It seems like it would only be close to “reasonable” to run in a place where snow is so minimal that you don’t even need to bother dealing with it.
But if you live somewhere like where I live, where a bad storm is 10-14” of snow, that’s gotta take what, days of running the system?
This is a huge thing to note. Kagi works well but if you set it as your default search engine and use the internet like a normal person that goes online a lot you’ll burn through 100 searches in like 2 days. 300 searches is $5 and unlimited is $10 iirc, though it’s less if you pay yearly. It also includes ai stuff
I just use a combo of mojeek and ecosia. Mojeek is more private. Ecosia is privacy oriented but searches are still passed to microsoft, though with most (but not all) identifiers stripped out
This except telling a story about literally anything and giving an overwhelming amount of background detail because if you don’t have the context of course it won’t make sense and it will be misinterpreted, right (see: my post history)
This is not an incorrect point but rfks motives are more likely delegitimization of major journals to make the hacky bullshit journals he cites not seem so quacky
If this is successful in 5-10 years it will be much less normal to say “at least show me a paper from nature”. Then the confusing landscape of journals that are not well known become even harder to differentiate from the ones he cites
For reference, when he was citing his antivax bullshit at (I believe it was) his confirmation hearing the article he cited came from a journal of extremely dubious quality. The board of directors were all antivaxxers, one of which being the guy who published the article, and the journal was registered out of a residential home. It was basically the academic journal equivalent of a fanzine with obvious and extreme conflicts of interest in its peer review. The paper itself had glaring methodology issues (shocker).
If scientists are forced to leave the most reputable publications it just muddies the waters even more for articles that are of very high quality or importance
The issues you point out are still very relevant and need resolution of course but they can be solved in other ways. Regulation surrounding how government funded research is handled, how government endowment funds for library access to journals are handled, etc could give significant leverage over private publishers without having to start over from scratch. Or you could be more aggressive and force the publishers to be more equitable, but good luck with that in America
“Optimizing for things people love” aka talking to you like an hr team building seminar
It’s frustrating, or maybe it’s a good thing given the tendency for some people to form weird pseudo social relationships with LLMs, to see the evolution of chatgpts language processing
Public chatgpt only had the 3.5, 4, and 4o model but you can play with earlier models like 2 and 3 on huggingface. These were far weirder, often robotic and stilted but sometimes mirroring more natural colloquial English more based on the input
Rather than make something that is authentic and more natural to interact with they instead go for the ultra sanitized HR corporate speak bullshit. Completely bland and inoffensive with constant encouragement and reinforcement to drive engagement that feels so inauthentic (unless you are desperate for connection with anything, I guess). It’s mirrored in other models to some degree, deepseek, llama, etc (I don’t know about grok, fuck going on twitter).
3-5 years until it’s ruined by advertising, tops. If that
I was just always afraid that because of the inherent angle of me pulling the wire towards the battery that I would end up pulling the wire into the battery and slicing into it. I don’t know how easy it is for a wire to slice into a battery casing, I assume it’s somewhat hard, but I wasn’t trying to find out
I ended up getting somewhat decent at these battery swaps though. There was a time where I could do it in like 20 minutes or so.
The worst part was when someone needed a trackpad replacement haha. It wasn’t common but when it happened it was like so do you want a new battery? because I’m gonna have to do all this pain in the ass shit anyway
I’ve done a number of these
Discharge the battery as much as possible
Syringe with acetone, have 2-3 ready especially if you have small syringes
Open the macbook, take the bottom off, and place it upside down so it’s it’s in a upside down V shape
Dump a bunch of acetone behind the battery with the syringe so that it pours down toward the bottom, away from keyboard. Let it sit for a minute. Apply gentle heat. Apply more acetone, let it sit.
Start to try to pry it with a spudger (gently) while squirting in acetone around where you pry. If it doesn’t budge repeat the above again. Pry and squirt, pry and squirt. Slow and steady. Keep in mind each cell pack can kind of flex around so when you get past one you kind of start over.
I used both the plastic spudgers and the thin metal kind and always preferred the latter. Plastic works and is safer but the metal kind just work better
Having a contingency plan for if it fails but I never did tbf
Edit: alternatively I remember reading about pulling a thin sharp metal string behind the battery to cut the adhesive. Like a high note piano wire. Never tried it but heard it works. You tuck it behind the battery and slowly drag it down, pulling it left to right so it cuts the adhesive. Seemed sketch to me so I never tried, like it would potentially cut into the battery?
The problem is the adhesive does serve a purpose (mainly vibration/keeping the battery in place). Depends on how much you travel with it and the design overall (I’m not familiar with the steam deck but looking at the ifixit it appears ribbons are fixed to it so having the battery bounce around could be a problem)
That said you can buy those pull tab strips and could probably use them here. I hate those things but why not? Better than what was there, I guess. Especially bc the off brand ones can be fairly weak adhesive
Ehhh I’ve had some nightmare experiences with Samsung, LG (back when they made phones), ~~Xiaomi~~ (edit not Xiaomi, huawei), etc. a lot use pull tabs and when they work they’re perfect but when they’re old or you go just a bit too fast and they break you’re fucked and have to either heat it a ton, drown it in solvent, or slide a thin wire to cut it, all options suck
Funny enough the new apple phones actually have this weird electro conductive adhesive that’s crazy simple to remove. The pull tabs are now terminals, you connect those to a standard 9v battery with alligator clips or whatever, and after a short bit of time (30 seconds iirc) the adhesive just releases and you can lift the battery out
There are videos of it on youtube, it’s pretty cool and the one adhesive I can potentially get behind. though I would want to see what people say about it after a few years of actual use. The initial teardown videos when the 16 came out made it look impressive but who knows if it holds up after 5-7 years
They also don’t use it for laptops so far. They didn’t even use it for all versions of the iphone 16 so it’s not exactly applaud apple time but if they roll that out to replace the nasty adhesives they were using for batteries across their product line it would be a great step in the right direction
Isn’t battery adhesive the worst thing ever?
I remember fixing a few macbooks that had batteries like this. The batteries were gigantic and the adhesive was crazy strong. Dumping acetone behind them with a syringe, heat, and gently prying eventually got them out but it was quite nerve wracking. I guess you can’t dump solvents in a steam deck though
It’s so dumb. Adhesives make assembly easier but fuck over repairability. The only advantages are even distribution of pressure and vibration dampening, which are notable, but are not worth making the main wear item completely inaccessible and a nightmare to replace for the majority of people who don’t have experience with heat guns and sliding cards/thin metal to cut the stupid fucking adhesive that could’ve been replaced by a screw making the product 0.5mm thicker and 0.1g heavier (if that)
Patent infringement is about use, not price
It’s total bullshit that stifles innovation but such is life in the USA. At least the period isn’t completely obscene like copyright
I would think if you’re getting heavy enough snowfall it would outpace the heating effect. I don’t know, no one around here has one.