Pioneer is a well known Japanese electronics company, they are still going strong, but have exited the optical disc drive business.

So no, Pioneer has not gone out of business, they have however changed focus from optical drives.

Simple, since the system knows the VIN of every car, it knows who to send the bill to.

You could even have a Terminal at the entrence of the facility for those who want to prepay.

Why does the cars need to move?

Just build car charging coils into every parking spot, then have a computer keep track of what car arrived at what time, and give them an hour each of full charging sequentially.

Example

Car 1 parks in space A and starts charging, car 2 arrives shortly after and parks in space D, the computer logs the VIN and timestamp, placing it first in the queue. 30 min later car 3 arrives and parks in space B, the computer logs the VIN and time stamp, placing it second in the queue. Then car 2 leaves space D, the computer logs it and removes it from the queue, making car 3 first in line, then car 2 arrives back in space D, and is placed second in the queue since it left earlier.

No need to move tonnes of metal and batteries, just switching the power, a cheap and fair way to extend the number of charging spaces, while not overloading the circuit and ensuring that everyone gets a fair timeslot, all without having to risk dammage while moving the cars.

PR?

Some people care more about being remembered as a good person after they have died rather than having the highscore when they die.

Look at Alfred Nobel, the entire reason for creating the Nobel prize was to try and rehabilitate his memory after having invented dynamite.

I could see something similar motivating modern billionaires.

Dear Mr. Bezos, instead of pushing for increased energy use to create more slop, how about making something truly meaningful?

You have the money to do a LOT good, you also have the resources and contact to actually do it.

Here is a suggestion:

Set up a fund with 10 billion USD, have it managed to produce a decent, but predictable return every year.

Take another billion USD, and fund a non-profit organization that will develop the following:

1. A semi autonomous garbage collecting boat, powered by solar power.
2. A mothership for number 1 with a processing facility that takes the garbage collected by a a fleet of the smaller crafts, basically dry it, filter the water and compact the dry gargabe.
3. A high power incinerator at a port that can burn the garbage at a very high temp.

At the end you should have a large fleet of the semi autonomous garbage collectors, a minimum of two motherships and a port side incinerator.

Deploy the garbage collectors and motherships to the great garbage patch and set to work cleaning up the surface.

As the initial funding for the company dries up the funding of the organization should come from the returns of the fund set up earlier.

The organization should accept donations and build more garbage collectors and motherships, and also develop new methods of collecting garbage from the oceans.

This is what they will look like for me:

Can’t get smart fridge ads if I don’t get a smart fridge. taps forehead

They ended up like Ericson here in Sweden, dropped their handset business to focus on the network side, both Ericson and Nokia are quite successful on that side, especially since the hubub about alleged backdoors in Huawei mobile network equipment a few years back.

Sigh, please stop using that argument, it is an easy cop out, and you don’t actually help your cause by analyzing the real issue.

The real reason why people willingly use Windows is multifaceted and can be boiled down to a few points.

1. It is the defacto standard. If you are going to use a desktop/laptop computer you will probably use Windows, especially at work.
2. Most users know Windows in some capacity, this means that companies have an easier time finding staff than if they used something else, it wouldn’t be impossible but it would mean spending more time and money training the staff and causing them to be less productive for longer as they learn the system. This is slowly changing with the rise of web apps, chromebooks and Macs. But still, having IT support a fleet of Linux desktops/laptops when working in a non IT sector would be increadibly wasteful
3. Software, like it or not, Windows has a huge amount of proprietary software dominance, organizations LOVE proprietary software and dislike FOSS for one reason. Liability. This means that they get a number to call, email to contact, a person to yell at, they can deflect complaints and seem like they are a strong decisive company by taking legal action against an external party, and not have the buck stop with themselves.

I am an IT technician, this is what I have seen in the corporate world.

By talking about “brainwashing” you remove most of the actual information that could help you figure out how Linux could be better suited for the masses, and to be frank, using a word like “brainwashing” makes the Linux community seem a bit unhinged/cultish.

Focus on facts, then you can use them to change the actual issue.

I don’t believe they do like the current regime, why would they?

The government is demanding more and more stupid stuff for them to do, taking time and resources from more important tasks.

Creating a more dangerous social climate, causing less people to have enough money to buy their products while increasing cost of material.

You can call it bribes, I call it paying tribute to the king.

The guys know what is going on, they know that their companies futures are in the hands of a vindictive extreme narcissistic idiot of a king. They know that to be left alone they need to pay tribute to the king.

Is it a bribe or a protection racket? Yes, it is.

Has ubuntu started using DNF?

I mean, it is fair for the company leadership to decide on what is said through their channels.

I don’t really see any issues with them limiting what can be said when representing their company.

However, any coworker should be able to post, comment and like what they want on their own personal social media pages without it affecting their employment.

I remember various attempts by employers to force employees to represent the brand and company at all times, that is just idiotic.

I will only accept that my employer will have me say “no comment” when asked about company opinions or details in my free time.

I wish that people would stop using kids for their own gain.

Whenever I see people using kids like this, I want to reply “Put the child down, they are not a bat for your political gains.”

But as I don’t have Twatter, I don’t.

Fans and pumps don’t have any moving parts any longer?

I leave my work machine on constantly, but am very careful and shut down my home machine when I go to bed.

It just feels wrong to leave it powered up.

It isn’t, it is the least bad

If that is the GZ version, what would the BZ2 and XZ versions look like

That is a very good practice, it is better than my suggestion as it eliminates potential error when copy pasting

I have used dd a few times without destroying my disk, here is my simple recommendation to stay safe:

DON’T TYPE THE COMMAND DIRECTLY INTO THE TERMINAL!

What I mean is that you should open a text editor, type the dd command you want to run in the editor, let it sit for 5 min, go back to the text editor, find the OF path, doublecheck and verify that it is safe.

Correct misstakes, wait another 5 min and do the check again.

Once you are confident that the command is accurate, copy paste it into a terminal and run it.