaminating all the groundwater in the area.

Oh yeah? Link me one single residential heat pump from anywhere that works sub 0F.

Those are different and that’s cheating. It’s not what this article is referencing or talking about.

Heat pumps don’t work well (even the new ones coming from this article are only good to 15f) anywhere near that cold. Most are only good to about 25f. Anywhere they’re installed that drops below freezing all have a backup heat system, whether or not it’s a gas backup, or resistive electric backup.

Some large commercial heat pumps will got down to like 0 degrees F, but none of the residential ones do.

It takes a little more effort to make an account and even know that lemmy exists. That probably dissuaded a lot of casual creepers.

Report says it was sodium hydroxide (aka lye) and not very much. Not really a terrible deal.

As to it being green, obviously something was added to it.

Lately?

The tiny thumbnail looked like tits being blurred out on my phone screen. I was a Lil confused about why such an article would have used that picture at first. Lol

At the same time, “similar works” are protected and allowed as legal. For instance the 5000 spaghetti westerns that exist, or the entire formula for 80’s slasher films. Or Ants and A Bugs Life, or Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down, or Deep Impact and Armageddon.

So there has to be some sort of line somewhere that’s a cut-off, but it might be hard to find. Musk wanted to use blade runner and was told to fuck off, so he made up his own dystopian Sci fi future scene. He most certainly aimed for the blade runner look, but was it illegal?