It is marketing. So what? And there is reason to believe US (and European) car-makers stupidly left the market to China. And now China is ahead by a large margin. That is not how you win the future.

Yep. I do not think this has changed today. If you want to know, it matters little whether it is a trip to the library or to wikipedia.

I do not doubt that. We have some large-ego-small-insight "tech" people here, same as any tech forum. These then state total insightless nonsense with confidence. People like that are unable to tell when to fact-check, but have total confidence in their knowledge. And they are always around in some form.

Come to think of it, modern LLM communication is modelled on these idiots, because they can convince people. People like that also do well in sales, religion and politics.

Funny thing: I was asked about the same thing about 15-20 years back by a security consulting customer (very large bank). They wanted to store their Root CA secret keys by just putting them on bootable memory stick in a safe. My recommendation was to use industrial CF instead (which are essentially SLC FLASH with better properties that has 10 or 20 years data endurance and that endurance is in the data-sheet), but by any means to have several laser-printed copy on paper in addition. As CA secret keys are small, they went wit that. But they would have faced a real possibility of an expensive disaster otherwise.

Does it use the same "sandwich" batteries as the other autos in their fleet? Because if it does, you won't want one. Not for very long anyway.

Sure, deny it all you like. There's plenty of video evidence. But don't let me stop you from keeping your head in the sand.

Great opportunity for open source web services. :-)

It's too expensive now! :P

The biggest pro for that ugly golf cart series was the large government subsidy on the car and on the charging it got early in the day when it was (PR-wise) the only one in the market. Now that's gone, and the "cheap electric car" isn't so cheap anymore, so demand has understandably shrunk.

Then there's the increase in competition, the impact of trump's anti-electrocart policies, and the general economic deterioration due to the new policies that disrupt the global system with the explicit goal to raise domestic prices. Price increase has never brought an increase in demand, ever.

The ozempic-gupling Nazi escapades are among the least significant factors in determining demand.

Are you saying it's comparable to Kodak sitting on their digital camera patents from the 70's to avoid knocking film profits even if other camera firms are dabbling in digital?

nor only, also bowing to "investor pressure" to achieve AI-compliance, which is now a requirement for any " tech company".

the "investor" now believes that without slop there is no future, so they require slop to invest into.

There's no good reason to use it. Just encode your video for random-access streaming, set up Apache or nginx with a URL that you make sure isn't indexed, require a client cert on the directory if you really want to be careful, port forward to it from a port on your router, set up dynamic DNS, and use a web browser. No arbitrary restrictions, just your content on your terms.

SSDs do automatic scrubbing, i.e. a sort-of self-refresh when powered. They do it only for cells that have gotten weak. No idea how long that takes though.

You should be able for force a full test cycle by either reading the full SSD or by running a long SMART self-test.

Depending on the data, that is a perfectly valid approach. Example: Root CA secret key. Make sure to use pigmented, non-acidic ink or laser.

Probably low-stability dye. CD-R can be made very cheaply.

It depends on the quality of the dye layer, the quality of the coating and other factors. For DVD recordables, same thing. The exception is DVD-RAM which use phase-change and can theoretically be archive-grade. But everything has to work for that. I tried with some and apparently disk and drive need to be matched for it to work well. At the time I tried, there were no current drives and disks with that information available.