I still don't understand why the Arduino IDE won't allow you to put spaces in filenames. My OS supports it so what's their excuse?

You don't understand why not participating in a system which promotes your app / service and is the primary location people go to look for ways to use your product could potentially reduce your customer base?

I really hope you being part of the app ecosystem isn't your day job. Because damn are you missing the obvious.

Epic has never charged anyone for using outside payment services. I hate them as much as the next guy but your comment shows you don't know what is being discussed, and even if we were discussing the actual sales fees it would still be wrong. Epic literally launched their platform entirely on the premise of 12% and ran it that way for 2 years before the lawsuit.

Also I recognize it's a two party system but that doesn't mean it's a 2-cnadidate system. In 2024 Republicans had a half a dozen candidates to choose from. We could be sitting under President Haley who probably would have walked away with 57% vote share and had you know, not all this shit and not Harris either but Republicans and Republicans alone said "No, more Trump". You eat this one alone.

No, not actively fighting but not defending, justifying and making excuses. You can just say "Yeah, Trump is real bad and doing fucked up shit" or you can not say anything and not have to desperately do the "but.. but.. biden!" because thats what Trump does and wants you to do.

Of course that's if you recognize those things he's doing as bad at all, some people think it's quite good, they voted for it. They saw Jan 6 and said "more please".. You might be one of them. Then again I'd be surprised if 1/5 of them know the fake elector plot was a thing at all.

When youve tossed your lot in with an extremist it's in their favor to have you think everyone else is just as extreme. It's right in the authoritarian playbook. Get your national park ID that they made sure to put his face on. Nothing weird and fashy about that!

This is the game you play. Trump says *demonstrably bad things*, encourages violence as you basically admit and you just handwave it as "crude" and then both sides again!

Yup and it's not attempting to subvert the election, incite a riot at the capital, release thousands of convicted criminals back on the street *explicitly because the violence they perpetuated was to help him and send the message that political violence on his behalf will be excused*, none of that is unacceptable. It's not defying court orders, putting military on the streets in defiance of state and federal laws. its not unjustified killing of civilians. It's not deporting veterans and legal immigrants to central american prisons. It's not the President building himself an anonymous bribery system and doing pay to pay with convicted criminals for pardons.

  But a single tweet to a fund *even though both her and Biden made repeated condemnations of rioting and violence*, that's a bridge too far.

You are not serious people, it's all a game to justify the unjustifiable because you know what it is and you do not care

I'm not asking you to become a democrat, i'm asking to stop stop carrying water for a fucking criminal. But nah, you're good, gotta own them libs!

That probably was me, and I've brought receipts.

EVs represent 1.4% of the US vehicle fleet. There's a lot of cars in the USA. If you assume demand is linear and just added an extra 1.4% to the price of gas, well, that'd raise the current average price of gas by about $0.04/gal.

Granted, the real economics are probably a bit more squirrely if say, a magic genie showed up and granted the petroleum industry their wish that every EV instantly became a dino-juice burner, as the sudden surge in demand would cause a massive price spike at the pump. But in an alternate reality where Musk decided that drones to deliver fast food were more interesting than EVs, their gas prices aren't far off from ours (and they're getting burgers from heaven, so maybe it's not so bad).

From 2018 through 2024, about $16 billion was spent (or more accurately, mostly consisting of income tax money returned to taxpayers) on federal EV subsidies. Nice if it helped you afford an EV (raises hand), but admittedly, a pretty lousy bargain in terms of the amount of gasoline demand it abated.

I've heard Linus called a lot of things, but this is a new one to me. Why do you hate Linux's creator so much?

Literally no one has ever managed to learn what not to do in C to a level that prevents security problems. That's one of the fundamental problems with humans, they make mistakes. That is evident in literally every level of programmer on the planet.

See also: The reason we put airbags in cars rather than trying to teach better driving.

Every day I'm a little more convinced you are either a robot or an alien.

An ICE definitely comes with a huge price tag at the range you can ride a typical EV. The data is in, a typical EV battery will outlast the entire car engine requiring either engine replacement or ground up re-build. That from experience costs thousands of dollars which is why the reason so many people scrap their cars at 200000 miles (my last ICE car got turned into a small cube at 190000miles, ok I was being facetous, it was actually broken down into components and sold for scrap and spares). 200000 miles is nothing for an EV battery pack even a few generations old.

Yes because when I replace a gasoline vehicle with an electric one I just go down to the station to fill up gasoline into a barrel and then roll it off in the ocean or some shit like that?

Maybe you should think when someone is "correcting" you. Literally every EV on the road is a substitute for a different vehicle with similar modal properties. No one is saying "I was riding a bicycle, but now that EVs don't use gas I'll go by a car" they are substituting one gasoline car for an EV. The former runs on ... gasoline ... the latter runs on ... not gasoline. Even if gasoline consumption isn't going down, it's because car use and ownership is going up, and in that scenario having EV still means less gasoline than not having EV.

Seriously you argue so much on Slashdot, direct a bit of that energy to whomever fed you that logically incoherent psychobabble.

Talking about Hotels anywhere related to cost is massively skew compared to literally any other business. I honestly was floored by simply the cost of parking at a hotel in the USA, to say nothing of them nickel and diming every tiny fucking thing.

The difference isn't that big in Europe. Using a L2 charger at the Marriott in Frankfurt is almost similar in cost to a L3 DC fast charger in Huenxe on the highway reststop. But hotels seem to be virtually the only ones who price themselves insanely out of the market. My battery was approaching empty on my EV last time I was there, and even then I STILL didn't charge in the hotel, I ended up charging at the vendor's offices instead also on a L2 charger but one which is similar in cost to retail electricity.

Not all charging is equal. Those people who say charging on "on the road" is more expensive are almost universally talking DC Fast Chargers. The point isn't one or the other. There's over 100,000 L2 chargers in the USA mostly in cities, and they are only a smidgen more expensive than charging at home. It would be great if condo's provided charging at cost, but they don't have to in order to be competitive. There very much is an ability to make profit (which encourages the placement of chargers) while still being cheaper than gasoline / diesel.

Disclosure: I drive an EV, and no I don't have the ability to charge at home.

Yeah but isn't that because you're bringing in a ton of cheap Chinese EVs? America isn't going to do that for a variety of reasons.

Also isn't a Volkswagen t-roc or t-ceoss around 30,000 euros versus 43,000 for an equivalent Tesla?

Again though I think you've got more choices because Europe is allowing those cheap Chinese electric cars into their markets.

Because society benefits me. Electric cars aren't benefiting me.

So yeah you have a right to demand that I chip in for things that benefit me but you have no right to demand I subsidize your personal choices.

That's the argument you're going to get. And honestly if we're talking about cars it's right. We shouldn't have a car based transportation system to begin with it's ludicrously inefficient and only exists because we externalize the costs from it.

So you're going to have a tough time convincing me or anyone else that I should pay more of those externalized costs so that you can putz around in your electric car which is probably a luxury vehicle anyway because the high cost of the batteries means that nobody is going to sell a cheap electric car to a broke ass loser like me.

And that's the answer from a very politically aware standpoint. Your average voter is going to hear what you just said and react violently and get even more dug in against electric cars. There are certainly not going to question the car based transportation system in the first place or the trillions and subsidies we give automotive companies. So all they're going to really question is why the fuck they have to pay for an electric charging station they're never going to use.

It's especially galling because for a lot of them the reason they'll never use it is because they couldn't possibly afford an electric car. If you become aware that you are subsidizing somebody who's better off than you financially then that is extremely infuriating. It's why the billionaires spend so much time and effort making sure you don't realize how much of your taxpayer money let alone how many months out of the year you spend working to make them rich