V2H still isn’t able to be commonly installed for most regions in most vehicles. However, last year we had an extended outage of two days and my EV was at about 50% charge. It has V2L (vehicle to load) standard and I just ran an extension cord to several refrigerators and a chest freezer, used it for lighting, charging phones, powering my router and modem, the gas oven/stove, and still drove it (after unplugging) and it was awesome. Saved hundreds of dollars in groceries from spoiling and kept us entertained and comfortable.

This is a good argument to move from a level 1 or slow level 2 charger to a high power level 2 charger. You can reasonably get a 11.5kW charger in the US, our slow chargers are usually around 1.8kW. While Europe has 2.3-3kw and go to 11 or even 22kW if your home has 3 phase power. If your vehicle can support it you will be able to get over 7x the free electricity and perhaps full charges for free.

Yes, that’s the /s

Maybe they can make up for it by dramatically raising prices both of the movie and concessions. /s

If not sooner any part for any intellectual property of any design of any kind. It really gets under the skins of companies when instead of being forced to buy a cheap plastic part for hundreds of dollars you can just print it for a few dollars of filament.

None of that refutes the argument the hardest component to make and the one most integral to a gun and the one that can’t be made on a plastic printer is the barrel. With a 3-D printed receiver that’s also stupid simple to make with hand tools you just buy a proper barrel just like about every single last 3-D design thats out there. The big mistake was to think the receiver was the hardest part to make when it never was. You can make a simple hole with a hand drill and use a simple adjustable reamer to at least get pressure which would work on a hand gun at under 10 feet, which completely negates the idea of fear mongering and trying to make plastic printing replacement parts for anything illegal.

This is about stopping right to repair, and guns are being used as the boogeyman to frighten people into accepting it. Monied interests would ban all 3-D printing if they could.

Whelp, there goes my hemoglobin.

Yes really. Where is there a law limiting the number of guns you may own? Simply buy a new barrel, you’re done it’s repaired. Are you trying to make a metaphysical argument about the gun of Theseus?

Where does a 3-D plastic filament printer figure in because it’s not possible to make a barrel with plastic when the pressure climbs to many tens of thousands of PSI in a proper barrel. Even a half million dollar metal printing machine isn’t going to make a barrel that’s reasonable, it would require post maching operations and the examples I’ve seen barely have velocity, accuracy, or hold up more than a few hundred shots tops while taking thousands of dollars in material costs. By far the hardest part to make and still have a reasonable weapon is the barrel and you just argued against any cnc machine bill much less a plastic one.

maybe for some parts but the rifling is helical and I’ve yet to see wire under tension that holds a helical shape.

The problem is the serial number is printed on the receiver which is just a block that holds the all important properly made barrel without which you aren’t going to have almost any accuracy or velocity both of which actually separate it from a crude barely functioning weapon and an accurate and powerful one. Putting the serial number on the barrel and regulating that makes far more sense, you can’t even rifle the barrel properly without specialized equipment that’s not run of the mill CNC. You can’t make decent ones on even a half million dollar metal printer and you certainly can’t make them from pla on a $150 machine. Did the barrel wear out on your gun? Well good news there isn’t a limit on the number of guns you can own just buy a new barrel, its not some kind of unsolvable gun of Systheus riddle.

This smacks of butt hurt over people being able to print and repair things they own without having to be at the whims of companies looking to control what you do with what you own on your own time and with your own money.

I think babysitting is a good analogy because the first step is making the space unviable for full adult functioning by removing anything it could possibly interact with that is dangerous or has actual repercussions because it’s clueless and lacks basic reasoning and has no “common sense” whatsoever. It’s also a demanding task that has no real world application beyond attempting to grow something at great expense with no payoff until many years later and even that’s not guaranteed. It also pays near minimum wages, is assumed anyone can do it with minimal training, and is regarded as a lowly position by most people across most cultures.

Someday in the distant future it may even be able to bring full Unicode support to slashdot!

So this might be the prick that pops the AI bubble?

Weekending at Bernie’s is not solely an American tradition, it has historical roots to the beginnings of recorded history across most every culture. If the current ayatollah is a vegetable then the groups in control have the same justification as they just saw colleagues and senior people wiped out and this did not endear them to America. Instead they will pursue destruction of the rest of the world, no matter if it’s halting oil traffic with drones and mines or developing nukes if the world no longer has that as a choke point.

Of course, but on the flip side they are always given “cool new gear” to try out. Even if the satellite showed where they were, if they were unconscious in a 10’ radius somewhere under stuff it’s not inconceivable they used a new widget to help with the final inches. The reality is these stories are just psyops to embellish capabilities and to distract from real life limitations.