100percentjake

This smacks of sociopathic rage-bait, at best. Mediocre young adult sci-fi premise at worst.

This. 100% this. My first look at their marketing images resulted in "well, that's the most awkward looking thing I've ever seen."

This was exactly my experience when I stopped eating fast food regularly.

After getting my M1 MBP I mostly stopped paying attention to the new releases until the M4 came out and I decided to see how much "better" it was and was equally completely baffled by the insane number of SKUs and their seeming overlap. Insane product lineup decisions.

I'm a habitual device-swapper and I'm staggered by how... satisfied I am with my 8 year old Thinkpad X1 Carbon with Fedora KDE on it.

This is increasingly becoming the case. There have been a few posts on Reddit of people successfully porting Arch and other distros to phone hardware (typically seems to be OnePlus?). My handheld game console, a Snapdragon 8 Gen2-based Android device by Retroid, just got official first-party support for running Linux on it.

My kingdom for a fully local native version of Photopea. It's by far the best Photoshop alternative I've ever used.

The law does not permit the behavior. Tennessee explicitly requires local registration and taxes due on any vehicle owned by a citizen of the state that has spent more than, IIRC, 2 days within the state. They have no income tax so these property taxes are the state's main funding method and they have been increasingly thorough on enforcing it. It is considered willful and intentional tax evasion.

Tennessee has specific rules about vehicles that reside within the state for a certain amount of time requiring a local registration and taxes to be paid. This is the law where Cody resides. He willingly and knowingly evaded paying those taxes. Tax evasion is a crime, not a mistake, therefore a polite letter is no more warranted than receiving a polite letter and a chance to return stolen jewels from a jewelry store.

Now add a gas-powered range extender to that Bolt EV and it could easily be the only car that a person would have to own, subsisting just fine on 120vac charging most of the time and requiring a top off of fuel any time an unexpected errand comes up or a road trip is tendered.

Some of the trends in these comments are wild.

>>EREVs/series hybrids don't get better fuel economy

They sure do if 80% of your driving is done purely on battery, which is how nearly every Volt owner I know operates. Once every couple weeks they'll exceed their EV range, let the gas engine take over, and be done with it. The fuel is sipped so infrequently the car will require a "maintenance mode" to run fluids through the ICE but the car is still perfectly useful for a last minute blitz to St Louis or whatever.

I love the Volt. I personally have an i3 REX and I love it even more because it is absurdly lightweight and RWD.

>>Just get an EV

What about renters who don't have access to level 2 charging? The small battery in an EREV can be easily topped up with a normal extension cord (20 amp rated) run out of a rented house or apartment to the car.

Alternately, what about people who can only afford or have the space for one car? Not everyone wants to own the small city EV + ICE road trip car wombo combo, nor do people want to spin the roulette wheel of charging infrastructure that is still barley adequate, especially in the flyover states.

People claim the EREV i3 won't do extended highway but I did Boston MA to Wichita KS in one shot in my 2014 with a hurt battery using Hold State Of Charge mode starting at a 75% battery charge and using a 7 gallon fuel cell in the frunk with a transfer pump to allow longer stretches between refueling. It worked a treat. I have since removed the additional fuel system once I got to Wichita and now it is my daily commuter and goes 2000+ miles between fillups.

Surely you realize that using a computer in this fashion in the modern era is relegated to a fraction of a percentage of people, right? I agree with the sentiment that an OS should be usable without a pointing device, especially for accessibility reasons or instances where a pointing device is faulty or unavailable, but it should also consider the other 99.999% of general purpose computer users.

This is fair. I should have been more explicit that my wonderment is how something that is gospel in the car guy/mechanic community has somehow completely avoided filtering into the greater consumer discussion with regards to catastrophic failure and reliability.

I'm not immune. I recently bought some New Balance shoes from Sheels, figuring I'd be getting reasonable quality footwear. Both sets had hole damn near worn through the soles and delamination in multiple locations after ~6 months of wearing them as an office worker who does no abnormal amount of walking or exercise in them. Come to find out their "non flagship" models are cheaply made garbage as opposed to the quintessential white leather model that costs, iirc, the upper $300 range and is made in America.