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A friend of mine was in a similar situation with a dangerous chemical that he used for some hobby projects (an acid for glass etching)?

It wouldn't be accepted anywhere so he ended up calculating how diluted it needed to be and pouring it mixed with a lot of water down the sink.

For 5 litres of nicotine to be safe you'd need a lot of water though if you'd want to make this remotely ok for the environment...

What about mixing it with cat litter and then disposing it?

Yes, but they're making people quit instead. They don't need to pay severance to employees who quit because of RTO.

Oh so you're equally happy with whatever winner? No preference whatsoever? Interesting to see that on an election with such wildly different candidates.

Well then bring it on. If feels too big to fail, but if (hypothetically) Amazon were to go under, the world would be a better place.

This is the Pro, the mid-cycle refresh with more power and whatnot.

Sure, just like other brick and mortar stores can refuse to give you backups of a DVD you own.

As long as the installer works offline this is just as good. It's up to you to store it in whichever format you prefer so that you don't lose it - hard drive, thumb drive, DVD...

If you nuke your computers hard drive with the installers of your games, or you step on your blu rays with games and break them, then you lose access to them. As it's always been, no matter the format?

Cool, but it's missing trackpads and Linux...

I never knew how much I needed the trackpads until I played on the deck - unlike with the joysticks, I can actually play FPSs!!

I'm not a lawyer but, I know when you file for a patent you can do that in just one country or internationally (which is significantly more expensive). Skimming through the Wikipedia article it seems to be talking about that, but first you need to have filed for the patent internationally and not in just one country.

From what I've read about this topic, it sounds like this is a patent active in Japan only.

I'm not talking disingenuously, I'm all pro-electric. In fact it looks like my next car will be a Taycan, unless something changes unexpectedly.

But counting engine rebuilds as an inevitable matter of life is rather disingenuous too. My other ("hobby") car is a 1977, so that's 47 years now, and still on the original engine and transmission. This is not an uber-reliable statistical anomaly: it's an unreliable piece of shit (a handmade sports car from a small manufacturer) but despite that, the block is still solid and original. Engine rebuilds are not common, unlike batteries which have an ever-degrading chemistry no matter how good they are.

And I strongly disagree on good design being a single point mass of over 700 kg concentrated in one block. The "skateboard" around suspension components and chassis is the most common design for a reason.

Fair, but in its lifetime, the maintenance for my 20-year-old car has cost less than one single battery swap. Last year was a bad one and it cost me £500 between maintenance and repairs. A battery swap for a Tesla is well, well above 10k. A Taycan's batteries cost about £20k to replace and it's nothing to do with being a Porsche; it's just how much the batteries for a long-range EV cost to replace. They are expensive, and scattered across the whole floorplan so replacement is a nightmare.

I agree that the motors are pretty bulletproof, but total cost of ownership is still unfortunately quite comparable if you keep an EV for the long term. It's just a different "payment plan" for the maintenance, where you get hit with one single massive bill after X years. This is worrying because people might choose then to scrap a perfectly good car with a damaged battery - it's the EVs way of programmed obsolescence.

1. Turn on
2. Open desktop mode (in power menu I think)
3. Open terminal
4. Type rsync <source> <destination>
5. Press enter

Hahaha so funny and edgy lol