5 years is a very long time in this field right now. 3 years ago, Aging Wheels made a video about how Tesla Superchargers were the only real option for a road trip. A few months ago, they released a video where they avoided superchargers because they were outdated technology.

I just checked, and it’s very doable on most EVs. There aren’t a lot of good options from Amarillo to Wichita Falls, but most can cross that gap anyway.

Road trips are certainly a weak point for EVs. If you go on more than 3 or 4 per year, EVs are not (and probably won’t be for a while) a good option.

But I do at least see it getting better in the next future. All of the pieces are there, just not in one place. When taking a long trip, you’re already supposed to stop every 2 hours to stand up and walk around for a bit. You or your passengers probably also need to use the restroom. Every 2-3 of these, you need to stop for food.

Currently, it’s a PITA to link these with fast charging. You should be able to pull into a truck stop (etc), easily and conveniently, and plug in while you do the rest. Except the fast chargers aren’t usually at truck stops, and apps like ABRP don’t have an option to set stops by time.

If this all lined up, and you have a car with reasonably fast charging (like the Ioniq 5), I don’t think you’d have to wait on charging very much at all.

To own an EV, you basically have to be able to AC charge at home or at work. The good news is that all of the new 5-over-1 apartment buildings (at left around here) are being built with a handful of chargers right from the beginning. As they become more popular, it’s pretty easy to add more.

But you can also get creative. My local chain grocery store has level 2 chargers in the parking lot. These don’t make much sense to use while shopping, but they’re convenient enough for all of the older apartments nearby. Most universities have AC chargers, but it’s probably not convenient and you’d have to move your car the next day.

What state(s) would that be? I just checked PlugShare, and it shows plenty of fast charging stations even through rural states like Kansas and Montana.

I guess Alaska would count, but even that’s pretty well covered from Anchorage to Fairbanks

If you’re looking at fast charging (1 hour or less) on a regular basis, you’re doing it wrong. The vast majority of charging should happen while the car is already parked, using level 2 AC charging. This means when you park at home, with, etc, you take just a few seconds to connect a charger, then walk away. When you come back ~8 hours later, you take a few seconds to unplug before leaving. This approach, believe it or not, means I spend less time dealing with fuel than if I had a gas car.

Plus, AC charging is much cheaper, and more reliable. These chargers are very simple devices, that just do a bit of monitoring and negotiation. They deliver raw 240v to the car, which has its own AC-DC converter.

DC fast charging is much more expensive - $14 for a full DC charge is very unlikely. That’s because DCFC stations are very big, complex installations. As such, they also have parts fail on a regular basis. DCFC is often more expensive than gas, but again should only be used on rare occasions.

As for batteries failing, it’s about as often as a gas engine fails. IOW, it’s extremely rare until the car is EOL anyway. Battery degradation is typically 85-90% health remaining at 100k miles.

Reduced maintenance, yes. But I haven’t (yet) found an independent mechanic that can work on my Bolt, so the little maintenance I need has to be done at the dealer.

I still took that deal, but it has room for improvement.

I remember reading somewhere that (especially) Russian disinformation campaigns learned British English. They, pretending to be American anti-vaxxers, spread it to the dialect of the dumbest Americans.

‘Jab’ is basically a case study in skipped localization.

Wow, you aren’t kidding:

which included the likes of Milli Vanilli, Vanilla Ice, and Poison vocalist Bret Michaels

These all completely disappeared by the early 90s

Countless movies/TV shows show people drinking/getting drunk. Typically, it’s water with food coloring (or similar). When someone is shown eating, the scene cuts and they spit it out.

This depends a lot more on what you plan on doing once the OS boots. I accidentally loaded Win11 on an HDD (disk 0 was HDD, not SSD) for a few hours. It was noticeably slow, but it ran my diagnostics utilities well enough.

If you’re using it for light web browsing, basic office software, etc, then it might be fine.

But something else caught my attention - you inquired about “restoring” it at shops, meaning you intend to pay money. SSD and RAM are obviously what anyone would upgrade, and you’re balking at it. More to the point, you expect to run Linux, but didn’t even install it as-is to test it out?

There’s some missing context here. Also, 2gb laptops haven’t been a thing in a very long time. You might very well get a better deal by just buying a used newer model that already has what you’re looking for.

Udm14.com is a direct link to this

Yes, non-Republicans will vote in Republican primaries if the strategy is there.

My state is (now) firmly red. Whoever wins the Republican primary will almost certainly win the general. As such, voting for the least shitty Republican in the primary is far more useful than voting Democrat in the general. On top of that, at least my Democrat primaries have been very milquetoast. It doesn’t make much difference who wins that.

That all makes it a very simple decision to vote in the R primary.

Part of the challenge here is that Bambu is a Chinese company. Which means you would have to sue them in China, with predictable results.

You could try to sue them in e.g. the US, then use that victory to secure things like import bans, but that’s a very long, slow, and expensive process.

Greasel (diesel-vegetable oil conversion) is a thing, albeit uncommon. That would probably be the closest analogue.

What inspection? Nearly everything happens at the state level, if at all. The only ongoing task required from my state is plates/registration, which is just some minor paperwork, a sticker, and a fee. One that’s already higher because of EVs. And I only have to do it every 5 years. There are no inspection facilities anywhere near here.

Not idiotic. Malicious. They know exactly what they’re doing on this.

It also becomes a giant red flag to any potential applicants.

“Why is this position open?”

“We had the previous employee imprisoned for complaining too hard about how little we were paying him”

Not that it can’t happen, and similar things continue to happen, but most (and certainly the best) candidates will avoid that place for many years, and demand extremely high pay from the beginning.

The CEO reports to the board, which reports to the shareholders. This is how it always is. His goal is basically pointless - even if the board did create a policy, or a charter or whatever, it could be revoked just as easily.

If you want to be calling the shots in a way that you can’t be fired, you have to become the majority shareholder. Like he did with Twitter. But then your customers can still leave. I’m sure that’s why he’s trying for those hefty govt contracts that can’t be terminated so easily.

You have to save up to afford that pack of hamburgers to grill on Memorial Day, or the turkey for Thanksgiving. If you scrimp and save all year, you might even be and to afford to put a present or two under the Christmas Tree.

That’s one of the things that actually makes sense for a (locally rendered) site to have. Not the screen itself per se, but the usable canvas. This allows things like a static navigation bar on the left, and the remainder of the screen for text.

I see no reason for a site to have my battery status, ever. Gyroscope has limited need, and should ask permission.