...If the converter machine is powered by solar, wind or other renewable source, this would make a gasoline car carbon neutral.

Unfortunately, fewer and fewer hosting companies provide their own email services; over the past years most of them have migrated to 3rd party services like Microsoft's Exchange Online or Google's business email, both of which charge significantly more per mailbox.

When Godaddy did that a few years ago I looked at a lot of places, and the best option I came across was OpenSRS/Tucows, who has been around since 1999. they still only charged $0.50/month per mailbox or so. Only caveat is that they don't sell directly to end users, but provide services to 3rd party resellers. However, anyone can sign up for a reseller account.

Part of signing up as a reseller is paying $100, but that then gives you $100 credit for services in your account. At just $0.50/month per mailbox, that will last a long time. You do have the option to turn off your public reseller/online ordering portal and just use it for personal/friend/family.

Before it was widely known what he was like:

If you are applying for an office job and and see Dilbert strips posted everywhere, you should be concerned.

...But if you walk through their office and you don't see any at all, you should worry more.

Google pretty much had to support JPEG-XL, because the PDF association declared it to be the preferred format for embedded images in the latest PDF standard.
https://www.theregister.com/20...

If they want chrome to be able to show PDF files going forward, then JPEG-XL support is required as well.

This is the kind of thing that makes zero sense for regular consumers (for exactly the reason you mention), but it could be a great system for companies that operate a large number of cars internally, e.g. UPS/FedEx/USPS, or even car rental places, where a returning electric car can be ready for re-deployment in far less time than it would take to re-charge them the conventional way.
At least fleet cars would keep re-using their own batteries instead of receiving someone else's potential garbage.

Or those fun old "universal" phone chargers, which had one wallbrick with 10 different molded cables for Sanyo, Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, etc. Which were all slightly different. And then when a friend visited and asked for a charger, they needed standard #11 which wasn't compatible with the 10 yours had.

And remember that the EU didn't mandate usb c: they told the tech industry to figure out some standards on their own or else... . It wasn't until AFTER the Samsungs, Amazon's, LGs and Sonys of the world all started standardizing their stuff with USB c and it hit critical mass that the EU mandated everyone else should follow that. It could just as easily been lightning cables if that was the direction the tech industry had decided to go.

Just remember: Japanese cars and electronics used to be a joke too, until they weren't.
Then they ate Detroit for lunch.

There is no reason other countries can't pull off the same, and then some.

...Their rationale for only showing hours and minutes and hide the seconds of the digital clock in the system tray was to "save power" https://devblogs.microsoft.com...

Which works great, until it doesn't. You risk that any future update can include cpu instructions which your system doesn't support, which could result in instability, crashes, or even being unable to boot. You're taking a /risk/ circumventing the cpu requirements. It may be an acceptable risk to you, but could come as a total surprise to the owner of a system who you helped upgrade on non-supported hardware.

You know what they call alternative medicine which actually works? Medicine.

Won't help, since amazon mixes inventory. All "new" items with the same SKU end up in one bin. Any marketplace seller who claims to have new stuff and offers "fullfilled by amazon" will simply send their batch to Amazon, and it will be mixed right in with the rest of the legit stock. You have zero guarantees that Amazon's own sales came from the legit distribution channel instead of a marketplace sellers trunk who lied through their teeth to Amazon that it was new. /Same for straight-up ounterfit chargers and such mixed in with genuine Samsung, etc.

Amazon has admitted numerous times to their investors that they'd had a very hard time monetizing Alexa, which is running at a loss because the vast majority of users use them to control lights and music, but NEVER buy a single thing through it despite Amazon's more and more desperate attempts to shoehorn purchases in there.

Forcing ads down the throats of paying customers is not going to magically make them more likely to suddenly start buying things, it just means they'll start looking at alternative smart speakers that don't annoy them.

At least this time there is a mechanism to transfer some of your purchased media to various participating 3rd parties and keep it, unlike last time.

When Microsoft gave up on and abandoned their oh-so ironically named "Plays4Sure" music DRM scheme in 2008 (4 years after launching it), the only options they offered were either: "Authorize your your playback license for each purchase before the shut-off date and that specific device will be able to continue to play it while it still functions and while you don't reset it, but it can't be transferred to another device or activated anywhere else anymore " or "You can remove the Plays4Sure digital protection by burning your purchased Plays4Sure music to CD and rip it back as MP3 by following these 17 easy steps. Better hurry and finish before , though!"

IIRC there was just a two-month (?) window between their initial announcement and the deactivating of the license servers altogether, if you missed that window all your music just became expensive digital dust.

Microsoft already tried to do that a few years back, when most new PC's and laptops preloaded with Windows defaulted to "Windows 10 in S-Mode" -- which didn't let you install anything except things downloaded from the Microsoft Store. To disable that and revert back to "normal" mode and regain the ability to install regular 3rd party windows software, it required you to create a Microsoft account and sign in to the Windows store (which involves verifying your email address and phone) to download their "disable s-mode" app. Needless to say, that app was not offered outside of the store.

"Surprisingly", users didn't like it much.