Thanks for sharing the link. A very interesting article.

Exactly!!! The manufacturer should provide it. What's not to say I might use a defective charger. Will they honor the warranty?

Bring back Asperger's and split that out from Autism. The realm for autism is way to wide and leads to RFK behaviorial syndrome.

Next recognize that people are different and shouldn't be expected to be the same.

I suspect the fee will push more firms to off-shore more. Probably to Canada, India, Ireland, or anywhere else that isn't considered an enemy of the state.

Daniel Suarez wrote about this about 20 years ago in Kill Decision.

FYI - a really good book to read.

Many of us kind of expected this kind of behavior against Ukraine. The day Trump was voted in was the day Ukraine lost any kind of consistent support.

Here is a recent interview with John Bolton. https://www.youtube.com/live/C...

As far as the DOE ignoring facts that disagree with his talking point. Just more of the same.

He and at least half of his staff seem to be reality TV stars and think that way.

I'll be curious as well.

I was pushed into the market ahead of schedule. I was really interested in the Equinox EV bottom model. Hard to buy, as they are selling as fast as GM can supply them. Ioniq 5 and many of the other models - easily $10K US more than that one. Yeah, some used on market, but even getting a test drive can be difficult.

I test drove the lower model Ioniq 5, it really was the favorite of my test driven vehicles, but again, even with tax credit, it was 10K more.

I ended up getting a hybrid.

I'm curious if a bit of the movement comes from more support from Steam?

I understand why the Ioniq 5 is selling well. It was the base model and yet it was fun to drive.

From personal experience, bots are repeatedly interrogating repositories, websites, and even bugzilla bug logs and collecting the data. This is tripling the volume of data moving a month. So much so it is causing denial of service failures for smaller web-servers and sites.

Further, many cloud hosted sites are charged by the gigabyte of outbound data usage. It is killing small projects with limited budgets.

And yes, they are ignoring the robots.txt file.

I you look at Tesla and other profitable EV brands (at least Tesla was), they focused on the components from beginning to end. GM has to do the same to eventually be profitable in the EV market. If they can do it with better less expensive battery technology, that's better for everyone. I'll watch for the estimated number of recharges on the new technology though. LFP, while less dense, can do about 5,000 recharges vs 580 to 1000 for legacy Lithium batteries.

Are electric cars the future, I think the EU and China have already defined that future.

I'd argue that swishing through Facebook, Instagram, and headlines only has killed critical thinking as well.

I'm pretty sure most Chromebooks have been rolled into public school systems in the U.S. All three of my kids used them in middle and high school. After four years, those devices were pretty much trash. You've got to remember, these things are backpacked from class to class by teenagers. Machines getting bumped off desks by someone clumsily walking by. They took an amazing amount of abuse and because of monitoring software, they degraded pretty quickly in performance. Nothing against Google or Chromebooks. In fact for school usage I thought the kids couldn't do better.

I purchased a couple for personal use by the kids at home. One was damaged beyond the value of repair and the other survived. I still have it running Mageia Linux on it. I had to remove the screw, then install a bios update, but after that pretty easy. It is an old Dell Chromebook 11 (way past ChromeOS EOL).

My guess most are trashed by the 5 yr EOL and definitely by the 10 yr EOL.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...

I cannot speak for the rest of the world, but in the U.S. I'm not seeing a promising economy for 2025. With that being the case, I doubt we'll see a great resignation happening again in 2025. My guess is people, except the very best, will settle.