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@ comador @lemmy.world

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IT Nerd of 30yrs and avid hobbiest of genealogy, geology and science in general.

  • Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars. The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.

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  • I had intended to reply to the person above you and deleted my post. sorry.

    You are absolutely correct in your assessment though. We can travel from Tijuana, Mexico all the way to Canada on the 5 in our remaining EV with no issues actually. Sure, it requires planning where to stop to find a level 3 charger. but it's doable.

    Traversing the continent laterally is where EVs just fall short currently though and why we opted to get a hybrid.

  • Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars. The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.

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  • We usually drive 400 miles straight without stopping and many times without seeing any civilization.

    Further, most of the Western half of the USA has level 2 charging stations, not level 3 fast charge (L3 chargers exist yes, but are often relegated to areas way out of the way in major cities). So it's no where close to just 'taking a break', it's sitting there at Maveriks or Love's or some random Target/walmart for hours next to Fred in his model 3 jacking off to porn while Tony in his Rivian on the other side sleeps.

    Maybe it will be worth it in a decade when EVs can fast charge in under 30 minutes at a station in BFE Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota or Minnesota for example.

    For now however, the entire thing is not exactly advantageous for a family of 5 travelling 3,000 miles twice a year. Especially with young children.

  • Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars. The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.

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  • We usually drive 400 miles straight without stopping and many times without seeing any civilization.

    Further, most of the Western half of the USA has level 2 charging stations, not level 3 fast charge. So it's no where close to just 'taking a break', it's sitting there at Mavericks for hours next to Fred in his model 3 jacking off to porn while Tony in his Rivian on the other side sleeps.

    Maybe it will be worth it in a decade when EVs can fast charge in under 30 minutes at a station in BFE Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota or Minnesota for example.

    For now however, the entire thing is not exactly advantageous for a family of 5 travelling 3,000 miles twice a year. Especially with young children.

  • Windows 11's free video editor Clipchamp now requires OneDrive

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  • I wish that were true, but it's not.

    As a UNIX Admin w/ 30+ years of UNIX admin experience, I am literally required to use Windows 11 for work.

    Yes, I have my Fedora system running XFCE for work too (it's also my vagrant test bed), but I like millions of others am required to use winslop and it's how work requirements go sometimes.

  • Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars. The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.

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  • I love EVs and still lease one, but they're horrible for family's needing to travel thousands of miles to take holiday/vacation or to see family.

    Broke down and literally just sold my Kia EV6 to get a Toyota Highlander Hybrid: zero regrets. There's still real world use cases for gas cars still.

  • Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June

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  • 'Meta will shut down'

    Hurray! oh? There's more to the title? Damn.

  • WorldCoin's newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you

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  • Sauron has returned.

  • High functioning

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  • Ceramic cuts... so many stitches and scars to remember.

  • Trump says he's been rejected by NATO, most allies to join mission to secure critical Strait of Hormuz

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  • Still too big for this fool.

  • Trump once did a deal with oligarchs allegedly linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

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  • IRGC are as shitty as Trump btw.

  • Groundhog Day for all of us...

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  • They're still working on the plot for that, but are feeding us reruns in the meantime.

  • Groundhog Day for all of us...

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  • Coming soon to an economy near you.

  • Digg Shut Down Again

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  • TL;DR:

    AI bots and AI agents destroyed it.

    Sincerely a real problem and I as a sysadmin for various www sites: I loathe them daily.

    If Cisco, F5 etc could invent a way to block these bots at the firewall and load balancer level, they'd make billions.

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    Six French soldiers wounded in drone attack in northern Iraq

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  • Tass: Russian Propaganda

    Unreliable news source

  • China is expected to push for an ethnic unity law that critics say will cement assimilation

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  • China is expected to push for an ethnic unity law that critics say will cement assimilation

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  • And to think, all of them have to dump their ethnicity and adopt a Han one or 'disappear'.

  • China is expected to push for an ethnic unity law that critics say will cement assimilation

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  • China is expected to push for an ethnic unity law that critics say will cement assimilation

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  • ‘The shine has been taken off’: Dubai faces existential threat as foreigners flee conflict

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  • Dear Iran, please bomb the currently under construction: Disneyland, Abu Dhabi south of Dubai. No one wants that shit.