For those of you that come in here saying "Oh well these drunks get what they deserve" and that these devices are only for repeat offenders, think again. Every state is slowly selling out to these shitty device manufacturers to make money.

In the state of Connecticut, even just being arrested/accused of a DUI, the DMV processes it and requires you to have a IID device like Intoxalock for 6mo to 12mo even on first offense. (2 and 3 years or parament for further offenses). No if ands or buts and no way to plead your case, just being arrested for it not even convicted of it. All automatic without due process. Automatic interlock, no other conditions like accident, or other charges needed, and treated like a 2nd class citizen for even the smallest mistake.

You receive a separate Criminal / Motor Vehicle case in the judicial system where normal court procedure occur, and you case can be pleaded, and/or reduced, deferment programs, etc if it's your first offense. So you can effectively have the criminal case dismissed and found not guilty, but the DMV will still require one of these interlock devices.

I'm happy our local PD and FD look the other way despite pretty much every firework being illegal in our state. Pretty much the entire 4th of July Weekend is usually open game. Just don't do anything stupid and you're fine. Start a fire? Sure then you get a fine. Someone lose a hand? That's a fine. Shoot them off safely and responsibly... Fuck right off.

Some cities have started cracking down. And exactly what you described happens instead.. we've seen people launching them FROM CARS (Roman candles and such), and despite our PD being laxed, last year I had people randomly walk down our roads and set them off on our sidewalk feet from our house, firing directly into a tree on our yard, VERY dangerous.

People are going to do it anyway. Make it safe, otherwise people will just do it anyway or find a way around fines.

In the US, you can do 19.2kw on 2-Phase 240v AC outlets just fine. Ford and several others offer 80amp chargers these days, my friend bought a F150 Lightning and it came free with the truck. Wire it up to a 100amp breaker, and it can accept 80amp @ 240v, 19.2kw. More vehicles will be doing this, GM's Ultium based vehicles can support this. It's paving the way to Vehicle To Grid and Vehicle to Home (V2G V2H) bi-directional chargers to power houses in power outlets, or to use the car battery to sell power back to the grid.

Older vehicles will accept up to 32amp (7.6kw) for the most part across the board, but even the Chevy Bolt 2022 and 2023 Models can take 48amp (11.5kw).

The biggest thing for the NACS conversion is the connector is much smaller, and it's simpler. Being the same connector for DCFC and AC home charging is a plug, many people get confused by this. Prior to Tesla opening up too, many owners of rented EV's would drive to the NUMEROUS Tesla stations and be confused. One plug will make things a lot easier. ... Except soon Tesla will be deploying it's Megaplug that supports 1mw of charging for it's Semi's soon.
https://xkcd.com/927/

You can charge a EV with 100amp service. Simple setup: I have 100amp service as well and have a 30amp breaker installed, and limit my charging to 24amp (80% rule.

Better setup that became available AFTER I did my setup. Electrical code now allows managed charging. You can install a 50amp breaker now on your 100amp service, and install panel monitoring solution to monitor the load that manages the EV charging state. The easiest system is Emporia. Buy a Emporia Charger ($400 US). Buy a Emporia Vue2 ($60 to $200 depending on version you want). It hooks sensors up to your main to monitor total system usage. You can optionally install sensors for each circuit too. It will lower the EV charging current to keep total household usage under 80amps (80% rule), but allow you to charge up to 40amps when possible.

Also, my EV charger is setup outside. I have a outdoor enclosure for a outlet and my charger is plugged into that. Most are outdoor rated. IP6X. Mine is partially covered by out roof overhang but works nice.

I got the notification it was going away the other day. I liked it simply for the fact if other MFA logins were bypassed, and they had access to my email, they still couldn't reset my password without my PGP key. One extra layer.

InfoSys is a horrible horrible company. I would not take any advice from anyone who is in a leadership role in that company.
They hire and bring over H1B candidates to the US based on bribes and who can pay the most. Then there's tons of issues surrounding their work practices and such on the internet if you look, several involving the employee being forced to pay 50%+ of their paycheck to the recruiter that got them lined up with the job while they're here too.

Our state gave InfoSys $12M in tax incentives to set up shop. I know personally of 3 people that lost their jobs who worked for MSP's after InfoSys came in and underbid and replaced them with cheap H1B labor. So the state gave this company tax deferments to come in and replace higher wage local workers with cheaper workers.. who are now paying LESS income tax.. who put other workers out of work who are now collecting state aid....

#4 Adopt RCS. It's a protocol that already exists, fully supports end to end encryption, and is full interoperable between devices already. Cheap to implement. iMessage could be depreciated or reserved for native iOS to iOS communication only, and failover to secure messaging RCS rather than 30 year old SMS when it's not a iOS device. So long as the app works with other message services, like RCS, it should bit the bill.

DMA already had them adopt USB-C finally. Embrace what works.

Thank you whoever converted that to beer units. "That's more dirty liquid to launder than all the beer drunk in the world in a year."
More things should be converted to beer units. Forget imperial vs metric. I feel like its easier to relate and will get better attention.

Every Pixel phone I have owned I have had the power button be the power button. I have a Pixel 7 Pro and long holding the power button DOES bring up Turn Off / Reboot/ SOS options. The option to do that is in Navigation options, same place where I also turn on 3-button navigation bar.

It's there, just have to turn it on!

We just ported 400+ numbers, converted 200+ users and got rid of our on prem phone system (Mitel) and went to Zoom Phone. Our entire org used Zoom already for meetings, with SSO we had everyone set with free basic and a few dozen paid meeting accounts. Very simple easy move. Everyone loves it, no more desk phones and true mobility and they can take phone calls just like meetings now.

When will it end.

Yes. As someone who just bought a used EV I'm very excited about this. I'm hoping it's retroactive to the tax year.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

I was into Bitcoin in the boom that happened in 2017 or so. When Bitcoin went from $700 to $1050, then "crashed" to $700's. Ether as well. During the "China bans bitcoin exchanges" days we had flash crashes at 2am. It got so bad if I had open positions and such I would not sleep, checking my phone every 30 minutes watching for changes. Always having a screen open during my waking hours watching. I was lucky and didn't lose anything, but walked away from it to keep my own sanity.

If this was a dayjob and I had nothing else going on in my life, sure. It was just too busy for me to get into.

I've been a DreamHost customer for well over a decade now. I own a dozen or so domains with custom email. Back in the day I set up a few up with free Google email, but since they cut off the free tier I have just been using theirs. I already have a unlimited shared hosting plan with them, no extra cost to me to host my email there. $120/year, and you an effectively have as many emails on your domains as you like. iMAP/POP/SMTP and WebMail support. Not calendar or contact support though. But it works.