Most of the range anxiety goes away once you see how effective overnight charging is.

If, in fact, you are one of those lucky enough to be able to park offstreet and charge at home overnight....

Depends where in the world you live. For the hundreds of millions of people living in Europe or countries like Singapore or Malaysia, thereâ(TM)s no need for a second car. People take the train for longer journeys. I was 43, married, with two kids aged 9 and 11, before I got a first car ten years ago - and it only had a range of 90 miles. I live in north London, and we just didnâ(TM)t have much need for a car up to that point. When we went to see my parents in Manchester, it was easier to get the train.

We're talking the US...and here it's hard to get by with only 1 car per family, although it can be done.

But in most middle class and up families, eventually everyone in the household has their own car.

Exactly this. People are not buying these large EVs without mandates or subsidies

This is the US.

The govt is supposed to be answerable to the people, not the other way around.

If the EVs can't compete on price and convenience without subsidies or even worse..."mandates", then they deserve to rot and it is not the governments business to step in and force people to to buy what they don't want, or is not ready for the market to compete for the consumers money....

The implication of course being that a substantial fraction on the entire country, after their weekly 9-5 grind and school run lines to kick back, have a few beers and haul trailers all weekend!

LOTS of boats down here where I live....lots of folks haut their boats to the launches and drop/pick them up over any given weekend...and often during the weeks for some people....

Originally I wasn't making a serious argument and more of just a funny quip. But I'll bite:

Per machine licensing, service contracts, certification programs, a large suite of costly add-on applications, different licensing for VMs, licensing limits on number of CPU sockets, etc.

I'm going to guess that a Microsoft-based deployment is going to be quite a bit more costly than OpenBSD. Especially in data center and SOHO server where a relatively barebones OS is going to be able to meet the mission requirements. Like why put your authoritative DNS server on Windows, that's just asking for trouble with added expense.

A very long time ago, I setup a Windows network for a company; it used NFS and RADIUS and a little bit of Samba for the initial login scripts. Doubtful it's the way someone would approach the problem of providing a non-Microsoft way to bring Windows clients into their network, but the tools we had were different back then. (and NFS support was a bit more wide spread)

This whole story is about CCTV, therefore NVR or cloud keys as these are where CCTV is hosted.

Having to use a different device in addition to the NVR defeats the point, especially considering a lot of users are on networks where they're forced to use the ISP-supplied gateway.

Even if the gateway does DDNS that's not relevant on a modern IPv6 network as the actual NVR device will have its own address rather than forwarding a port from the gateway address. Keep in mind that a good percentage of the world is stuck behind CGNAT so the gateway has an unreachable legacy address and home devices are only reachable over IPv6 (or not at all if the ISP is so lousy that they've not deployed v6 yet).

Myopic to the point of sociopathy.

It's only sociopathic IF you believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that through action or inaction to go EV only...that the world willl end soon. I'm not chicken little in mentality....so,.....

However, there's no convincing you that you might be wrong or just off a bit, Your ego won't allow it....your extreme view is the ONLY view....right?

So why pay more to get less with Microsoft?

That may explain it. I have a Qrevo S, which is from 2024, while yours is from 2022. The only thing that it ever gets stuck at is one spot where, from under the couch, it can see out the ground-level window, and get stuck between the couch and window ledge (not actually stuck, just confused), because the LiDAR sees out the window. And I fixed that just by setting a small exclusion zone there. It never "gets lost" - maybe your house has some vast open spaces that it can't handle? But the LiDAR seems to see pretty far. The only other issues I've had are things like where I'll have a loose cord on the floor or some large piece of debris or whatnot, and even then, it's usually good at not getting stock on them. I'm also impressed with how well it deals with doors vs. a Roomba - my Roomba used to always get itself locked in rooms by accidentally closing doors after it entered, while the Roborock really tries to avoid ever touching them.

The Qrevo S has actually rotating mops, and they do a superb job with the floor. Spotless. My robot has the hardest mopping job in the world, too - it has to clean under my parrot's cage, and he poops off the edge onto a plastic mat under it ;)

I've never had to contact support - hopefully I don't need to :)

I could do with fewer parallels to 1930's Germany

Same sad asshole making the same sad remarks. Don't like it? Move to Russia.

Why should I?

I live in the US.

I echo the same sentiments are pretty much most of the US...

Why don't YOU move to Russia and try to force them to go all EV...?

We know this argument is total bad faith bullshit because the same folks making it also hate and refuse to support forms of public transport or really anything that would reduce car dependency. AKA "my conservative media diet has convinced me a gasoline burning engine must be central to my personal and political self definition"

Media doesn't have anything to do with my views on this...

I just know what I've grown up with and what I enjoy and fits into my lifestyle.

I've never had to depend on public transport, and it just isn't realistically a part of my life since I do not and will not live in dense urban areas, sharing walls in apartments like college students.

I likely wouldn't mind an EV if they had a reasonably priced 2-seater sports car version...instead of family tricksters.

But aside from not offering anything I'm interested in, I don't have a way to charge at home, so not really something that works for me and there is precious little public charging infrastructure where I live...and if you cannot charge at home over night, it just is not as convenient to own and refuel as needed as an regular ICE.

I like my motorcycle too....EV cycles REALLY aren't as effective or fun as ICE ones...range sucks if nothing else.

I like what I have....I see no reason to change. I don't give a fuck about giving up my long lived and enjoyed lifestyle to "save the planet".

I enjoy my "car dependency".....it suits the way I live and how I want to live. I don't seem to be alone in this....and don't want to be 'forced' to change for other peoples' perceived reasons.

Great, let's mandate piling on nothing but EVs....as sole method of transportation on top of the struggling grid/infrastructure before we're ready for it...

although map editing sucks and it often gets lost and can't properly reset its position. It needs to be rescued pretty often which is a major fail.

That's very distinctly not my experience. What version do you have?

A real vacuum cleaner just about maxes out a standard residential 120v 15a circuit, as anyone who remembers the incandescent bulb era can attest to. A circuit with a few lamps shared with a vacuum cleaner could easily end with you flipping a breaker or replacing a blown fuse.

When you look at the absolutely tiny lithium ion pack these robo-vacs come with, ...

Sitting on my kitchen table right now is a drone pack. It's 57,5Wh, smaller the batteries of most modern Roombas. It's 50C - thus it can output up to 2,9kW. And there's even higher packs available than that. Lithium ion cells can handle some truly high power outputs. It's *energy*, not *power*, that is their limitation. Run a pack at 50C and it'll be empty in a bit over a minute. That said, on hard floor surfaces there is absolutely no reason why you should be drawing more than 300-400W or so, and you can get by with well less than that. High powers are for like shag carpeting and the like. Also, the head matters more than the power (though of course contribute) - for a hard floor, for example, a fluffy roller head is ideal.