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Porsche hat sich bisher vehement gegen eine Elektro-Version des 911 ausgesprochen, setzt nun aber wohl auf Festkörperakkus. (Porsche, Technologie)
Porsche hat sich bisher vehement gegen eine Elektro-Version des 911 ausgesprochen, setzt nun aber wohl auf Festkörperakkus. (Porsche, Technologie) 
Capyloon is an operating system designed around web apps and technologies that picks up where Firefox OS when Mozilla abandoned its now-abandoned web-based operating system. Capyloon uses Mozilla’s open source Boot to Gecko operating system as its base, but features a new user interface and suite of apps designed with privacy and distributed technologies in mind. […]
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Capyloon is an operating system designed around web apps and technologies that picks up where Firefox OS when Mozilla abandoned its now-abandoned web-based operating system. Capyloon uses Mozilla’s open source Boot to Gecko operating system as its base, but features a new user interface and suite of apps designed with privacy and distributed technologies in mind.
The new operating system is very much a work-in-progress that’s still in its early stages. But just a few days after I first took note of the OS, the developer delivered a new way to try the software: as a set of packages that allow you to try Capyloon on mainline Linux smartphones including the PinePhone Pro and Purism Librem 5.
The new PinePhone Pro and Librem 5 builds of Capyloon are bundled with Mobian, a Debian-based mobile Linux distribution designed for smartphones, and you can find download links and installation instructions at the Capyloon website.
Note that some features are only partially supported, including WiFi, telephony, Bluetooth, GPS, sensors, and audio channel management.
Folks who don’t have one of those phones can also try out a desktop version of Capyloon with a Debian package, or try the operating system on a Google Pixel 3a smartphone or other Android phones that support installation of Generic System Image (GSI) custom ROMs.
You can find downloads for those options at the releases page.
This is what it looks like: pic.twitter.com/nfBnxGHmqx
— LINux on MOBile (@linmobblog) March 25, 2022
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Developers’ work on past M1 hardware is making it easier to support new chips.
Enlarge / Slowly but surely, the Asahi Linux team is getting Linux up and running on Apple Silicon Macs. (credit: Apple/Asahi Linux)
Apple Silicon Macs have gotten mostly glowing reviews on Ars and elsewhere for their speed, power efficiency, and the technical achievement they represent—the chips are scaled-up phone processors that can perform as well or better than comparable Intel chips while using less power.
But the move away from x86 hardware has also made the Mac a bit less useful for those who want to run multiple operating systems on their Macs. While you can run ARM versions of Linux and (with caveats and without official support) Windows within virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs, running alternate operating systems directly on top of the hardware isn't something Apple supports. Apple doesn't distribute drivers for other operating systems, and moving away from x86 CPUs and widely supported Intel and AMD GPUs makes it harder for other developers to step in and provide those drivers.
That's where the Asahi Linux project comes in. For months, a small group of volunteers has worked to get this Arch Linux-based distribution up and running on Apple Silicon Macs, adapting existing drivers and (in the case of the GPU) painstakingly writing their own. And that work is paying off—last week, the team released its first alpha installer to the general public, and as of yesterday, the software supports the brand-new M1 Ultra in the Mac Studio.
March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day, and several eBook sellers are celebrating by offering select J.R.R. Tolkien eBooks including The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy for $3 each. Here are some of the day’s best deals. Downloads & Streaming Select J.R.R. Tolkien Kindle eBooks for $3 each – Amazon Tolkien Reading Day sale […]
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March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day, and several eBook sellers are celebrating by offering select J.R.R. Tolkien eBooks including The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy for $3 each.
Here are some of the day’s best deals.
Downloads & Streaming
Tablets
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Move could work in the Kremlin’s favor—or further undermine Russia’s economy.
Enlarge / The sun sets beyond an oil pumping unit, also known as a pumping jack, at a drilling site operated by Tatneft OAO near Almetyevsk, Russia. (credit: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg)
Russia’s economy is in shambles, and the value of the ruble has plummeted as the country finds itself increasingly isolated from global trade in the wake of its war on Ukraine. The country is even having a hard time finding buyers for its oil, in part because the global oil market is dominated by the US dollar.
Russia’s difficulty in selling its oil might be why it is considering alternative payment methods, including bitcoin. Pavel Zavalny, chair of the State Duma’s committee on energy, floated the idea at a press conference this week, the BBC reported.
“We have been proposing to China for a long time to switch to settlements in national currencies for rubles and yuan. With Turkey, it will be lira and rubles,” Zavalny said. “You can also trade bitcoins.”
Apple’s Mac mini uses the same M1 processor the company’s MacBook Pro 13″ laptop, and offers similar performance at a lower price point. But it’s not mobile: there’s no keyboard, display, or battery, which means the Mac mini is meant to stay put. YouTuber Scott Yu-Jan changed that… kind of. With the help of a […]
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Apple’s Mac mini uses the same M1 processor the company’s MacBook Pro 13″ laptop, and offers similar performance at a lower price point. But it’s not mobile: there’s no keyboard, display, or battery, which means the Mac mini is meant to stay put.
YouTuber Scott Yu-Jan changed that… kind of. With the help of a 3D-printed case and an iPad mini, he made the Mac mini into a portable computer that you can take with you… but you’ll still need to plug it into a wall outlet when you get where you’re going.
Yu-Jan noticed that Apple’s iPad mini and Mac mini are exactly the same width. So he designed a 3D-printed case that basically holds the two together like a laptop. Run a cable from the Mac mini to the iPad mini and you can the Duet Display app to use the tablet as a touchscreen display.
Of course, without a built-in keyboard or battery, this isn’t really a laptop. But it’s a lot more portable than most desktops, as the combined weight of a Mac mini and iPad mini is just about 3.3 pounds, plus a little extra weight for the 3D-printed case, cables, power supply, and a wired or wireless keyboard.
While folks shopping for a new mobile computer would probably be much better off paying for a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, Yu-Jan says this project filled a very specific need that he had without requiring investing in new hardware, since he already had a Mac mini and iPad mini.
He’s posted two videos about the project, with the first explaining the inspiration and design process of the DIY Mac mini portable and the second answering viewer questions. While he has no plans to mass produce the custom case, he has posted the 3D design files to Thingiverse for anyone who wants to build their own.
via HackADay
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Der ID.5 wird nicht wie geplant auf den Markt kommen können. Volkswagen muss erst umorganisieren, weil Teile wegen des Ukrainekriegs fehlen. (Volkswagen ID., Elektroauto)
Der ID.5 wird nicht wie geplant auf den Markt kommen können. Volkswagen muss erst umorganisieren, weil Teile wegen des Ukrainekriegs fehlen. (Volkswagen ID., Elektroauto) Liefermenge des besonders umweltschädlichen Fracking-Gases soll in den kommenden Jahren auf 50 Milliarden Kubikmeter jährlich steigen
Der Peering-Standort für die Bundesländer Brandenburg, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen geht laut DE-CIX im vierten Quartal 2022 in Betrieb. (DE-CIX, Telekom)
The entry-level Polestar 2 has a 231 hp motor and an EPA range of 270 miles.
Enlarge / A Polestar 2 (foreground) and a Polestar 1 (background) at Polestar's showroom in Marin County, California. (credit: Polestar)
In 2020, we got our first drive in the then-new Polestar 2, an electric fastback sedan from a startup automaker owned by Volvo and Geely. The car had a great interior and some nifty infotainment features courtesy of Google's Android Automotive OS.
At launch, there was just one powertrain option: a dual-motor, all-wheel-drive setup with a combined 408 hp (300 kW) and 486 lb-ft (660 Nm), powered by a 78 kWh (75 kWh net) lithium-ion battery. But the company has now added a second, cheaper Polestar 2 to its US lineup. The new option makes do with just a single electric motor that powers the front wheels.
Polestar has turned up the power on this motor compared to the otherwise-identical units you'd find if you dissected an AWD Polestar 2; it now generates 231 hp (170 kW), although it still makes an identical 243 lb-ft (330 Nm). Battery capacity remains unchanged at 75 kWh net, and that's sufficient for an EPA range of 270 miles (434 km).
Der Peering-Standort für die Bundesländer Brandenburg, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen geht laut DE-CIX im vierten Quartal 2022 in Betrieb. (
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