You are 100% correct that the Earth will continue to, as you say, 'do it's thing.'

The problem is, 'it's thing' might include 'no longer being habitable by humans,' and that's going to be a bit of an inconvenience for us.

I successfully ran a 240v/32a charger on a 100amp main panel for years. You just..don't run the oven, dryer, ac and car charger all at the same time.

Kodak knew that digital cameras were going to supplant film cameras.

What they failed to predict was that digital *viewing* of photos would, virtually overnight, supplant prints.

Less than 18 months to break even is pretty damn good, boss.

How much have you spent in those 18 years on maintenance and gas?

Problem is, most people don't tend to look at the total cost of ownership of things when determining whether something is "affordable". That's unfortuante.

..Yes? It's dead simple to install a breaker in your panel, drill a hole beside your panel, run some armor cable outside, along the outside of the house to whichever exterior wall you want your charger, then up the all and hardwire said charger.

This is called 'residential electrical cabling.'

As to it being an upfront cost of two thousand dollars, great. Figure out your average monthly gas spend, divide 2000 by that, and you'll see how many months it takes to break even.

So, somebody that has already bought a computer is going to have trouble buying a computer. Gotcha.

And most people that don't know shit about computers will just buy a new computer, sign in to their microsoft account, and all their stuff will simply transfer over through onedrive. Over wifi.

It's not 2005 any more.

I drive an Ioniq 5, and my wife drives a PHEV. She got a PHEV so that we could do the old 'well, for long road trips where we don't want to bother charging.....'

We never take it on long road trips, because fast charging is a solved issue.

We're already there. The average city commuter can easily just do a single fast charge once a week, and unlike a gas car, you can just find a charger that's near something else you'd be doing anyway, like at a grocery store, mall, or down town, and your total 'charging time,' defined as 'the amount of time you, personally, have to devote to the process once you roll up to the dispenser' is 'thirty seconds to plug the car in and tap your payment card' and 'thirty seconds to unplug the car and close the charging port.'

The twenty minutes the *car* spends charging is not time *you* are spending charging. You're doing something else while the car charges. Pumping gas might 'only' take five minutes instead of twenty, but that's five minutes that *you* personally are spending.

The problem is that Linux isn't 'superior.' Does it do some things better? Sure. Maybe a lot of things.

The vast majority of computer users simply *don't care.* Nor do they need to.

Windows works well enough, it does anything almost anybody wants 'a computer' to do, and you don't need to put too much thought into it.

When I was a kid in the 80s, our halloween costumes were sized to fit snow suits under them.

A few decades later, we had a green Christmas, and it was so odd that we made a Caribbean theme to go with it.

Nowadays, it's even money if we'll have snow on the ground at Christmas any given year, and it was 30c on Halloween.

Same reason as anything else that has cheating; there's a tangible value to somebody to winning, so they want to win.

No organization should expect to be free from 'disruptions.'

Instead, they must have plans and processes in place to operate through 'disruptions.'

That's what battery preconditioning is for. Heats up the batteries on the way to the charger. Makes a big difference.

Do you also starve on vacation because you don't want to 'mess around' with finding a restaurant?

It's so little effort that it's not even worth mentioning, especially compared to all the other planning that goes into a vacation.