So, (at best)... 460 watts per panel, the Rivian van seems to be around 135kW-hr.
So, cover the property in panels... might charge a couple of them during the day, except they're all out and about then. Now, you need a huge battery storage system so they can charge off them (whatever amount of power is left after leakage and line loss), and if it's not enough (and, it won't be) out of the battery storage system, they'll have to switch to grid. Hopefully, the area the solar covered parking lot is in never sees hail or severe weather, and there's a way for someone to go up and shovel the snow.
But, otherwise... great idea!

Now, if only they can do that for the rest of the country, there'll be enough power for maybe 1/3 of the EVs in the US! Don't need those pesky trees or lawns anymore!

Now and then... rsilvergun hits on a valid thing, sometimes it's TDS.

But, then... I don't see how who's in office has any effect on Daylight Savings.

Well, you have to keep in mind why DST came about in the first place... so that farmers could have their kids help in the fields an hour more when they weren't at school.

Nowadays, it's just not worth it... maybe take the one hour ahead and one hour back, divide in half, apply that. Would that fill the 'noon sun at noon on the clock' thing?
If we didn't have the hour change thing every 6 months (roughly), people could just leave the clock set the same and leave the alarm set the same year 'round!

Each Amazon distro hub is going to have to have a major cities worth of solar and wind turbines just to charge the vans.
What about when the battery gets too low... better hope there's tons of available chargers with their own solar fields close that aren't occupied by every Tesla in the county.
If this is all to prevent climate change, it'll only take a couple hundred years to see any difference... meanwhile, we'd better find a solution to the growing power demand from all the EVs... and, no, filling your garage with PowerWalls ain't gonna cut the mustard.
Nuclear and Fusion are the two best contenders... solar needs tons of land to be worth it, wind needs huge masts and blades and a constant wind source to be worth it.

So... say, Altman has $50 billion or trillion or whatever... he dies, what happens to that money? Sure, his kids inherit it... what if he didn't have kids? Does it just sit in an offshore account collecting dust? Does the company just use it and keep depositing to it forever?
Automated farms produce the stuff for him to eat, automated breweries and vineyards make the stuff for him to drink, robots deliver his food and cook it and serve it to him... robots keep the sewers functioning so he can piss and shit (maybe even have a robot that comes to collect his wastes).

There wouldn't be a stock market crash, though... it would be artificially inflated by his own AI, if it even existed anymore.

Or, maybe the AI becomes sentient and enslaves a portion of the population to maintain itself, and grinds the rest up to be food for the maintainers ("Soylent Green is people!!!").

Replace workers with "AI"-powered robot arms with some sort of computer vision... there you go, you don't have to pay more than a handful of people to keep the robots going. I can see fully automating burger flipping at McD's.
In that case, the question becomes: how can people whose jobs were replaced by these robots afford to buy stuff?
UBI could work, but that money has to come from someplace; the "former workers" aren't paying into taxes or social security anymore.
Maybe, in some convoluted way, fund the population out of the pockets of Altman et al... they don't really need to have $50 billion or trillion or whatever in their bank accounts. Maybe, find their offshore accounts and use the money in there.
Or... maybe the automation will keep pumping out crap, and we'll all just go back to the pioneer lifestyle.

There is such a thing... I do believe it's called A FIREWALL.
You can block individual connections if you have the details of what is connecting to where.
And, you only get infected with crap if you let crap onto your system.

One: the battery will _always_ lose some in storage
Two: it's a laptop, not a desktop. There's going to be some power draw... if you want full 0% draw, pull the battery.
Three: "hibernate" stores the RAM data to disc
Four: Full shutdown will shut it down totally (where it runs the whole BIOS self-test before even trying to boot), the battery will still self-discharge regardless.

Also, setting a laptop to spin-down and start-up a spinning harddrive is a ton of wear-and-tear on it (each of those cycles wears down the bearing on the motor... the platter rides on an air-bearing... during the startup and shutdown it's wearing that bearing), and the cycling heats and cools the board which can weaken the solder joints.

Dig into where stuff is being sent over your IP connection... that stuff can be blocked at your firewall (route it to loopback, 127.0.0.1)... it won't make it to MS.

*hugs his Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC computers*
You're more or less right...
Everything is going to be feeding the LLM-AIs "so they can be more intelligent".
I wish Win7 had been the last big version... if they'd built _optional_ new versions based on that instead of the pseudo-Mac-like interface Win11 has, it'd be okay.

You do know there are ways to disable the majority of that stuff, and the rest can be blocked at the firewall.
Windows (some version), on a handheld, is dependent on having the right drivers and all that jazz for the device, and whoever made those drivers not deciding to end support (or even issue an update that disables those drivers)... it'd have to be a version of Windows tuned for the device in question... kinda like the UMPC thing (wish that'd caught on a lot more).

So... *Nix is the answer?
Okay... do a clean install (full format, bare metal style... nuke and pave as geeks call it)... with no editing configs or going into terminal or setting up VMs, what games or Windows-only stuff work?
Sure, *Nix has stuff *mostly* equivalent that'll mostly do stuff, but that document you spent a lot of formatting on in MS Office probably won't open right in LibreOffice... now you get to reformat the entire thing, and hope you don't lose anything.

*Nix user: "But you can run the game (or whatever) in a Windows VM"
Reality: You set up a VM, install Windows on it, install the game on it, deal with lots of performance hits... and the game kinda works.

Not to mention if you have documents formatted in Office (.docx), it's a roll of the dice whether they'll open 100% properly in LibreOffice or whatever the latest thing is.
*Nix is _not_ a drop-in replacement for Windows... it would have to 100% interpret Windows programs and Office documents and everything without spending several hours in Terminal just to hopefully edit the config file for LibreOffice perfectly to handle .docx files.

But... that's just my opinion as a computer geek since before the IBM Aptiva E2N-2153 was a new machine.

Linux is the answer to "what OS should I use to avoid M$ 11"... except it's not the case for SUSE Enterprise now (and, I'm sure all the rest of the distros are working to add it in)... just give them time.
I've been saying that the LLM-AI crap will find it's way into all OSes (or, should it be OSs?), regardless whether it's *Nix, Mac or Win.
I'm sticking with Win10 Enterprise IoT LTSC, and even once that's old, I'll probably still run it... sure, no 'security updates', I'll just not go to websites or click ads that would install questionable crap, and I'll keep HiJackThis and Spybot handy for random checks.

'Install *Nix, configure it your way, install a VM program, install Windows in the VM program, install MS Office in VM'... so, what did you gain.

If LibreOffice opened .docx files correctly, and other stuff that needs Windows worked in *Nix 100%, more people would move to it.