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could be, there was more of these weird things that i had to do that i don't remember already because motherboard of that one cracked like three years ago. i also remember that stock driver for tplink dongle was limited and the actual useful one had to be gotten from github

to get wifi working properly in the first place i had to find a missing binary that wasn't packaged in any normal way and was only hosted on some dudes github so my expectations were low already. it got a lot better over the years tbh

lmde on a seven year old laptop five years ago, i was already accustomed to wifi on linux being dogshit. energy management was even worse and for some time hibernation was not a thing

Can’t you just disable sleep on close?

i could, but closing the lid turned off radios (wifi + bt) at some low level in a way that i haven't figured out

starting a cult is just good business

pigments are the least problem, and many are not dependent on oil, like titania. some might, like soot, but because we're talking about japan, it's likely they get it from chinese manufacturer, and chinese chemical industry relies on coal heavily. but it's such a small part of it all, binder, solvent and the entire packaging are likely petroleum-derived or dependent so there's close to zero savings here. not to mention fuel and fertilizer use in farming that led to that product

it's such unbelievably petty corner cutting, the only value of it is in marketing

you know what would help them? switch to solar process heat, best time for it was decade ago, second best time is now (they're using heavy fuel oil for heating something)

cap, that's a marketing move. black ink still needs solvent and amount of it saved by using one pass instead of 3 is tiny, transport will take more

but can both of them lose?

4-5V is state of the art and pushing it there or beyond that gets very tricky very quickly. pure water has electrochemical window of 1.23V, but you can go a bit over that because at low overvoltage water splitting is slow at most electrode materials. that's why lead battery can have 2V per cell and will generate hydrogen when charged much over nominal voltage

storage of heat is also very cheap compared to some other options and can just be using ground around boreholes, especially considering that most of residential energy use is in form of heat. if you have a hill that you don't need you can even put an artificial lake on top of it

there's a speciality resin (that new material) in that battery. resins are nonrecyclable. i don't think it can be 4x cheaper per kg than LiFePO4 battery because of that material

some of you people itt have never imagined that there could be something like a research dead end and it shows

use of water as a solvent limits maximum voltage

wanted to use water to get electricity anyway for a laugh? we have a tool for that: it's called STEAM TURBINE