I am actually fine with legal immigration, but immigration does cost a nation (thus its people) money, and puts a further strain on local resources.

My wife, a legal immigrant cost me multiple thousands dollars with me picking up more slack to take care of, and I know she added more costs that wasn't directly paid by me.

It also causes higher prices of all resources from food to housing, higher crime, lower wages, and does change nice neighborhoods to not nice. By nice/not nice lets say people who take care of yard, don't do activities that spell over to neighbors (like noise, parking on street, standing/playing on others yards, etc)

I've read that taking migrant/refugees cost US tax dollars 15-20k a year for the first 5 years. That doesn't include the above paragraph. And the special emergency shelter/care migrants/family shelters around 100k/year per person. Though that may be special cases like new york renting hotels or some such, but the point is, it cost money and puts strain on all resources here.

What you describe is being done in remote corners of random places to serve as electric charge stations. Apply same thing to a place that is all about cars and people traveling.

And I was referencing real gas stations. 8 would be the smallest I have seen in the last 20 years, and I am primarily suggesting the bigger that are fed customers by freeway/highway, places that can refuel 12+ cars. I think I've seen plenty of flyin-j and the like that do 30+

but my point is having random charging stations places in the most inconvenient places with no bathrooms(or any amenities).

We had family visit us renting an electric car electric car as they thought they would save money. Well the 2 day trip turned to 5 day, and we did the math on their cost of electric to my vans cost of gas doing the same trip a month earlier and it was close. Not add in the extra hotel and the fact they still had to stop at gas stations.

They also did some extra driving as some charging stations they drove past because of how sketchy it was or it was closed or some such.

Our network operations room has a debian 12 box with a pair of radeon cards that drives six 4k tv's and an ancient old 1080p monitor to display network graphs and video surveillance feeds. We run a different DPI on the 1080p one.

I don't recall it being hard to get running. The worst thing for us was figuring out the wacky KDE system of each permutation of monitors having it's own physical layout config. Drove us crazy as we got each additional TV connected.

I work for a university now, and they mandated copilot, sometimes I's suprising helpfull, but more often it is inacturate. I even tried using a low ball of tell me all the remote systems, databases, ldap, AD and even local config files from from a medium size perl file and it was so grossly wrong missing things like $remote_ldap_host and creating it's own config files and such. I can't even have it check itself.

Did this with chatgtp free, and it wasn't much better.

Sometimes its great but its unreliable

I didn't mind the charge time per say, but rather the charge station and location the most. Also the fact it required #1 a phone, #2 an app, #3 an account. Sorry not, you require a phone my most polite response will be F.U.

If I can drive up, insert card, and be gone in about 30ish min along with the normal amenities including safety of a main stream gas station.

Some of the places we went to/through had me wondering if we would get mugged. Or if the app had incorrect info (and in some cases it was outdated).

Also I learned overnight trickle charge was just that, not enough to matter.(granted overnight temps did get to low 50's and he said he didn't turn on warmers or such, but still... 6-8hrs of trickle should count for something)

Again, doing the math, I did not make financial sense to pick EV over ICE and that didn't include trips of over 1.5hr away at 70+ mph. I still hear people say rent a car for those rare times you need an ICE, tells me those are people who live like ant colonies, yuck.

ever other weekend during summer, and at highway speeds be lucky to get 230. I wanted an EV until I did a couple of trips in my friends, and his "free" gas. Now I, and another friend, don't want one. (think my next will be a plug in hybrid or a prius...)

btw, highway speeds are 75-85. If you think highway is 55-65 then its you who needs to learn about the rest of the country.

You are forgetting something to, the less of something that sells, the higher percentage needed for profit. The fixed costs still need to be paid regardless of how much sells. So it's just not greed.

But honestly the best thing a gas station could do is have EV charging stations and I am amazed I don't see that.

PS my experience with EV has made me not want an EV. a day trip turning into over night and still having to stop to charge in a remote parking lot of Ross w/ no grantee of bathroom or other amenities. I started the trip coveting his car. Oh and I did the math, an EV that cost 8k more than ICE wont save you money.(Avg time someone owns a car is 8 years)

What a nonsensical response. Are you even paying attention to what I wrote and what you wrote that I responded to?

How exactly does this magically create physical controls for the things they were discussing in the article? Many cars simply don't have the buttons to do basic things. If you can change the infotainment system in them you either do tose same things on a different screen or simply lose access to being able to do them. In cars missing basic buttons like those for climate or seat controls this is a non-starter.

I'm sure you have some highly specific example of how this worked out for you, but it's far from a general solution.

The backup camera requirement wasn't some standalone thing that just happened. It's from incremental other requirements by NHTSA that had made it so the only way to pass crash standards was to jack up the beltline to a point that seeing out of cars is impaired, particularly towards the rear.

Most of the biggest battery companies also sell utility scale installations. Tesla has said in public filings recently that they are selling MegaPacks faster than they can build them. My small local power authority -- peak summer demand around 750 MW -- has ordered a 400 MWh battery system. The batteries are being built by a Korean company that is already constructing a big US factory. The power authority would probably accept some delivery delay if they didn't have to pay the tariffs.

Critical issue here: cameras don't prevent burglaries. They are not really any sort of security from that type of event.
Yes, they may be security for other purposes, but all you're doing in the event of burgulary is capturing (often useless) evidence.

It's TACO Tuesday!

There's always been a section of borderline mentally ill crazies on slashdot.

I wonder sometimes what sort of lives those guys ended up living from the mid 2000s that were posting the netcraft copypasta, enraged rants about open sores and Lunix etc.

Perhaps trolling a technical community was the least harmful thing they could have been doing with their unreleased anger.

That's what I assumed as well. Buy Now Pay Later loans like this have a long history of being predatory. So I took a look at what it would cost to accept Klarna (as an example) as a merchant. The reality is that they have transaction fees that are very similar to credit cards. In other words, these companies do not need to rely on missed payments to make a profit.

These companies are apparently setting themselves up to replace traditional credit card payment systems, which suits me right down to the ground.

The difference is that it is much easier to get a Klarna account, and it isn't (yet) as widely available.