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This is going to be a long thread of Anti-EV zealots, especially those that didn't read the original article.

The biggest problem they are facing is that there's a lot of vehicles that aren't delivered yet, and they fight for the charging spots, while in some areas there are plenty.

Also, having a fleet of 100.000+ EV's is not easy to manage both charge-time wise and available spots. Amazon has insisted that the power delivered must be from solar power and the power company has to guarantee that as well.

Personally I think they could solve it by doing what IKEA did, they went entirely Solar for all their warehouses some years ago, and produced way more power than they use themselves. But Amazon purchases their solar electricity for now, mostly.

They also have an issue with EV's not being delivered to them in a timely matter, afaik - these vehicles (according to the article) are special built for Amazon, and only 13K of them in one area has been delivered so far, so it's not a clear cut case for them.

TL:DR; your personal or peoples preferences for EV's has nothing to do with your use case for a personal EV or whether you need one or not, this is a HUGE scale that has various issues such as production, delivery, issues with those agreements on a large scale.

Ev's may or may not fit your daily routines or economy, personally I don't think anyone should be forced to buy an EV, I have one myself, but it fits my lifestyle, travel distance, and I got it cheap (20K) so for me it's great. But it's not fun for people who have a long distance to travel to work, few charging spots, can't charge at home and have to pay 60K and upwards for one, that's not good at all.

Ok.

Tell me then how I will run No Mans sky on Quest 3 via Linux, 120 FPS via Virtual Desktop wirelessly and flawlessly. I'd like to see that work.
If you can in bullet points tell me exactly how to achieve that, it will be worth a try, as I said first I have been running Linux since 1998, and I'm no stranger to it so stop with the personal attacks already, judging from your member number here, you're too old for that kind of stuff.

So go ahead, if you still have the energy, see if you can cough up some real useable instructionables how to achieve that, or just let me live my life the way I like it.
I would LOVE to hear how to - without too much stress, I don't have hours left of my life to work for weeks to get that tuned in unless it's easy.

I suspect this is the case for many.

And that's my point.

There's always a "but..."

And that but seems to hit me more often than the exception.
Everything has to run - period.

No they don't.

And the fact you've been a daily Linux user for 30 years kinda tells the most of your story, you're a savvy user, you know your stuff. Mrs. And Mr. Jones doesn't know the first thing about Linux. And those who do, doesn't really queue up to help them either, because most of the savvy Linux users have grown old and tired of constantly helping that audience that Windows is targeted at, namely regular people who don't want to get an Operating System as an hobby, they just wanna run what the neighbors run.

And the games don't run out of the box. Sure, since Steam deck became popular, you could say that 15-20 percent of the games NOW can run natively, but that's still just a fraction of the games out there, the rest takes a lot of experimentation, compatibility drivers, experimental, beta this and beta that. I've tried numerous times and most of the games my friends play just wont run on Linux.

Sure, I can make it work just like you, I'm old (probably like you) and I've been running Linux on/off for years, ever since 1998. But, I mostly use Windows because of the old age + convenience factor, I simply don't have the passion or drive or even time to fiddle around with compatibility, dependency hell, and the endless arguments between Linux users brilliant ideas that never works for me because I'm probably an idiot for not doing it right.

People don't need or want that kind of stress, there's enough stress out there, just look at the world state today, high inflation, wars everywhere, people working themselves to death (literally), the last thing they want is yet another stress factor when they come home from work, fiddling under the hood is NOT one of those things when you get older...you even want to do. Sure, I know a few Old-beards that loves this stuff, but they are rather the exception than the rule.

Take my passion for example, I'm a total VR nerd. I've maxed out my computer just to play NMS (which is a horribly badly optimized space building game) that works fine on both operating systems, but as soon as you get down to native VR or any good VR, it won't work properly on Linux, it will lag beyond belief, but run 120 Fps in 4.5K wirelessly with my Quest 3 and absolutely monster setup of a wifi, and pc.

I don't even dare to switch that to Linux, because I've been there so many times before, it will be hell, and it will not work properly.

Regular people (not you and me), hah - fat chance buddy!

And post, commenter, newsreporters, workers etc.

Most will whine about this for a few months, but no one will run out on the streets protesting it, despite 90% of the world depending on it, and they know this, they know their userbase - those who use windows in the first place are locked into their ecosystem.

And you won't do a thing about it.

Sure, you're the nerds reading News for Nerds, so you might wave your angry finger at the screen doing a keyboard warrior thing, try Linux for 14 days and then tell everyone how life's now better, and become a Linux advocate for a month or two at best, then you'll come crawling back to Windows because of the games, the ecosystem you've become accustomed to, your software, your connections, your daily use (you use it as a DRM television now, remember?) and your family too.

Yes, you CAN survive Linux, I've done it for a few years too, without as much as windows in sight, but I still went back because of the ecosystem, friends have it, we all play the same games, use the same chat, VR never working properly on Linux without the same fiddling around we did with graphics cards 5+ years ago, and then gave up.

They know all of this, they know you won't do a single thing about it. You'll own nothing, and like it!

Because you won't do a thing!

Israel's business is far more profitable than having your head cut off by Hamas for the crime of usury.

So, vote with your wallets folks.

I agree completely.

My organisation has for the second time tried to negotiate a printer management deal with a huge printing company, but it failed due to money constraints, again...

And yes, it's very stressful for me to manage so many jobs, our IT team is hard pressed, we manage our own old now aging server parks and datacentre, it's crazy hard work and we're all a bit overworked. It works - but it's hard.

I work in security, but my daily work is also amongst people in a factory.

And it's kind of a hostage situation, we have perhaps 300 printers mostly HP, and we were used to use re-ink, inkservice etc. to keep costs low, because HP charges exorbant prices for toners that are done in days, we're talking desktop printers where it's eating toners like it was food.

And these can cost 400$ each, and we spend 100K's in a few months, and it's a hostage situation to be forced to buy original toners, because the factory can't afford changing all the printers, neither can the IT infrastructure with our print servers and drivers, it cost too much to change all that.

They're actually listening.

I've been harping on them for a year about this.

And since bribery is assured under the guise of "campaign contributions", that system is always going to be flawed.

Liberty is the common problem.

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Looks like you can get into this business pretty cheap. A 15x15x15 foot printer is only $39k

Until we get to the point that we no longer need a pound and a half of extra plastic strapped to our faces to see the matrix, I'm fairly certain we aren't living in it- yet.