So Toyota’s plan to compete in a changing world is to… copy Chrysler (Stellantis)?

No wonder they’re worried for their future.

Roberto?

Level 1 charging can work for a lot of people, but it ends up needing a lot more mental energy. You have to more carefully calculate capacity/range, daily needs, charging speeds, variances, and unexpected needs. The end result being that it’s not a great experience.

Level 2, even at the slowest speeds, are enough that you can fully recharge most vehicles overnight. And you have enough capacity to last through the day unless you are a super commuter or drive professionally.

Used EVs are remarkably cheap. The problem is that it still effectively requires you to be able to charge at home, which is not common on cheaper housing.

Thing is, it’s NOT just one day. Most states allow early voting (in person), and many allow mail-in voting. These usually start a month before “voting day”, and have fairly generous terms. Voting day is effectively the final day, with local options set up everywhere for convenience.

Even your examples are fairly easy to overcome, although you have to want to vote bad enough to find solutions. You can vote from a hospital, and your local political parties arrange plenty of free transport to/from polling sites.

Fully agree with your statement on RCV and the rest. Some states have adopted it, but even there it has limits on effectiveness.

Of course, all of this is highly dependent on location. The US doesn’t have a single election, it has 50+ state elections (including DC) that look similar. My experiences and options in Ohio are going to be different, possibly very different, from New York or Montana.

I presume you are referring to the SuperFish scandal in 2015.

First, you have to define “comparable”. These are Enterprise-grade laptops. Their class includes the Dell Latitude and HP Elitebook. It doesn’t include anything you will ever find at Best Buy. It might be tempting to do so, since your visible specs like CPU and RAM are the same. But they really aren’t the same.

Within their class, Lenovo has (for over a decade) been noticeably more expensive than their counterparts. Roughly $100-150 more per unit for the T4x0/T14 vs a Latitude 74x0 (now Dell Pro) or an Elitebook 840.

Current prices are: HP Elitebook 8 G1i 14 - Core Ultra 5 236v, 16GB/512GB, $1249

Dell Pro 14 - Core Ultra 5 236v, 16GB/512GB, $1659

Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 6 - Core Ultra 235u, 16GB/512GB, $1809.

All have integrated graphics.

I don’t think the detailed specs/pricing for Gen7 (what the article is about) has been announced yet. I would expect it to be in line with previous generations, since their 9/10 repairability score was.

Now is probably a good time to remember what a VPN can and cannot do. It can block your ISP from knowing which sites you’re going to. It can bypass ISP-level blocks, including geo-blocks.

It cannot stop the endpoints (WhatsApp, both the client and server) from harvesting whatever data they want from there.

Meta is clearly concerned about bans on WhatsApp. This is nothing more than their own self-interests.

Those packets are shelf-stable. It probably came from a pizza place, where there’s a bin on the counter (along with red pepper flakes) to grab if you want some on your take out order.

Why the attorney? It doesn’t seem like they’re in a place to make any changes or decisions regarding any court orders. Why not some form of management in the operation?

I appreciate the focus on efficiency, but I’m concerned that the increased complexity of each component may increase both the likelihood and difficulty (price) of any repairs. Still probably worth it, given the general low failure rate of EV components.

Many, many years ago (20-ish?) I spent a full weekend trying to get Gentoo working on an even older PC. I wasn’t completely new to Linux (having installed and used a bit of Mandrake and Fedora Core), but I was certainly no expert.

I spent the entire weekend trying and failing to get a usable system, reinstalling numerous times with different options, installing countless packages, and following innumerable guides on troubleshooting. I never had a system even close to as usable as Fedora was out of the box.

Still, I consider that weekend a complete success. I learned more about Linux in that one weekend than at any point since. Everything after that has been little tidbits needed for the task at hand, without much of the base foundational understanding. Failing with Gentoo taught me so much.

You’re overlooking the word “exempt”, which is critically important here. An earlier section defines an exempt organization

[…]as a bona fide nonprofit charitable, civic, religious, fraternal, patriotic or veterans’ organization or as a nonprofit volunteer fire department, or as a nonprofit volunteer rescue squad or a bona fide homeowners’ or property owners’ association[…]

This restriction only applies to these organizations, and is likely intended to keep a casino (or similar) from pretending to be a charity.

The larger section is labeled

Article 37 - Lotteries, Gaming, Bingo and Raffles.

A credit card the account is with visa, tho it may be managed by your bank thanks to partnerships and bank end integration. Depending on the circumstances you actually will be directed by your bank to contact visa or who ever directly or be forwarded by your bank.

Do you have a source on this? Because it directly contradicts EVERYTHING I have ever experienced. Visa is a payment processor, but more as a middleman. I’ve even been redirected (through automated systems) back to my bank when making a purchase using a Visa card. Any disputes are handled by bank. You can’t get a Visa card without going through a bank. My debit card has a MC logo and can be used as such, but it’s also my ATM card.

Your point about debit vs credit is valid, though possibly more convoluted than needed. On credit, it’s someone else’s money in limbo, until the bill is paid.

It matches what the Ford CEO said about the same (or at least very similar) car. Was that also Chinese propaganda?

Congress can use her refusals as reasons to impeach. Impeachment doesn’t need to follow the same rules nor evidence as a court.

I just want to add that the crash will take down the entire economy, not just AI and tech companies.

Simply by subtracting AI companies from the equation, the US is already in a pretty substantial recession. The process of them crashing out will make that even worse.

Why would they start with the harder one? Samsung is much better funded, and therefore will be a much more difficult case.

And no, it does not matter that Samsung did it first.

This is basically the exact scenario that led me to detail that I was only talking about consumer gear. Server gear is a very different beast, with a variety of tradeoffs that I didn’t want to get into. For instance, I’m assuming you can only use Registered RAM.