Yeah, I have a Windows 10 VM for a couple pieces of software, along with some security testing. Garmin Express is installed on that.

I had this happen this morning to a Forerunner 165. Plug the device in via USB to your computer, then do a hard reset -- select/back/light, push and hold until it beeps then the triangle fades. The watch will reboot.

Not sure what triggered it, but I then used Garmin Express to ensure the watch firmware was up to date. Seems to still be working.

No, it is definitely not "all". There are a lot that don't come with them because they flat out don't need them.

Three nights ago we hit a low of 7.6F (-13.5C). I have two Mr. Cool DIY 4th Gen units, one a single zone 18K ceiling cassette, the other a 3-zone configured 12K ceiling, 9K wall, 9K wall. No issues and everything is warm, but the system has to work. I say that because I live in a 120 year old house and the insulation is terrible to non-existent and the windows are the originals. Always another project...

Take a look over at DIY Solar forums, where people are trying to minimize electricity usage. While some people do have gas/oil, there are many that are 100% electric, including several in Canada and Alaska, and they're all reporting everything is working fine in temps colder than I had. It really depends on the units you buy, but the Mr. Cool DIY 4th Gen mini-splits are rated down to -13F (-25C) for heating. They do make cold weather units that go even lower.

What a steaming pile of made up bullshit.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.monitordaily.com%2Fnews-posts%2Fcalifornia-dmv-likely-to-deny-thousands-of-commercial-trucks-registration%2F

You're a bleating sheep. From 1990, pretending to be 1955:

Doc Brown: [looking at a tiny circuit under a magnifying glass] Unbelievable that this little piece of junk could be such a big problem. No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan".
Marty McFly: What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan.
Young Doc: Unbelievable.

In 2025, just substitute "China" for "Japan". Wake up or get left behind.

EV sales have increased in every major market. Growth rate may have decreased in some countries, but total sales has increased both in unit volume and as a percentage of all auto sales. In the US, EV sales once again set a record at 1.3 million vehicles. For one example, Ford sold more Mustang Mach-E EVs than ICE Mustang models.

In Brazil, despite being at an early stage of transport electrification, Brazil has seen a rapid uptake of passenger EVs. Sales reached nearly 55,000 units in the first half of 2024, or 5.3% of all new car sales during the semester. Thatâ(TM)s more than the number of EVs sold in 2023 in its entirety, and 2023 had already posted a whopping 178% year-on-year growth rate.

In the UK, EV sales set a record again. And, while gas and diesel remain more popular, their 2024 registrations were down -4.4% and -13.6% respectively, while EV registrations were up 9.6%.

Europe as a whole looks to be a mixed bag, with sales being about flat. Germany is desperately trying to protect their auto manufacturing market and Stellantis is...well, no one is really sure what Stellantis is doing. There are EV standouts, like Norway, where 89% of all new cars sales were electric in 2024; and Denmark, where EVs outsold gas an diesel for the first time, reaching 51.5% of sales. And Down Under, Australia is also seeing record increases in EV sales.

The rest of the world is seeing a similar trend, except possibly Japan, because Japan buys Japanese and Toyota is sniffing hydrogen. There is hope with Honda setting records with their Prologue EV. Even Nissan's EV sales are up, YoY. We'll see if being taken over by Honda can keep them more than just a nameplate.

Last year was 2024, not 2023. They're moving in the right direction, but huge and things don't turn on a dime. For example, "China's power firms are on track to cut coal's share of annual electricity generation to below 60% for the first time in 2024, which would mark a major milestone in the country's efforts to transition energy production away from fossil fuels.
Reduced coal reliance by the world's second-largest economy is a rare bright spot this year for climate trackers, who were disappointed by the recent COP29 meetings and are bracing for the United States' withdrawal from the Paris Accord next year."

They're moving to clean energy, leaving the rest of the world behind. From CNN:

It is time to stop making excuses and playing whataboutism with EVs, solar, and overall electrification.

He didn't, but I'll take a shot at it.

According to the most recent (April 2024) data by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, there were 1,346,002,877 trips taken by Americans in that month. Of that, 1,540,204 were longer than 500 miles. That means 0.114% were longer than 500 miles, which describes your trip. So, literally 99.886% of all trips were shorter than your example.

In 2021, 99.2% of all trips were less than 100 miles long, with 99.9% less than 500 miles. Hell, 93.4% were less than 25 miles.

So take the AC comment of you being 0.0002% as it is meant -- a hyperbolic statement meant to convey the obvious fact that you are a statistical outlier to such an extent your needs for vehicle range are not relevant to any discussion other than YOUR needs. They can't be reliably used as an example of what the industry needs to get to for EV adoption to dramatically increase.

There is more of a mental shift needed that is very hard to make without experiencing it. People are conditioned to go to a gas station to fuel up and get in and out as fast as possible. Why not? There's no other reason to be there. But that isn't the EV model or experience.

Ignoring those that can charge at home, I charged my EV up tonight from 17% to 80% in 21 minutes in 35 degree (F) weather. Horrible, right? Who in their right mind would want to wait that long? I certainly don't. Except I didn't, really. The charger was at a Walmart and I needed to do some grocery shopping. I plugged in and did that shopping. It took me 21 minutes to get in, get my stuff, get out, load the groceries in my trunk, unplug and leave.

With a gas car, fueling up is at a dedicated fueling station. That's why you're there. With an EV, fueling up is NOT why you are there, it is an extra -- if you change your mindset. I was there because I had a grocery list. If I finished sooner, I would have left sooner with a slightly lower charge. (Note: I wasn't on the faster charger, either. Normally I can go 20-90% in 15 minutes or less.)

The way EV infrastructure is evolving, charging stations are being placed where people would otherwise go. They're a bonus to what you're doing already -- movie theater, shopping center, etc. Yes, there are big gas-station-like charging centers off of highways for those who need to do it that way. But even then...your claim of an F-150 Lightning turning your one, long 550 towing trip into a 3-day trip sounds like a math error. The long range Lightning gets 320 miles to a charge -- cut than in half for a big tow. Say 160. That would be 3.5 charge cycles, and on a fast DC charger those would be in the neighborhood of 30-minutes each, 10-100%. How does adding 1.5-2.0 total hours to your trip for charging turn it into 3 days?

Also, it isn't infrastructure. If you lay wires or fiber, it lives for a very long time with very little maintenance. LEO satellites, on the other hand, burn up as their orbits degrade after about 5 years and they fall out of the sky.

The companies vetted the hardware and made their decisions based on the information at the time and the costs involved. It was the US gov't that later said "get rid of it" after the fact, hence the US gov't that needs to pay for it if they want it done without the companies just folding.

Nokia, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent are the main competitors in that market.

I haven't read the latest, but as of a couple of days ago Renault was looking to sell their shares and Foxconn, of all companies, was trying to buy them.

This is a waiver granted by the EPA under law, not a Presidential directive. To "undo" it will require either a complete change of the law (not gonna happen) or a long lawsuit. There is no mechanism for "revoking" the waiver. Congress structured the law this way on purpose.

The way the law was written (y 1967 + Amendments) is the EPA *MUST* grant the waiver if it passes a three (four?) prong test. This is going to be political theater where Trump claims victory and issues a lot of tweets, but nothing actually changes.

The linked Nature article is open access and freely available.

Being certain doesn't guarantee being right. Hyundai vehicles, unless they're the brand new few being manufactured in the freshly opened Georgia plant, don't qualify for the tax credits. To qualify for those credits the EV has to be made in the US for half, and have US batteries for the other half.

The Hyundai cars coming from Georgia are using Korean batteries, so only qualify for the $3,750 half credit.

Uh, what? UL 1741 is a standard for grid-connected inverters, published back in 1999, that was designed to address grid support in the event of fluctuations. Supplement A (SA) for "smart inverters" was added in 2016 to specifically address grid support functions, including:

• Provide predictable, soft start ramp rates of power production when connecting to the grid.
• Apply a specified power factor to the grid
• Apply reactive power to control grid voltage>/li>
• Apply watts to control grid voltage
• Apply watts to control grid frequency

Supplement B (SB), testing against IEEE 1547-2018, added a whole raft of enhancements for communications with and support of utility grids.

Yes, I know these are all American (and Canadian) standards, and that the subject is Australian. My point is, what you're talking about is essentially a solved problem. Much of the equipment Australia uses for residential solar probably already meets many of these standards. Australia is just late to the game in requiring this stuff and mandating a configuration. They really didn't start until 2019 with CSIP-AUS, but there are tons of compatible inverters already.

But that isn't really what the article is talking about. The article is talking about having so much solar available that in addition to replacing peaker loads, that can easily be spun up and down, solar is now cutting into baseload power, which CAN'T easily be adjusted. That electricity has to go somewhere, and there is nowhere for it to go. Solar generation, with grid-interactive inverters, can just be "spilled" on the fly and there is no real physical problem. Does Australia build even more batteries to start removing baseload and replacing it with solar/battery storage? How can local, residential, battery storage help? (See virtual power plants and NEM 3.0 for California for reference.) All of that is expensive right now. Hell, half the article can be summed up simply with "Batteries can do this, but fuck that is expensive!"

And, finally, what happens when Sauron invades and covers all the lands in darkness? Days without sun will leave the batteries drained and Australia without power -- begging for coal and the Smaug it brings.