The question isn't 'are they number 1' or 'are they number 2' but 'did they sell enough hardware and software, or otherwise benefit from having the brand, to make it worth their while?'

After all, you mention the Wii, but a lot of people who bought a Wii never bought a game past Wii Sports. Many people bought PS3s to be Blu-Ray players, just like many people bought a PS2 to be a DVD player.

I agree completely, on all counts.

Right, and with fiber, you just using something like invisilight, where you run a whisker-thin fiber along a baseboard, or up in the corner where you wall meets the ceiling, and cover it up with just an itty bitty bit of stuff.

In other words, instead of running copper from each room back to wherever your Internet demarc sits, run fiber to each room back to your Internet demarc, and use managed fiber endpoints instead of managed wifi mesh devices.

You only need to refuel your ICE car once a week or so, and the same is true for a BEV. Even though plugging in at home is less hassle than going to a gas station, it's still not something you want to have to do every day.

Why wouldn't you want to plug the car in 'every day' if you have the ability to? Going to the gas station is dead time; you're standing there pumping.

Plugging in any sort of plugin EV is not dead time; you seat the connector and...walk away. Your involvement is done until you want to drive next, and you..unplug the connector and set it into it's holder. Or lay it on the ground out of the way.

Do you also complain about plugging in your phone at night?

Being driven by both is not some kind of third option

It kind of is. My wife's PHEV's hybrid mode will use the ICE in 'eco' mode, and use the batteries if, for example, she accelerates quickly to pass on the highway, and is always using regen braking to put power back in the batteries.

On the other hand, I had a PHEV rental a while back that was either on battery or on engine, and that's that.

'5 minutes is a threshold mark' for what?

Shit, back when I drove ICE cars, it was common to spend longer than that *in line* at the gas station, let alone pumping.

EVs are not gas cars. You lose the idea of 'stopping to get gas.' That paradigm simply does not apply.

And let me tell you, from personal experience, popping out of your car, plugging in the fast charger, popping back in, and turning the cabin climate control back on is a hell of a lot nicer than standing outside in the -45 wind chill pumping gas, even if you're just sitting there in the car for twenty minutes.

The next step is usually a full EV when people figure out that range anxiety is bullshit and they spend most of their time driving their hybrid in full EV mode anyway.

My wife drives a PHEV, I drive a BEV. I have to remind her every once in a while to go burn her gas, lest it start to degrade, she goes so long driving in battery mode. And we almost invariably wind up taking my BEV on long road trips, because it's cheaper to drive, and we need a rest stop before it does, and at any half-way decent fast charger, it's done charging before we're done eating at said rest stop.

If they swap every couple of hours, that's safe, surely? 2 hours on, 2 hours off is... fine.

Debatable.

this is about giant road trips with 14 hours of driving. If you're telling me the DC charging network is capable of supporting htat across Canada in the winter, then I'm happy to hear it, but it feels like it may be some time away

Ah, yes, 'it feels.'

Try this. Go to the A Better Route Planner website. Tell it you want to go from, lets say, North Bay to Edmonton, on Jan 15th, departing at Midnight. That should be plenty 'winter' like.

I picked North Bay Airport to Edmonton Int'l Airport. I drive an Ioniq 5, so used that vehicle profile.

Here's three driving plans, all completely within Canada, all fast-charger stops; i.e. it assumes we're driving around the clock and not stopping someplace to sleep for the night and charge overnight.

Balanced between 'time per charge' and 'number of charging stops' gives us 35 hours of driving time and 8 hours of charging, spread across 19 charges. That's about a stop every two hours, on average, for your piss break and driver changeover. Charging stops range from 8 minutes for a quick top-up to get to the next charger, to an hour for the next long haul.

Optimizing for fewer (but longer) charging stops, we get a little more than 35 hours charging time, 17 stops, but 8 hours, 38 minutes of charging. This is actually a bit less efficient, because the I5 charges very quickly from lower battery levels.

Optimizing for more (but shorter) charging stops, we stay at just under 36 hours driving time, 8.5 hours charging time, and 25 stops ranging from 5 to 40 minutes.

It's faster go cut through the states, of course, rather than go north over Lake Superior, but hey, we're specifying all in Canada, right?

Oh, and just for comparison, if we were to calculate the trip from North Bay Airport to Edmonton Airport leaving right now, i.e. perfect EV conditions, a balance between stops and charge length, 37 hours, with 5.5 hours of charging across 14 chargers, so winter cost us 2.5 hours of extra charging.

But hey, let's go for fucking broke. An All-EV trip from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Prince Rupert, BC, on Jan 15th, departing at midnight. I don't want to take a ferry from St Johns.

Optimized driving path, about 2 days, 19 hours of solid driving, 16.5 hours charging across 34 charge stops, again, ranging from 10 minute top-ups to hour long charges. Middle of winter.

Recalculate it for leaving today, and we get 12 hours, 38 minutes of charging across 31 charge stops. So, yes, the cold temps cost us an extra four hours of charging, total, across a ~6400 km drive.

An EV can't deal with that situation yet, especially in a Canadian winter with chargers being few and far between.

I've been driving EVs in Northern Ontario for years, and somehow still manage to get around, even in the coldest of winters.

And like I said, "can and should take a break." These people are practicing an unsafe driving routine.

I'd be curious to know about your usage patterns, because in this day and age, an EV can drive further than the human driving it should go without a break, and will charge faster than that human can take that break.

How will it impact them, though? They can simply choose to....not upgrade to the new OS that drops the support they need.

Don't put the machine on the Internet and carry on with your life.

Amazing what happens when you make sure you have enough supply ready to satisfy demand.

No, that's a bad idea. A menu bar at the top of the screen is a much bigger target to hit, and easy to find by muscle memory. The file menu is always in the same place, regardless of what app you're using, and the buttons extend infinitely up above the screen. By contrast, a menu bar tied to the window moves around whenever the window moves, so you always have to visually find it again, and target size is just the size of the button and ends at the top of the window.

525 cpm, 105 wpm.

I learned to type back in the day playing Sierra On-Line games, and through the Almeida method. Quiet Aunt Zelda. Willy Sits Exams. Every Dad Cares. Run From Vicky To Get Betty. Young Harry Never Uses Joe's Money. Oh Lloyd Stop. Please.

Thirty some odd years later and I still remember the little mnemonics from a single viewing of the Almeida video.