Oddbean new post about login | logout while arguably solar power is the most independent and decentralized way of generating power, that doesn't help if your equipment has a remote killswitch https://solarboi.com/2024/11/17/sol-ark-oem-disables-all-deye-inverters-in-the-us/
oh wow that's wild o.0
Remote brick is going to be a thing
yeah-it's been the norm for a lot of industrial machines for a while already, that the vendor can perform remote maintenance, but could also ostensibly brick them (and so could anyone who could fake credentials) hard to reconcile this with professed worries about cyberattacks on infrastructure, like how much easier can you make it...
Is it really? When about 80% (wavers even 96.8% as of 2021) of the supply chain is in China and owned by the CCP? https://www.iea.org/reports/solar-pv-global-supply-chains/executive-summary
yea the world's electronics production is basically entirely owned by China i just meant that, when you have a solar panels, you'd expect them to just keep operating as long as there is sun, barring surprises liike this
For about 20 years, yes. With the electricity output getting slightly worse every year. Now imagine a world where electricity is abundant and reliable, as it has been in most developed countries for the better part of half a century and we wouldn't have to fumble around with half assed 'solutions‘. Solar and wind energy sources are regressive.
i kind of want my own nuclear reactor
same
just a medium sized one, nothing too fancy...
It’s happening but the moon and mars are the driving forces and sadly not domestic needs… https://techport.nasa.gov/projects/105671
Was thinking of that. Although I like cars and big trucks a lot. Electric is likely to be the future, forced or not. I want to buy some land and fight to drill for small batches of oil. I know people who know how to process crude to #2 or #4 fuel which is perfect for what I want to do :)
Still crying over our nice, local nuclear reactor. The Greens shut it down, and now I pay double for electricity. 😭
We have it worse. We built one plant and never turned it on. Afterwards, enshrined in our constitution, how retarded we are.
this is bulgaria right? and ironically instead burn coal and sell loads of the power to romania
uranium is very hot commodity these days too i think the nuke-maxis don't really understand how scarce the materials that can run nuclear plants actually are i say, go back to coal, we can make them clean now anyway (and the ones that are running now are a lot cleaner than they used to be)... and all they need to do is scale them down to neighbourhood size and the hard problem is just distributing a highly inert, relatively energy dense solid material to use for the job anyway, it will be fun to see how this all pans out because as i see it the only real way we can maintain our current population in the next 50 years is going to be if we have antimatter generators there will be enough carbon and radioactive materials to get us there but it's also going to require a substantial destruction of the science-destroying oligarchies running the governments
Damn, that is max-retardation. It's true.
i care a lot about nature and the environment but absolutely disagree with the Greens there... ironically, they don't think even one step ahead, they're like "i don't care that electricity is expensive" while only thinking about charging their phone, or maybe how it hurts bitcoin miners (🙂) like pretty much all politics nowadays it's crude, first degree feel-good sloganism... "nuclear plant baaad" then forget, electricity is a large part of the operating cost of everything from farms to industrial plants, so making electricity more expensive makes products more expensive, so importing more competitive, indirectly causing more international shipping and oil burning
Things the Greens are not: logistics and automotive specialists. I am. That's why I'm not Green. I prefer electrical stuff, in many cases, but I'm aware that electricity doesn't just come out of the wall socket.
i mean i am not a specialist in either but i can reason about them politicians just repeat and do what dumb people want basically
And they always take things too far. They take every topic and just run with it, until they get hit with a bad election, and then they row back.
I hope Dave (EEVBlog) makes a video about this. And Louis Rossmann.
yess, i watched tons of Dave's videos back when i was learning FPGA programming, he's good at these things hadn't heard of Louis Rossmann yet
He covers stuff like Right To Repair, subscription schemes like BMW's pay-per-month for activating the heated seats in the car you own, non-free products that become bricks or limited in their functionality when the company shuts down their servers, etc.
Almost all electronic devices have a de facto "remote killswitch", as they usually have internet connectivity for remote support. That's why your vacuum cleaner can spy on you. 😅 Why everyone outside of China buys Chinese electronic devices, is beyond me. One reason they're so cheap, is that the CCP heavily subsidizes them, to make sure we replace all of our western, Korean, and Japanese devices with theirs. Because reasons. 🤨 Just hope they don't figure out a way to turn them all into bombs. Cuz that would be a mess.
remote support is fine, but it's probably something that should be behind a button that needs to be enabled explicitly, when support is actually needed, not *surprise* i try to buy as little devices with internet connectivity as possible, and if they need this i keep them on an isolated network to gate access and monitor them
