I heard that part of the motivation behind games like Pokémon Go is that they can collect data on previously unrecorded pedestrian routes between major landmarks or points of interest.
So Google’s directions may be based on crowd sourced routes that have never been vetted as safe/legal for pedestrians and cyclists.
Could help, but could also add a lot of weight and complexity to handle an issue that is exceedingly rare.
Do ICE vehicles ever eject their gas tanks?
If I’m reading Wikipedia correctly, it takes 348 Joules of heat to boil a gram of CO2.
Water is 2257 Joules per gram. As long as you don’t need anything cooled under 100C, water is the way to go for cooling. It’s also a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to deal with than liquid CO2.
Water turning into steam soaks up an enormous amount of heat. I assume that thermal runaway happens somewhere above 100C, right?
CO2 extinguishers work by displacing oxygen, not by cooling.
Came here to post unnamed peanut butter bullshit.
Like, our parents were supposed to look at our candy to make sure it wasn’t tampered with (urban legend), yet everybody looked at the unlabeled wrap job on those pieces of shit and was like “yeah, this def doesn’t contain a razor blade.”
17 second demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgO_uZA5vXg
I once set oil on fire while making stovetop popcorn while drunk. This knowledge likely saved my house.
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It’s possible the connector to the screen is just loose. As a last-ditch effort, you could try to repair it. See if ifixit has a guide to taking your kindle apart. It should be easier than a phone since there’s no waterproof sealing.
The connector probably looks like this: 
Just reseating it could fix your screen. Just make sure to be careful with whatever little black tab locks the ribbon cable in place. Some flip up while others slide out and they are notoriously delicate if you pull them the wrong way.
If that doesn’t work, plenty of eBay sellers offer replacement screens. I know this because my job had a bunch of left over e-ink displays from a product we were developing. They happened to be the ones used in the Kindle XL and I hocked them on eBay to a repair shop.
Ok a few things:
Batteries don’t need “a few sparks” to catch fire. They will generate plenty of heat if punctured and self-ignite.
You don’t pour water on a grease fire because grease floats and it will spill out of your pot and catch the rest of your kitchen on fire. Also the water will boil and splatter oil everywhere.
Also pouring water on a battery fire is the preferred way to put it out. Many of the chemicals in the battery will release oxygen when heated, so the best way to put it out is to cool it down as much as possible by dousing it with a shitload of water. It isn’t always possible to apply enough water to the core of the fire which is why they are hard to put out. Sand won’t do anything because the fire is self-oxidizing.
Yes lithium metal reacts with water, but that’s not what makes batteries hard to put out.
He must have been waiting for me to buy a copy.
I mean, they also have to figure out how to manufacture like 240 MILLION phones or roughly 1 every 130milliseconds.
The design is likely locked in around a year in advance, and the remainder of the year is spinning up production and actually manufacturing the phones.
Electrical engineer. You can’t develop and ship an iPhone in a year. Apple has multiple generations under development at the same time.
What’s wrong with other sweeteners?
When you ditch the smartphone, you make up for it on other ways.
Only picked it up a few days ago.
I went the dumb phone route in March of 2023 because I was constantly scrolling or getting distracted while I was out with my wife. (Still use my iPhone on WiFi at home). Found that it worked well for me, but there would be the occasional question I’d have and have no way to look it up besides asking to borrow my wife’s phone.
She got annoyed, so I got the Rabbit used on eBay for $130. Got a $5/mo sim for it. I think it’s made a lot of improvement since initial launch comparing my experience to reviews. Battery life is well over a day for me, and I haven’t had it glitch out too terribly. Even the scroll wheel isn’t as bad as they say.
You just have to assume that 20% of the time, it’s entirely wrong. Like Diane Keaton wasn’t in 1989’s Parenthood, it was Diane Wiess.
I bought it under the assumption that the company would fold in a year or so, but there’s already a community rooting them and installing base Android. For $130, it’s worth whatever I can get out of it.
Edit: also aware of the glaring security hole, so no personal questions to the R1
Right pocket: Sunbeam F1 flip phone, space pen, moleskin notebook
Left pocket: rotates between Arduboy, Moaan eReader, Flipper Zero, or Rabbit R1
Rear right: wallet (containing car keycard)
Attached to belt: Ricoh GRIII camera
Yeah I think they needed horsepower to run some sophisticated models in Matlab, and Apple had a killer educational discount.
Just seemed odd to pay your way into the Apple ecosystem just to wipe it and install Ubuntu
I remember having my mind blown in college when I saw a Mac Pro tower running Ubuntu in a lab.
We had one of these. It was terrible. Spring force was super weak and slow and there was no lever to manually lift the toast if it got stuck.