Welcome to Costco, I love you.

An a now expired RHCE. Screw Red Hat. They burned all the good will bridges when they stopped developing CentOS. I deploy Debian or Rocky Linux now in enterprise environments. It works great.

I absolutely love these kind of stores... they were the backbone of my younger self getting all kinds of cool old random stuff.

*HOWEVER*, I actually blame the stores themselves for their current predicament. I remember prices in surplus stores going way, way up in the mid 2000's. Would I buy a cool old oscilloscope of unknown condition for $75? You betcha. Would I blow $350 on it? No... No I wouldn't.

The price increases are the reason I stopped going. The whole point of surplus was "cool old shit in bulk for a bargain". Once the value proposition was gone, I stopped caring.

As soon as Bezos started meddling with politics I knew any remaining hope of Alexa privacy was out the window. I tossed my Echo a few months ago... glad I did.

It's a good word. It captures "taking code and embedding it in your product" without assuming the worst case. (though, in this case it was the worst case)

They were modifying and vendoring GPL code into their commercial product for years. They released under a weird "no forking" closed license while exposing their GPL violations and the community caught on pretty quickly.

Good. Single-use plastics are a scourge on the planet. Plastic has its place, and will never go away... but lets stop shoving it into every product because it's cheap and plentiful. It has to go "somewhere" after it's used. tldr; bring back glass snapple bottles. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

If by "Entirely wrong" you mean "I was off by 30% with numbers off the top of my head", then sure.

*ALSO* that 0.37 / kwh cost is assuming all DCFC speeds. You generally leave with "cheap" home electricity.. so your first fill-up is substantially cheaper at 0.18kwh?

So now we're well below $69 for the R1T.

Keeping in mind the Rivian is an big ass truck with not exactly the best miles per kwh.
Compare to a Chevy Bolt EV, and you would get $30-40 for 450 miles.

I had the mileage wrong. 450 miles total round trip.
Here's me actually taking the time to do the math:

Dodge SUV: 450 / 17mpg 26.4 gallons * $4 == $110 ($105 plus 5% for idle consumption.. you still use fuel while idle in ICE)
Rivian R1T: 450 / 2.4kwh/mi == 187.5 kW * 0.37 == $69

EV's won. They won a few years ago when they started their bell curve. People are realizing they are faster, better on the environment, cheaper to maintain, *and* cheaper to drive. It costs me $40 round trip to drive my big EV truck 400 miles. It costs my friend $120 to drive the exact same distance in their small SUV. Any FUD you hear are people with vested interest in gas vehicles. Gas isn't going anywhere... but it's going to become the minority of new car sales within the next decade.

Nope. Companies will charge as much as average customers are willing to pay. It doesn't matter what their bottom line is. When you're a monopoly, all the price does is creep up with inflation as the costs to deliver services goes down. This is the exact reason why the FCC common carrier stuff came around for telephones in the early 1900s Telephones became a critical service to "live", controlled by a monopoly. The internet is unfortunately the same now.

Sounds fine to me. 512KBit/s up/down for $15/month would be plenty in a pinch. ISP's shouldn't gatekeep the internet at 1Gbps for $100+ a month. Some internet is better than no internet, especially if you can't afford it. Unfortunately the internet is an essential service now for getting a job, etc.