I'm sure those loans are collateralized or guaranteed in one way or another. When the bubble pops, they'll probably end up owning most of what's left.

Maybe, maybe not. That might only stop the AI from accessing the account, That does not stop hackers from getting AI to give up your passwords. I do not assume AI security it good enough right now to stop someone from prompting to get past the security.

Nvidia sure as hell has. They don't give a damn who wins the "AI race" because all the participants are their customers.

I mean people have probably sued lawnmower companies because they were not warned to not to lift the mower with their hands when it was running. For every warning sign you see that you think it is stupidly obvious, there was probably someone who did exactly what was warned.

Yes, but not for you and me. Graphics designers have been using stylus-displays for years and years, because it's great to draw on the thing you are making instead of drawing on a different surface like a Wacom.

But I'm like you, I don't have a use case for a touchscreen and if you touch my notebook screen I'll be angry because I prefer it without fingerprints, thanks. So my first question is: Do they offer this thing with OLED but without touch? I guess not. Pity.

I've been slowly moving towards my dream setup: Solar panels, battery, EV car, island mode capability. This is one thing that'd be a factor in my buying decision. Using your car as a battery or secondary battery is a big plus, and if they built the necessary equipment to run independent of the power grid, it'd come in a neat package.

While power failures are rare where I live, I expect them to become more common with the move to renewable energies. I support that, but it's more fragile than constantly running power stations. So being able to run your home at least for a few hours on your own energy is something that I consider a good idea.

You are correct - it's shit as a tablet.

The one place it's awesome: in an airplane. I can turn my laptop into a 14" media player with a 4k screen, adjustable-angle stand built in, with touch controls, and a thunderbolt connection for attaching a big fat SSD full of media.

Other than that, it's shit.

So you can touch the reply button, and then what do you do?

You have to move your hands back to the keyboard, right next to the pointing device you could have been using.

I'd rather move my index finger two inches from the touchpad to the home row, than 6+ inches to the middle of my screen, with my wrist at a stupid angle, and smearing fingerprints all over the screen, but you do you.

It's still stupid. And I'm typing this on a touchscreen notebook, running Linux.

I literally never use the touchscreen unless I have the keyboard folded all the way over, so it's a 14" media player. It's ergonomically terrible.

The irony is that if you are installing any kind of generation in your home with the expectation of net metering, they have to come out and install a new bi-directional meter anyway.

I guess we can file this under "why the fuck didn't they do that in the bidirectional meter, since every bidirectional meter will also need a cut-off to not back-feed the grid in an outage." And the answer probably comes down to "it was an extra $20 per meter that they could not pay, and the customer could pay $1000+ instead"

That 22RE motor was god damn bulletproof though. There are still people out there searching for a 1985 Toyota truck / 4runner because it was the sweet spot of being the first year with the electronic fuel injection motor, and the last year of the solid front axle. Any year newer than that, and you have to do an axle swap if you don't want the independent front suspension, and anything older has a carburetor and all the maintenance and drawbacks that implies.

I did what now? Why don't you have a look at the author of the posts again and think about who your are replying to.

Thanks for proving my point.

And for those use cases, a simple cargo carrier that plugs into the trailer hitch gives you the load rating and space you need, without compromising the vehicle's utility the other 99.99% of the time for less than $200.

When Elon is spending half a billion dollars to try to re-elect incumbent politicians, how is he not "establishment" ?

Please make that make sense.

Fair enough. I've never looked that hard at it, despite having two EVs in the garage because my house has a split "main panel" and the EV chargers are not on the same panel as the kitchen / upper floor.

It's why I haven't looked into a battery system in general - doubling the expense to not choose between a functional kitchen or running the central HVAC didn't have the ROI, considering we have only had one power outage that went past "I'll put on a hoodie, get my wife a blanket, set up some flashlights as 'lanterns' and we'll play a board game until we go to bed." Installing a natgas generator was even more expensive so that was quickly eliminated as well.

Turns out we're fine with using our cars as really fucking big power banks for phones, and getting by with the camp stove.