lol, because that's definitely the shut-in stereotype.
"Honey I'm really worried about our son, not only has he not left the house for weeks, this morning I found a bag of coffee beans in his room that was produced by a worker owned coop in Honduras!"
Trying to create a cheap microwave burrito that's also healthy and filling seems like a pretty noble (if difficult) goal to me. Making it vegetarian also decreases its ecological impact (though I don't know whether or not Adams cared about that).
Trying to fortify each burrito with 100% of your daily vitamins was a really stupid idea though. It was unnecessary (just take a multivitamin if you feel like you need it), it made the burrito taste worse (Adams described it as "chalky"), and it was potentially unhealthy if someone were to eat multiple burritos per day (and thus receive multiple times the recommended daily dose of... everything).
An arch user defines "doesn’t break all the time" as "I have to read the news before every update and apply a manual intervention a few times a year, and there's only been like one time in history that an update made people's installs unbootable despite them taking those precautions".
A Debian user defines "doesn’t break all the time" as "I have a cron job running that periodically runs sudo apt update. I have no idea when it does this or what's changing when it happens and nothing bad has ever happened to me".
Like, the fact that unattended-upgrades comes pre-installed and enabled by default (for security updates) in Debian GNOME vs the fact that informant exists to force you to read the news in Arch before you update should tell you that the two distros exist in two different universes.
It's just a silly name for DPI, but it does exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement#Mickey
93.9% of new cars sold in Norway are EVs, a further 5% are hybrids.
I don't know what that translates to in terms of cars currently on the road though. But that's also stats for the whole country. You can imagine in a relatively affluent area where there are mostly new cars the vast majority of them are probably EVs.
So, I get what you're saying about popular science articles basically imply that the technology is ready to come out next week when it's nowhere near practical for real world use, let alone mass manufacturing. But lots of stuff does eventually come out of the lab. You can buy carbon nanotube wool online right now and there's a pilot plant in Texas coming online this year that's slated to produce 30 tons of the stuff annually. There's graphene in super hydrophobic coatings that you can buy for your car windshield, and graphene is used in a lot of commercial supercapcitors right now.
At one point in time articles like the above were being written about LED light bulbs, and now every light in my house is an LED.
Nothing about that is a technological breakthrough, it’s just production capacity you need for this.
It absolutely is a technological breakthrough. The way that lithography design and manufacturing has been able to improve at the rapid pace it has, for as long as it has, is basically a miracle.
Adding on to what GreyEyedGhost said, since the year 2000 the price of solar power (per watt) has fallen by more than 50x. Because of this huge drop in price the installed solar capacity has been doubling every 3 years. That means that in the time since 2020 we've built more solar capacity than we did in the previous 20 years combined.
If that's not good enough then idk. Imagine holding any other technology to that standard. The model T came out almost 100 years ago for an inflation adjusted price of $27,000 and with an MPG of 7.5. ICE cars today are better in a lot of other ways but they are not 50x cheaper and they are not 50x more fuel efficient than that.
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