Not saying it isn't happening but I haven't seen this yet, but I do know for certain that a lot of homeless people have cash app, and a few have venmo. They certainly could have readers, as square still gives the first one free, but I doubt it would get them any significant amount more money than using payment apps.

I presume most free phones don't do NFC either, but I haven't tried to find out. Maybe next time I walk past a free phone ez-up I'll ask, but they probably won't know anyway.

You're less worried about the tracking than the tracking?

I don't see how they could not be vented, as they are not 100% full of stuff and that means the air inside of them is going to be expanding and contracting with thermal cycles. A quick glance around tells me that they both have pressure vents (in case of cell failure) and selective permeability vents (e.g. from ePTFE) which handle typical expansion and contraction venting, and try to keep moisture out.

Yeah, like needing to get the fuck out of Florida.

True, but nobody wants to ship lithium batteries at any lower a SoC than they need to, because being stored at low SoC damages them permanently. When I bought my LFPs the documentation said they were shipped at a nominal 50% SoC, which the documentation also explained actually meant they were shipped at 70% SoC. The premise is that they self-discharge, and you don't want them falling too low before they are used. What if batteries (or vehicles with batteries) wind up sitting around in a port somewhere for a while because of some SNAFU?

The electrolyte of NCM batteries releases oxygen when heated even below the point of actual combustion. This is part of why they have lower combustion temperatures than LFP, where this doesn't happen. NCM batteries should be outlawed because they are all of: 1) easier to cause to combust, 2) more difficult to extinguish, 3) far more toxic when burned because of the cobalt in particular, which LFPs don't use.

My neighbor has a Prius with a big Cummins sticker in the back window.

Their other vehicle? A Kia EV.

Some people think California doesn't have its own redneckistans...

Neither Ford nor Chevy have any trucks with aluminum frames.

Ford has fully aluminum pickup truck bodies now. Chevy uses some aluminum parts.

Some cars are starting to use aluminum subframes now instead of steel ones to reduce front weight. Model S, R1T, Camaro, Audi Poop (etron), Porsche Taycan, Jeep Cherokee...

Your trolls have certainly made you the most important poster on Slashdot.

Having those high walls is a sign that your government is broken. You only need them because your government cannot defend you, or because you need defense from your government, or of course both.

You cannot fix this problem by stopping Google from taking photos on your street and sharing them.

There is a legitimate purpose for the photos, they do not contain any PII, and if you blur faces then there's really no privacy concerns at all.

You do not have a right to not have your house photographed. If they were labeling your home with your PII, that would fall afoul of the GDPR.

This reminds me of a guy I knew who wrote DOS software with debug. He'd got the opcodes memorized, and did all the math for offsets and whatnot in his head.

Unfortunately, he was an infamous USENET troll, and turned out to be a nonce.

If so (not watching the videos) then that is the first use of Gemini that is actually accurate. The search results are shit every time.

This was only in some 2009 and 2011 macbooks, older mac minis, and some older imacs. They only did it for a subset of machines for a couple of generations and nobody used it, so they stopped.

You're talking to a bot trained on rsilvergun posts. It seems to be a permanent feature of slashdot now...