The article is talking about Tesla’s home batteries, not their EVs.

In terms of EVs and vehicle to grid, I think people will have to crunch the numbers to see if it’s worth it, and that will likely depend on how the future electric market is designed, whether they can tolerate reduced range, how often they replace their cars etc. In the short to medium term, some might decide that exposing themselves to the wholesale market through Amber Electric or similar may be worth it, although there is a lot of room for improvements on all fronts.

Although I suspect EVs will become so cheap that people will be willing to risk some amount of degradation, and if nothing else, people could use their old EVs exclusively as batteries, once they are no longer useful on the road.

I think it would struggle to have the bandwidth to pull that off, but maybe if you keep the resolution and refresh rate down. And that’s assuming USB-C to USB-A would work in this case, which I don’t know the answer to.

tl;dw higher latency and more artifacts compared to FSR and DLSS, but higher compatibility and ability to do 3x generation

Would be nice to see this implemented in gamescope on Linux since it would be useful on the Deck in particular.

Or that a better climate policy came only a few years later but they have somehow memory holed the whole thing. Yes, Abbott tore the whole thing up but I’d wager he would have took an axe to Rudd’s policy too.

is it possible to set the steamdeck to “default” to always keep picking the steamdeck speaker as default audio out also when an HDMI is connected through the USB-C?

Some audio issues were introduced in the SteamOS 3.5 update (partly due to having to handle the OLED model around the same time) which causes the HDMI problem. Hopefully it will be fixed in SteamOS 3.6 or 3.7. I’ve found that Bazzite doesn’t have the issue, although obviously that’s an invasive change, and I understand it’s still a bit buggy with the OLED model.

how do y’all combine music and games?

I think doing what you want could be a bit technically involved. One way might be to have one device control the music, and then cast it to the deck with snapcast or similar. Then, if you can get a snapcast client on the deck to be persistently running in the background, any music that is played on the other device, will be heard on the Deck.

Or more simply, you could try pairing your Deck in bluetooth from another device, and then select that Deck as an output. This is assuming that the Deck allows this, and that your source device supports it (Android did last time I tried).

Politically, you need to convince at least some of the “what about the economy/China” types. So economic and energy/manufacturing sovereignty arguments can be more convincing than “humanity is fucked if we don’t act quickly enough”. It’s stupid, but that’s democracy for you.

Completely unneeded in Australia. The conservative oppositions’ nuclear plan is just a delay tactic so their fossil fuel buddies can burn coal for a bit longer (and creating a culture war is a nice bonus).

Too slow to build, too expensive, and entirely unsuited for a renewable heavy grid because the economics require it is left on at all times. And that renewable heavy grid will happen even if they ban all further renewable rollouts, simply from individuals and businesses adding more panels and batteries. Is the grid going to curtail all of that solar and battery energy just so nuclear can be left on?

The whole thing is a transparent attempt by the fossil fuel industry to delay the renewable rollout for as long as possible, just so they can make a few more dollars. And the Coalition are ready and willing to do their bidding.

The Coalition truly are a shameful bunch of cretins, who are obviously owned by the fossil fuel industry. You’d have to be out of your mind to believe that their nuclear policy is remotely in good faith, and not just a delay tactic so they can pump more coal and gas.

I really hope that people don’t fall for their bullshit at the next election, because we can’t afford another Coaliton government during a critical period in the renewable transition.

Thankfully, Labor have had the sense to ignore the cookers and fossil fuel industry shills that have tried to whip up opposition to this.

And here’s the full PDF report from RMI.

He already had real power when he had the home affairs portfolio (that he created, and caused real damage with). But agreed, hopefully never again.

What’s racial diversity got to do with it? Plenty of non-white people are racist against Indigenous Australians.

But yeah it’s possible that there is more context, and I could see it being a racism + erratic behaviour combination (that may have been ignored if she was white).

One of them made a comment that they don’t take my kind of people, and that was when I started to cry and I got upset.”

I would expect so. It might already be on the Deck, as sometimes Valve is ahead on kernel and firmware related issues.

True, although I’d say the regulation is needed nevertheless.

There aren’t many viable alternatives, so I do understand it. Valve Index is probably the most free but it’s expensive and starting to become out of date. The Reverb G2 will get no further updates in 2025, and will require you to stay on an old version of Windows (and using Windows in general isn’t great from a data privacy perspective). Any of the remaining alternatives are expensive and/or very niche.

It sucks, and I hope Valve does come out with the rumoured Deckard headset, because we need something that is well supported and not tied to the whims of Facebook or Microsoft.

New South Wales councils that meet and beat new housing targets will be given extra cash for sporting facilities, parks, footpaths and road maintenance as part of the state government’s push to build nearly 400,000 new homes over the next five years.

It seems to be more that housing is already being built but that councils can’t afford to add the supporting infrastructure, so this will help with that. But this should also help with encouraging councils to meet those housing targets, when they know they’ll get additional funding.

On closer read, I see what you mean. I think this may be the key point:

The government will set aside $200m in grants to encourage the dozens of councils with updated local housing targets to do more; money will go only to the councils that meet “key milestones”.

I assume those key milestones would not mean they’ve already met the new targets, but have shown progress on them. So councils that aren’t making a sincere effort don’t get the extra funding. Would be nice to see more detail and what the milestones are.

We’d need per capita data over time for each age group to conclude that. Might be in the actual study, but it’s behind an absurd paywall (3000 UK pounds). I think it’s plausible that both groups have been increasing over time, but over 55s increased more. There is probably a hard limit on how many young people are going to enjoy gaming, whereas there is a lot of growth to be had in the over 55s group (as historically, few played games).

But I can already hear the Republicans lying that the feds are coming to steal your window units.

Of course, even modern window units (and portable AC) support reverse cycle. But conservatives will find a way to complain about it, agreed.