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With 100% as the target I agree. However I see America at somewhere around 90% EVs in the near future - hard to ignore how much cheaper charging at home is, and charging infrastructure is getting to where a road trip is not a big deal (it is still a deal - while you can make most trips often it means stopping where there is a charger just to be sure instead of stopping when the gauge gets to empty, but every year this changes a little)

For a few trips to remote areas the ability to put a few extra gas cans in the back and get a lot more range is important. For everything else though EVs are so much cheaper they will take over.

I just replaced a minivan we had for 10 years and 200k miles. Replaced the brakes once in that time. YMMV, but at least for me.

Oil is not one of those parts though.

Brakes are not very common for ICEs either in my experience. They do wear out, but not very often. This might be about driving style, I’m not a great driver (the only people who think they are - are liars), but I do my best to follow the experts recommendations which means I’m rarely using the brakes hard.

Car makers don’t care - the routine maintenance is profit for the dealers not the manufacturer. Besides you still have tire maintenance (you do rotate your tires, don’t you?), suspension system, and other maintenance.

Insurance is a good bet for things where the cost of a loss would be a big deal. I put fire insurance on my house because if my house would burn I couldn’t afford to replace it. Because I can bet my house won’t burn down I dare live in a nice house. Without that insurance I’d have to live in a mud hut (or maybe a step above).

streaming what? Streaming one mp3s. Streaming a dozen different video re-encoded to something else probably can’t be done any affordable machine.

Maybe. How much does it use when you use it? For lightly used servers idle power matters. However a modern CPU often uses much less power to get the same amount of work done and so if the server is doing something idle consumption isn’t important.

That is most of them saddly

You could do that too. I’m not old enough to punch cards but that doesn’t need to stop you.

Why did you stop? I still manually crank most of my engines. (between lawn mowers and collectables I have a lot of engines without electric start) . I spend a lot of time filing points as we… Even when I have electric start, I find getting moving and popping the clutch works just fine.

Generally you are allowed to drive whatever you could at home. Since US licenses allow you to drive a manual you can drive a manual even if you never had. By contrast if you are from a country that makes the distinction you can’t drive a manual even if you have been practicing (how?) and just need to do the final test to drive a manual. (I’m not sure how someone without a manual endorsement would go about getting it in such countries, but whatever that process is)

Write your gcode by hand and you can do curves thus ensuring lines won’t meet. I last wrote gcode by hand in the 1990s, and I’m pretty sure industry stopped hand gcode around 2000 (before 3d printing), but the language isn’t difficult and so you can do it.

Use something other than FDM 3d printing - SLA (resin) printers have higher resolutions and will not have those issues. Or you could put a solid sheet of plastic on a mill and use subtractive machining to make your parts. There are a few other options.

All options have pros and cons, and your best answer might be just live with it (see other replies for ways to mitigate the issues). However don’t get locked into 3d printing just because it is the “in” thing.

The older I get the less sense this makes. I cannot dodge a car, and the roads I’m on have a narrow shoulder such that I cannot move off. As such seeing the car doesn’t’ help me at all. Worse if there is an on comming car someone has to stop because there is not room, at least if I’m going the same way as cars they can slow down to a walking speed (granted they probably won’t, but…)

a band saw the blade is a contiguous loop, in a scroll saw the blade is just 5 inches long (6?). You can thus put the blade through a hole in the work and cut inside parts (if you can weld blades you could do this with a bandsaw). Bandsaws have a blade guard which makes it a bit harder to see where you are cutting. For find work like the above a scroll saw is better than a small blade in the bandsaw. However the bandsaw can do much heavier work (resaw) and so if often a good enough compromise for people who don’t do much fine work.

Every music store sells humidifiers because it is well known that if you don’t keep your acoustic wood instruments (not just guitars, violins, harps, pianos…) at a very consistent humidity year round they will crack. If you go looking for antique musical instruments you will see a lot of them with cracks. The ones that are not cracked are the ones where the owners have cared about humidity and temperature.

China is making moves on Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, and the Philippians. They are building up their military. Nobody knows what will happen in the future, but there is a reasonably possibility of war in the region which the EU will get involved in. The cold war wasn’t all unreasonable fear even if some was.

You don’t need to phone home. A radio is something you can hide in a chip, using the board itself as an antenna. Then the chip listens for the signal which can be broadcast many ways (the local embassy, satellite, or spys) Isreal already proved that you can attack pagers in ways like this (their radios were hidden in a battery, but the point remains). The engineering is tricky, but well within something China can do.

That requirement is easy to appear to meet while still allowing whatever remote actions they want to do. Remember the first step of evil here would be appearing to work perfectly long enough to get a massive install base. Then the setret signal to all fail goes out to them all. i can come up with the above attack so we can safely assume China can too - they likely have other ideas as well.

Stable of falling for more than a year. us demand hasn’tbeen mattively reduced that long-