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New comment by jansper39 in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

jansper39 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:22:00 +0000

I just looked up the dimensions and it's ridiculously big. You'd have trouble parking in it most places where I am from.

New comment by jansper39 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

jansper39 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:00:41 +0000

> Like the UK, where you can tweet that someone should burn down a hotel full of migrants, and you can be arrested for tweeting that.

During the middle of a riot where people were actively trying to set fire to a hotel full of migrants.

New comment by jansper39 in "Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed"

jansper39 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:13:52 +0000

The car park there has been falling down on it's own for years and the office spaces vacant for decades.

If they could knock the flyover down too it would be a boon in my opinion.

New comment by jansper39 in "Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems"

jansper39 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:15:01 +0000

For years I've used this as a home page of sorts for Microsoft products. It's very annoying not to be able to use it now.

New comment by jansper39 in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

jansper39 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:57:13 +0000

I'm also from 'across the pond' and think this is technically unworkable and is likely not going to fix any problems at all.

New comment by jansper39 in "UK government launches fuel forecourt price API"

jansper39 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:33:36 +0000

> Never investigated myself, but some car-knower once told me that running the tank on low always isn't good for the fuel pump, or something like that.

The main issue is that it risks pulling detritus from the very bottom of the fuel tank, usually a bigger issue in diesels and I suspect less of a problem these days.

New comment by jansper39 in "MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience"

jansper39 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:26:54 +0000

Loads, you can usually tell if something is limited to 2.4Ghz only.

Cabled up an EVSE the other day and the brains of that was a ESP32 chip.

New comment by jansper39 in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

jansper39 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:52:42 +0000

That's why the whole NCAP safety table is topped with Chinese vehicles then.

New comment by jansper39 in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

jansper39 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:41:57 +0000

Why would you assume you can become a skilled blue collar worker in a year?

New comment by jansper39 in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

jansper39 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:24:03 +0000

Nobody in Europe thinks that healthcare just exists for free, but that it should be available to who need it for free and are happy to pay for that via tax.

New comment by jansper39 in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

jansper39 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:09:29 +0000

Seems easier to comply to the single market rules though than 50 odd different states.

New comment by jansper39 in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

jansper39 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:07:30 +0000

> US: "We will invade greenland" EU: "omg we need to invest in greenland and increase its military support, we will send more troops immediately!"

> US: "we will pull out of nato" EU: "omg we hate US we need to massively increase military spending and industry"

It's in both the EU and the US's interest to ensure NATO is the strongest partnership possible and the US's actions over the last few weeks have undermined it almost perfectly.

New comment by jansper39 in "Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance"

jansper39 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:44:07 +0000

It's also down to vaccination requirements for EU based farms who take far more preventative measures than US ones.

It's why you can eat raw eggs and keep them out of the fridge in the EU/UK but not in the US, because the chickens are vaccination for Salmonella.

New comment by jansper39 in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

jansper39 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:07:31 +0000

If the US pisses enough countries off with this Greenland stuff that they shut down US bases around the world, that substantially curtails the US Navy's ability to be effective globally.

New comment by jansper39 in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

jansper39 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:34:13 +0000

Putting the timing chain at the back of the engine away from the front is generally done to reduce torsional vibrations and tends to help with space claim, especially for pedestrian safety systems where you need a lot of travel space under the bonnet. But yeah, serviceability suffers.

Electric water pumps are a great idea though, instead of having an aux belt with tensioners and pulleys, you have on single part that can be unmounted and swapped out. Can run after the engine shuts off too to help cool it down.

New comment by jansper39 in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

jansper39 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:01:38 +0000

From this year all EU cars will have physical buttons for heater controls, media etc.

New comment by jansper39 in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

jansper39 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:56:17 +0000

Modern cars are far more reliable than old 'analogue' cars - primarily because of the integrated electronics. ECUs can detect when engines are running rich or lean, knocking or 100 other edge cases and adjust accordingly.

Switch to an EV and it's even simpler, you can get away with a motor, battery, BMS and inverter and you can get just about any soapbox to move.

New comment by jansper39 in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

jansper39 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:46:34 +0000

Personally, the additional complexity and overheads required for a P2P phone network is not worth while and I'm not sure it would fix that many problems that haven't already been fixed with walkie talkies.

New comment by jansper39 in "Find a pub that needs you"

jansper39 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:57:03 +0000

As a Brit (an actual one, not because my great great grandfather was one) I'd have to say that pub culture in the UK is not strictly about drinking alcohol at all. It's a social place to meet friends, play games, watch sport and hide from the weather.

Pubs won't question you if you ask for a lime and soda and they may even stop serving you if they think you've drunk enough.

New comment by jansper39 in "European Commission issues call for evidence on open source"

jansper39 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:18:03 +0000

Yet because of it's existence, thousands of people have been able to love beyond their countries borders.