For a single home? No, it's not that complex, but can be expensive depending on total needs. Average cost is $15-16,000 USD to start and goes up for more capacity.

Grid level storage? Much more complex.

The goal isn't to have 99.99999999% grid uptime. It would be supporting known common events. It's night? You don't have solar? Strong storm? Wind is parked. A foot of snow, and then overcast for the next week with the 8.5 hours of sunlight per day? Much more difficult.

Renewables still all come down to not being always available. Which means complex storage solutions, or generation by alternative means. Right now that's mainly natural gas and coal.

Will people in 20-30 years want power at night in the middle of a large wind storm that requires the wind turbines to be parked? I'd wager so.

The PS5 was modern at launch.

It uses Zen 2 for the CPU, and AMD launched Zen 3 seven days before the PS5's global launch with Zen 2 being under 18 months old at that point.

And RDNA 2 for graphics which was launched as GPUs from AMD six days after the PS5's global launch.

The limitation was related to clock speeds. This allows the console to run at a much lower power limit versus a mid ranged gaming PC.

I went from a i7 2600K to a Zen 2 CPU in 2019 and some games doubled in frame rate using the same GPU. The PS5 also has 8 cores versus older i7's having 4 cores and hyperthreading.

There's also the very large cost to construct the charging infrastructure to support a fleet of that size.

Add in that the BrightDrop is $66,000 MRSP, while gas powered vans of roughly the same cargo capacity are $15-20,000 less.

That could be two to three fleet replacements cycles to break even on the construction costs when calculating out the total cost of ownership.

That was my city example. 177 miles / 8 hours = ~22 miles to drive per hour giving time for loading/unloading, etc. Many scheduled routes will be 50% if not longer than that.

The estimated 177-179 mile range could also be an issue. It's fine if you have a distribution center just out of a city and the route is to drive around the city and then back.

But it wouldn't work for something like appliance delivery to customer's homes which would be all over the place. By the times you made the morning deliveries you'd be under 50% of the range, and you wouldn't have 5-10 mins to refuel and get back on the road. Though you normally wouldn't need to refuel at that range with an ICE, normally just back at the depot overnight.

Another victim of public schools removing government and civics classes maybe?

Then you'll just complain about election deniers when it's brought up that COVID could have been used to make people too afraid to go outside so mail in ballets were heavily used and open to manipulation.

Or is shoehorning in a yes man candidate that pushed unpopular legislation not a way of "To control us". And much of that legislation provided funding for programs that directly benefited donors and people in a certain political party.

Was the evidence indicating X trustworthy in the first place?

Or does it fall back to the old joke? "What's the difference between the US and Soviet Union? In the Soviet Union the people know all the media is propaganda."

Nine out of ten doctors recommend smoking Marlboro over other brands for a smoother healthier break.

I don't see there being much of a sleep pattern difference from 3:30am - 10pm than 4:30am - 11pm. It's still only 5.5 hours of darkness and would require blackout curtains either way.

Any induction furnace is a very different type of device from the non existent induction oven.

With the furnace you have coils running all along the crucible which the metal you are smelting is against and then melts.

Induction is used to provide direct heat, not radiant heat like an oven.

You have an induction range.

Most of the oven parts are just normal convection ovens, though some are infrared. That means it's just a normal electric heating element and a fan. it might be fancy and have a top fan to force air down like an air fryer, but it could just be marketing BS and having convection = air fry.

The latest marketing BS I've seen is "air sous-vide". AKA a normal oven. Sous-vide works because water holds temperature better than air, and the food won't be overcooked because it is only brought up to the temperature.. Do you really want to look for 4-5 hours at 120-160F in your oven? Better to just slow cook that in the crockpot.

That was a switch to permanent "Daylight Savings Time", so in northern area it can stay dark until almost 10am.

This is to get rid of DST all together and just remain on Standard Time. It has the added benefit of not staying light until after 10pm in the summer. The only benefit to DST is right now it would be getting dark around 7pm instead of 8pm. But I'd give that up in a heart beat to have normal sleep patterns.

There are many studies that people's internal clocks follow standard time, it's almost like the people who figured it all out knew what they were doing.

No that's not correct. Anyone can stream to any device IOS, Android, web, etc on the same network the same as before without a sub of any kind.

But now if you want to stream outside of your home network you need a subscription. If the server owner has the full Plex Pass associated to the server like you do, then anyone can stream from it remotely without needing their own streaming subs.

The new "Remote Watch Pass" is $1.99/month or $19.99/year with no lifetime option. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.plex.tv%2Fplans%2F

This was changed earlier this year. Previously people could stream remotely without any type of sub, and only need to pay for the individual app like in your example. But this was changed with the rollout of this new streaming pass who's only benefit is allowing remote access.

If you didn't have a full Plex Pass sub connected, then the external users would be getting prompted to pay for a streaming sub to allow streaming. Which was a new change earlier this year. Previously there was a one time purchase of a mobile app. These are now free, but there is the "streaming access only" sub that doesn't include the extra features of the full Plex Pass. I think people who previously bought the apps still require these subs now.

Jellyfin on the other hand just needs someone to configure a VPN or remote proxy to allow out of networking streaming, it's so incredibly convenient it's a wonder anyone would use Plex which works where ever someone is with nothing more than logging into their account in the app or on the web.

Plex will even silently handle proxying for you if you are behind CGNAT and can't get a public IP. That has to have some cost to keep this running. But so far they have stood behind their lifetime purchase which they should be applauded for.