Well the answer is of course they are out of touch and I don't actually have a 'right question', I just wanted to fit in.

No, it's just the sort of thing that the UEFI design kind of does.

You load a bunch of stuff that all initializes, just in case it might be needed. One of the key optimizations in some UEFI implementations is trimming down the things that get loaded based on an early assessment of whether this or that would be relevant to the expected boot. For example, hit key to enter setup and suddenly it has to load all the things to make sure all the various menus work.

Kind of like setting up the NIC in the OS before anything asks for network access, so that every network access isn't burdened with having to set up the network access. If the driver is already loaded then a variety of potential UEFI network code could just use it (PXE, HTTP, iSCSI, various crap from vendors like pre-OS firmware download)

Social democracy is the way to deal with it. If everyone has a stake, but nobody has overall or excessive power, and the government truly works for the people, the outcomes tend to be decent.

It probably does cost Google something. They scan apps and devices for malware, and anything that increases the number of apps and ways to distribute them will increase the cost. 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.

It feels calibrated to deter unserious applicants, but not cause further legal woes.

The real issue is F-Droid and similar open source app stores. It remains to be seen exactly how it is going to pan out.

That's interesting. Ours hasn't quite caught up yet, and will do things like limit the size of the inverter you can install because they don't trust the export limiter.

We will see, but *so far* Ford has not been as aggressive about that sort of thing as BMW or Chevy. The BlueCruise requires actively curated lidar maps, so at least they have a rationale for that being an ongoing subscription. The other subscriptions are similar, updating GPS maps (who needs those with phone) and data connectivity (but if you have a phone, you don't need it). So far they haven't charged for remote vehicle services which arguably could be charged for the SIM service and/or server infrastructure they have.

Note that their point is they state they had the car's onboard system also provide AC to the load side, making the cost lower to incrementally make it a backup unit.

Most solutions provide DC and a separate inverter is required to power the house.

Presumably this came from the desire to consolidate things and wanted to do the 'plug power tools into the truck' feature and the delta to get to 'car side house scale inverter' was appealing.

How does it work for an outage? With solar inverters they need to have a special island mode where they disconnect the grid, so there is no chance of backfeeding power into it and electrocuting the technician who is trying to fix it. Most inverters don't support that and have an automatic cut-off if they don't detect the grid is up (i.e. there is already 110V 60Hz there).

If you have Vehicle 2 Load you can just plug appliances directly into the car.

Many of the nuclear fanatics want it because they think it means they don't have to change their lifestyle, or because they are NIMBYs and fear wind turbines and solar farms appearing near them (but don't care about nuclear plants near someone else).

Renewables and storage are by far the cheapest and fastest option now. Nuclear is just kicking the can down the road, not doing anything for another 20+ years because "nuclear is coming".

Coincidentally published today: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbu...

I haven't looked into this detail, but if you do a network capture, you are likely to see some ipv6 link local activity during boot even if the server is never going to pxe boot. As it boots, it loads a network stack and generally becomes reachable ahead of any actual use. It may refrain from DHCP unless you do an activity that will call for it, but likely will be reachable over ipv6 link local.

Nissan did it back with the original Leaf around 2012. It was advertised as for emergency use and required an expensive wall box. Later there were V2G options for it, also rather expensive.

True, but I wouldn't read much into the 75,000 figure. Folding it repeatedly isn't the same as keeping it in a pocket, exposed to normal dust and lint, and folding it repeatedly. In other words, it's likely to be optimistic.

I'd say the flaw is that the tolerance is so tight that the manufacturing yield is unacceptably low.

Looks like a truck/pickup body on a regular car platform. What they call a "Ute" Down Under.

But also, in China the government runs the country and controls the economy, not the stock market like in the US. So it's really an apples to oranges comparison.

Also "vaporizing some $480 billion in market value" is kind of hilarious. Can you vaporize something that is already vapour?

In this case it appears to be a design flaw. They all break in the same place, in the same way. iFixIt found that there is a part of the hinge right under the screen there, and it appears that sometimes it gets misaligned and damages the screen.

My memory of a systemic failure was HP laptops. They had a deal with Nvidia that meant they all used Nvidia chipsets, and they would all eventually fail as the repeated heating and cooling cycles caused the BGA soldering to fail.