Even that 2 seater is only going to get a few miles of added range after many hours of sitting in the sun so it's just not worth the effort.
They had to curve the panels to the body shape, wire them in and get that wired into the battery to put charge into it. The weight alone probably negates the added range.

They really need to get off the gimmick train and start showing how they produce those in quantity and at a profit. And to heck with the 400 mile range goal, get something together with 300+ miles of range and get it on the road in numbers. It's already a pretty small battery so it should charge rather quickly.

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If after 93, you couldn't see where the world was headed, you weren't paying attention.

I was 20 in 93, my first ISP was PSI-Net and prior to that it was Fidonet strung together by BBS's. People were already sharing news articles via Fidonet mirrors of NNTP servers. Granted, there was no URL share button, and they were retyping stuff word for word, but they did it. By 93 however people were starting to take scans and images as well.

Fast forward to 1995, when a lot of my friends were graduating SJSU. A few of my closest friends got degrees in print. It was interesting watching and comparing our career trajectories. When I was a young man, my family and their families were so proud of them. "Oh so and so does LAYOUT for the Mercury NEWS!" "So and so does PHOTOGRAPHY for Wave Magazine!" When attention turned to me it was, "MIS? What is that?" While I struggled at first to get my footing in MIS, they were hired right away by local newspapers or magazines, but slowly their careers petered out, and mine is still raging.

I now work for one of the largest IT departments in the world, making great money. A few of them stopped trying to find jobs in journalism, one went to work for the local equivalent of a Kinkos.

Ironically their parents carry computers in their pockets.

If you're young, like I was, and you don't want to become obsolete, don't look at jobs and say, "Oh I like the idea of this, that is what I want to do!" No.. Look at what is being used as building blocks in the world. You want to work with the building blocks, not what comes after the construction. Right now? It looks like AI is huge. GPU design is HUGE. Quantum is going to be the next building block after. Get into quantum.

When C++ and OOP were starting to go strong I met a guy showing a desktop environment for Linux called Gnome. When I asked about what was great about it he said it was like object-like. Now I'd run UNIX, DOS, Windows, Solaris, HPUX and OS/2 and CORBA was starting to spread its wings too so I didn't get why someone on a *nix platform wouldn't be doing full blown OOP. So I quizzed him more and he went off on how much like Microsoft's COM, and possibly DCOM it was. He clearly held Microsoft up on a pedestal. I don't recall if I'd said anything in return but I walked away thinking why on earth would this guy be copying stuff Microsoft was doing when more often than not it was inferior to what corporate America was working on and always has been a reaction to far superior technologies.

That guy was Miguel de Icaza and the rest is well documented. I wouldn't touch .Nyet with a 20' pole on purpose and the couple of times I did have to touch it, it broke. So many resources wasted.

Wine should not have taken on the project. And from the other comments, the one dev on the project is over his/her head.

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The hugh ivanpah concentrated solar generation plant is being shut down because solar PV and batteries can do better faster cheaper. People are buying solar and batteries for their homes and not using anything from the grid. People are charging EVs from solar and EVs are well over 80% efficient compared to gasoline based cars, trucks and SUVs at around 20% efficient.

The writing's on the wall and investors want their profits now while they can and have some time to sell before the floor falls out. There's less than 10 years in the oil stocks.

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Nothing more to see here folks, move along

If you want to hack on something and let the customers/users see if it works ok or not then go work for Microsoft.
Linux is where it is today by a steady keel making small adjustments along the way. And when the likes of Microsoft and others get involved those holding the keel on course need to beat off the Microsoft, and other devs, with a large orr so not to pollute and destroy what's put Linux where it is today.

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He's always played up how smart he thought he was like his book attempting to forecast the future called something like "The Road Ahead".
So many times others were the great innovators and Bill and Steve spent millions and millions to crush those because they COULD threaten the Windows monopoly.
Sad that so many have no clue how he made his wealth and the many many lives of incredible innovators they destroyed or at the very least quieted to fringe areas of the technology segment.

I think he's feeling neglected as Musk and others are showing what intelligence and innovative minds can do and even with his billions he's on the back pages if at all being mentioned. He will sell books and people will continue to believe his stories and maybe some will be compelled to create something truly amazing and there won't be a Microsoft around to crush their dreams and efforts but instead they will get rewarded.

It is quite enjoyable being able to do so much on Linux based computing devices of all sizes and not have to touch Microsoft Windows.
After all, AI can now write code which doesn't need to run on Windows if you ask it to.

Remembering what the late great Douglas Adams once wrote:
"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place."
---Douglas Adams

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He's a GOD in his own mind.

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Linux is the easy answer but there is only one thing to run on them and that's a Beowulf cluster.
So if by "main" you mean master then yes. I thought everyone ran Beowulf clusters. LOL

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nah, this is just a one in a million fluke and therefore it'll be perfectly fine to switch the US government to crypto.
What could possibly go wrong when people like Trump and Musk are behind the curtain?

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That is so funny since not only has Trump won the hearts and minds of those on the Republican side he did so again using hate speeches and doing little more than saying over and over that Americans are in a bad place and it's all because of Biden and Harris. As for Elon Musk, his track record for creating productive working environments is legonday. He took a $44 billion dollar company and gutted it of most all its employees, then required those remaining to sleep at the office. After over and over posting lies and misinformation most of the advertisers left the site resulting in a valuation now of around $9 billion. And to top it off, it's a cesspool of GOP lies about stolen elections, blaming Harris for much of what the Biden administration hasn't done like raise oil/fuel prices, raise food prices, etc.

So ya, what could possibly go wrong this time with Trump and Elon working together again. Oh and American's just loved the Chinese tariff war of his first administration. Wasn't the cause of a $3 billion US farming industry bailout?

America failed last night's IQ test.

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And while they are at it lets throw in a performancing eating display system which might have a security benefit but otherwise works worst than X.

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Yes but now they are defaulting to a windowing system which is slower and doesn't have the same capabilities so it requires more performance to run. That is not something you want on a CNC machine. I understand the post was in response to 'why would a user want a GUI on an rPi" but the reasons I'm seeing are also reasons why Wayland, nor a reduced featured Wayland, should not be defaulted on rPiOS.

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But X is so inefficient and Wayland's design is so much better because it's new how can it possibly be slower than X?
What a joke Wayland is if only because it's being pushed by someone/someorg with an agenda which doesn't sold water but distro's are believing the scam.
I remember way back when IDEs were multi-windows with separate debugger windows from the code/source window, separate step and program control window and on multi-display systems it was great and even on a single display system which had multiple desktops it worked great. Windows didn't have multiple desktops and somebody at Microsoft decided a single app window container was better and the rest of the IDE developers followed them. It still sucks and I get that feeling with Wayland. Bad move, being new doesn't make it better and if it's slower it absolutely can't be better for users.

After all, who would benefit from Linux being slower and less useful?

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IIRC the NTSB was not requiring the grounding of the 737Max in the US while across the world others were grounding it. Boeing was still toting the line that the two crashes were pilot error and a training problem. NOT the fact that their control system was based on a single sensor and they'd greatly increased the elevator response from just the trim tabs to the actual elevator.

And all this was because they Max had much larger engines which would have been too close to the ground mounted the same as the 737 so they moved them inward on the the wings which sifted the CG(center of gravity/balance) of the plane forward making it nose heavy and requiring MCAS changes. Hack after hack after hack. Did we ever find out who was responsible for these design changes such that they were pushed through and created a very unstable aircraft?

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