Decade of linux on desktop is almost upon us!

Sad part is, this nonsense is the result of linux being so utterly uncompetitive on desktop. Microsoft didn't even feel the need to make some kind of a "game mode" that would shut down spyware and other background nonsense when it detects that a game is running, much less actually optimize the OS for performance properly.

You don't. Some massive outdoor displays may need that for making smaller text readable.

But the thing that is actually relevant for consumers is

>supporting uncompressed 4K at 240 Hz with 12-bit color depth

Those monitors already exist, and they use DisplayPort 2.0/2.1 because HDMI doesn't meet their requirements.

This. Of all the marketing wank about 16k, the actually relevant part is this:

>supporting uncompressed 4K at 240 Hz with 12-bit color depth

This is what actually exists, and has been supported by DP since 2019 or so.

You literally gave me a marketing wank version of reply, down to the marketing term "resilience" often used to white wash downturns.

Ask chatGPT to give you a proper analysis, and not marketing wank.

You're missing critical context of extreme measures EU Commission has demanded nation states take (and nation states largely took) to promote BEVs over everything else.

This particular gravy train is murdering European car manufacturers, which is a key sector. And the moment just one of many extreme measures was dropped in Germany, demand crashed by a fifth. And that's the richest nation on the list. Everyone else is poorer and therefore more price-conscious.

Sure. France is also down in 2024. In fact the entire top five European markets as a whole saw a drop in spite of UK's extreme mandate forcing an over 20% growth in sales in 2024. I can go on, but you can frankly google this, or ask ChatGPT.

Let's see if this argument works for other things.

Murdering people isn't a big deal. People die ALL THE TIME.

Increasing taxes isn't a big deal. Taxes get raised ALL THE TIME.

Holy shit, this is a perfect argument!

For example, Germany. Something over 20% decline in 2024 IIRC.

I feel that I need to remind you that your question was, and I quote:

>If they're not... well, why not? Hybrids have electric trains and batteries already, why not go the rest of the way to a plug-in hybrid?

I explained the reasons above. The only way the comment above makes any sense in this context is if you believe that industrial redesign at that scale is free or so cheap it's irrelevant. It's obviously not. It's a very expensive and time consuming process.

1. Prius Prime came with a redesign. Essentially Toyota redesigned the car, and one of the major changes in addition to new look is that trunk bottom could be lifted up to fit much larger battery for PHEV variant. Before that, this wasn't possible.

Same thing happened a couple of years later with CH-R. Redesign, car gets a completely new look, and one of the new design changes is a possibility to dedicate some of the trunk space to extend the battery.

So no, you cannot just grab an old HEV and slap a bigger battery into it. You need to redesign the car for this to be possible, at least on industrial scale. I'm sure there's some small shop doing mods even to existing cars.

2. As I referenced above, it is NOT in fact a solved problem, as demonstrated by the fact that current Corollas struggle to fit even a mildly upscaled power pack of the 2,0L variant, having to move 12V battery away from engine bay to make it fit. Whereas 1,8L variant with about 1/3 weaker MGs has enough space to fit 12V battery under the hood.

Essentially redesign is needed to make this work for most cars where space under the hood is already pretty tight.

And again, this is exactly what we're seeing Toyota do. PHEV variants become available with new look and redesign of each model, at least for more compact cars. First Prius, then CH-R. RAV4 may be able to take the bigger battery with less effort, since car itself is so much larger that others.

It essentially scales with ICE engine power (read: entire power pack). For example modern Corollas generally come in two main variants: 1,8L ancient, fairly low power but hilariously reliable engine and more modern significantly more powerful but slightly less reliable 2,0L.

Former comes with battery that is about 0,7-0,8kWh. Latter comes with about 1,5-1,6kWh. Total MG (1+2) output of first variant is about 2/3 of the latter (fifty-something kW for former and eighty kW for latter last I checked).

BEV are actually plateauing in most places, going up in some and already going down in others.

This is likely because of miscalculation in terms of "who pays for luxury level cars?" Fundamentally you're looking at several groups. One of the three main ones is upper class that need to signal status. These are very long term oriented people, who think in years if not decades. They generally live in expensive homes where they can afford to put rapid private charger in so car is almost always charged.

For two other main groups, BEVs are actually a horrible choice that significantly impacts quality of life negatively.

First one is urban upper class living in high rises. For them, time is very expensive, and having to around an hour to separately go to the car, drive it to nearest fast charger, wait while the car is charged, drive back and look for parking space again is an extremely detrimental change to their quality of life, but they at least are fully cognitively capable of handling it.

Other group is even worse. That is lower class people who buy luxury cars as means of showing off, without any actual thought about its impacts. These are people who will be running "car note that ends up increasing cars total cost by insane amount" and who will not order a private fast charger because they don't invest in housing in general, and housing they live in will in fact be of such poor quality that even slow AC charging would not be a useful option.

We're seeing those two groups now switch their BEV back to ICE car when they buy a replacement, though some in second group are sticking with them instead talking about "but I need to go piss and eat, so I just do it at the charging station while my car is charging" (I literally heard this explanation from this type of a person a week ago when we were talking about cars).

Marketing wank is there to upsell you the top model.

Most sold model will not be top model, though in US this is often forgotten because of how relatively wealthy it is compared to the rest of the world.

Corolla. Specifically 1,8L version.

Funny considering I'm posting it from a device that has several batteries in it.