That works in some parts of the country, but in places that get actual winters, there is no amount of care that is going to keep a daily driven vehicle from rusting after 20 winters. And that's what kills vehicles here. Something minor like a broken brake line but to get to where it connects you have to drop the crossmember, of which the bolts are seized on place and you'll damage the subframe trying to get it out.

Iâ(TM)ve owned two Chevy Volts. The first one (a 2012) got its rated charge range from a battery charge the morning I totaled it at 178,000 miles. My current one (a 2014) is at 197,000 miles and gets its rated mileage out of a charge every day, though Iâ(TM)m starting to notice it doesnâ(TM)t exceed the rating on highway only runs as much as it did when I bought it a few years ago.

I suspect most vehicles suffer the same fate as my first one (an accident or major repair being due totals them before 200,000 miles) meaning that in 2012 we were building EVs where the battery outlasted the car.

How did he get it without a smartphone?

I have had a 17 Pro since launch and just turned it on maybe a week ago because I wanted to see what the big selling feature of my new phone was (they talked about it a lot during the last hardware event). I cannot say I feel like I am missing much, and the iOS 17 beta has done nothing to change my opinion. AI prioritized notifications which are just duplicates shown above the same notification and email summaries in the preview line are sort of underwhelming. My phone never does the thing where you can recognize items from pictures and search on them.

Full disclosure, I do not use Siri all that often. Maybe Iâ(TM)m just not the target audience.

You also get 1/3 the performance and 10 generation old components at 6x the cost of current consumer gear in the manufacturing/industrial IT space. Maybe that aligns with how you use your device, but Iâ(TM)d rather have better performance over a 10 year lifecycle on a cell phone.

Maybe not universal, but I seem to remember the mini-usb being extremely popular before the micro took over. If micro was the first mandated by EU, it would imply that there was somehow a pretty good consensus on what connector to use before micro was specified by legislation.

You must not use your phone very much overall. I manage the fleet of iPhones at my job and we are usually seeing high 70s or low 80sfor battery health at the end of our 3 year refresh cycle. Since we have been observing this for more than 6 years, I canâ(TM)t imagine itâ(TM)s a difference in chemistry between your phone and our phones.

Has the government acted against anyones freedom of speech here? Or did a company threaten to try to invoke the government to do so?

The first amendment is intended to protect citizens from the actions of the government. I am not sure it applies here where we are discussing the actions of a corporation not owned by the government.

Fairly recently too even. Iâ(TM)m just your average Windows admin and while doing other work I just happened to notice a machine being logged in sitting at a desktop when it should have been at a login screen. So I played around with it and got to where I could reliably reproduce what I had seen earlier. I wrote up step by step instructions on how I accessed a Windows system from another Windows system potentially without credentials and supplied a video showing the process from between two Windows Insider machines (one Windows server and one client OS, I showed the process in both directions). This was all per their directions in the MSRC portal. I got an email back from them that said that my findings, while providing good information, did not meet the requirements of a security vulnerability requiring servicing. I replied back from within the portal asking if this meant I had miscategorized my finding and should resubmit it with some changes, or if there was some sort of explanation for why my observation was not a security vulnerability.

I never heard back and eventually I got a request to fill out a survey so they presumably closed out my case. Itâ(TM)s been several months, I should try duplicating the issue again for my own curiosity to see if they patched it and just never credited me.

I donâ(TM)t even cook much, but I find myself wanting this setup.

I have hydronic baseboards and the piping runs through my slab in some spots. We had one start leaking where it comes out of the slab, likely due to having froze at some point in the past according to the boiler guy.

Because the pipe in the slab ran between baseboards, I just had them pipe against the wall around a nearby corner rather than break up the slab.

All true, but if youâ(TM)re willing to drop a few hundred dollars on the brandâ(TM)s card you are committing loyalty to that brand and therefore are probably not the guy chasing the ultra low cost flight deals. For the record, I fly a lot for work on Delta. My wife and I flew Allegiant once for scheduling reasons on a quick trip rather than cost. But we did manage to get there pretty cheaply as well by minimizing the stuff we brought with (between the two of use we brought one carry on bag and one checked bag), not worrying about priority boarding, etc.. Itâ(TM)s all stuff that you just sort of get with Delta but can opt out of paying for with Allegiant if you donâ(TM)t really need it. If you feel like you need all of that stuff, you might as well fly a legacy carrier and get the benefits they offer if something goes wrong.

Thatâ(TM)s how ULCCs are, at least in the US. You can get somewhere cheap on one if you are willing to travel in such a way that you can forego some of the add-ons (less bags, picking seats, whatnot). If you just add everything to try to get the same experience as one of the legacy carriers, the cost is not much different.

Everyone says this, but Iâ(TM)m not so sure about it. Right now, Uberâ(TM)s capital costs are their office buildings and IT infrastructure that they own. They donâ(TM)t own any of the vehicles nor pay their operating costs directly. They pay a wage to drivers that may or may not cover the operating costs of a given vehicle for a given trip (and often there will be someone who isnâ(TM)t familiar enough with their costs to take the trip rather than than let it sit until the pay goes up). If a vehicle has some sort of mechanical issue that prevents it from operating in a productive capacity another one appears in its place at no additional cost to Uber. That seems like a lot of cost and liability to take on to save the $0.40/mile that a driver might get today after vehicle costs are covered.