I remember people saying the exact same thing about computers in general.

Exactly. It's like taking a look at ENIAC and thinking 'welp, this technology will never be commercially successful, and I can't really think of a use for it.'

On the other hand, PDAs went from 'useless toy' to 'corporate status symbol' to 'literally redefining how society works' in less than twenty five years.

People live their lives through their phone. There's a qualitative difference.

Like why your car requires a seatbelt and airbags, but your snowmobile doesn't.

Timestamps and high score leaderboards make layoff planning so much easier.

The same people paying for the gas/diesel transportation, storage, and distribution stations?

Do you think pioneers just find giant underground fuel tanks and wild-grown gas pumps naturally sprouting along highways?

It's true. The last time I upgraded ram in a laptop was a Toshiba Satellite Pro back in like 1999.

Otherwise, we just, you know, spec the initial laptop purchase properly.

It's true. I bought a Series X to play Starfield (stupid me) and now, for me, it's a way to replay 360 games with no load times.

Fuck, the XBOX 360 and PS3 were experimenting with segments.

Yeah, I never had a problem with IRQ/DMA fuckery having a pretty loaded up (for the time) machine; Awe32 with Waveblaster daughterboard, ATI Rage 64 card, etc etc.

The main challenges back then were dealing with your low memory; figuring out the exact right order to load mscdex, memory manager, mouse driver and every thing else to squeeze out every bit of conventional memory, and using loadhigh to squeeze what you could into UMA, because that 1 kb difference could mean Wing Commander 2 didn't play the speech packs.

For a lot of people, and a lot of use cases, it's the right tool for the right job.

Anybody driving four to five hours without taking a half hour break is, in fact, doing it wrong, and actively endangering themselves, and others.

I find it sadly funny that people will say 'human activity can't alter the climate, and besides, we know humans are altering the climate with cloud seeding, chem trails, and the HAARP weather control lasers!'

No, my point is explicitly that, gas car or BEV, if I'm driving from St. Catharines to North Bay, I'm stopping an on route just south of Barrie to eat. With a gas car, I'm fueling up, then eating. With a BEV, I'm plugging in, then eating.

The fact that *you* wouldn't do it the way *I* do it doesn't negate the fact that for my process, which includes a half-hour break *either way,* it's more efficient to charge while taking that break than it is to fuel up, then take that break.

I'm in Canada too! The 'On' part of 'On Route' is a reference to Ontario.

And yeah, the only reason I'm stopping to eat at Innisfil on my way from, say, St. Catharines to North Bay is because insidious corporate advertising is luring me in. Ok, bro.

Well, your comment is instantly dismissible for taking 'I need to hit the bathroom, stretch, and eat' as 'you piss for half an hour,' but an On Route is a rest stop that happens to have a gas station. You go into the On Route itself which has bathrooms, multiple restaurants, some convenience stores, lots of seating, a picnic area....