Then don't prematurely decommission them because of a bunch of loud activists insisting you do so.

Solar and wind are not necessarily 'green' either. They both have environmental impacts. We just have to decide which impacts are acceptable and which are not. But we should not be going in to it thinking they're completely without downsides.

Because the typical consumer is going to change firmware?

I'm no the typical consumer, but the last time I tried both openwrt and tomato, they were unstable and buggy as hell.

If the federal government is far too big and ignores the will of the voters, then it needs to be destroyed and rebuilt. It needs to reflect the agenda the voters voted for, not be the 'resistance'. No one elected federal workers to resist the elected President.

Trump is doing that purge. The bureaucracy was becoming self sufficient and not beholden to the one elected person in the executive branch. It was becoming a self serving government and not democratic. We saw that in Trump's first term where the bureaucrats were being the 'resistance' and not following the President's agenda. If you really want to 'protect democracy' as Democrats keep ranting about, then you'd be all for having a federal government that actually does what the elected President tells them to do (within legal constraints). If you're all for an unelected bureaucracy that just keeps doing it's thing regardless of who the voters put in office, then you're not for protecting democracy.

This also comes down to differing ideology. Conservatives want small government. The government does the necessities, but always serves the people. Progressives are all about big government. A Progressive government is a large bureaucracy of 'experts' that make every decision and tell the populace how to live. Elected officials are nothing more than figureheads as it's the unlected 'experts' that are given control and make the decisions. It becomes a government where the people serve the government.

The past 80+ years, every Democrat administration has grown the bureaucracy and ceded more power to it. That bureaucracy has, for the most part, had a Progressive agenda. The status quo for when Republicans have been President has been to stall the bureaucracy's growth, but there's been little impact on taking power away from it. That's why there was such a fit when Trump and DOGE started shrinking the bureaucracy. A Republican finally started to try to dismantle the self serving ideological system. Trump was working to give power back to the people and allow the elected President to actually control policy without subterfuge within.

Having worked at a large software company that provided software to many government and defense agencies around the world, we often would have code reviews with those entities. We did one in a conference room with no networking. After a couple weeks of them reviewing the code, we ran a build of it in that room and they took the binaries produced from the code they reviewed. Government agencies do get source access and the ability to review it from proprietary developers. It's part of the contract when you sell to them.

Security risk discussion of TP-Link devices has been going on for over a year. This predates the current Administration.

And how many lives has it improved and extended. Everything has trade offs.

I have no problems moving on to something better. But it's not going to happen overnight. The doomsayers that want nothing less than the complete destruction of the petro industry tomorrow will keep spreading their fear. Life and civilization will continue despite us burning stuff to keep modern quality of life moving along.

You could just call him the elected President who is attempting to put forth the policies he promised the voters. Or you could keep drinking the misinformation kool-aid that's been spread in your political bubble. it's sort of ironic that this story on misinformation has people indoctrinated in it insisting what they've been told over and over again is actually the truth.

The things the Biden Administration did were far more authoritarian than anything Trump has done. But he kept pointing and saying 'they're the fascists' to blind people from his own Administration's actions. You're falling for the misdirection. Don't look at what we're doing, those other people are actually the bad guys all the while doing all the things that they're accusing their opposition of. Just look how gleeful the leftists in this discussion are of instituting state controlled censorship (sorry, 'misinformation control') all the while screaming about protecting democracy and how everyone they disagree with are fascists. That is what fascists do. They silence their critiques and demonize them all to solidify their own power. Free speech is the pillar of democracy. It is the foremost human right.

It's more of the UK trying to implement political censorship at a global level. The EU has similar ambitions. The Biden Administration was trying it in the US as well. While you very well don't agree with the content on these sites, they are actually fighting for your rights as well as their own in this matter.

It has nothing at all to do with racism. It's all economic.

It's just that Progressives have to attach 'racist' to everything they deem needs to go away as yet another reason to get rid of it. It's getting tiring and voters are starting to reject race being brought in to every argument.

The EV credit was nuked because the government should not be picking winners with subsidies. It was also highly abused through the lease loophole giving many foreign cars with 0% US production the full credit while US produced vehicles with foreign sourced batteries were not getting it through a standard sale.

I have no problems with EVs. I currently only own EVs and no ICE vehicles. But they need to stand on their own in an open market. Good products will sell themselves.

They're cheap because China is heavily subsidizing them. Their goal is to take over the market and destruct domestic production of everything next gen in other countries. Sometimes you need to put national security ahead of cheap consumer prices.

The reason for pushing large SUVs was because of unrealistic emissions standards. It's cause and effect. When you pull numbers out of your rear and say all cars need to get that mileage, people move to the vehicles that are exempt from the stupidity. If the efficiency numbers had actually been practical, the move to large SUVs likely would not have been so prevalent. Safety standards also played a role. Try fitting a rear facing infant or toddler seat in a compact car with tall adults in the front seats. Now people are accustomed to having lots of room and a high vantage point.

I own 3 EVs, so I'm not against them. You rarely get 300 miles. On road trips, charging curves make charging much past 80% a waste of time. Your 300 mile car is now a 240 mile car. Because of the distance between chargers, don't risk going below 10% charge. Your 300 mile car is now a 210 mile car. Want to drive over 60 mph, lose a bunch more mileage. Driving a constant speed, that 300 miles is based on using regenerative braking. You're not getting that on the highway. Your 300 mile car is now getting 120-150 miles rather than the 400-500 a gas car is getting (with gas cars being more efficient at steady speed vs. stop and go). You're stopping to charge 2-3x as often as you would have stopped for gas and spending 2-4x as long charging as you'd be filling gas tank.

I love me EV for regular day to day driving. Plug in at home a couple nights a week and all is well. At least for those of us that can charge at home (or work). Want to travel anywhere, then the problems start.