Isn't the average person in debt? Just keep spending it isn't like you have anything to lose.

This is why our economy is circling the inflation drain.

It turns out wobbly, creaky, and easily broken is perfectly acceptable. So is looking like a painted box.

Name 1 EV that has 600 miles of range refilled in 3 minutes like my hybrid.

The 1960s are calling you, those problems were mostly gone by the late 70s for every car made. I say mostly because cheap economy cars are still a necessity as our society is getting even more imbalanced financially.

For most people driving a car is a necessary hassle, please don't drive your overpowered overpriced car like a race car on public roads. Merging is only an issue if you don't know how to drive and share the road. Of course the drivers we often merge with don't know how to drive and share the road :/

Then why does every IP on the planet need to be unique? Sounds like IPv4 is plenty for local networks.

The problem isn't me, but most people have never heard of a firewall and have no understanding of why it should be enabled. They just want their toaster to be accessible while at work (for whatever reason).

Then you are doing it wrong using IPs, you just said that is what DNS is for...

And the home IP example was used instead of a random IP that is probably already in use due there being a shortage and all.

Grow up. That is not happening no matter how much you are wishing to reenact the movie 'A Boy and His Dog'.

Way to cherry pick - chicken has suffered from several bird flu epidemics - which disqualifies Tyson in this.

The other two are still over 16 percent. Sure it isn't Apple grotesque, but that is quite a tidy little profit margin.

Please don't confuse HP with Brother, Brother is where the home market goes when you want an affordable non-lock-in laser printer.

For inkjet Epson Eco-tank is also a thing, it is hard to lock-out ink poured from a bottle into a tank.

Know what you are buying, buyer beware etc.

HP is dead to many, sadly there will always be sheep.

Naaah.

It's odd but people like numbers they can remember for 2 minutes while they walk between machines.

We also don't really need everyone's toaster, can opener, and vibrator accessible to the internet.

All they really needed to do was add a country prefix number like the phone system to expand ipv4, instead ipv6 went all complicated and stuff.

127.0.0.1 vs eafd:45ac:5820:ffad:dead:beef::0 -- really? (apologies if that actually breaks out to a connectable address)

A parrot can sound smart too, but has no idea what it is saying. Ok it knows if it wants a cracker what to parrot, but doesn't actually understand the words.

We are raising a generation of Pollys, forget generation X,Y, millenials, what we are creating now is worse - It's the Polly generation! - and they want their free crackers.

In my case if I went across the street to Walmart, their power was completely out so they were closed (and lost their entire inventory of refrigerated product along the way).

and when the network itself is down, there is no where to go, everyone will be down. It's a terrible single point of failure, it's not a matter of 'if' but 'when' such an event occurs since most tech is now built on a house of cards. Just look at the cloud hosts, I think it was amazon or google had temporary misconfiguration and the resulting traffic spikes also took down some of cloudflare cutting off access to other hosts. There are no longer layers to the network it is just a big interlocked mess waiting to fall over.

I'm not a prepper, but not having some back-up cash tucked somewhere is - well - how most people now live their lives since it's all based on debt now anyway.

That hybrid still burns gas which contributes to taxes. The EV never pays a tax through gas purchase, it isn't as biased as you make it out to be.

If we go to a federal automobile registration, the taxes should simply all be paid there based on your previous year's mileage. Remove the taxes from the gas so that both ICE/hybrid/EV can all pay equally based on their actual use of the roads by mileage. You complain about fair, but I bet you won't like to actually pay fair.

It's a simple test, ask the same question twice, you should get the same exact answer. Otherwise you may be on to something about all this '' INTELLIGENCE! ''

Why do I need a wall washer light? or a smart button?

At least tell me they don't require an internet connection to operate..

Funny thing about not carrying a wallet or cash. The power went out almost everywhere in this area last week and while the grocery store still had power and working checkouts, the payment processing system was down - if you didn't have cash you went hungry.

We rely way too much on phones now. If networking goes down most people are simply screwed.