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Comment Re:Netcraft Confirms (Score 1) 88

It took me under 3 minutes to get my Canon 702 working perfectly on Arch, while the wife's MacBook took 10x more and was a pain in the ass.

This is particularly noteworthy given that CUPS was developed by Apple. But it's still not surprising how a big company can screw things up compared to "hobby" projects.

Printing is a good example how Linux works well with standards. Traditionally, if the printer understood Postscript, you wouldn't need much of a printer driver. Meanwhile, Windows users were instructed to download a very specific driver for that printer model, even if it would just pass PS through.

Comment Re:Criminal activity in the crapto space. Who care (Score 1) 46

Their value has already peaked. Get out now while they still have some value.

Slashdot introduced me to bitcoin in 2010 and, as a result, I turned a few hundred dollars into a few hundred thousands.

Umm.. Unlikely. $100 worth of bitcoin in 2010 (0.39) would be worth over $15M today. It would have been over $30M last October. Your claim of "a few hundred" multiplies that by some unknown amount. If you actually had $90M in bitcoin last year you wouldn't be bragging about it here.

It looks like the GP did exactly as you suggested: he got out early while he was sure the coin still had some value. Maybe he needed the money for something at the time — something he values more than money. I personally sold a considerable amount of bitcoin in the mid 2010s to buy my own apartment. I know I could have made more money by holding it, but that would have meant renting someone else's apartment, which means higher running costs and less control over my life. So I remain quite happy with this decision, even if I'm not filthy rich.

Comment Re:Well yeah (Score 1) 143

In the US, you can get about 1kw/hr on a standard plug w/o burning the breaker too hard. I've had EVs since 2011 and they've all been about 3-4miles/kw.

In Europe, we use kW for power and kWh for energy, so we count things like km per kWh.

Seriously, though, it looks like your standard outlets are fused for 10 A current, which is what we use here too. But we use double the voltage, thus doubling the power to about 2.3 kW.

Comment Re:Well yeah (Score 4, Insightful) 143

No one is actually pulling out. The U.S. has made it harder for foreign companies to import them. But there are still domestic manufacturers of EVs, like Tesla, Ford and Stellantis. This is something very else: For the last decade, one big argument against EVs was "bad resale value", because EVs were seen as a novelty, and fear for dead batteries, fueled by the problems with first gen Nissan Leafs, made buyers wary of used EVs. Additionally, there were not many used EVs on the market to begin with, fleet operators did not have many young EVs to sell, and prices did not really average out yet.

Now, demand for EVs is rising due to high fuel prices, and a good public charging network making EVs a viable alternative for many people. And also people looking for bargains are hitting the market, and with used batteries not being the problem they were thought to be, used EVs have its own value proposition. We have here the normal effect of demand rising more than the available supply.

Comment Cape Coral, lol (Score 1) 39

Cape Coral!
This is a city smart enough to water their street medians on a hot, summer day.
This is a city where you could literally die in your sleep as your house falls into a sinkhole.
This city (Lee County) and Las Vegas were grounds zero for the 2008 financial crisis.
This is the state where healthy young people subsidized the legalized opiod crisis.

In 2007 you could just walk up to a newly built home, kick in the door, and take the appliances because no one was there to stop you or live in that house. There are still entire blocks with only a few new houses on them.

It's *barely* above sea level today, and I'll be surprised if you can walk on it 20 years from now.

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