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I’m wondering about my anhedonia too. It applies to everything except food. Even then though, I find I only enjoy certain foods enough to seek them out. I haven’t been to the grocery store in over a month, because I no longer consider regular groceries worth the effort it takes to get them. I’ve been living on pizza and DoorDash, and I’m afraid I’ll get sick of those too.
 
I ended up throwing out half of my coffee, as predicted. The stuff just isn’t for me. At first it makes me feel different, but after a few days I build up some sort of tolerance or aversion to it.
I don't find caffeine has much effect on me. Maybe I'm slightly more alert or something, but it's not something I've ever noticed. I use ground beans not instant though, and it's an involved process using the moka pot to make it (and probably even more involved to wash it afterwards), but it gives me a chance to wake up in the mornings, and I enjoy the taste even if it does nothing else for me.
 
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I ended up throwing out half of my coffee, as predicted. The stuff just isn’t for me. At first it makes me feel different, but after a few days I build up some sort of tolerance or aversion to it.
Sounds like you O.D.'ed on coffee. Too bad. I had this beautiful crème caramel/Flan de Huevo with coffee:

Here is the classic recipe:

And if you squint, you might interpolate what she is saying:

 
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At least our Unimog based on a ARM Debian System and can’t get hacket ^^
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Yes, but then you don't need to hack a unimog to get cheaper replament parts of it than Mercedes can sell you. That's the problem with John Deere and the reason why this rooting was undertaken, because if you buy a new shock absorber for your tractor but it doesn't have the right chip in it, the tractor will refuse to start as is.

And debian is regularly breached by hackers at least if you don't update it. All linux is, it's how they come up with those patches for the kernel.
 
A Shock Absorber would make sense to have some electronics on a Tractor as it can get used for some sensors so your Tractor Computer know the position of the Tractor (as some Work Stuff need an exact Leveling as some Crops have a given high in the Ground where the have to put in..
Also you have quite some weight on a Traktor, so you cant take any part from thirth Party Supply..

My Unimog ditnt even have Engine Elektronics, the Controll Times are given from some Mechanic Components,
This means you even can drive the first Unimog from the 1950tes,..

Our Unimog is about 10 Years Older than i am, i wonder what happens in 50 Years whit the Unimog from today, they might be still ok from the Mechanics, but maybe the Computer might gone..
 
A Shock Absorber would make sense to have some electronics on a Tractor as it can get used for some sensors so your Tractor Computer know the position of the Tractor (as some Work Stuff need an exact Leveling as some Crops have a given high in the Ground where the have to put in..
Also you have quite some weight on a Traktor, so you cant take any part from thirth Party Supply..

My Unimog ditnt even have Engine Elektronics, the Controll Times are given from some Mechanic Components,
This means you even can drive the first Unimog from the 1950tes,..

Our Unimog is about 10 Years Older than i am, i wonder what happens in 50 Years whit the Unimog from today, they might be still ok from the Mechanics, but maybe the Computer might gone..
It might be fine but wasn't Europe planning to ban combustion engines, so you might not be allowed to use it or aren't able to find fuel for it.
The ban should be effective starting 2035, so after a while it might be harder to keep the Unimog up-and-running.
There are conversion-kits available so you can use hydrogen as fuel, so possible that can keep a Unimog happy into the future (example link: https://www.soguard.uk/hydrogen-vehicle-conversion ).
 
Don’t worry , they can’t stop gazoline Powered Vehicles ; shure new Stuff have to be electric , but there were some common rights for old stock engines..
 
Don’t worry , they can’t stop gazoline Powered Vehicles ; shure new Stuff have to be electric , but there were some common rights for old stock engines..
Hydrogen motors burn hydrogen as a fuel, they aren't electric. So you can modify the engine to run on both diesel and hydrogen I think.
If they ever remove fossil fuels from the near-by pump and there is only hydrogen available, you can burn it instead of going electric.
 
Hydrogen motor vehicles usually use a fuel cell to convert the hydrogen to electricity to move the wheels. Those are a bit too complicated for me to understand when I've looked them up on wikipedia, but I think it's basically reverse electrolysis, so that can't work with any general hydrocarbon like diesel. Perhaps you could convert a diesel engine to run on liquefied hydrogen, but that's pretty damn cold, so I don't know if it can burn, probably better to explore hydrogen peroxide as a fuel. But even if you can assume if it can be made to work, it'll be horribly inefficient, because even well running petroleum engines have bad figures to begin with (somewhere south of 20%).
 
A Diesel engine relies on the fuel doubling as grease. If the fuel doesn't, but still can combust mixed with air under high pressure (otherwise nothing happens), you just ruin the engine real quick. Which is also why putting gasoline in a Diesel's tank is so much of a problem - gasoline is a cleaning agent.

In Germany, for Oldtimers you keep in good original condition you can get a H-Kennzeichen (special number plate). And those you may use on public streets as they were build. My cousine had an old VW Beetle without seat belts. He had lots of fun with police officers, who didn't know those regulations too well.
 
You dont need an H (Historian) number plate to keep your combustion engines running after 2035, lots of poor Families cant get Electric Cars, or even new compustion engine cars, so they are still allowed to drive, when the car got its papers bevor 2035, but all new stuff after that have to be Electric..

Also the whole Rural Farming Equiptment (like the Unimog) is quite expensive, a Combine Harvester can get from 100.000 till 1.000.000 € and a big Tractor about 250.000 €,

A Farmer cant trash his Combustion Engine Stuff and buy Electric Stuff, ..

Im playing quite a lot Farming Simulator, and the Electric Stuff isnt that much, a Small Tractor, and some Loaders, not that much..

Maybe whe have to wait until Elon Musk came up whit a "Cyber Trucktor", but until then its not that easy..
 
It's not only the engine that can't work with hydrogen. I don't think even the tank can hold hydrogen. Hydrogen is a very small molecule that gets through materials, and often changes its chemistry degrading many containers.
Besides, hydrogen gas is too sparse, too thin a gas, in a tractor tank you would get so few molecules that you couldn't run an engine for minutes. If you want to make it denser, you need to pressurize and cool it to very low temperatures.
Diesel vehicles are not designed for cryogenic propelants.

I don't say you can't design an hydrogen powered tractor. It can be done with fuel cell or directly burning hydrogen to emit water vapour (and NOx :(), but it's a total different design than a diesel vehicle. You can adapt a diesel vehicle design to use hydrogen, but it's not like retrofitting in an exiting frame, let alone filling your diesel vehicle with hydrogen and driving away.

With the Ukraine war, governments are requiring new gas pipelines, and you often hear people say they should make any new pipelines apt for transporting both current methane and future hydrogen (or not), because the current pipelines are not designed for hydrogen. But I don't know how easy it'll be to fill your tank with hydrogen in the future. Looks more dangerous than diesel or gasoline.

Now about how long will you be able to drive diesel vehicles. I have no idea. I guess it's going to be legal, in certain conditions and so on. But as electrification spreads, fuel stations will become increasingly unprofitable, so you could find difficulties in sourcing diesel in any convenient way. Electric cars are very expensive now, but electric bicycles are common (or all kinds of smaller gadgets I can't even name). In Norway there're a lot of electric cars, but even in places where there're currently few, there are many electric motorbikes.
Electric cars used to cost near 100000 €, then 60000, and now I'm seeing Chinese British branded cars for 30000€ (or even German), not to mention a 12000€ Chinese lead acid battery pickup (for 80 km at max 50km/h) or Citroën's almost-a-car Ami for 6000€. And they're much cheaper on fuel and maintenance if you are going to use them often. The problem with electric cars is that they're often too smart and too connected, so I fear they'll suffer planned obsolescence and complexities that will unnecessarily lower lifespans and increase ownership costs. That's a trend for gasoline cars too, though. But I think in a few years it'll be internal combustion owners who'll feel range anxiety.

And it's true that many people can't afford an electric car. Even more with the inflation and economic downturn which doesn't look to be gone anytime soon. But many people won't be able to buy fossil cars either, or pay for their fuel when they find a fuel station. So many people are going to live without a car, like before Ford, but occasionally hiring one. And the rich ones having a car will have houses, fotovoltaics and batteries (or use the car as house battery) and won't need so many charge stations as there are fuel stations now. If we're going to have as many cars as now but electric, I doubt the electric grid can be upgraded. But we'll have fewer, maybe many fewer.

It's easy to think you'll be able to drive fossil fueled cars for decades to come, but it reminds me of those of us who didn't like mobile phones when they were introduced, and thought we could always call from phoneboxes.
 
It's easy to think you'll be able to drive fossil fueled cars for decades to come, but it reminds me of those of us who didn't like mobile phones when they were introduced, and thought we could always call from phoneboxes.
Indoctrinate the new generations using TV, Internet and state funded schooling... and you can switch in one generation. Which reminds me of the smoking lobbies, that, in order to survive, reinvented themselves for the new generation: e-smoking with a flavour.
 
Vaping using e-cigarettes used to be all about importing your parts and fluids from china. I think still these days those 'disposable' puffers you can get are probably sourced from china then sold in newsagents. But it wouldn't surprise me if the American tobacco companies had spotted this trend and were selling e-cig related stuff already.
 
Hydrogen motor vehicles usually use a fuel cell to convert the hydrogen to electricity to move the wheels. Those are a bit too complicated for me to understand when I've looked them up on wikipedia, but I think it's basically reverse electrolysis, so that can't work with any general hydrocarbon like diesel. Perhaps you could convert a diesel engine to run on liquefied hydrogen, but that's pretty damn cold, so I don't know if it can burn, probably better to explore hydrogen peroxide as a fuel. But even if you can assume if it can be made to work, it'll be horribly inefficient, because even well running petroleum engines have bad figures to begin with (somewhere south of 20%).
The first hit I get from Google when searching for 'hydrogen motor' is a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle
"A hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicle (HICEV) is a type of hydrogen vehicle using an internal combustion engine.[1] Hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicles are different from hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (which use electrochemical use of hydrogen rather than combustion). Instead, the hydrogen internal combustion engine is simply a modified version of the traditional gasoline-powered internal combustion engine.[2][3] The absence of carbon means that no CO2 is produced, which eliminates the main greenhouse gas emission of a conventional petroleum engine."

You dont need an H (Historian) number plate to keep your combustion engines running after 2035, lots of poor Families cant get Electric Cars, or even new compustion engine cars, so they are still allowed to drive, when the car got its papers bevor 2035, but all new stuff after that have to be Electric..
I don't expect that current cars will be illegal after 2035, I think the infrastructure will slowly die off causing people to prefer other type of cars that are more easy to use and have better support.
 
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