Artlav

Solar storms don't work like that. It's not the movie-like electronics blow up left and right thing. It's quasi-DC currents in the ground thing.

What that means is that the power grid is designed for AC currents, and now there will be DC currents flowing through it, induced by the flexing of the Earth's magnetic field under the storm. That is very likely to saturate the cores in large scale transformers, causing them to blow up.

No more power grid. And these are not things you have spares for or can ship from China. You need to make new ones, in a country with spotty power and complete supply chain breakdown.

So your electronics would be fine, just out of power. Faraday cages are for the nuclear bomb type EMP events.

That's where external thermal interface comes in. If docking your phone involves attaching external cooler, then power is no longer an issue.

I'm kinda surprised they go for privacy aspects and customizability.

Android is Linux enough for most use cases, and the big problem is just having root access to it and an ability to customize.

A pure linux phone would just be a pointless annoyance, at least until someone makes a phone with external thermal interface.

I find this seriously confusing too. None of these sound like major, or even all that useful, features, and yet they talk about "considering whether there is any value in a crippled version of Chromium".

What makes it crippled?

> In apartments/flats you are usually parking in a dedicated parking lot

More like all over the nearby streets, but i get the idea.

So... that's just "gas station on every corner" model taken to it's extreme, no?

Which will be the job for the same people that put up buildings on block corners, rather than something you do yourself.

Makes it double sad that Chevy Volt got discontinued and no similar designs were made.

Hm, the US tend to have "home" defined as a stand along house with a garage/land plot, which makes it possible to have a charger at home.

In most of the world city people live in flats/apartments, where you can't really do that.

So i don't see how you can avoid "gas station on every corner" model.

Predictability, no? Sometimes you want to know how large your data really is if it was to get onto an uncompressed filesystem.

Sure. And it makes a clang as it falls.

Can't quite play tetris, however - i start to lose track of the pieces once there are like 5-10 of them.

And responsibility. For some people that feels like an anchor tied to their neck.

Hm, not at the speed of reading. Takes a bit of slowing down to get some.

A complication is that a lot of these are from elementary school geometry books, so i tend to just remember the answer before getting a chance to look at it.

> But I do wonder how much of it is about different uses of words by different people.

There are qualitative differences, however. I think a better question would be not how vivid the imagined shape is, but how connected and contextual it is.

Someone might imagine a 6 red star and stop at that, someone might imagine a 3 star, but with the whole Kremlin tower attached on a snowy night with distant car sounds.

Testable things i found are looking for reactions. Imagine yourself at the beach, standing half immersed in the sea, enjoying the view, then something grabs your leg underwater.

-Did you flinch, or was these just words? Some people would, since they are contextually immersed in the scene.

-Can you answer side questions, like how calm the sea was, were you looking towards the land or the horizon, were there any birds in the sky, and so on? Some people can, because they were visualizing the scene, some people won't unless prompted, since they were constructing the scene.

In the similar vein, do you project your imagination over the world around you? People who do tend to not comprehend how you can lose things, like forgetting where you parked your car.