Oh my god, dude, how much are the gas companies paying you?

You run into the same things with gas cars. Oh, I'll just pop into the gas station on the way to work. If it's open when I'm driving to work. If it's not busy. If the pumps aren't down. If you don't mind standing there in the weather pumping for five minutes. If you don't mind the gas stench. If you remembered your wallet. If if if.

If you're not running gas, your stove is probably 240, your dryer is probably 240, and if you have central AC, it's probably running 240.

But there isn't a market for 'forever' devices. Like it or not, the consumers have spoken.

And besides, how do you have 'forever' tech when tech advances so quickly?

There is, in fact, a difference between equipment designed to be regularly maintained, and equipment designed to be sealed once and never touched again.

You are 100% correct that the Earth will continue to, as you say, 'do it's thing.'

The problem is, 'it's thing' might include 'no longer being habitable by humans,' and that's going to be a bit of an inconvenience for us.

Inflation during that period was 24%.
Food prices have risen 37% during the same time period -- Are data centers responsible for that too?

I successfully ran a 240v/32a charger on a 100amp main panel for years. You just..don't run the oven, dryer, ac and car charger all at the same time.

Kodak knew that digital cameras were going to supplant film cameras.

What they failed to predict was that digital *viewing* of photos would, virtually overnight, supplant prints.

Less than 18 months to break even is pretty damn good, boss.

How much have you spent in those 18 years on maintenance and gas?

Problem is, most people don't tend to look at the total cost of ownership of things when determining whether something is "affordable". That's unfortuante.

..Yes? It's dead simple to install a breaker in your panel, drill a hole beside your panel, run some armor cable outside, along the outside of the house to whichever exterior wall you want your charger, then up the all and hardwire said charger.

This is called 'residential electrical cabling.'

As to it being an upfront cost of two thousand dollars, great. Figure out your average monthly gas spend, divide 2000 by that, and you'll see how many months it takes to break even.

So, somebody that has already bought a computer is going to have trouble buying a computer. Gotcha.

And most people that don't know shit about computers will just buy a new computer, sign in to their microsoft account, and all their stuff will simply transfer over through onedrive. Over wifi.

It's not 2005 any more.

I drive an Ioniq 5, and my wife drives a PHEV. She got a PHEV so that we could do the old 'well, for long road trips where we don't want to bother charging.....'

We never take it on long road trips, because fast charging is a solved issue.

We're already there. The average city commuter can easily just do a single fast charge once a week, and unlike a gas car, you can just find a charger that's near something else you'd be doing anyway, like at a grocery store, mall, or down town, and your total 'charging time,' defined as 'the amount of time you, personally, have to devote to the process once you roll up to the dispenser' is 'thirty seconds to plug the car in and tap your payment card' and 'thirty seconds to unplug the car and close the charging port.'

The twenty minutes the *car* spends charging is not time *you* are spending charging. You're doing something else while the car charges. Pumping gas might 'only' take five minutes instead of twenty, but that's five minutes that *you* personally are spending.

The problem is that Linux isn't 'superior.' Does it do some things better? Sure. Maybe a lot of things.

The vast majority of computer users simply *don't care.* Nor do they need to.

Windows works well enough, it does anything almost anybody wants 'a computer' to do, and you don't need to put too much thought into it.