Good news on the EV charging part, at least in North America. Most (if not all) manufacturers have agreed to switch to NACS, and most have adapters to work with either connector. There will be a long tail as the old connectors fade away, but the future is looking standardized.
I seem to recall this not being very effective, but I can’t find any studies right now either way. Lots of marketing, and a little bit of anecdotes, but no studies.
The idea being that they get used to it and just ignore it, because they want to bite their nails. At best it serves as a reminder when they do.
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.
Given how everyone involved reacts to power dynamics, I’m certain a bunch of them would be thrilled to tell people they procured some “long pig”, and countless others would love a taste of it.
At the same time, I know how deep the grift goes, and I’m sure the providers would happily use raccoon meat instead.
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?
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.
Mail in voting is an equalizer. Nearly everyone lives very close to a place that accepts outgoing mail, with most at their own homes. Once you require people to physically go somewhere special to vote, then you can put the squeeze on everyone there, in an extremely unequal way. You remember the stories of people waiting 8 hours to vote in Atlanta? Coming soon to everywhere statistically identified as “blue”.