No, the biggest users of trucks are commercial businesses. Look at a construction site. Most of the trucks are Ford F-150's .Unfortunately the EV variant just isn't the best option in a lot of cases. All of the aerodynamic tricks than make an EV get decent mileage kinda go out the window when you're driving something with all of the aerodynamics of a brick. Then there's all of the extra weight of tools, material, and equipment. Or worse yet, hauling a trailer.

Constructions sites generally don't have power until they are much further along, so you can't charge them on site. Additionally, insurance is considerably more. Basically an EV work truck has most of the worst use cases that people who hate EV's complain about.

Then there's the tire cost. Nails and other things usually ensure that tires almost never wear out on those vehicles. According to Google, a set of tires on a gas powered F-150 will cost $900 to $1300. A set of tires for an F-150EV is $1700 to $1900.

EV's make a lot of sense in many cases. A Ford F-150 is not one of them.

The F-35 doesn't need a kill switch. If the US decides you shouldn't be flying it they can order Lockheed to stop selling you what is needed to keep it flying. With the amount of maintenance required it will be grounded fairly quickly...

One way or another.

Home automation seemed like a great idea for years. Unfortunately when companies figured out they could make more money by requiring everything to rely on their own servers for anything to work it kinda fell to shit. Now they expect you to pay a monthly fee for your stuff to function. Then they realized they could force their customers to purchase the newest shiny by ending support for perfectly functioning hardware.

I don't recall George Jetson's flying car failing to function due to a failed OTA software update. Or Jane needing to pay extra for Rosie to be able to dust window sills. Astro didn't need a new collar because the company that made it decided it was no longer supported. All this automated shit was supposed to just work and not require a $99 per year fee for every appliance in your home.

This doesn't even take into account those companies selling your information or the security issues. How many IOT botnets have been discovered over the years? Then there's the privacy issues. Orwell had no idea how stupid the public would actually become. He thought the government would be putting the cameras up to spy on the citizens. But noooo. The citizens are actually paying for the cameras themselves. Hell, we all carry around phones that allow, who knows how many government agencies, to track everywhere we go.

Because Elon Musk bought twitter. In many folks minds this has parallels to the biblical tale of Lucifer being an angel who fell from grace to become Satan.

Ten years ago he was going to save the planet with electric cars, solar shingles, advancing battery tech, etc. as well as moving human space travel forward. Now everything he does is evil because he changed twitter and supported Trump.

The reality is somewhere in the middle.

I wonder if the LockPickingLawyer has any videos they can try sue him over.

While not needing to compress and decompress gasses along with other inefficiencies of a standard data center sounds good. What are the long term issues?

How much energy was required to make, test, transport, assemble, and test was needed? Additionally, a hole in the side of a terrestrial data center can be patched easily. A hole that forms in this means a total loss. What about replacing outdated equipment? Even in nutrient poor water radiators and plumbing will need maintenance due to algae, bacteria, and critters growing on everything.

I've kept saltwater reef tanks. Keeping plumbing clean long term can be a challenge in a biologically closed system. In the open ocean who knows what kind of invasive critter could find all that warm plumbing an ideal new home. I suppose you could flush lines with toxic chemicals occasionally. But that's not really good for the environment.

There's a big damn difference between having someone double check something that AI flags vs. having someone manually reviewing all the footage.

From TFS, it doesn't sound like the police saw a picture until after the fact. The way it reads, the AI flagged the frame in the video and called the police. The police were responding to a call for an armed person. If you're responding to a call for a possible shooter, it's unlikely you will be grilling the caller, on site, before trying to stop a potential mass shooter.

It seems to me that the company who makes the AI should require a person to review the video once the call goes out. That way they can give the police an all clear before they arrive.

So that's why she married Scotty.

YouTube is mainly an entertainment platform, just like movies. Sure, it gets a lot of content that is actually educational. However no one in their right mind should be thinking of it as anything other than entertainment. There were a lot of medical professionals who were banned from YouTube over posting accurate information during the covid panic.

So an actor playing a doctor in a movie is fraud in your mind?

Sony did this in 2008 with their Trilouminous KDL-46XBR8 and KDL-55XBR8. Now if it's reasonably priced, that would be news. The 46 inch XBR8 MSRP was $5K and the 55 inch was $7K.

The issue has nothing to do with f-35 shortcomings and is related to the EMALS on the Ford carrier. They didn't have the necessary information for the F-35 when the Ford was built. The EMALS will be updated during a refit that was scheduled for later this year the last time I heard. All upcoming Ford class carriers will be capable of yeetng F-35s off the deck when they are commissioned.

So is that "digital" format VCD, DVD, Bluray, HD-DVD, DV tapes, D-VHS, streaming, or something else?

Of course. But if the US got into a shooting war with Russia or China Satellites are going to be one of the first things targeted. In all likelihood, the US and the EU would likely be fighting Russia and China at that point.