Reading instead of viewing isn't the problem. How many times do you see a video that's 30 minutes long that says "do these 3 things as you near retirement." They could choose to tell you all this in the first minute. Be concise. For example, move heavy into bonds to absorb 2+ years of a bad market, rebalance often, and reduce debt. Yes that is easy to read, but its also easy to say IF THEY CHOSE TO. Youtube wouldn't be able to show you as many ads though. Etc. So in review, absolutely wasting our time. It is by design structured to lengthen out content and waste time. Occasionally you get a real dude that'll talk about (for example) a fishing lure trick, show it to you right away, and then fish with it for another 30 minutes. Then you decide if you want to watch it all.

Less than 18 months to break even is pretty damn good, boss.

How much have you spent in those 18 years on maintenance and gas?

Problem is, most people don't tend to look at the total cost of ownership of things when determining whether something is "affordable". That's unfortuante.

..Yes? It's dead simple to install a breaker in your panel, drill a hole beside your panel, run some armor cable outside, along the outside of the house to whichever exterior wall you want your charger, then up the all and hardwire said charger.

This is called 'residential electrical cabling.'

As to it being an upfront cost of two thousand dollars, great. Figure out your average monthly gas spend, divide 2000 by that, and you'll see how many months it takes to break even.

I know some on the right decided to make up some ludicrous definition at one point that right vs left was "freedom vs tyranny" and it looks like you've bought into that

Uhr? No, to me, the essence is slow, careful changes vs fast, possibly-not-thought-out, experimental changes. If I had to do it in 4 words, they would be "degree of risk aversion."

That is how Trump appears to be the furthest-left president in US history, and how even FDR (and LBJ, etc) look relatively right-wing compared to him. Comrade Trump is breaking things which had good, proven track records. No conservative (or even centrist or lightly-left) person would do that.

Well, if your government is a shitshow, it just means your people need to vo--

Sigh. Why, yes, I am an American. Why do you a--

[hangs head in shame] Ok, fair enough. I'll shut the fuck up now.

When I hired people (as developers), the last question of the interview was "How many gas stations are there in the United States?"

The answer I wanted to hear was a quick, succinct, "I don't know".

IMHO "Hmm.. let me think about how to estimate that" would also be a great [start to] an answer. (Though now that I think of, we have The Internet now, so "lemme google that" might also be a pretty good answer.)

So, somebody that has already bought a computer is going to have trouble buying a computer. Gotcha.

And most people that don't know shit about computers will just buy a new computer, sign in to their microsoft account, and all their stuff will simply transfer over through onedrive. Over wifi.

It's not 2005 any more.

First time?

It's fascinating that there are so many people acting like this is their first taste of Maintenance Hell.

Learn from it. After some poor choices and orphanage heartbreak, I eventually had a last time, swore NEVER AGAIN, and I haven't looked back. I'm sure there are legit gripes about Linux but the one gripe I know nobody will ever have, is "they fucked me." It's never hostile, at all. It never tries to not work. The code isn't making any decisions, ever, which would translate into English as "fuck what the owner of this computer wants." Never. It's always on your side. Always. And to me, that's what I consider to be "normal" now.

The absurdity of recent versions of MS Windows requiring TPM is right there in your face. That's a deliberate defect, making it hostile for no fucking reason that any customer ever asked for.

They hate you. And you want more from those people? Really? You must hate you too.

If you ever change your mind, there's a way out.

WTF is with people calling Republicans "conservative?" I don't get it. FDR was relatively conservative, next to this guy. No?

If every person using an AI assistant becomes a mechanical turk for sending data back upstream to the AI provider as a means to bypass robots.txt that's what isn't cool. Local usage for the benefit of that user should be ok, but not the follow on effects.

No. What you describe, I just call a "conspiracy" (assuming the action is harmful or illegal or .. eh, I think the word "shady" probably fits best).

I suppose the participants technically do also have a conspiracy theory, but I think it's inappropriate to call their direct knowledge that. The hypothesizing is usually by nonparticipants, and if they come up with a hypothesis with enough evidence to back it up such that their explanation becomes widely accepted in the mainstream, then they have a conspiracy theory.

(BTW, I know I already lost this argument decades ago. I lost the fight over the word "hacker" too. But that doesn't mean I can't grind this axe for the rest of my life! The word "theory" means something, or at least it did/should in my fantasy world.)

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.

Since when does private party A doing something "unlawful" compel private party B to take some action?

Ever since the first time someone pointed a loaded gun as B's face and said "do what I say or else I'll kill you" and B did as ordered, instead of accepting their death.

I think it was sometime around 1234567 BC.