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  • It’s still very early days for all batteries that are not Li-Ion or Li-FP. Plus there’s a political aspect. Some countries, like China, have invested heavily in lithium and cobalt mining, increasing influence in Africa. CATL is a big innovator in batteries, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Chinese government pumps the brakes on CATL developing solid state or sodium on the scale of lithium.

    In the end, it’s inevitable because both lithium and cobalt are finite resources. Lithium especially is becoming increasingly difficult to come by. We are in need of new tech, but it could still take 10 years for it to be fully developed and adopted. What we need now is devices that just cannot be powered by lithium, so that they will require something more dense like sodium sulfur. The lack of need for graphene, cobalt and lithium is a huge pro.












  • Any site that generates content can choose to create an RSS feed. Essentially it’s a link to which the site can push new stories.

    You need an RSS client. Good news! There are a lot of free ones (and open source, too!).

    The pro’s of RSS:

    • all your different go-to news outlets in one place
    • no ad-ridden webpages
    • no dealing with interfaces of said news outlets
    • your pick ff categories, for instance if you’re not interested in celebrity gossip, you just turn that off

    The cons:

    • you’ll need to go collect RSS links from your favorite sites
    • one of your sites might no longer use RSS because they don’t get ad revenue for it
    • RSS readers are often not pretty
    • you might get weirdly formatted text pages sometimes


  • It’s wholly possible these people are not bothered by loud noises. I have neighbors and especially their kids seem to have no clue what an inside voice is, how far bass travels or how to walk down stairs.

    They shout, they blast music, they fall down stairs.

    If I did that as a kid, my dad would tell me to cut it out. And I think that’s the key difference. You’re either raised to be considerate of others, or you’re not. And if you’re the considerate type, most likely you’ll go out of your way because you don’t want them to be bothered by you while they might not even register if you happen to fall down the stairs or fire a cannon indoors.

    I used to be really careful with watching tv at certain hours, or announcing to my neighbors of I was going to have people over. It took me a while but I now don’t even really care if they hear me anymore. Because even if they do, it’s unlikely they’ll be bothered as much as I am when their preteen kids shout that they don’t want to go to bed at 10:30 PM when I’m trying to sleep.


  • I’m not familiar with how malware like that masks but you can pretty much find any traffic with a tool like WireShark. It’s just a matter of finding out how processes recreate themselves once killed.

    If something lives in the storage of your router, specifically, I’d see about formatting the storage and flashing new firmware. As you stated, that may not solve anything.

    Regardless of how they enter and what is installed where, once it’s inside your home network it can pretty much access anything. If you wanna be fully secure you’d need a firewall and just block any traffic you don’t specifically whitelist. As you can imagine, this is cumbersome.

    Are you worried that something has infected your network devices? Do you have any reason to suspect something? In some countries, ISPs do some passive monitoring on what goes in and out of your home and if they see anything untoward they’ll disable that bridge device and notify you.