Hang on - are you saying you are pro-theft because it's wealth redistribution?

What the fuck?

Do you have some magical roof where you don't need to go up and inspect / maintain things like attic vents and plumbing vents? Those have sealants that shrink, weather, and crack over time too.

What's the difference if there are a few mounting rack feet that need inspection and sealing at the same time?

None of your arguments make any sense.

It's his Jobsian flair. The black mock turtleneck would be copying.

I'm sure those loans are collateralized or guaranteed in one way or another. When the bubble pops, they'll probably end up owning most of what's left.

Nvidia sure as hell has. They don't give a damn who wins the "AI race" because all the participants are their customers.

You are correct - it's shit as a tablet.

The one place it's awesome: in an airplane. I can turn my laptop into a 14" media player with a 4k screen, adjustable-angle stand built in, with touch controls, and a thunderbolt connection for attaching a big fat SSD full of media.

Other than that, it's shit.

So you can touch the reply button, and then what do you do?

You have to move your hands back to the keyboard, right next to the pointing device you could have been using.

I'd rather move my index finger two inches from the touchpad to the home row, than 6+ inches to the middle of my screen, with my wrist at a stupid angle, and smearing fingerprints all over the screen, but you do you.

It's still stupid. And I'm typing this on a touchscreen notebook, running Linux.

I literally never use the touchscreen unless I have the keyboard folded all the way over, so it's a 14" media player. It's ergonomically terrible.

The irony is that if you are installing any kind of generation in your home with the expectation of net metering, they have to come out and install a new bi-directional meter anyway.

I guess we can file this under "why the fuck didn't they do that in the bidirectional meter, since every bidirectional meter will also need a cut-off to not back-feed the grid in an outage." And the answer probably comes down to "it was an extra $20 per meter that they could not pay, and the customer could pay $1000+ instead"

That 22RE motor was god damn bulletproof though. There are still people out there searching for a 1985 Toyota truck / 4runner because it was the sweet spot of being the first year with the electronic fuel injection motor, and the last year of the solid front axle. Any year newer than that, and you have to do an axle swap if you don't want the independent front suspension, and anything older has a carburetor and all the maintenance and drawbacks that implies.

I did what now? Why don't you have a look at the author of the posts again and think about who your are replying to.

Thanks for proving my point.

And for those use cases, a simple cargo carrier that plugs into the trailer hitch gives you the load rating and space you need, without compromising the vehicle's utility the other 99.99% of the time for less than $200.

When Elon is spending half a billion dollars to try to re-elect incumbent politicians, how is he not "establishment" ?

Please make that make sense.

Fair enough. I've never looked that hard at it, despite having two EVs in the garage because my house has a split "main panel" and the EV chargers are not on the same panel as the kitchen / upper floor.

It's why I haven't looked into a battery system in general - doubling the expense to not choose between a functional kitchen or running the central HVAC didn't have the ROI, considering we have only had one power outage that went past "I'll put on a hoodie, get my wife a blanket, set up some flashlights as 'lanterns' and we'll play a board game until we go to bed." Installing a natgas generator was even more expensive so that was quickly eliminated as well.

Turns out we're fine with using our cars as really fucking big power banks for phones, and getting by with the camp stove.

I'm not worried about a 20 hour power outage, and if you're already bouncing off the walls after 2 hours you have a "you" problem. If you're being honest, you're probably sleeping for a good chunk of that 20 hours and if you have insulation that isn't woefully pathetic and it isn't -40 outside, a few blankets and a camp stove used outdoors gets you by. And if you regularly get -40 weather in the winter, you probably already have a generator or some other means of heating that doesn't require many kW of electricity.

Don't open the fridge door, and you aren't going to have things go bad in 20 hours unless your fridge is an ancient pile of shit.

Where something like this would come in handy is a 4+ day power outage. And where I live, those are exceedingly rare because they require one hell of an ice storm to come through and break shit everywhere while also blocking the roads so I can't get down the hill. That's happened exactly once, and we still toughed it out for 3 days until the house got cold enough for us to "decamp" after a road was clear - and we could have dealt with that if I would have known about the 12V backup AA battery array in the gas fireplace to run the electronics + open the gas solenoid until the safety thermocouple is hot enough to keep it open itself.

Yes, this is my particular scenario, but I have two EVs with 70kWh batteries in the garage. I'd rather keep them charged in such a scenario so we can get out of dodge once a road is clear.