I STILL have 11â 2014 laptops because I love the form factor. I just use them for SSH and RDP, with Wireguard. I keep one by my bed. I keep another one in my kitchen. So convenient when someone asks for a server change. A new cheap tiny Mac would be awesome. And yes, I have considered windows laptops. I dont like how any of them feel.

They care because Amazon enshitification resulted in getting revenue not from just selling, but also showing ads. If you shop with AI, you do not see Amazon ads.

So how do you figure this one individual pays enough taxes to raise the city's budget 20 fold?

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The EV infrastructure does that now, so what exactly is your point?

Actually for most of the US this simply is NOT the case regarding EV infrastructure...

Yes...US centric nerds....

China is not communist, even if it refers to itself as communist. It's not neoliberal, either. China has a strong private sector with strong individual initiative. It was communist, but that started to change in 1978. China is a one-party state.

China is, however....our enemy.

We'd be well served to NOT become any more dependent upon them than we already are....

You can go away from home without planning or stress about where you need to charge or how long it will take - most daily journeys are much shorter than the range of typical EVs. So it's more about how willing people are to be subservient to those who have told them to think of it as sacrificing freedom.

Most people also do not stay at home 365 a year...they travel...for vacations, work, holidays, etc.

Currently they have ICE vehicles and supporting infrastructure that supports both, without the consumer having to even think of planning...

The same cannot be said for an EV....and most folks don't wanna lay out heavy cash for a one trick pony.

Till the EV and infrastructure can support the casual ease of the ICE experience....it just ain't gonna happen.

Hell, even for those daily short trips you promote...a very significant portion of the US population has no viable way to charge at home overnight which completely kills getting an EV.

If 99% of householders *also* didn't park on their driveway, perhaps you'd have a point. But most people with a driveway and a car do in fact park on their driveway, so you don't have a point.

Lots of folks out there renting those houses with driveways you speak of....

Landlords tend to take a negative attitude of tenants tearing things up and installing stuff on the house....not to mention, tenants aren't too happy to pay to install hardware, etc...that they have to leave behind when they move.....

...if SUVs were not an obsession.

Hey, people want what they want and it's a free country.

I personally can't stand SUVs or big pickup trucks , but Im free not to buy them and others can if they like.

With any luck, once Trump is out of office, all of those people involved in the illegal activities by ICE will be charged with crimes, found guilty of breaking the law, and thrown in prison.

Since when did enforcing immigrations laws ON THE BOOKS become something illegal to do?

We're not having to clean up the mess left by former administrations that basically just opened the borders to anyone wanting to cross over illegally .....

Now we finally had an admin and will to enforce the laws on the books and kick people here illegally the fuck outta here.

Since when did enforcing immigrations laws and your borders become something illegal to prosecute?

You might want to talk to some South Koreans who have vowed never to go back to the US after ICE arrested them, held them for a week in those detention centers, then deported them back to South Korea.

If they were here illegally WTF did you expect would happen to them....?

[*] well really they also need less car dependence but that's another topic entirely.

Seriously...why not just drop this trope.

Unless you force US citizens to selll their homes and all move to extreme urban cities....it just ain't gonna happen.

Peroid.

Do you folks from EU ever stop to think that we LIKE the way we live over here?

The rest of the world needs to understand something.

We are crazy.

Who is this "We" you keep speaking of?

Do you have a mouse in your pocket or something?

You're not an American and not from the US, nor do you live here.....

Didn't you hear -- only the USA matters...! (... to US people, at least)

Well....err....YES.

US topics matter primarily to US citizens....why would we be concerned with EV sales in Germany for instance?

Why would Germans give a flying fuck what EV sales in the US were...?

And pile on top of that that Slashdot is primarily a US centric site...well, there you go,

If Trump calls you a pedophile on national TV, even if it is true at least half the country will knee-jerk in defending you. If AI calls you a pedophile when your name is searched, you are screwed unless you are really well-connected and wealthy to take on Google/OpenAI/etc. In this way, AI has a lot more power over you than even the president.