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New comment by tpm in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"

tpm — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:55:56 +0000

Oneplus 15 uses a Si/C battery like other higher end Chinese phones currently. It doesn't get hot during normal operation (I don't play games on it) and since I don't use fast charging, for now it looks like it will work for a long time. Still get easily 2 days on a 80% charge.

New comment by tpm in "Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries"

tpm — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:08:24 +0000

here in densely populated parts of the world we don't prefer burying toxic waste close to our homes.

New comment by tpm in "Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries"

tpm — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:33:59 +0000

> Far more valuable is any nickel, cobalt and graphite. Equally valuable is any copper and aluminium.

All of these metals are already almost fully recycled (not sure about graphite). Lithium is the toughest to recycle and it's not solved yet, so it's right to focus on that, because there will be a lot of lithium electrolyte to dispose in the near future.

New comment by tpm in "Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries"

tpm — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:23:25 +0000

I think the issues with recycling lithium from electrolyte containing lithium hexafluorophosphate in solvents is more the hexafluorophosphate part; it's highly reactive, hygroscopic and releases (toxic, corrosive) hydrogen fluoride upon contact with water. So purely from economic perspective it's possibly not worth it unless we are very lithium-constrained. Of course it should be done anyway as there will be a lot of used batteries in near future.

The article doesn't really give us the details which is a pity.

New comment by tpm in "Xsnow "protestware" in Debian"

tpm — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:59:17 +0000

I won't shed a tear as you say but a few (way too few) opposition figures were killed or sit in prison / were expelled (Yashin, Kara-Murza for example), so pretty much everyone understands the price they will pay.

Ideally the whole regime would start infighting and implode to hell, but ordinary people won't start the process I'm afraid... although the recent fuel shortages could give us some hope if they last long enough.

New comment by tpm in "Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family"

tpm — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:15:38 +0000

Not just Russia, the Kingdom of Hungary (which contained large parts of Central Europe) abolished serfdom only in 1848 (the Serfdom Patent of 1781 was not really respected in the hungarian part of Austrian Empire until then).

New comment by tpm in "Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media"

tpm — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:28:30 +0000

it still works in the web app - following -> recent - though I think I've got some browser extension to force that to be the default, otherwise it tended to revert to other tabs and ordering.

New comment by tpm in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

tpm — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:13:07 +0000

Or you can build enough cupboards to stash away three generations of cooking utensils and no clutter will be visible. But that too demands a bit of investment in terms of money and room space.

New comment by tpm in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

tpm — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:42:39 +0000

> Cluttered old homes with lots of things all over the place make it a bit less jarring when there's a stack of work left out on a table.

that's wrong: my minimalist (in looks, not in equipment) all white kitchen looks completely fine even after a dinner party, because even then it doesn't look full, dirty or cluttered. The old one (and it wasn't that old, only there were more and darker colors and lines and objects) decidedly didn't. The art of designing modern spaces lies in the ability to make the space visually appealing (in my case minimal) while still able to function correctly. Too often the designers and their clients forget about the practical aspects.

New comment by tpm in "List of European organizations that have banned personal messaging apps at work"

tpm — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:44:59 +0000

> Or if I used personal devices for work, my personal devices are now in scope. Hell NO!

In Europe, unless it's a criminal investigation, which this wouldn't be, there is no way a lawsuit would touch your personal devices if you didn't agree (and mostly also nobody would care I think).

New comment by tpm in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

tpm — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:11:13 +0000

You are completely wrong in everything you just wrote.

New comment by tpm in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

tpm — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:57:03 +0000

...What?

I live in the EU. There is no war in the EU, that's surely a success by your own count. And it's cute to mention several "jobs" as one job. Perhaps you would like to narrow down your argument, if there is one.

New comment by tpm in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

tpm — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:38:31 +0000

This article does not say someone was arrested because of a public talk about Gaza and Israel. A local government has cut funding to a local org because of a disagreement. Nobody was arrested.

New comment by tpm in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

tpm — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:27:07 +0000

No the regulation "from Europe" whatever that means is not worse, that's just the usual dumb anti-EU propaganda. If by that you perhaps mean checking EU agro subsidies against the actual size and use of declared fields, then that is not regulation, it's just checking the subsidies are not defrauded, which is a huge issue. Every farmer is free not to ask for the subsidies. But for most of the EU regs, the member country can choose how to implement them. Usually countries manage to not overburden their people with that. The German problem is homegrown.

New comment by tpm in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

tpm — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:15:41 +0000

I don't know when you were born but I'm pretty sure Germany was regulation capital of the world already back then and this is just your nostalgia bias speaking (also I agree with you Germany is currently way way overregulated but also outsiders have no way to really understand the degree of overregulation).

But also the US pretty much care too much when you for example try to blow your head off with drugs instead of a gun or explosives so the grass is not that green on the other side either.

New comment by tpm in "Do you hate XML? (2010)"

tpm — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:03:21 +0000

> It's not the fault of the format if someone chose to use it in a poor way.

Which is why we've ended up with things like WSDL which define another layer on top of XML to make it actually usable for the thing it is used for. Hence the collective exhale when JSON showed up.

New comment by tpm in "EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on"

tpm — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:15:03 +0000

But in Bulgaria you need one during at least the whole summer and I suspect also a bit longer, while in Czechia you could have gone without one the whole year and really need one only for a week or two in the summer. So most people didn't think it was worth the expense. Now that's changed and the attitude will change too.

In my newish (25y old, well insulated) flat we really started to feel the need to get one only 2-3 years ago. Until then it was nice to have but not necesarry.

New comment by tpm in "Xsnow "protestware" in Debian"

tpm — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:16:58 +0000

Well the voting is heavily manipulated since more than 10-15 years already, and many candidates are banned from running too (not to forget many opposition and critical figures were killed).

Of course they should change the government but I don't think it's possible to achieve that through elections.

New comment by tpm in "On cigarettes"

tpm — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:30:29 +0000

One of the few public places it's still legal to smoke in in our country are psychiatric wards, supposedly it benefits the patients.

That said, there are other ways to consume nicotine.

New comment by tpm in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

tpm — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:46:42 +0000

Did you ask them? Not even billions, did you ask at least a few thousand? Nobody complained? I know for a fact many people working in buildings with forced AC complain loudly.

But if you actually did read what I wrote, there was no complaint from me about the cooling part of the AC.