What if MicroSoft would this week decide: "ok. As per your request: Throttle it is, no more windows OS for Russa based IPs!" ?

I'm a chemist. To me, "organic" just means "contains carbon-carbon" or "contains carbon-hydrogen." :-P

Some company/organization/"AI influencer" will declare that AGI has been achieved in 3-10 years. But it won't. They'll just be redefining what "AGI" means to be something less than they mean now; and come up with some new term "Universal Artificial Intelligence" or something to mean "true Sci-Fi style AI." (Like when they said "we have AI, what you're talking about is A*G*I")

This.

Amazon doesn't deliver to most rural addresses - they just ship it via USPS. Amazon simply cannot replace USPS with their existing infrastructure. Heck, I'm not exactly "rural" and most of my Amazon deliveries come by USPS or UPS, not by Amazon delivery vehicles.

And I fight for the users.

Disclaimer: I am an "EV enthusiast". I currently own another electric trike, an Arcimoto FUV. I also own a Rivian R1T electric pickup and a Ford Mach-E.

I've had a deposit in for an Aptera for years, and I'm one of the "small investors" who has stock in them.

At this point, I'm assuming that my deposit and my investment won't ever produce anything for me.

I hope they succeed, even if I wasn't an investor and deposit-holder. The idea may be kind of silly, and absolutely not for everyone (neither are motorcycles.) But they're always begging for more money to actually start production, and always failing to raise as much as they say they need.

At this point, I imagine the first few dozen vehicles will be delivered to the "high value investors", but that true large-scale production won't happen.

On the technical front - yes, the solar panels are largely a gimmick. Maybe if you always park outside in somewhere terminally sunny like SoCal, Arizona, or Florida, it might make it so that you never have to plug it in; but in most areas, it will make a small dent on your charging needs. The big "selling point" is the extreme efficiency. There are a few ways to measure EV efficiency. The EPA uses "Miles Per Gallon equivalent" or MPGe to rate EVs. By their measure, the most efficient vehicle is the Lucid Air Pure, at 146 MPGe. My Rivian is rated at 73 MPGe.

Most EVs measure efficiency in either "miles per kWh" (one gallon of gasoline contains 33.7 kWh of energy, so an easy conversion is to take this number and multiply by 33.7 to get the "MPGe") or "Watt-hours per mile" (inverted, so a lower number is better, this is similar to what many metric countries use for gas vehicles - liters per 100 km where a lower number is better.) That Lucid Air Pure gets about 4.3 miles per kWh of energy, or about 230 Wh/mi.

Aptera claims 10 miles/kWh / 100 Wh/mi. That is more than double the efficiency of the most efficient "full size" vehicle. My Arcimoto FUV, a similar "two seater three wheel EV" gets about 5 mi/kWh in mixed city/non-interstate-highway driving. The Arcimoto is great for city driving, and while it is absolutely capable of highway driving, it isn't very aerodynamic so its efficiency drops like a brick on the freeway. The Aptera _IS_ aerodynamic, so should be much more efficient on the highway.

What the crap is âoeit helps get animal spirits back into the marketâ supposed to mean?

The solution to Windows turning into a marketing device and personal information vacuum: Linux Desktop.

Let the flame wars commence. My personal preference is Linux Mint. I've been using it on my desktop workstation and my laptop for the last 6 years with zero complaints. I have Windows VMs (VMWare and KVM) that I use for software development, but when one of them goes stupid thanks to Windows updates or general Windows OS stupidity, I just roll it back to the last weekly snapshot. But all my personal computing and the running of my business happens on Linux.

You know what people will remember about this company in a decade?

Their name.

So of 11600 MW of newly installed renewables, 10000 or 86% is in those batteries. That's absurd.

Why the F*** when a scientist says he's found a nearly complete bellusaurus skeleton, the reporter says: "A what-o-saurus??, let me get my pencil and write this down". But when it is about batteries and energy, they simply get it wrong. There is probably about 2000 MW, 10000 MWh of battery capacity installed.

Apple sucks compared to Android. The hardware is antiquated before Apple can get it onto the shelves, and yet they charge a premium for the little Apple logo. And then there's the app store, with a smaller audience, less choice, and Apple robbing both the creators and the consumers.

From the outside, all I can do is order another bag of popcorn and watch Apple users pay a tax for being stupid.

100%.

A little over 5 years ago, when it came time to build a new desktop machine, the number of hours/days lost to recovering broken VMs, lost files, jacked up drivers, etc., due to Microsoft updates was the deciding factor in making the move to Linux. I chose Mint because I wanted simple install experience and a familiar GUI layout. I haven't regretted it once. I run Windows (various versions) in VMs if I need to for software development, but the host is Linux.

That worked out so well that, when a Windows update killed the sound drivers on my laptop and could not be fixed, I installed the latest Mint, dual boot, and I haven't had a problem since. When my daughter bugged me to give her my old laptop, I installed Mint on that as well, showed her how to find and install software, and she's perfectly happy with it.

Why people put up with Microsoft's antics, I can't understand.

And here I am on my Linux Mint desktop workstation congratulating myself once again on my move to the Linux world SPECIFICALLY because Microsoft's updates kept screwing up my work environment.

There are two supermarkets on my commute to work. Both of them started with a few self checkout booths.

Then one did a big "redesign of the layout", now there are 8 or 10 self checkout points and one or two old-fashioned cashiers. The other one went back to all cashiers at about the same time. I guess they had different experiences.

In the one where the manager found it successful, they have one "self checkout" employee and one cashier most of the time. While before there would be 3 or 4 sometimes 5 working the registers. And for me: The last year or so, there have been two instances when there was a queue of 1 or 2 people for self-checkout (for 8 stations = quick!). To me it is a success and for the shop, as they expanded the self-checkout too I guess.

Apparently experiences differ. Apparently quonset has had a different experience. Or agenda.