I am sick and tired of the War on Ownership. Being forced to pay a second time to “unlock” features that the hardware you bought us inherently capable of ought to be illegal. Tesla, especially, deserves the corporate death penalty for being at the forefront of the attacks!

Might as well get a bunch of maintenance and upgrades done now while they aren’t busy.

…assuming the business ever comes back, that is.

I’m not sure you fully appreciate how suicidal that sentiment is.

Well, yeah. That’s why the entrenched corporate interests hate it so much.

It’s literally not worth the electricity to keep computers that old running. You could replace one with a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero or maybe even a $2 microcontroller and recoup the cost in lower power bills within a month or so.

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Nemo: “I snuck in an NB flag”

Miracle Max: “You are an NB flag!”

My phone has an iffy USB-C connector (I charge it wirelessly now) and my wife even managed to subject the barrel jack on her e-bike to enough abuse to make it a little loose. If anything, I want e-bike charging connectors to become more mechanically robust, not less!

Yeah, I’m trying to break us out of the meme loop!

(Or am I referencing the wrong episode?)

Ah, thanks. I had seen this and other posts about “welcome GenP users” in All, so the main remaining question I had was “what’s GenP?”

Please, Data, 3! 3!

3, damn it!

then again, California could just not pay taxes

Income taxes are paid directly to the Federal government. They do not pass through the states first, and thus California can’t “just not pay taxes” by an act of government fiat. It would have to convince all of its taxpayers to individually stop.

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But you can’t pour solar panels into a fuel tank. What liquid biofuels are good for is stuff you can’t electrify, like aviation and shipping.

Obligatory: The Expert

whatever Scotty has here (Romulan ale? But that’s usually blue, right?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eji3TfURbgs