But how fast can Megawatt chargers charge a battery? Spending 3 minutes on a charging task that currently takes 30 minutes - as commenter 'bubblyceiling' was talking about - requires peak charging currents to be 10 times as high. That in turn requires much thicker cables, along with bigger connectors. You get some relaxation of requirements via the shortened duration of current flow, but you're still looking at hella-big cables, and probably connectors as well.

When was substituting (something dumb) for (something useful) ever NOT a good business plan? Have a good look around, then tell me honestly that doing dumb, trivial shit isn't a major portion of what fuels our Ponzi scheme of an economy.

I don't know about where you live; but around here it's become annoyingly common to encounter people in public with their phones held in front of their face so they can look at them while shouting their side of the conversation.

I'm pretty sure the money for such hits is small potatoes, compared with the cost savings and profit increases that resulted from them NOT fixing their manufacturing problems.

Wow! That's twisted! Not a criticism, just an observation...

If you allow for the possibility that he was murdered, then you must also allow for the possibility that the autopsy results will be faked.

If I put on my conspiracy theorist hat - the one that fits a little too comfortably - I can see in this a warning to other whistleblowers. Granted, correlation does not equal causation, and murder by infection seems a bit of a stretch, at least in this case. But I'm willing to bet that a fair few other whistleblowers aren't looking at it that way. I'm sure some of them are reconsidering their next steps, now that two of their fellows have died under questionable circumstances.

Fair points - but I suspect that ICE auto makers also couldn't "make or sell" a car without the tax breaks they get. At least not without making their shareholders unhappy with their returns, which could be a death spiral.

Also, both EVs and ICEs depend on government-funded roads. That amount probably overshadows "tax breaks, kickbacks, and deductions" by a margin wide enough to render the difference between EVs and ICEs moot. Plus, as EVs and the processes to manufacture and recycle them mature, the difference could invert, with the economic advantage going to EVs.

I'm not saying that will happen though. Thinking about the magnitude of the infrastructure rollout required to support EV market saturation gives me the willies.

In this case, satisfaction depends on whether you're 'adopting' the equivalent of a dog or a cat, or the equivalent of a Chia Pet. The former has some potential for being emotionally gratifying and possibly even useful, while the latter is... well.. rather like a Vision Pro!

The summary points to the real problem when it says "Unique passwords installed by default are still permitted". A necessary-but-not-sufficient practice would require ANY net-connected device to force the entry of a fresh password of specified complexity before the equipment is allowed network access.

If doing that requires extra hardware - say, a USB or CAT5 port to connect to a computer or tablet to provide an interface for entering that initial password - then so be it. Good security is necessarily inconvenient, and has a cost associated with it. Stuff shouldn't be so easily pwned just because the manufacturers can't be assed to spend a few bucks to improve it. And a bit of end-user inconvenience is a small ask when the result is increased security for everybody.

If there's one thing and one thing only that soldered RAM is indisputably good for, it's increasing profits.

First, memory sockets with their gold-plated contacts represent a not-insignificant cost. Second, inserting the RAM into a socket is an added production step, and for cost reasons manufacturers do everything they can to minimize those added steps. Third, when the user can't upgrade RAM, the computer becomes obsolete sooner, so it gets replaced sooner. Fourth, when people buy a model that has more factory-installed memory - in an attempt to postpone the computer's obsolescence a bit longer - the extra money goes directly to the manufacturer rather that to a third-party RAM upgrade supplier.

I thought most of your comment was insightful, but I'm confused by this:

Does "catastrophically wrong" include the possible injury or death of innocent third parties, such as passengers and crew? If not, can you give an example of the catastrophic wrongness you were thinking of? If it does include injury or death, how could you live with yourself afterward?

Well, some here - myself included - might call faith an hallucination. Ergo...