You can. I have been experimenting with some this week. Claude code running locally against qwen3.5-35b. And GLM-4.7 flash. It is very slow on my 3060Ti/8GB. Though i have a 16 core CPU and 64GB of RAM. However, it is actually very capable, if you can tolerate the wait. Still much faster tham i could be at writing code by hand, tests, running them, even collecting logs and reverse engineeromg payloads from my IOT sensors. If it was paid work, it could never compete with the cloud offerings. Waiting 5 mins between prompts is common. Chatgpt codex 5.3 is about 100x faster - I'm doing a free monthly trial right now. Not sure how luch better the local models will get. Qwen3 coder next exceeds both the vram and ram capacity of my system. It is however possible for mw to upgrade to a 16GB vram GPU and 128GB RAM. But prices are way too high, and I may not pull the trigger on a $1200 upgrade to maybe at beast get 2x token speed.

Yes, this is crazy talk. My 2025 Equinox EV is my first car with OTA updates. I keep declining them. Software regressiosn are a thing. If it's going to get bricked, I would rather it happen at the service dept. Of course, if all features just worked in the first place, there would be no need for updates. New features on a car ? No.

Paid $7 for premium in my Volt on a road trip in 2022 when the Ukraine war started.

I read there was a station charging $8.21 in LA this week. It will get worse.

I got rid of the Volt last year before the EV tax credit expired. We now have 2 EVs and solar. Our net grid exports were 6 MWh last year. My gas furnace gave up the ghost in January. I just put in a heat pump, installed days before the subsidies also expired. It is incredibly efficient.

I still have 2 nat gas water heaters, and one furnace. But expect in 5-10 years they will all be heat pumps too. Probably much sooner for the water heaters.

We live in an idiocracy.

No, the high sulfur, heavy crude oil from Venezuela is too expensive to process, not to mention more damaging to the environment. It was rightly left in the ground.
We could have stopped oil subsidies a long time ago, though, to favor cleaner tech.

Electric buses have been around for a while.

No worry. Trump can invoke the Defense production act, and stop all those oil exports. Might not turn out well at election time, though.

Absolutely.

A lot of people are not registered to vote. Many that are registered don't vote.

Costco announced that they will. If they ever get the refund.

A 1000 Ah battery would be massive, also not for cabin. Maybe mAh ?

How much does that weigh, and what volume ? Google says 10 lbs minimum for NMC chemistry. Probably not something you could actually use in cabin except maybe in first.

A 100 Wh battery is very useful if you are recharging a phone or tablet.

On a recent AirAsia flight, not only was charging onboard not allowed, but i was required to remove the battery bank from the overhead compartment, and keep it near my seat. It was a very short flight from Vietnam to Thailand, though, so not a big burden.

I would still fly no matter what type of ground transportation I used, whether ICE, EV or transit. And when the choice is between ICE or EV, there are still massive environmental benefits to local air quality when the number of ICEs locally is reduced. Moving a pollution is a benefit.
I do fly far more miles than I drive, but at least it's always in coach. Almost always long haul, though.

Well, my Equinox EV compact SUV was $27.5k out the door in August before the tax credit expired. That replaced my Volt at 10 years 1 month. Would cost $35k without the tax credit, if the idiots didn't reduce production.

Short term profit, with the added side effect of continuing to damage the climate.