When (by what month) will numerous new panther lake Mini PC's become widely available in Europe, without going out of stock, so you can just buy one of many models/options any time you want, at MSRP and fastest possible delivery?
I just finished analyzing 282 pages of official reports and technical handbooks published by the Danish Road Directorate (2024). The ecological data they have documented in black and white is a massive alarm bell for anyone studying ecosystem collapse.
Their own research documents that conventional white LED streetlighting acts as a destructive driver across local food webs. Page 58 shows a 47% crash in insect populations along hedgerows and a 37% decline in grass verges directly under these blue-rich lamps. Furthermore, pages 65-70 detail how this light spectrum creates impassable optical barriers for bats, completely fragmenting their vital hunting and transport corridors.
The report even links this ecological disruption to public health. Page 79 documents that blue-rich artificial light tricks trees into budding 9 days early, causing severe late-season frost damage to vegetation and triggering a 17% spike in human asthma hospitalizations due to a prolonged, unnatural pollen season.
What makes this textbook cognitive dissonance is that the solution is listed right there in their own manual. Page 116 explicitly states that simple amber filters can be retrofitted to existing white LEDs to eliminate 76% of the harmful shortwave blue radiation.
I officially confronted the agency with these facts. Their formal response is that they plan to maintain this destructive infrastructure for the next 20 years because of financial depreciation and accounting cycles.
I’ve uploaded the full reports to a folder so you can audit the data yourself. It is a terrifying example of an agency accurately documenting the disruption of an entire ecosystem and then choosing bureaucratic inertia over immediate ecological correction.
I’ve been digging through 282 pages of official reports and technical handbooks published by the Danish Road Directorate (2024). For anyone tracking the insect apocalypse, the data they published is a massive red flag.
Their own documentation shows that white LED streetlighting is a devastating driver of local insect decline. On page 58, they cite data showing a 47% reduction in insect populations along hedgerows and a 37% reduction in grass verges directly under these light sources. The decline is worst under these specific blue-rich conventional LEDs.
What makes this completely infuriating is that the solution is already written into their own manual. Page 116 explicitly describes how simple amber filters can be retrofitted to existing white LEDs to remove 76% of the harmful blue peak.
I officially confronted the agency with their own data and asked why they aren't implementing the filters. Their official stance is that they bought 1 million lamps with a 20-year lifespan, and they will prioritize their accounting and depreciation cycles over fixing a lethal environmental mistake.
I’ve uploaded the full reports to a folder so you can read the data yourself, especially page 58 (the crash numbers) and page 116 (the filter solution). It’s a textbook case of a government agency documenting the destruction of biodiversity and then choosing bureaucratic inertia over immediate action.
This satellite map, all the grey lines, shows all the unfinanced suburban bike paths, just in the greater Copenhagen and Eastern Zealand area. It does not even include the rest of the country or the missing paths along our national road network, excluding highways even. We currently have a massive estimated 16 billion DKK national deficit for regional bike paths and "super" bikepaths, as suburban bikepaths are called in Denmark.
If road pricing is introduced to disincentivize driving, combined with lower transit fares, public transport will face a massive passenger surge. Our trains and buses are already crowded and delayed, and they are completely unprepared for a potential doubling of passengers.
Fixing this bike infrastructure deficit must be the top priority before any more highway expansions. A fully connected, free, and flexible bike network is the only way to take the top off the pressure and save public transit from total collapse.
Do your countries have similar billion dollar deficits?
I often use Gemini to quickly analyze PDF and .csv files, but some of these are larger than 100MB, and combined with having to split these up, and me having dozens of files for the same case or subject to analyze, this gemini bottleneck is very annoying.
How come pro users don't have higher limits than this?
I am reading through the tech details on Alstom's autonomous train development and honestly the potential efficiency gains are insane.
They are claiming GoA4 automation can slash energy use by up to 45% while bumping passenger capacity by a massive 30%.
The main hurdle right now is moving past closed metro tracks and getting smart sensors to safely handle mixed environments.
They have already run real-world tests with fully driverless shunting locomotives over in the Netherlands.
It is pretty clear that retrofitting existing fleets with these obstacle detection systems is going to completely change network flexibility.
Cutting down human error and operational costs seems to be the ultimate goal as they push toward completely unattended operations.
This is a massive step toward making international rail travel a reality for everyone.
If passed it will make choosing the train over a car or a short flight much easier.
It is crucial that we build political support for a better and more connected infrastructure.
Traveling across borders should be about the experience rather than logistical stress and uncertainty.
Reducing our reliance on private cars is a huge win for both our mental well-being and the environment.
The prospect of crossing multiple borders with just one click is one of the most exciting developments in a long time.
It shows the potential for a future where public transport finally becomes the most convenient choice.
I really hope this legislation passes so we can truly start exploring the world on tracks.
This is a massive step toward making international rail travel a reality for everyone.
If passed it will make choosing the train over a car or a short flight much easier.
It is crucial that we build political support for a better and more connected infrastructure.
Traveling across borders should be about the experience rather than logistical stress and uncertainty.
Reducing our reliance on private cars is a huge win for both our mental well-being and the environment.
The prospect of crossing multiple borders with just one click is one of the most exciting developments in a long time.
It shows the potential for a future where public transport finally becomes the most convenient choice.
I really hope this legislation passes so we can truly start exploring the world on tracks.
I’ve been diving into 282 pages of official reports and technical handbooks published by the Danish Road Directorate (2024), and what I found is honestly terrifying for anyone who cares about sleep quality.
Their own researchers explicitly admit that the current lighting standards (using lux and Kelvin) are "scientifically insufficient" for measuring biological impact. They acknowledge that the 100-year-old model the world currently uses is biologically obsolete because it ignores the non-visual receptors in our eyes that regulate our circadian rhythm and melatonin production.
The data in these documents is a massive red flag for public health. They’ve documented how the specific blue-rich light from these LEDs suppresses melatonin and disrupts the sleep-wake cycle. Even crazier, their research links this light spectrum to a 17% increase in asthma-related hospitalizations because the artificial light tricks local trees into budding 9 days early, creating a toxic, prolonged pollen season that literally keeps people awake and struggling to breathe.
The worst part? The solution is right there in their own manual. Page 116 describes how simple amber filters can be retrofitted to existing streetlights to remove 76% of the harmful blue radiation that messes with our sleep.
I confronted the agency about why they aren’t fixing this, and the official answer was basically that they’d rather wait out a 20-year "accounting cycle" for the lamps they already bought than protect the public's sleep and health.
I will be sharing my findings in these danish reports with the danish media, to give some subject some much needed attention.
I’ve spent the last few days digging through 282 pages of official reports and technical handbooks published by the Danish Road Directorate (2024). For anyone in this sub fighting light pollution, this is a goldmine of institutional cognitive dissonance.
Their own technical handbook explicitly admits that the standard metrics used for road lighting—lux and Kelvin—are "scientifically insufficient" because they ignore the biological impact of the blue spectrum. They actually cite the need for CIE S 026:2018 and acknowledge that the 100-year-old V(lambda) model is biologically obsolete.
Despite this "epiphany" in their own manuals, they are doubling down on high-intensity white LED rollouts. Their research documents a 17% spike in asthma-related hospitalizations linked to disrupted tree phenology (9-day earlier budburst caused by blue-rich ALAN) and a 47% crash in local insect populations. They even admit that a Melanopic EDI (mEDI) above 0.35 is harmful for human recovery at night, yet their current installations exceed this by a mile.
The most frustrating find: Page 116 of their report confirms that simple amber filters can be retrofitted to existing white LEDs to remove 76% of the harmful blue peak. I confronted them with this, and the official stance is basically: "We have 1 million lamps with a 20-year lifespan, and we aren't changing anything until the accounting cycle ends."
I will be sharing my findings with the danish media, since the reports are in danish.
I finally finished going through 282 pages of official reports and technical handbooks published by the Danish Road Directorate. It’s pretty disturbing to see the gap between what their own scientists are documenting and what the agency is actually doing on our streets.
Their 2024 handbook explicitly admits that the standard metrics they use to justify white LED rollouts—lux and Kelvin—are "scientifically insufficient" for measuring biological impact. Essentially, they are using a 100-year-old model that ignores how blue light affects human circadian rhythms and nocturnal wildlife.
The data in these official documents is a massive red flag. Their own research links this specific light spectrum to a 17% increase in asthma-related hospitalizations because the light tricks trees into budding 9 days early, causing a toxic overlap with late-season frost and prolonged pollen release. They also documented a 47% crash in local insect populations right next to these lamps.
What makes this so frustrating is that the solution is already in their own manual. Page 116 describes how simple amber filters can be retrofitted to existing LEDs to remove 76% of the harmful blue radiation. I asked why they aren’t implementing this fix, and their official response was basically that they plan to stick with the current obsolete setup for the next 20 years because of accounting cycles.
These reports are in danish, so cannot link to them here, unless some of you are danish, but I will continue to share this with danish media.
It would be incredibly practical to have the ability to create a custom fan curve for better control.
Even on battery with Whisper mode and all Windows power-saving features enabled, the lowest fan speeds I can achieve are 1900 and 1300 RPM.
It is frustrating that the fans almost never turn off completely, even when no apps are open and power consumption is minimal.
I hope Asus can optimize this through BIOS or software updates to allow for a truly passive cooling experience.
The laptop should be able to throttle performance significantly and remain throttled just to ensure the fans stay completely silent.
This would allow the device to function like a fanless machine during light use, which is what I expect from this hardware.
Having a high-end machine that can be limited to reach the battery life of smaller models would be a game-changer for many users.
Currently, the constant fan noise and power draw make it impossible to reach the advertised battery life of over 20 hours.
My ASUS Zenbook A16 X2 Elite Extreme laptop is incredible, but the software stack is currently a mess.
I’m getting a pathetic 5,275 in Wild Life, should be much higher.
For a chip that’s supposed to have double the raw TFLOPS of an Adreno 840 and a 1.85 GHz boost, these scores are literally lower than the previous gen X1.
The issue is 3DMark’s SystemInfo scan.
It spends 60+ seconds emulating x86 polling code, hangs, and then the benchmark launches with the GPU stuck in a low-power P-state because the driver never got the handshake to actually wake up.
I’ve already reached out to UL support to push for a native ARM64 SystemInfo.
If we’re paying for "Extreme" tier silicon in 2026, we shouldn't be getting bugged scores because of legacy emulation timeouts.
Is anyone else seeing these flatlined frequencies on the X2 series, or did I just get a dud firmware?