Honestly, that seem like the least important part of the egg. Couldn't you just throw all the other stuff in a cardbox box? I understand that the shell needs to "breathe", but still...

There's very little difference between and Xbox and a Windows PC these days. They are both running Windows. The Xbox just has an UI better suited to controllers. That's actually not a bad strategy, because it make it easier to write games that work on both.

What I want is to be able to control my home automation without the commands going round trip to a server in the cloud and back, so that everything still works if the 'net goes out. Will this box help me get to that goal? I understand a lot of programming may be required.

Ionic 6 is nice, but they are still $30k used, and they support limited V2L, not V2H. Great for camping, so no great for backing up your whole house. That being said, the only things that need to run 24/7 at my house are the fridge, they well pump, and a few light bulbs. My internet comes from the electric company, so I expect my internet will be out any time the power is out. I have a wood-burning fireplace if I need help, and being on a windy coast, openning the windows usually provides adequate cooling.

Can the jury at least decide which one of them has a more punchable face? I know that's a pretty tough question...

"Dark matter" always seemed like it would be indistinguishable from swarms of primordial black holes to me, but then, I'm not a physicist or a cosmologist.

Unregulated capitalism is harmful. That being said, there are much more important things the antitrust regulators should be looking at besides the "We'd now like to monetize the service we originally gave away for free" that is part of many web services' business model, e.g. Blue Sky. Media consolidation has gone too far and become too corrupt.

Ever since they abandoned their "Don't be evil" motto, this blatant capitalism for inevitable.

If he's so smart... why can't he win a simple lawsuit? Too much ketamine?

My friends that took an extra year to get a Master's from Stanford weren't getting paid any more than I was with my Bachelors... and the lost a year of work and tens of thousands in tuition (Stanford is the hardest school to get admitted to, but not that hard to graduate from once you're in.) My brother-in-law just completed his Master's in Data Science, only to realize that he now needs to get a Doctorate in AI because AI has already rendered his Data Science skills worthless.

They just discovered a massive amount of lithium under the Appalachian mountains. Now instead of strip mining them for coal, they can strip mind them for lithium! Yee-haw!

Because I want a generator to power my house during it's frequent power failures. It's situated on a windy section of the Oregon coast. So a hybrid that does V2H is more valuable to me than pure battery EV. That being said, a junk Cybertruck (is there any other kind?) would probably power my house for several days.

Because it sounds like the second I take my cell phone into my car, it become a "connected vehicle", i.e. it can access the internet. So they are banning any vehicle that support Apple Car Play or Android Auto??? Might as well just ban ALL vehlicles!

Apple makes it impossible to back up your device to anywhere other than icloud, although I suspect you could then copy the backup to and from your privately-owned storage.

One word: attachments. A few attached videos puts you over that 15 GB limit. But that just means you need to delete the largest emails frequently.