Just to clarify, the alkaline batteries like below are not rechargeable, and if you try you will have a bad time:

Energizer have their own range of rechargeable batteries, that look like this:

If you have an IKEA nearby, their LADDA (I think?) branded rechargeable batteries tend to be a quite affordable entry point.

Russia might have him by the balls, but word on the street is that Bill Clinton has a fair bit in on him too.

Millionaires billionaires.

It’s a dick-measuring contest from more civilised times.

…lol, yes! Unless it’s the EU, they managed to get on the USB-C standardisation pretty early - there’s a chance we might see something like this out of them before 2050 🤞🏻

I do worry about the Monkey’s Paw nature of capitalism though, with the regulations on vaping here accidentally causing a surge of ‘disposable’ vapes equipped with lithium ion batteries - ending up having something similar occur as a result.

Duplicating charging circuits also seems a bit wasteful, especially if manufacturers cheap out and use the lowest quality components - rather than having a high-quality centralised GaN charger or similar.

It was rough, back of the napkin math - primarily intended for those in places where EV disinformation is highest (the US).

Those of us that primarily use metric are more than capable of roughly converting in our heads as required! 😅

Not intentionally being misleading, as I do have a footnote calling out not including carbon emissions from electricity generation as they vary so wildly based on the energy source.

But unlike ICE cars, EV emissions from energy sources are improving over time as nations build more and more renewable energy sources. Your linked report is correct, but potentially out of date already - the UK for instance was already at 58% in 2024, with a goal of full of 95%+ by the end of this decade.

Here in Australia, our uptake of residential solar has been so high that our energy providers are offering free electricity during peak daylight hours to all customers to help use up all of that excess production. It’s quite feasible for a significant portion of us here to be able to not only recharge an EV for free, but with next-to-no CO2 emissions.

Additionally, we now have a big Government subsidy in place to install batteries in our homes as well: ~£4,000 for a ~30kWh system, fully installed!

I share your love for older cars, but with a toddler and another one planned - we need to have a modern, safe car for peace of mind. But believe me, I will be ensuring that I disable as much telemetry as possible due to privacy concerns.

But for a secondary/weekend car - there is always the option of electrifying an older car, allowing for the best of both worlds - in a sense!

Metric tonnes, as that seems to be the generally used format when discussing CO2 emissions.

Which I know may be confusing, given that I quote imperial values in the rest of the stats - but it was just quick/dirty math and I figured that EV disinformation is highest in the US, so I tried to tailor the values for them.

You have missed my point entirely. OP is disappointed that the Steam Controller doesn’t use AAs, while the Steam Frame controllers do.

Easily replaceable, rechargeable batteries are the best solution we as a society currently have for electronic devices. We can’t force people to not use disposables - so internals like that on the Steam Controller is the best-fit solution currently.

As an aside, we currently have ~20 or so AA Eneloops in circulation in our household currently, from TV and AC remotes, to children’s toys, to IOT devices.

Rough math involved: production of a new EV results in between 8-15 tonnes of CO2 emissions, depending on the size of the batteries and vehicle trim.

But let’s aim for somewhere in the middle and take ~12 tonnes as a yardstick.

~12 tonnes of CO2 emissions equates to roughly 1,350 gallons of fuel.

Depending of fuel efficiency, this would equate to between 20k~45k miles.

Feel free to double-check my math in case I did anything wrong, but it does validate that most of these „facts” around EVs are likely FUD spread by fossil fuel aligned sources.

ETA: initially forgot to include CO2 emissions from electricity generation - but this varies wildly based on source (nuclear, hydro & renewables at 0 etc.)

It’s because it’s largely moot in modern times - it basically prohibits soldiers from being quartered in private homes.

So basically to stop an army from overrunning a property, evicting owners/tenants and declaring it a barracks.

In a world where every household has rechargeable AA batteries, absolutely - but until and unless we successfully regulate away disposable batteries this solution (internal battery, easy to replace thanks to Right to Repair) will likely remain the most realistic, environmentally friendly one.

IP/trademarks/copyrights/etc.

This is likely going to be the main reason for the takedown notices, Sony will be exercising their legal rights in order to defend their trademarks & copyrights on Concord assets.

If a company doesn’t defend them vigorously, then any unlicensed works that are allowed to exist are then used as legal precedent moving forward to null/void such copyrights and trademarks.

As an aside, Sony is a global corporation and can likely choose to write down these losses in the most preferred region to maximise the tax offset - so likely either the US, or Ireland.

My comment was explicitly towards those disenfranchised within the US, who would face no issue with assimilating into Australian society and culture.

Just for the record: 我老婆是中国人，所以我了解澳大利亚的种族歧视问题。

To anyone who truly feels this way, please consider coming to Australia.

We aren’t perfect, but we will damned sure treat you a lot better than the US has.

The whole selling points was to track fridge contents via cameras so that not only could you ‚see’ inside without having to open the door - theoretically saving electricity, using AI it was supposed to be able to track expiry dates, and suggest shopping lists in order to have full recipes.

Additionally it had all the usual „smart home” integrations on top of that.

But let’s be honest, the whole point was just to put in yet another screen that vendors could sell advertisements on, as well as track/sell personal information.

Sabotaged by the stupid placement of the microphone and earpiece… I still remember the taco phone memes of the day. Shame, it could have been great!

MySpace Tom? Literally the only one I can think of…

It’s beyond bad, it’s outright dumb as fuck.

As it stands, a 30yr mortgage at current interest rates means that you end up paying ~$1.20 in interest for every $1 borrowed.

A 50yr mortgage at current interest rates would have you pay $2.50 in interest for every $1 borrowed.

You would end up literally paying 3.5x the value of the mortgage - it’s outright criminal.

Straight to the manufacturer (Dbrand) website:

Touché, that definitely does sound like it would have been a a fun job!

I still feel like I lucked out compared to my classmates who were either flipping burgers at Macca’s, stacking shelves at the local supermarket, or waiting at a chain restaurant. Being a “Toy Tester” every December was just 👌🏼