probably half the range of an EV

Many EVs have ~250 miles range. I need a quarter of that in usable winter range for my commute. If I could get an EV with 125 miles of advertised range (about half that in winter) for a third the price, I’d do it.

It’s not going to replace my road tripping car, but it could replace my commuter, which needs very little range.

We have them at the mouths of canyons, and canyons are beautiful and desirable to live near.

It’s also great for grocery getter cars where total range isn’t super important. Current EVs are ~250 miles range and top out around 300-400, which is insufficient as a gas replacement for road trips but overkill for a commute or around-town car.

There are a lot of use cases for something inexpensive but technically inferior.

A lot of households, like my own, have multiple cars. We have a commuter (50 miles round trip) and a family car. We use the commuter for most trips around town (only commutes 2x/week), and the family car for longer road trips.

I don’t need a car that can do both, I just need to replace the commuter since that’s where the vast majority of our driving is.

Don’t try to solve the hard problem of putting charging stations in the middle of nowhere, solve the easy problem of replacing that second car. For that, sodium-ion is more than sufficient. Focus infrastructure improvements on apartment complexes, workplaces, and shopping centers so people who don’t have a garage can charge.

How to turn your laptop into a desktop with this one, weird trick! PC makers are furious!!

I actually use a T-Mobile MVNO, so I don’t have experience with their customer service.

They seem to have the biggest variety of options for resellers, so if you like the coverage but not the customer service, you have options.

Lol.

But T-Mobile is less bad the other telecoms. The enemy of my enemy and all that.

Yup, that would be how I’d play it. But she kinda sucks on policy, so maybe it would hurt instead.

When looking at 2020 candidates, she was literally my least favorite, and Biden wasn’t far behind her.

Sure. I’m just saying storage doesn’t need to be overly burdensome. I just toss mine in a box and stick it in a closet. And if the drives die, you have the disks.

What is “handheld” here? It doesn’t seem like the Switch counts, and I doubt Steam Deck does, so is this this the old handheld-exclusive consoles like 3DS?

Also, it’s sad arcade is so small now, I loved arcades as a kid.

It’s not that big, the cases are much smaller than DVD cases. Each case is 12-13mm wide, so on a typical shelf, you could fit >60. You can easily make them two or three deep, depending on your shelf.

I just stick them in a box after ripping them to my HDDs.

The article specifies a JD Power study, which is an American institution. Seems obvious enough…

And it’s especially unnecessary for a big use case for EVs: commuters and grocery getters. It’s only needed for cars intended to do road trips.

And yeah, a phone app is more than sufficient. I do trips infrequently enough that it’s totally unnecessary to be built-in.

They have 38,000 kiosks. So that’s ~$10k/kiosk.

Honestly, that may be a fair price, assuming these machines are profitable. Vending machines make $4-10k revenue/year. Assuming that holds for RedBox, that should make >$2k profit per year, which would make aquisition reasonable. The question is, is that what they’re getting?

If I were in their shoes, I’d expand the options at the kiosks to include console games, and maybe a limited selection of snacks (e.g. popcorn), if it can be retrofitted.

Copyright is not a capitalist idea, it’s collectivist. See copyright in the Soviet Union, the initial bill of which was passed in 1925, right near the start of the USSR.

A pure capitalist system would have no copyright, and works would instead be protected through exclusivity (I.e. paywalls) and DRM. Copyright is intended to promote sharing by providing a period of exclusivity (temporary monopoly on a work). Whether it achieves those goals is certainly up for debate.

Long terms go against any benefit to society that copyright might have. I think it does have a benefit, but that benefit is pretty limited and should probably only last 10-15 years. I think eliminating copyright entirely would leave most people worse off and probably mostly benefit large orgs that can afford expensive DRM schemes in much the same way that our current copyright duration disproportionately benefits large orgs.

Do you really need a custom kernel for the surface devices?

I’ve kept Windows installed on a spare drive for years now. I don’t remember when I last booted into it on purpose, it was certainly more than a year ago, and was just to install Minecraft Bedrock to play with his friends (his friends bailed). My kids have only ever used Linux. :)

I could probably install Linux on my work MBP, but my boss would make me test on macOS, so it would kind of defeat the point.

At home, everything is Linux except my SO’s desktop, and that’s a job I’m unwilling to be fired from.

People think I’m nuts when I say Win2k was my favorite Windows. I switched to Linux before Vista came out. People say WinXP was good, but really, it was just tolerable.