It's where almost everything on Amazon comes from. (Albeit often in quantity from their other site Alibaba.)

My first boss in tech used a Kinesis keyboard. He blamed his severe carpal on emacs.

Well, when you put it that way, it does sound better than the local source, but mostly thanks for the XKCD link. Always appreciated and usually funny, too.

Despite the fact that the current Republican majorities in both houses have abdicated their responsibilities - Congress has the "power of the purse". When Trump's sycophants say "we're not spending this money Congress has allocated", Congress doesn't have to just sit back and say "darn, they've thwarted us again".

Fixing some of the funding shenanigans Trump and his Muppets have been pulling can indeed make things at least somewhat better.

"They also have to certify these app stores, they aren't just going to let anyone set one up and start distributing malware or pirate streaming apps."

Yeah, you have to put those apps on their app store so they can benefit.

I joke slightly, though they have distributed malware before.

Conspiracies are the norm and not the exception. The wealthy meet in private clubs and offices and discuss how we will live our lives for their benefit. Are you new?

True. Many are much bigger assholes.

It's not illegal to make and sell a similar product with a similar name. Retail stores are filled with them. This doesn't make the App Store good, it isn't, it's crap. But it also means that they don't have any duty to prevent those apps from existing. They may chase them off the store if enough people complain, but only because people are complaining and it's cheaper than some other approach.

Ford didn't even make the version of the F-150 Lightning which should have existed. The tradesman version didn't offer the big battery as an option! You could only get the fully loaded model with it. This is presumably because they couldn't get enough batteries to sell all the models which should exist, so they reserved the big packs for the most expensive models, since nobody would buy those models without the big battery.

Instead, you plainly proved that you don't get it.

This functionality is good for both V2H and V2G. If you don't want to do V2G, don't! You can still do V2H. If these acronyms confuse you, then you aren't sufficiently educated to participate in this conversation. If they don't, then your comment is inexplicable.

I got a 7.6kW generator for $550. It's just open frame and loud AF. If you have gas heating appliances it's more than adequate, if not then it isn't.

To do a legal permanent install, yeah. But you physically could turn off the main breaker, connect a generator to a branch circuit (perhaps on a sub-panel) and run the important things in the house that way. Lock out the main breaker (with an actual lock, preferably) and turn off any unneeded circuits for safety. Use a breaker at the inlet panel sized for the branch circuit wiring. I have nothing like this connected, but I do know for a fact that it's a viable strategy if you don't get carried away with what you try to run.

It works the same way, you need to buy and install additional equipment to do the cutoff if you want to do V2H. These days there's hardware which can live between the meter and panel that does it, so it doesn't physically require a new panel — though it may statutorily if your locality hasn't caught up to reality. But if the system is designed correctly (which is a big assumption and probably unwarranted given that we're discussing Ford) you can also use the same functionality to run a jobsite without needing more equipment.

It doesn't work like you think it does. A rack of quality batteries is expensive. Doing a 10-20% cycle on your vehicle doesn't wear the battery like a full cycle does. A battery which can do 5,000 full cycles might be able to do 20,000 partial cycles or more.

So would ye olde Subaru Symmetric AWD, though.

Too bad they're practically all CVTs now, you have to buy a pissed off one to get a transmission that won't implode.

Off roading isn't really environmentally destructive if you stick to the trails. It's the clown asses who take all the little shortcuts who do the harm. Those guys really are assholes.

The biggest boys who buy the most servers provision them via netboot, which is why it's on. You are not the biggest, so you have to turn it off. Me neither, so I also have to turn it off.

But this is a good old buffer overflow fail, so this is some 90s shit they could have caught with analysis tools, and it's really not because the manufacturers leave PXE boot on. It's because components of UEFI BIOS are apparently written by amateurs.