It’s always taxes, just FYI. Any legal battle over what one product is or isn’t, is always about taxes.

Administrators at prestigious schools are just low grade politicians.

They pulled their wireless home Internet service which mostly targets rural areas where companies like AT&T never laid fiber and have started abandoning their copper networks. It’s a lot harder for smaller rural communities to do municipal broadband because the costs are much higher per household. Not impossible, but more of an uphill battle. In some GOP states it’s even outlawed. In NY hopefully people can get grants for them.

FYI on the origin of the term grognard. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/grognard

My experience with it comes from he RPG/wargame realm. It’s not necessarily meant to be derogatory.

I’ll just leave these here.

https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ

https://youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY

PD cables aren’t expensive enough to just buy good ones have them for all your chargers.

3-5x the resources my ass.

Yeah, I wonder if these people are just being grumpy grognards about something they don’t at all understand? Personal computers are not the use case here.

The Oracle at Gemini was right there.

How do those platforms survive though? Any media centric federated platform will require a lot of funding if it’s successful. Grants and donations only take them so far. So to avoid serving ads that probably means subscription fees. Is there revenue sharing for creators? Will the platforms be designed for either or does each instance have to roll their own? There’s a lot of unanswered questions. All the things that made YouTube dominant required a lot of investment, especially in hardware. No peertube instance will ever be half as efficient as YouTube is behind the scenes. Which means their costs will be way higher.

How many docker containers would you deploy on a laptop? Also 128gb is tiny even for an SSD these days .

The value add is even better from a customers perspective.

Yeah, my time is way more valuable than a gigabyte of drive space. In what world is anyone’s not today?

Tell us you didn’t read the entire context of the thread without telling us you didn’t read the entire context of the thread.

Also, the fucking news for the last few years? There are EVs out there without enough cold protection for their batteries. Which is why, if you can drag your ego back up the thread, you’ll see that my original post said I would be more concerned with making sure my battery had those protections than a heat pump because the affect on range is much more drastic.

You know, as the article in the post points out. EVs are not all the same.

I think that’s a different beast.

Yeah, that’s not quite the “shot for 3D” I was talking about. Those are the worst 3D films that don’t even hide that it’s a gimmick.

One more step, only a googolplex to go.

It was a gimmick. Half the movies released in 3D during the last wave were poorly done conversions not even shot for 3D.

Most people aren’t road tripping in their electric vehicle every day. If you don’t understand how temperature affects battery chemistry, capacity, and charging I don’t understand how you can even be in this conversation.

The lowest range EV in the US is 114 miles. The average commute is 52 miles. Most EVs sold in the US have a range of 250 miles or more. So a resistive heater eating 10% of your range is way less of an issue than your battery not charging properly in cold weather. Again, heat pumps should be available, but they aren’t going to save you if cold weather kills your battery.