Today #homescreen on my slowly growing ancient #iPhone 11

Todays custom made #homescreen on #iPhone using #iOS18 made in #inkscape

Just tinkering a little bit. #iPhone #wallpaper #custom

I use to make a lot of custom wallpapers. Then life got in the way. Now I’m starting to dip back in. I made this first one myself except for the widget and icon shadows. For the that is used HSC. The second I did real quick and dirty in Inkscape. Idk? I need ideas I guess. #iPhone #wallpaper

Just realized that I can’t upload video. That sucks

Thanks for noticing.

I have a Buick rendezvous also. And it’s a piece of crap. But it has over 300,000 miles on it, no muffler (I’m lazy) and a plethora or issues but the damn thing won’t break down so I keep it.

Yea I have a 2017 Kia optima hybrid. And I love it.

I was just thinking how inefficient regenerative breaking is. My thought is that everyone brakes differently sudden stops, long breaking, short stops, etc. I’m sure it helps. I just have to, or want to, believe there’s a better way. And we discover new things everyday by talking about them.

Yea. One of the best courses I took in university was called “7 ideas the shook the universe”. One of the topics was building the perfect engine with zero wasted energy. Which up to this point is still impossible. But I love talking about it, even if I’m not fully versed.

lol that part I fully understand. 🤪

Sometimes I feels dumb. Ask me about photography, Linux, A.I. , or graphic arts. These are my strong suits and where my experiences are.

Maybe I’m just stupid lol

Honestly, I don’t pretend to know how it all works like most internet Einsteins. Like I said I’m not a physicist. Just makes sense and I work along side people that are smarter than me that says the math works.

lol just saying. The idea that removing the energy from the wheels slows it down has been the argument against it. But the math doesn’t check out, especially when pulling from all moving parts. Regenerative breaking seems to be like a “look over here. Pay no attention behind the curtain”

I have rode in a few electric vehicles. Some I like a lot more than others. in the next 10 years, with the rate of advancements, things may be where I’m more comfortable with the idea of owning one

The mall where I live (which has the charging station in town) has had the charging cable cut. While traveling I’ve seen people waiting to get an open spot at a charging station.

Those are my biggest issues.

I haven’t made the transition yet. I drive a hybrid at the moment and do a lot of cross country driving. I average around 1,500 miles a week for the non profit I work with. And timing is too important to worry about charging.

but if you use the kinetic energy created by the moving tires, you would never have to charge the car ever again. Everyone I’ve talked to from friends in the field, to professors at university say it’s completely feasible.

Oh, I totally understand regenerative breaking but it doesn’t help much with highway travel. Not to mention it puts more strain on tires and isn’t efficient because people have different breaking habits.

But of course then energy companies, just like big oil, won’t be able to make any money from you driving an electric vehicle. I’m no physicist, but I have a couple friends that are. And they’ve both said it’s not hard to do. We just keep getting screwed.

Well I’m thinking in terms of hydrogen from water out most abundant resource. Which in theory is clean energy. I don’t “hate” electric, just the current state of it. We have tires on our cars generating kinetic energy that could in turn produce electricity back into the cars power cell.

I like to think it’s like a lightbulb. They haven’t failed or anything. They’ve just found a bunch of ways it doesn’t work, efficiently. Personally, I’m not a big fan of current electric vehicles. Once they’re charged. They should never need recharged honestly.

Better find a way to copyright it before Hollywood or Disney do. Otherwise if they make it you’re forever stuck with their version. I saw the 1970’s film “the ballad of Tam Lin” it was very loosely based on the tale.

Think it sounds great. Powerful composition with powerful imagery. And the vocal you added had a kind of haunting reverb to it. I liked it a lot.

Or as already mentioned I guess it could just be a prompt in disguise. Either way, it’s another great example of musk just making money off other peoples work.

lol so Musk just “barrowed” OpenAI code to make Grok. (A worse version of ChatGPT) that’s hilarious.

Itself*. Damned autocorrect.

Agreed. That’s why I said what I said lol. “Protocol” can symbolize voluntary agreements and rules established by consensus rather than centralized authority.

“P2P” emphasizes mutual exchange and cooperation without a central controlling authority.

And decentralization speaks for herself

Well ik it’s tech talk. But it’s more of a play on words (at least as I am seeing it) otherwise “libertarian”wouldn’t make any since or relevance.

Peer to peer, protocol and decentralized. All can easily relate to liberal ideals.