In California EV's are being pushed. DewDudes comment above is right on the money, but it's likely marked troll due to the inflammatory language being used. For those that don't know, California's energy is served by a single public utility, PG&E. PG&E has been doing a fairly bad job of maintenance and upgrades of their existing infrastructure. I think this first came to light decades ago when there was a natural gas explosion that leveled an entire cul-de-sac in San Bruno, and more recently Paradise Ca, an entire small town was levelled from a fire that could have been prevented had PG&E maintained their lines. That's really just the first issue, which happens to be a root issue.

Next up we have a lack of nuclear options. California is probably the most nimby state in the union, and was always very vocal against nuclear power. There was a time Berkeley proudly put out street signs, "A Nuclear free city" I think Palo Alto might have done the same in the 70's and 80's. Even with Nuclear, we're still decades behind in transmission lines (see first point above) We likely have the most amount of wind and solar of any other state, but these are not "set it and forget it" Solar panels have an efficiency lifespan of about 25 years, and wind turbines fare even worse with blades wearing out every 20 years. Anyone familiar with the manufacture and disposal of either of these "Green" options knows they're both chock full of nasty chemistry that can leech into and poison groundwater.

The third issue we have though is the efficiency of batteries. Our best batteries are 27x less energy dense than diesel. Granted with a diesel engine there is some thermal loss of energy along with having to carry along the weight of the engine, but batteries are pretty heavy and have some energy lost as heat too. If you take all the CO2 each vehicle generates from the time the metal is dug out of the ground, until its end of life, EV's are almost as equivalently damaging to the environment as ICE engine based vehicles. While the majority of an ICE engine can be re-smelted and recycled, processes for lithium/cobalt reclamation aren't yet at a stage where they're as efficient. It's not an easy process anyone can spin up, as it requires a lot of caustic chemistry for extraction. The batteries themselves have a short shelf life, while ICE engines with proper care can run for decades.

California has always lead the charge in emissions standards, but our current leadership is the result of cronyism, and nepotism. These are not the bright, intelligent leaders we had 50-60 years ago who could come up with realistic goals the entire country could emulate. Before you respond with "But!" just take a look at how badly managed everything is now. Our roads, our cities, our High Speed Rail, the homeless. We're the last state to be setting an example right now.

Other GenX's are welcome to chime in here, but seeing this sort of dredges up a whole other era. Activision has come a looong way from its roots with David Crane, and I still remember being barely tall enough to see over the counter, watching a bunch of kids crowded around an atari 2600 playing PitFall! From a time when games and computers were REALLY considered to be the domain of guys with black rimmed glasses, pocket protectors and slide rules to an everyman form of media, as the Dead say; what a long strange trip it's been.

John Legere was a good guy. For a tech CEO he was extremely approachable. I wanted to buy 2 new phones for my kids (their old ones were pretty beat up) The T-Mobile store I went to kept wanting to charge me a $25 "Sim Fee" to transfer the sim from the old phone to the new. I keep a sim popping tool on my keychain, and kept arguing with them I'm not letting them charge me $25 for something I could do myself. They would not relent, and I ended up getting new phones at best buy.

John keeps a pretty solid presence on facebook. When I told him what had happened he responded with, "This is not how we do business, I am so sorry" A week later I noticed the store was shuttered. A month later the store was reopened with new employees. John seemed to actually care that customers were treated fairly by his company. I don't even know who's running TMO now.

LOL looking through the thread there's quite a bit of extremely naive. So like a lot of people we got prime for the shipping, video was just kind of a bonus. Wife and kids all have our RADARR and SONARR servers bookmarked on their phones. I'd say... 90% of the time when we're browsing AppleTV or Prime and we see something for rent, or with ads we just pop over to our RADARR or SONARR server and grab the same content, ad free, cost almost free (I do pay for a easynews and a nzb indexer) but hell, the price of that stuff is fairly static. If we can wait 15 minutes, it'll be up on our plex server.

I'll continue paying for prime because we buy hella shit from Amazon, and I have no doubt we'd get raked over the coals on shipping. I also have an amazon prime card, which is like 5% back on all amazon and whole foods purchases.

I have been using GCP/BQ heavily for 7+ years now and we're GCP native at my current company for nearly 5 years.

Google's penchant for deprecating products is a constant worry for me, particularly our insane reliance on BQ. While BQ StandardSQL is close enough, lifting and shifting to something like AWS or Azure's cloud warehouse tooling would definitely be a headache.

That said, with their deep integration w/GA4 reporting and continued development of BQ, I am guessing they make enough money (particularly after their 25% price increase for on-demand) that it'll stay around for another few years.

Fingers crossed because, honestly, I don't want to have to deal with management of our warehouse and BQ makes it easy for us not to worry about that at all.

It actually seems more like a clone of Cube World, with RPG elements, and voxel building added. Biggest difference between this and Cube World is, Cube World has no building elements. Biggest difference between this and Minecraft is, Mobs and players aren't made of voxels, and Minecraft has no RPG elements. Might give this a try tonight.

Yes I subscribed, mostly for the Star Wars stuff, and a few Disney classics. Unfortunately though as many others have said, it's starting to feel like it's not worth it.

About 2 months ago I finished building out my Truenas server, loaded Plex, SabNZD, RADARR, and SONARR on it. Got a NZBGeek and a Newshosting subscription. With the smattering of hard drive I had laying around, I managed to eek out a measely 4.3tb. While not a ton of storage, I figure it's good enough for mostly 1080p content.

It seems like with the last decade of streaming, a lot of these studios forgot the whole reason they needed to stream cheaply in the first place was to curtail piracy. Now that they're all getting greedy, it'll just take some entrepreneuring engineer to make what I put together something easy for people to use to remind them.

These things could have been popular had there not been any vendor lock in. If Ray ban had made something like a Go-Pro in glasses format, they would have had a winner. Instead they just made yet another way for facebook to collect data.

They could be situated an hour away from the city center with daily bus transportation to and from the city.

But then the homeless industrial complex workers would have to commute an hour! God forbid!

This is nice but, I think I'd rather spin up a VM on my local network to serve out these updates.

Willow was THE WORST.

It followed the usual 90's sitcom trope of "The adults are out of touch, the kids are with it and know what's up" In addition to that, it strayed way too far off the path of fantasy adventure, everything from contemporary music in the show to shoehorning in issues not relevant to the story or the original universe. There was so much that just serves as filler, and not even good filler at that. I had to stop watching as well.

It wasn't *just* the story and filler. The acting was atrocious. Granted there was some decent acting to be found, Joanne Whalley reprising her role as a mature, grown Sorsha was nice, but most of the other Cameo's were kind of sad like the Brownie Rool. Instead of the wild creature he was he's now living in what looks like a standard suburban home. This goes back to the 90's trope I mention in the first sentence. It's horrible. I want to see my Rool flying through the air, landing in a beer, drinking love potion and falling in love with a cat like he did in the movie.

It was just so bad, and I never pirated it. I still have a D+ subscription.

IT'S NEW! IT'S AWESOME! IT'S RSS EVOLVED!

Aaaaaaand it's dead. Sites really don't do the syndication thing anymore, last I checked I REALLY had to dig hard.