why spend resources on this? just grab one or two well established desktop distros, and ensure your packages work as good as possible. leave the distro itself up to the distro teams.

for good or worse, this means ubuntu. i have used arch before and i really like it, but it's not meant to be for the average user (if there's such a thing with linux)

i can't disable IPv6 on the google tv (huge android limitation). and i don't want to disable it on the router for every device, which means that the home screen can still easily get ads. switched to a different launcher and at least that's done. of course, can't get rid of freetime / prime / hulu ads

NYT's complaint is valid.

That NYT is willing to set the precedent that OpenAI chat logs can be subpoenad is incredibly dangerous. People have all kinds of private conversations with ChatGPT, and this will hurt all of us so that NYT can strike out at LLMs. The trade is not worth it. OpenAI is 100% correct to protect chat data.

I drive an Ioniq 5, and my wife drives a PHEV. She got a PHEV so that we could do the old 'well, for long road trips where we don't want to bother charging.....'

We never take it on long road trips, because fast charging is a solved issue.

We're already there. The average city commuter can easily just do a single fast charge once a week, and unlike a gas car, you can just find a charger that's near something else you'd be doing anyway, like at a grocery store, mall, or down town, and your total 'charging time,' defined as 'the amount of time you, personally, have to devote to the process once you roll up to the dispenser' is 'thirty seconds to plug the car in and tap your payment card' and 'thirty seconds to unplug the car and close the charging port.'

The twenty minutes the *car* spends charging is not time *you* are spending charging. You're doing something else while the car charges. Pumping gas might 'only' take five minutes instead of twenty, but that's five minutes that *you* personally are spending.

The problem is that Linux isn't 'superior.' Does it do some things better? Sure. Maybe a lot of things.

The vast majority of computer users simply *don't care.* Nor do they need to.

Windows works well enough, it does anything almost anybody wants 'a computer' to do, and you don't need to put too much thought into it.

When I was a kid in the 80s, our halloween costumes were sized to fit snow suits under them.

A few decades later, we had a green Christmas, and it was so odd that we made a Caribbean theme to go with it.

Nowadays, it's even money if we'll have snow on the ground at Christmas any given year, and it was 30c on Halloween.

Same reason as anything else that has cheating; there's a tangible value to somebody to winning, so they want to win.

No organization should expect to be free from 'disruptions.'

Instead, they must have plans and processes in place to operate through 'disruptions.'

That's what battery preconditioning is for. Heats up the batteries on the way to the charger. Makes a big difference.

Do you also starve on vacation because you don't want to 'mess around' with finding a restaurant?

It's so little effort that it's not even worth mentioning, especially compared to all the other planning that goes into a vacation.

About as long as it takes without the car heater running; absolute worst case scenario, the heater is drawing 4 kw; even at 50kw bottom-end L3 charging speeds, that's less than 10% of the power being diverted.

Trust, but verify, my good man.

Gas pumps auto shut off.

Not all gas pumps have this, or are allowed to have this, in all places.

It's also contraindicated to have your car running while pumping gas into it.

Or it means you find a 'cheap' motel with a public charger near by, or charge during rest breaks, or whatever.