The actual owner isn't a youtuber, but niche EV guys have their own communities and a handful of youtubers happen to be in there as well.
The owner already has an electric S10 as well, and the RAV4 both which use the same charging system as the EV1 so I'm just glad its an enthusiast who will rebuild it and run it.
All my old phones used to become BOINC nodes doing WorldCommunityGrid or seti@home, at least until we got to the point where you couldn't run the phone without a battery anymore. Came home to one too many spicy pillow'd phones even keeping them in a cool area with a rigged up fan blowing on them.
I do Wigle wardriving with a dedicated cheap phone these days. (Moto G Stylus 2023)
In order to prevent issues this time around I've preemptively removed the back of the phone, and the camera modules so I can have a nice flat phone. Then I bought a heatsink nearly the same size as the phone itself. I've got thermal pads on the SoC which sits lower than the battery and the heatsink itself had thermal adhesive on it pre-applied which is sticking to the battery/phone frame holding it to the phone. No more phone overheating worries and if the battery goes pillowy it should just pop the heatsink up instead of warping the whole phone.
Cinnamon getting good recently kind of blew my mind. I'm an ancient Gnome 2.x elitist, and typically hated cinnamon every-time I've tried it.
Every now and then I distro hop and ended up on LMDE (linux mint debian edition, the real linux mint) which only has a cinnamon offering out of the box. Much to my surprise its actually good. It still has random bugs triggered by stuff I've tried adding to the panel, but that's par for the course with gnome, XFCE, and MATE lately anyway. Over all it's a solid DE now even if the stock start/menu is underwhelming everything is fixable.
Some of us are just here to make fun of VC folks that deserve to be endlessly mocked. The crossover with those that are also AI hype types just makes it funnier.
In the 2000's I used to fear that not having windows at home would lead me to a lack of troubleshooting prowess when it comes to problems with windows at work.
Now I'm just glad I only have to suffer windows at work.
After some uni class at a conference room, back in 2006, there was a Linux hackathon/demo-y thingy outside where there were people showing off Compiz, the cube and that kind of stuff. Of course my noob ass was impressed with that - you can switch windows a 3d cube? That's amazing! That's the future! I want to try that!
So they were kind enough to give each one of us a Ubuntu 5.10 CD, one of those from back then when Canonical shipped free Ubuntu CDs to people around the world completely for free.
I can recall poking around that brown-y Gnome 2.x and feeling cozyness, like feeling at home. Everything felt transparent and humble and honest, from the desktop wallpaper, the icons and the typography to the tone the help pages were written. You could feel the ubuntu on it. It really felt like it was made for human beings.
The computer no longer felt like a dark box that only let you do things your license let you to do and if you dared to look at other direction, ever so slightly, things could go insanely wrong.
Granted, I didn't had internet at home back then (and wouldn't have it until late 2008 via a crappy 3G modem) so after nuking the Windows XP install and tried install it, also nuked the partition where I had all my uni docs and stuff and, defeated, had to go back to Windows via a pirate copy - until I had enough spare time to go learn what I did wrong and try again. Never went back ever since.
Things have changed a bit - Ubuntu is not what it what it used to be, I am not who I used to be (ended being a graphic designer) and not even the internet itself is not what it what it used to be - but I'm glad human creations like Linux still exist.
I really miss the old cozy days of Ubuntu as well. Ordered a set of CDs to pass out to friends in University sometime around 5.04 or 5.10 as well. I used to wish I could afford the ubuntu backpacks they sold at the time.
I desperately want the Slate[1] truck to success because it completely lacks infotainment. I hate Jeff Bezo's but I hope his funding helps them actually create a product.
The owner already has an electric S10 as well, and the RAV4 both which use the same charging system as the EV1 so I'm just glad its an enthusiast who will rebuild it and run it.
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