I didn't say anything, but no over a 5 year period you definitely have maintenance costs for a new ICE vehicle as well. But let's go with it. Go-on get your logbook while I go Google the average distance driven per year.

Now let's open the pages together shall we:

You will have over that 5 year period have driven over 110k km at which point you will have gone through:
3x Cabin (needs to be done for EVs too).
3x Air filter replacements.
3x Brake fluid flush (my EV requires this every 100k km our Opel (GM) ICE car requires this every 40k km.
3x Coolant flush
3x Basic transmission service and inspection (if you have a manual, automatics are typically on a 60k km cadence, if you're lucky you will get a fluid flush).
2x Fuel filter replacement
2x Spark plugs replacement.
1x Timing belt/chain replacements.
1x Shock absorber replacements (EVs will get these at around 100k km too).

You have exhibited a long history of not knowing anything about EVs. But it's starting to become apparent that you don't know about cars in general. I feel sorry for anyone you sell your poorly maintained car to.

Congrats, we now have a bunch of code which doesn't work and a client which can't connect. No there's more involved, and game companies often cite this as a pathetic excuse when questioned on why they don't open source it.

What we need is rules up front that games with netcode get designed with the ability to connect to custom servers, and matchmake to individuals in Steam.

Literally just the other day some friends were suggesting we play UT2004. I was behind CGNAT at the time, so I told someone else to host the server and reminded them they need to open a port on their router first. - Everyone gave up.

Simply having a server doesn't keep a game alive in 2026, If you can't one-click connect then it's too hard for most people.

Unlikely. No one drives through a neighbourhood looking for a DC fast charger. They make little sense. You'll find that only on select major arterials and highways. When a car reaches a neighbourhood it is quite often within range of a destination charger, at which point it can charge for half the price.

I think this is a locally dependent question. In the USA apparently it's a shitshow. In the EU however DC fast chargers are legally required to accept card.
I've never used a phone to charge my car - though I have a charge card (you register with a charging company like Shell Recharge and then you use this card at any charger).

Also the other poster mentioned you need a phone to locate charging stations. I can't say I've ever done that either. My car has Google Maps built into the infotainment system and lists all charging stations (and will automatically recommend key ones on route depending on a battery life calculation which in my car is absolutely dead accurate (to the point where I once got home with 1% battery remaining after driving 60km and it predicting I'll get home with 1% remaining). Not sure if Google Maps includes charging stations in the USA.

But we're talking about cars, so your mileage may vary (literally).

Thanks but no one is talking about New Cost of Ownership. They are talking about Total Cost of Ownership. The fact that the car is maintenance free the first two years is irrelevant. Lifetime maintenance cost for routine wear is lower for EVs, and this has been true since they hit the market, it's not even some recent change that you can claim to be clueless about.

Thanks for being a gaslighting arsehole. No sorry buddy I did a TCO calculation and the EV was cheaper, ... even before the increased cost of fuel. If you're going to try and tell me otherwise it will simply show that you don't know how to do a TCO calculation given you know nothing about my situation and TCO is varies per person, location, and driving habbits.

Actually it's not debatable. Even if it is true that smog is tire particulates, go look up the weights of all the EVs listed in TFS and compare them with the weights of America's best selling cars.

A mass switch to the EVs listed would result in less tire particulates.
Bonus points it would also result in less pedestrian deaths, but Americans don't give a fuck about anyone outside their fortified palace on wheels.

That's all good and fine when you can tell an advert from a real post, and when you can tell a news article from a fake.

Crypto Bros and AI Bros are not sitting around on Reddit. If you're talking joy in ordinary people being scammed then yes you probably are a bad person.

Oh man you're gonna suffer. You're showing signs of early onset dementia already with that post. I feel sorry for your future old age. Either that or maybe you'll be fine and are just a completely uneducated dolt who doesn't understand medicine, biology or basic statistics.

I sincerely hope for you it's the latter.

Not only is that an understatement, the heart attack came 7 years too late for her. She had a stroke in 2015, and was diagnosed with severe dementia a couple of years later. Affectively she was nothing more than a brain unable to think keeping her in a body with all autonomy granted to someone else in 2019 by the courts. She wasn't her own person for a long time.

Her death was a mercy at this point.

Does it though? Shortness of breath can be a symptom of literally hundreds of things. Most things (heart attack included) normally come with multiple symptoms which is precisely what diagnosticians use to identify a condition.

The only information we're given is that it's shortness of breath. You don't have any information to conclude negligence or not. Mistakes in diagnosis happen all the time because the entire medical industry is heavily reliant on a diverse array of assumptions and expert opinion. The problem is you literally can't test for everything, all the time, based on limited number of symptoms.

Now maybe it really is negligence, but to assume so based on the facts we have presented here is definitely showing your bias and not an example of critical thought.

Anecdote: One of my American friends went to hospital with shortness of breath. He told them he thought he was having a heart attack so they did an EKG. Eventually they said, nah it's nothing and sent him home. He was deeply disappointed that they didn't do a blood test for troponin proteins - which is one of the few ways to definitively prove someone is having a heart attack. The thing is: a) He didn't go bankrupt (outside of the USA such tests are performed based on assessment of an expert opinion, not to every idiot who has a shortness of breath). b) He didn't die. Yet he remains disappointed that a professional doctor was right.

Why not? Expand on your point of view please. Much of the medical industry is an application of knowledge and dexterity. Many things diagnosticians do can be replaced with a lookup table and IF-THEN statements. A not significant amount of treatment is a skill of dexterity.

This is precisely one of the industries that not only could get made actively better by robots and computing, IT IS ALREADY DOING SO.

The same way as they treat her. The general medical industry not only largely doesn't give a shit, it's not typically staffed with Slashdotnerds and many people probably didn't even know who she was.

How does being dead help you with attorneys?

While I laughed a little there is a problem to perpetuating this joke. AI hasn't had a problem counting body parts in a long time now. By repeating these jokes we unfortunately make people believe that any image with the right amount of fingers *isn't* AI.