What you describe is being done in remote corners of random places to serve as electric charge stations. Apply same thing to a place that is all about cars and people traveling.

And I was referencing real gas stations. 8 would be the smallest I have seen in the last 20 years, and I am primarily suggesting the bigger that are fed customers by freeway/highway, places that can refuel 12+ cars. I think I've seen plenty of flyin-j and the like that do 30+

but my point is having random charging stations places in the most inconvenient places with no bathrooms(or any amenities).

We had family visit us renting an electric car electric car as they thought they would save money. Well the 2 day trip turned to 5 day, and we did the math on their cost of electric to my vans cost of gas doing the same trip a month earlier and it was close. Not add in the extra hotel and the fact they still had to stop at gas stations.

They also did some extra driving as some charging stations they drove past because of how sketchy it was or it was closed or some such.

I work for a university now, and they mandated copilot, sometimes I's suprising helpfull, but more often it is inacturate. I even tried using a low ball of tell me all the remote systems, databases, ldap, AD and even local config files from from a medium size perl file and it was so grossly wrong missing things like $remote_ldap_host and creating it's own config files and such. I can't even have it check itself.

Did this with chatgtp free, and it wasn't much better.

Sometimes its great but its unreliable

I didn't mind the charge time per say, but rather the charge station and location the most. Also the fact it required #1 a phone, #2 an app, #3 an account. Sorry not, you require a phone my most polite response will be F.U.

If I can drive up, insert card, and be gone in about 30ish min along with the normal amenities including safety of a main stream gas station.

Some of the places we went to/through had me wondering if we would get mugged. Or if the app had incorrect info (and in some cases it was outdated).

Also I learned overnight trickle charge was just that, not enough to matter.(granted overnight temps did get to low 50's and he said he didn't turn on warmers or such, but still... 6-8hrs of trickle should count for something)

Again, doing the math, I did not make financial sense to pick EV over ICE and that didn't include trips of over 1.5hr away at 70+ mph. I still hear people say rent a car for those rare times you need an ICE, tells me those are people who live like ant colonies, yuck.

ever other weekend during summer, and at highway speeds be lucky to get 230. I wanted an EV until I did a couple of trips in my friends, and his "free" gas. Now I, and another friend, don't want one. (think my next will be a plug in hybrid or a prius...)

btw, highway speeds are 75-85. If you think highway is 55-65 then its you who needs to learn about the rest of the country.

You are forgetting something to, the less of something that sells, the higher percentage needed for profit. The fixed costs still need to be paid regardless of how much sells. So it's just not greed.

But honestly the best thing a gas station could do is have EV charging stations and I am amazed I don't see that.

PS my experience with EV has made me not want an EV. a day trip turning into over night and still having to stop to charge in a remote parking lot of Ross w/ no grantee of bathroom or other amenities. I started the trip coveting his car. Oh and I did the math, an EV that cost 8k more than ICE wont save you money.(Avg time someone owns a car is 8 years)

Give linux a shot, it's surprising how many games work via steam or wine(once you remove the distro wine/mesa and install newer release)

I prefer Mint/mate or xfce for desktop.

I to was looking at UTOPIA, but since that never materialized I am now google fiber. CenturyLink screwed me w/ their forever price lock guarantee that lasted a year to which they claimed they never had it(despite the fact I still had their flyer) Also their service in my area maxed out at 12mbs...

Comcast, I want to see them and AT&T burn to the ground along with all the executives. Such thieves and piece of sh*ts. Comcast takes billions and billions of money from the government per year and pockets it, and yes, as you pointed out, prevents competitors like UTOPIA

grrrr now I am all ranty

Looks like they stop it it, and had MS delete data. Although MS claims it takes up to 90 days to delete data.

Care to explain to someone who has played mmorpg but not familiar w/ wow?

bah, if they had done this as a response to Microsoft sabotage and EOL win7 that would have ment something, instead they did the opposite and helped kill win7.

They didn't have to take away steam access on win7, but they did.

she was hated in cali by most everyone because she was bad at her job and got caught sleeping her way up the chain.

She got roasted so bad when running for the Dem ticket on facts and her record.

The stock market is going down because the rich and large funds are selling lots and lots. The price of stock is not directly effected by how the company is doing, but by is more people selling or buying.

Again when stocks gown a lot, its because rich people or fun managers, etc, are selling massive amounts.

That's also why the PE is so bonkers and gets "recalibrated" ever so often, people keep investing into 401ks, the price keeps going up. Biden gives out free money, supply is down, people put in market, rich people get richer.

I and others can sometimes see the difference when comparing 1080 to 720, but not when watching.

again, this is my 50-52inch 4k TV (also my 48 inch 1080 tv) distances from 5-12 feet for most people.

Me and my family cant tell the difference when actually watching a movie on a 50inch tv between 720, 1090, 4k. I'm not talking comparison where people are not watching the movie but looking for differences.

Cartoon, animated anime stuff I can almost get away with 480 without people noticing.

yes, and many of us rarely post anymore... sad. I also rarely moderate, so many discussions so shallow with number of posts or depth