What you describe is being done in remote corners of random places to serve as electric charge stations. Apply same thing to a place that is all about cars and people traveling.

And I was referencing real gas stations. 8 would be the smallest I have seen in the last 20 years, and I am primarily suggesting the bigger that are fed customers by freeway/highway, places that can refuel 12+ cars. I think I've seen plenty of flyin-j and the like that do 30+

but my point is having random charging stations places in the most inconvenient places with no bathrooms(or any amenities).

We had family visit us renting an electric car electric car as they thought they would save money. Well the 2 day trip turned to 5 day, and we did the math on their cost of electric to my vans cost of gas doing the same trip a month earlier and it was close. Not add in the extra hotel and the fact they still had to stop at gas stations.

They also did some extra driving as some charging stations they drove past because of how sketchy it was or it was closed or some such.

I work for a university now, and they mandated copilot, sometimes I's suprising helpfull, but more often it is inacturate. I even tried using a low ball of tell me all the remote systems, databases, ldap, AD and even local config files from from a medium size perl file and it was so grossly wrong missing things like $remote_ldap_host and creating it's own config files and such. I can't even have it check itself.

Did this with chatgtp free, and it wasn't much better.

Sometimes its great but its unreliable

I didn't mind the charge time per say, but rather the charge station and location the most. Also the fact it required #1 a phone, #2 an app, #3 an account. Sorry not, you require a phone my most polite response will be F.U.

If I can drive up, insert card, and be gone in about 30ish min along with the normal amenities including safety of a main stream gas station.

Some of the places we went to/through had me wondering if we would get mugged. Or if the app had incorrect info (and in some cases it was outdated).

Also I learned overnight trickle charge was just that, not enough to matter.(granted overnight temps did get to low 50's and he said he didn't turn on warmers or such, but still... 6-8hrs of trickle should count for something)

Again, doing the math, I did not make financial sense to pick EV over ICE and that didn't include trips of over 1.5hr away at 70+ mph. I still hear people say rent a car for those rare times you need an ICE, tells me those are people who live like ant colonies, yuck.

ever other weekend during summer, and at highway speeds be lucky to get 230. I wanted an EV until I did a couple of trips in my friends, and his "free" gas. Now I, and another friend, don't want one. (think my next will be a plug in hybrid or a prius...)

btw, highway speeds are 75-85. If you think highway is 55-65 then its you who needs to learn about the rest of the country.

You are forgetting something to, the less of something that sells, the higher percentage needed for profit. The fixed costs still need to be paid regardless of how much sells. So it's just not greed.

But honestly the best thing a gas station could do is have EV charging stations and I am amazed I don't see that.

PS my experience with EV has made me not want an EV. a day trip turning into over night and still having to stop to charge in a remote parking lot of Ross w/ no grantee of bathroom or other amenities. I started the trip coveting his car. Oh and I did the math, an EV that cost 8k more than ICE wont save you money.(Avg time someone owns a car is 8 years)

That's what I assumed as well. Buy Now Pay Later loans like this have a long history of being predatory. So I took a look at what it would cost to accept Klarna (as an example) as a merchant. The reality is that they have transaction fees that are very similar to credit cards. In other words, these companies do not need to rely on missed payments to make a profit.

These companies are apparently setting themselves up to replace traditional credit card payment systems, which suits me right down to the ground.

The difference is that it is much easier to get a Klarna account, and it isn't (yet) as widely available.

I felt the same way at first. Traditional BNPL schemes were very predatory. However, Klarna (and others) appear to be playing approximately the same game as the traditional credit card processors. They charge transaction fees that are roughly the same as credit card processors, and like credit cards their customers don't pay extra if they pay their bill on time. Klarna, in particular actually appears to give customers interest free time.

The difference, for consumers, is primarily that a Klarna account is much easier to get, and it isn't universally accepted. From a merchant perspective, depending on your payment provider, you might already be able to accept Klarna, and it appears that it mostly works like a credit card. It's even possible that charge backs are less of an issue, although it does appear that transaction fees are not given back in the case of a refund.

Personally, I am all for competition when it comes to payment networks. Visa and Mastercard are both devils. More competition for them is good for all of us.

Give linux a shot, it's surprising how many games work via steam or wine(once you remove the distro wine/mesa and install newer release)

I prefer Mint/mate or xfce for desktop.

I to was looking at UTOPIA, but since that never materialized I am now google fiber. CenturyLink screwed me w/ their forever price lock guarantee that lasted a year to which they claimed they never had it(despite the fact I still had their flyer) Also their service in my area maxed out at 12mbs...

Comcast, I want to see them and AT&T burn to the ground along with all the executives. Such thieves and piece of sh*ts. Comcast takes billions and billions of money from the government per year and pockets it, and yes, as you pointed out, prevents competitors like UTOPIA

grrrr now I am all ranty

In America we have essentially legislated against small vehicles. Our CAFE standards were supposedly designed to push us towards more fuel efficient vehicles, but the reality is that the easiest way to pass CAFE standards is to simply make the vehicle larger. So the United States ends up with larger vehicles, and the smaller vehicles that we do get tend to be more expensive than we should be. We have essentially legislated away the category of a ultra basic small car. That happens to be a pretty popular segment in most of the world. The small cars we can buy are nearly as expensive as their larger brethren and so they make a lot less sense.

EVs are an even better example of how U.S. legislation skews things towards larger ICE vehicles. The most popular EVs in most of the world are the most basic EVs. I personally would love to buy a basic EV to replace my current commuter car. I have a house and a place to plug in an EV. My commute is short and even the most basic EVs would be fine. However, the only vehicles available in the market are essentially luxury vehicles. I can buy a whole lot of gasoline for $30K, which is the least expensive new EV available here, but if I could get my hands on a cheap Chinese EV for $12K I absolutely would do that. For the price of the least expensive EV you can basically buy a Toyota RAV4 that is a much more capable vehicle.

Looks like they stop it it, and had MS delete data. Although MS claims it takes up to 90 days to delete data.

Yes, verifying the citations is trivially easy, which is how these people get caught. You will notice that the lawyers in question say that it was an honest citation mistake and not "fabrication of authority" which is a legal term for a crime that carries jail time and fines. The problem with that defense is that the article that they cited doesn't actually exist. They say it has an inaccurate title and inaccurate authors, but I suspect that is legal speak for, "AI made up the article."

Now, if an article exists that happens to say approximately the same thing, and it just has a different title and authors then it is possible that the lawyers in question might be able to pretend that they really did just goof up the title and authors. If not, then what they did actually fits the definition of fabrication of authority. At which point I think that they should throw the book the fools.

The reality is that our current legal system relies heavily on lawyers not pulling these kinds of stunts. The system is adversarial, for sure, but it is generally assumed that the opposing counsel isn't making things up whole cloth. That's why fabrication of authority carries such high penalties. No one has time to check every citation. The assumption is that the person writing the brief is citing correctly and not misrepresenting what is actually said. The fact that these particular lawyers took it a step further and included a citation that doesn't even exist is absolutely ridiculous.

Care to explain to someone who has played mmorpg but not familiar w/ wow?

bah, if they had done this as a response to Microsoft sabotage and EOL win7 that would have ment something, instead they did the opposite and helped kill win7.

They didn't have to take away steam access on win7, but they did.

Yes. And they probably need to use Google Messages and not whatever Samsung (or whatever) sets by default. The Apple user also has to have iOS 18 and a carrier that supports RCS for iPhones, this is definitely not all of them, although the big three now support RCS on iPhone.