And this is why the only Samsung products I have are RAM and SSDs.
And the SSDs are backed up daily.
Samsung should not have gotten into appliances. They seem to be singularly terrible in that field. No-one else comes even close to their incompetence.
The fact that any homeowner can take their house entirely off-grid without consequences, and use their vehicle as a partial whole-house battery, takes many of those concerns off of the table.
Combine that with many companies offering EV conversions to vehicles that are old enough (minimal electronics), and you can easily bypass any enshitticiation with solar panels and an EV conversion that costs much less than a new EV.
Your mechanic likely isn’t learning how to work on EVs
Many EVs have DRM out the wazoo, requiring the mechanic to spend $1,000,000 on a piece of software that has a $6,000/mo subscription just to authorize a brake replacement with the mothership. Otherwise the vehicle refuses to even roll, much less move under its own power.
And then the mechanic needs to rinse-and-repeat this spending spree with every other manufacturer who is also making EVs.
That shit becomes prohibitively expensive shockingly fast. And manufacturers are going whole-hog on this technique to send people back to dealer garages (who don’t have to pay those fees) for a slice of those profits, instead of independent shops that provide no profits whatsoever. They’re literally enshittifying cars until the only people capable of fixing them are dealers, or those independent shops who got wealthy enough fast enough to pay for that software.
For me, the issue with my older vehicles is the cost of fuel. The math is clear - an EV is radically cheaper over the long haul, especially for something like a sedan. Plus, far fewer moving parts to break.
I think, however, that a conversion of an older car is the trick. Sure, modern EVs are a shitton heavier, but only if you want it to go 700-1,200km. I don’t. I would only need a 100-200km range because bombing around town will be it’s only duty. Which means far fewer batteries and a powertrain weight that likely matches the original engine and drivetrain, allowing me to retain the original suspension as-is.
Slate is also funding Fascism, being a Bezos project.
But it hits most other requirements, true.
Downside is that I want and need a traditional sedan with a full-sized trunk capable of securely holding at least 3-6 adult bodies, not a truck. If I was to get a truck, I also need it to haul 5,000kg on the regular across steep/alpine roads, 8,000kg+ in a pinch over mostly flat and level roads. The Slate truck is utterly incapable of that. And I have two F-150 7700 units that can and have done exactly that.
My advice is to always avoid laptops unless you absolutely could not do without the portability.
I have also had great success with surplussed business-class machines. Like, the models which are impossible to buy from any brick-and-mortar location, and can even be difficult to buy online because the company typically sells those models through MSPs (Managed Service Providers, outsourced IT provisioning companies for other companies). These models are usually super-robust because they are meant to NOT be disposable, and usually have much higher config ceilings on RAM and storage, and can easily remain relevant for a good 7-15 years while consumer models scream to be replaced at the 5-year mark.
I have never bought a vehicle for more than $5k, and most were 25+ years old when purchased. Most lasted 10+ years with virtually no significant repairs beyond the post-purchase glow-up.
Downside is that I have been hankering to get into an electric for some time now, but I am running into a few blockers:
If this is the biggest shenanigans that the site has gotten into over its entire existence, imma not gonna throw the baby out with the bath water just yet.
Any site owner has a right to remain anonymous. I would also take serious issue if someone started unmasking a high-profile project that I have taken extreme pains to keep separate from my private/meatworld existence. I would likely not behave as badly, but I would certainly pull out as many stops to make their life as uncomfortable/inconvenient as possible.
Sorry, what’s the problem?
If you can’t reach that resource, it’s your DNS provider being a limp-wristed dick. Change providers.
That’s… disgustingly impressive.
As a guy I would gladly high-five you for coming up with such a creatively practical solution, but you’re gonna have to wash your hands, first. Thoroughly.
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Sometimes a dimensional drain installed into the bladder - something that burrows through a higher dimension and into a sanitary disposal somewhere else - would be nice.
I mean, I don’t drink like a fish or anything, but full bladders can be more abruptly insistent than most anything else.
It depends on how unique you are.
If you have a name like John Smith, you can scrub your content and reliably hide behind all the other John Smiths out there.
If your firstname+lastname is unique on the planet, you have a uniqueness problem; there is no-one else to hide behind. You can also scrub the objectionable bits, but a good secondary strategy would also be to blast bland/irrelevant/dummy content everywhere such that anything important gets lost in the noise. You don’t want the few important bits to come up first in a search - make them work for it well past the 100th page of search results.
I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Wait until 2027, when we start seeing widespread crop failures due to lack of fertilizer.
A majority of the base components for most fertilizers come through the Strait of Hormuz, from Iran. Industrialized agriculture absolutely depends on these fertilizers because topsoil has been almost completely exhausted. These base components need to be available many months before they are needed, because production is slow. Because the Strait is still closed, up to 60% of all northern-hemisphere non-orchard/non-perennial agriculture may be impacted.
If you can prep for a garden for next year, like bringing in manure and bedding materials, I would start now. Choose easy to grow crops next spring that are filling, like zucchini, tomatoes, and other gourds that can keep well into the winter. Try stocking up on staples (beans, lentils, white rice, etc.) that can hold for a long time at room temperatures, and store them in pest-resistent pails. Look into water bath canning, even two dozen jars of tomato pureé can last most of a winter and be used in many dishes. Understand that a decent chunk of veggies need to be pressure canned due to lack of acidity. Follow best practices when canning, you cannot smell or taste botulism and it kills very readily
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Detective Lucas Heck proceeded with charges despite knowing that Lipps lived in Tennessee, had never visited North Dakota, did not match the physical description of the suspect captured on surveillance footage, and had no unexplained funds linking her to the thefts.
Wow, ACAB. How wildly incompetent are they?
So long as healthcare continues to be tied to employment via health insurance, far too many Americans will remain far too terrified to rock the boat.
That is maybe the most Aussie text chat I have seen in a damn long time.
How TF does this happen to a book sitting in your hands? I have never had this happen to any of my books, hardcover or paperback.
For simple chained operations they can be noticeably faster than an electronic calculator.
And unless you are getting the circumference of the universe down to a few angstroms, the precision is absolutely adequate for everyday use.
Our last LG set of washer+dryer lasted 14 years.
We got a new set when we moved into our current place 6 years ago.
Now granted I am not satisfied with the lack of control in our LG appliances, where certain settings seem to be locked to defaults. For example, I would love to see longer drying at lower temps, as the temps seem to be unmodifiable regardless of tumble profile. However, so far we are seeing sufficient performance and no flaws.
Our next set will be Huebsch, which is the Canadian re-badge of Speed Queen (something we only discovered in 2026), but we honestly don’t see a purchase within the next decade or more.