Pretty much any desktop or server motherboard still has a PS/2 port.

I can still plug in my AT keyboard using a passive AT to PS/2 adapter.

Still, Wifi 6 supports 2.4 Ghz, and would be mote efficient. I have about 300 IOT Wifi devices. Almost all use 2.4 Ghz. None uses Wifi 6 on the 2.4 Ghz band. Almost all are Wifi 4. That includes 40 TP-link devices.

But perhaps before useful nuclear fusion.

Maybe, but it is not trivial. These bot nets act as proxy VPNs.
The ISP can make guesses based on traffic, but can't specifically identify the compromised devices.

And that is a totally fine choice. But no need to troll those who use such devices and tell them it's reasonable to pay $50/year for support per lightbulb.

I have over 600 smart home devices. About half of them are smart bulbs and smart switches.
Most cost far less than $50 new. I bought a bunch of them used for even less..
$50/year support fee per device would be completely unreasonable.
Fortunately, most of the 600 devices don't require cloud, and can operate in Home assistant locally on Wifi, without an ISP.

Certainly not reasonable from an environmental standpoint. Also, if you have a large home, you might own many of these, and replacing them could be a sizeable unplanned expense.

Best to stay away from any device requiring cloud, but unfortunately that is not always possible for some device categories.

To your question, I have a legacy Carrier infinity 10 zone system that only has RS422 interface.
Carrier makes expensive touch screen Wifi thermostats that phone home.
I hooked up a Raspberry Pi 3B+ through the RS422 bus with a USB interface.
I run software called Infinitive. It is connected to Home assistant via MQTT.
I connect to Home assistant via a Wireguard VPN on my pfSense router.
None of it phones Home.

You wouldn't need to. There are multi-head charging stations that can do load balancing. They can lower the amps delivered to each plug if there are many cars parked. The average UK driver does 20 miles a day. At a conservative 3 miles/kWh, that means only 6.6 kWh of charge are needed daily. If a streetlamp delivers 3 kW, and there are 4 cars parked for 10 hours simultaneously, the charging station will deliver 30 kWh over that period of time, which is enough for all 4 cars. The main issue would be for the station to have long enough cords to reach 4 vehicles. EVSE L2 cables are typically limited to 25ft. For low current applications, there is no reason from an electrical point of view that they couldn't be longer. The main rationale for the length limit appears to be handling issues - the longer the cable, the more likely the cable can be damaged. Anyway, in high density neighborhoods with high rise condos, most residents are not going to own cars, because there just isn't enough parking for them, street or otherwise. Owning a car tends to be a liability in such areas. I would say that is not specific to EVs. Where there is good public transportation available, it doesn't make as much sense to own a car.

Unfortunately, dealer experience can widely vary, indeed. In the SF bay area, there is no shortage of dealers, and it has been fairly easy to locate BEVs and PHEVs. I'm guessing you are not in one of the CARB states.

Indeed. My father used to drive a convertible. It was nice in good weather, during the days. But in France where I grew up, about 2/3rd of the days were not so nice, weather-wise. Also, in the evening, it got much colder. The convertibles he bought had soft tops. The thermal and sound insulation was extremely. I hated riding in the backseat of that Peugeot 205 CJ growing up. I agree being able to put the top down would be special. But I think you would lose of the comfort advantages of BEVs, as well as efficiency, with a soft top. Maybe some day I will have a BEV with a moonroof. Apparently, the higher trims of the Equinox EV have it. I bought the lowest trim for budget reasons.

Thank you for that link. I did not know that there was a time window that you could actually buy it for $35k. Was that before applying the $7500 tax credit ?

By March 2020, Musk had already gone crazy, forcing his employees at the local Tesla factory to come to work, despite the COVID shutdown orders.

That is indeed eons agao about Warpstock 97 ! That brings back memories. It was in Diamond Bar if I recall. I wrote the DSMI plug-in in one night in summer 1996. I still need to put that DSMI/2 code on github. I have a somewhat functional OS/2 VM under Virtualbox. But I wasn't good with version control, and I have many copies of the source code. I'm not sure which one is the correct/latest one to post. The build files were auto-generated by Visualage C++. The desktop project icons don't work anymore, so I can't regenerate them.

You are right that it's increasing. Thanks for the correction. The market share of BEVs for new car sales is growing faster than the market share of PHEVs, though. We are talking about 2% for PHEVs vs 8% for BEVs in the US.

I don't think I have ever done 6 hours of highway driving without stopping. My bladder would never allow it. Even my 2015 Volt PHEV only had about 250 mile actual gasoline range, at the speeds I typically drive on the rare long-distance trips. 250 miles is less than 4 hours of driving without traffic. The EPA test says 40 MPG highway, and the tank is supposed to be 9 gallons. That would make it 360 miles in theory. I have never gotten even close to that. On electric, the Volt electric range has been spot-on.

There are very few days that I have ever driven more than 9 hours on highway. Probably less than 5 days in 49 years. And those were only because of horrid traffic - ie. not at typical highway speeds. I'm never taking a road-trip on Thanksgiving again.

I did an 8-day 2200 miles trip in my Volt in August before I sold it. We charged it a few nights at hotels that had free L2. Most of the miles were gasoline, though. I would much rather have made the trip in a BEV due to the comfort. The 2017 Bolt EV DCFC charging speed was too low, which is why we did not take it. Next time we take such a trip, though, I will be comfortable taking the Equinox EV. I am getting more than the rated 319 miles EPA electric range on it. I expect it will almost exactly match my bladder tolerance. It will charge in about 40 minutes from 10% to 80%. I would not say that it is great, but it is tolerable. 170% charge is 542 miles using the 319 miles EPA range. On our most recent road trip in the Volt, the first leg was San Jose to Las Vegas, which is 526 miles. I don't think I would ever plan on driving more than that in a single day. I believe we stopped 3 times, though only one time was for gas.

Indeed, Toyota was hardly selling any BEVs in the first place. According to https://www.ttnews.com/articles/toyota-sell-seven-ev-models?utm_source=chatgpt.com :
'Toyota delivered fewer than 30,000 all-electric vehicles in the U.S. in 2024" . I could not find 2025 data.

There has been some inflation in the car market, both used and new. There are still a few bright spots in terms of cost, though. The base models of the Equinox EV or Nissan Leaf are much cheaper than the average new car, even with the federal tax credit now expired.

3 kW is plenty sufficient to charge an EV. My 2015 Volt PHEV was not even capable of charging at more than 3.3 kW.

But as I said in a previous comment above, if there is no parking, there aren't going to be any cars around, ICE or EV. So I'm not sure what this has to do with anything.