The other thing is, if you know how to make a hybrid, you know how to make an EV. It's not like it's hard to scale up an electric power system. The motor driver is a small challenge, but the rest is just more and or bigger with no real complexity changes. So there is really no excuse for them not being able to make a compelling EV.

Part of hydrogen technology has improved a lot. A partnership between GM and Honda significantly improved fuel cells, mostly in the cost department.

Storage is still terrible, though, which is why it's failing.

Maybe someday someone will solve the hydrogen storage problem in a reasonable way, and then it might take off. But if batteries continue improving as they are then it's going to be even harder for it to catch up.

Systemd caused me problems I couldn't reasonably troubleshoot without debugging systemd, so I left Ubuntu and derivatives for Devuan, where I am back on sysvinit. Good riddance to that poorly conceived and even more poorly written trash.

Did they fix in version 6 the KDE bug that was causing some programs running under wine to only run when they were not in the foreground? I left plasma 5 for XFCE over that. As a side benefit, Thunar has sane drag and drop behavior.

I just assumed that OnStar was being used to track drivers. It's promising to see that after lawsuits that they stopped selling the data to insurance companies, because as life gets more modern and connected, tracking seems inevitable. I'm cynical and I expect, after some lobbying, that the government will mandate sharing of location info.

I'd hope that as part of any settlement, that GM be forced to offer to completely disconnect and disable OnStar upon demand, AND...provide literature on how to do it for yourself for those DIY folks that really want to make sure it is dead in person.

In that case no agreement longer than a couple pages should be enforceable since it's arduous to comprehend the full import if you are not a lawyer.

High quality AR with normal glasses has an absolute crapload of obvious applications. Low quality AR with a huge machine strapped to your face has very few.

The technology to do it well enough for consumer acceptance doesn't exist yet. What apple learned is what everyone else already knows. Yay?

If you can't sue over anything then you can be prevented from suing over anything.

" Even if I didn't like Google's set of cloud customers I could still work on Google Maps with a clear conscience."

Only if you're so dumb as to think those divisions don't both wind up on the same balance sheet and padding the same pockets.

"Simping for Hamas is absolutely a crystal clear example of employees... of human beings in general... who "did the wrong thing."

Yes, netanyahu, who told us that he was deliberately funding Hamas back in 2017 for the purpose of developing support for violently conquering Palestine, certainly did the wrong thing. So why are we funding genocide? He's an American citizen!

"who the fuck is the UN to tell ANY sovereign power what to do, much less occupy any country?"

Good point. They should not have founded the nation of Israel in the partition of Palestine in the first place.

But now that they have, there is a moral obligation to address the problem of Israel perpetrating a holocaust against Palestine.

You are happy with a status quo which involves the torture and murder of Muslims, so you don't want anything done. Just admit that so we can move on without you.

Trump wants to keep armed the .00001% of nutjobs who own firearms and who are willing to be violent and use them to attempt to overthrow the government to keep Trump in power (You DID see the Capital riots, I assume? It was kinda covered in the news).

Yep, I saw them.

I saw a protest that got out of hand with a some of the people being violent.

That that were violent, should be charged, but I do have a problem with those that merely went inside (especially those that video shows the cops LET in and welcomed in)...at worst they should have only gotten misdemeanor trespassing.

But back to your quote...are you seriously calling the riot an "armed insurrection"? If so, that was the WORST armed insurrection I have ever seen...especially given the number of guns we have in the hands of the people in this country.

And as for Trump...did you miss the parts of his speech telling folks to to peacefully protest?

No, maybe not...the mainstream news seems to conveniently leave that part out.

The only person shot there that day was a protesting lady by a Capitol guard....

I don't hold any delusions that Trump is much more than a narcissist....but, even so, I remember my life while he was president just before covid happened. Inflation was down, prices were reasonable, unemployment was down, and we weren't embroiled with wars all over the f'ing world.

He might not be the best person in the world, but things were running pretty well in spite of him you might say.

And given what we've seen with Biden...well, I'd vote for a small soap dish over that shell of a man....and even more scary for me, a vote for Biden is more than likely a vote for President Kamala, and that cackling bitch scares the fuck out of my more than any of them running.

Her in charge? Kiss the world goodbye....although the state of the union word salads would be amusing.

I was offered a job for pretty much a fortune in a country whose politics I disagree with and I declined. I'm sure someone else will get this job and consider me a moron for rejecting what's easy money.

Err...just out of curiosity, what country was this....and are they still taking resumes??

For how much again??

;)

All it would take is the U.N. declaring all of Israel to be a demilitarized zone, ordering the Israeli government and Hamas to both disarm, shooting anyone who refuses to comply, and then keeping those million or so troops in that region to help rebuild, slowly drawing down the number of troops over... say 200 years, so that by the time they are gone, no one alive still remembers the horrors of this day.

Look, while I admire your passion for what's happening over there, and your love for peace, your statement REALLY troubles me.

I mean, who the fuck is the UN to tell ANY sovereign power what to do, much less occupy any country?

I mean, the UN is a place for the world to talk, but they simply have no power nor jurisdiction to go into a country and force anyone to do shit....

I mean, let's move it to another country for an example....the UN has no power nor would they have any to come into the US with an armed force and demand us to do anything. I dont care what happens, they are not the world police and have no hold over any sovereign country.

The UN has no power nor authority to declare anything.

I'm curious where you got this idea that they did....?

And wow..that part where you have the UN "shooting anyone who refuses to comply"....

Seriously???