If you're an adult who understands the risks and still wants a cigar, why not? I've never understood this obsession some people have with forcing others to be virtuous in spite of themselves. If your religion and/or personal code of beliefs says you can't partake in $VICE, that's entirely on you.

Do you really mean that if your git repo were corrupted, restoring a snapshot of the repo from backups wouldn't work? If that's true, then it sounds like your backup system is broken. The hashes after restoring ought to be identical to what they were before the backup.

If git used the files' iNode numbers for its hashes, then I could understand how a filesystem-based backup/restore might not really work; you'd have to backup at the block level instead. But git doesn't use the iNode numbers.

git isn't magical. It only knows files. It doesn't know if you moved the repo, copied the the repo, or restored the repo from a ten year old backup. I have moved git repos around plenty of times, `cp -a`ed directories with repos, tared and un-tared directories that contain repos, and the copies have always Just Worked without any hash mismatches.

mkdir ~/test. cd ~/test. git init, touch test.txt, git add test.txt and git commit. cp -a ~/test ~/test2. cd ~/test2 and check out the backup repo. The backup is valid. Then simulate a disaster with rm -rf ~/test. Then recover from the disaster with cp -a ~/test2 ~/test and you've just restored a repo from filesystem-level backup. The resulting repo works perfectly and its hashes aren't off. git has no idea you deleted and restored under its nose. Try it yourself.

What am I missing? I'm not surprised to be called idiotic, and the shoe often fits. But I'm surprised to be called that over this.

My router's hardware's parts were made in China. Its software was made as a worldwide effort but the team seems to be officially based in the Netherlands. And I'm not asking my government's permission for updating either one. Trumptards and their micromanaging far-left centralized-economic-planners can go fuck themselves. Keep your damn dirty ape hands off my computers, comrade.

The average new car price in the US is $49k. There are several EVs on the market that come in below that (even including Tesla).

There's other issues (such as lack of home charging at apartments and condos) at play here.

My brother rented one and it absolutely refused to connect to any DC fast charger that he'd tried using. He ended up bringing it back to the rental company and swapping it for an ICE car. Apparently, this is a somewhat common problem with the car.

Some people don't even like changing their own oil, and you just drop an EV conversion as if were as simple as changing the lock screen background on your phone. Anyone who has all the tools, know-how and inclination to take on such a product probably doesn't need the suggestion in the first place.

I think a more realistic answer would be along the lines of "cross your fingers that the Slate Truck isn't vaporware, then buy that."

The opposite style of adapter (connecting a NACS charger to a CCS vehicle) works fine, at least in my experience.

You say that now. Obligatory The Oatmeal comic.

For some odd reason, K-12 students are not discount eligible unless they're homeschooled or are a high school student with a college acceptance letter. I think lower education used to be eligible under the previous pinky promise terms, but it was moot back then as they never verified anyway.

Also, there are purchase limits, which kind of puts a bit of a damper on trying the same scheme, but with college students.

You must have an EV that has the charging port on either the rear left (as Teslas do) or front right, otherwise you would've mentioned those damned short cords too.

I drive an EV with the charging port on the front left, so I've run into both the situations where there's no spots available that I can charge, and confrontations with confused Tesla drivers who don't understand why I'm not plugged into the charger I'm parked in front of.

Assuming responsible usage, having more credit cards actually helps your credit score (up to a point anyway, it's still possible to have too many credit cards). As for being a potential fraud target, most credit cards in the USA offer zero liability for fraud that is promptly reported.

What signing up for a new credit card does do however, is trigger a hard pull on your credit report.

Apple was probably okay with their education portal being a hint-hint, nudge-nudge discount until skyrocketing RAM costs began eating into their hefty profit margins.

Is there room for consciousness to manifest in a brain?

If the data center is primarily intended for use by (exclusively or nearly exclusively) the people in the neighborhood, sure, it could make sense. I know this is quaint and out-of-date but one can imagine a neighborhood squid cache, NNTP server, modern Netflix cache, etc for the neighborhood. Have it be connectable by a high-speed neighborhood LAN, to share the 'hood's WAN.

Just a classic neighborhood network coop, but with some added caching services, which is what would cause it to be called a "datacenter" instead of a "router." ;-)

As if that would really happen. And that's sure not what this is.

Please don't use "hard on" and "Barron Trump" in the same sentence. I just threw up in my mouth a little.