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Comment Re:Chicken vs. Egg (Score 1) 275

Everything you said is true for an individual, but misses the point the parent was making regarding the total number of charging stations needed.

If an EV needs to charge 20 minutes every 200 miles, and an ICE vehicle needs to pump gas for 5 minutes every 200 miles, then you will need 4 times the number of public level 3 chargers as gas pumps to serve the same number of cars. In fact if roadtripping EVs are mostly charging at normal meal breaks, then you will need even more chargers, since use will be more clustered compared to gas stops.

On the flip side, the public chargers will only be used by people on road trips or who don't have a home charger which will decrease their volume. Still I would expect you to need more chargers than gas pumps along highways, and fewer in the middle of cities.

Comment Institution management features (Score 1) 85

I would love nothing more than a point release that addresses the OS's shortcomings for institutional device management. It is entirely too easy for device management to be broken by a bad link in the Volume Ownership > SecureToken > Bootstrap Token chain, where the only fix is a wipe/repave.

Apple has been openly hostile to institutional device management, even though K12/academia in general has historically been such a huge market for them. They simply have to get over this obsolete idea that he/she who possesses the device owns the device.

Comment What a self entitled crybaby (Score 2) 39

They wrote this software for free, and they gave you for free security updates that don't require accepting any new features. They even went out of their way to continue putting out security releases (ESR 115.13) for operating systems that Microsoft and Apple don't even support anymore. And they did this all six months in advance so you would have plenty of time to upgrade.

But enjoy your freedom to run old unpatched software.

Comment Re:copyright (Score 1) 48

If you take a book, reproduce it exactly, and add commentary at the end, the resulting work is a derivative work and you need permission of the original copyright holder to distribute it. FSF has only granted permission to use the AGPL exactly as it is with no modification or additions, so Neo4j had no permission to use their modified version of the AGPL, and doing so was violating FSF's copyright.

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