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GasBandit

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I'm not surprised about Musk whipping his tiny dick around because someone said no.

But I'm not sure I understand what "NACS" and "CCS" means, or how this upheaval at Tesla affects Ford and GM.
It's about EV chargers. The Tesla charger connector is NACS (North American Charging Standard, hubrisly named), whereas most other non-asian companies have been using CCS (Combined Charging System).

Last year, a massive feather in Tesla's cap was Ford and GM made a deal with them to switch their manufacturing from CCS to NACS and gain access to Teslas's supercharger network, which had previously been Tesla-exclusive, and is the only charging network that is held in decent regard.

WELP LET'S SCUTTLE THAT
 
It's about EV chargers. The Tesla charger connector is NACS (North American Charging Standard, hubrisly named), whereas most other non-asian companies have been using CCS (Combined Charging System).

Last year, a massive feather in Tesla's cap was Ford and GM made a deal with them to switch their manufacturing from CCS to NACS and gain access to Teslas's supercharger network, which had previously been Tesla-exclusive, and is the only charging network that is held in decent regard.

WELP LET'S SCUTTLE THAT
Hoo boy. I feel like that might violate some contract Tesla made with the other manufacturers?
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Hoo boy. I feel like that might violate some contract Tesla made with the other manufacturers?
Contracts? Like the thing that tried to make him pay severance? Yeah, you'd think he'd have learned that lesson.

The hilariously pathetic part is how reliable his record is of hiring back people he fired because nobody else could do it.
 
Contracts? Like the thing that tried to make him pay severance? Yeah, you'd think he'd have learned that lesson.

The hilariously pathetic part is how reliable his record is of hiring back people he fired because nobody else could do it.
The only real value in Tesla is their charging network. The design of their vehicles have all been lapped by real car manufacturers, and I'm sure Elon hates that.
 

GasBandit

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Biden announced new tariffs on $18 billion in Chinese imports, including electric vehicles, semiconductors, steel and aluminum products, and medical products. Notably, levies on imported Chinese electric vehicles will quadruple, from 25% to 100%, while tariffs on solar cells and semiconductors will double from 25% to 50%, and certain medical equipment (including PPE, surgical gloves and respirators) will be subject to a 25% tariff. “American workers can outwork and outcompete anyone as long as the competition is fair,” Biden said. “But for too long, it hasn’t been fair. For years, the Chinese government has poured state money into Chinese companies […] it’s not competition, it’s cheating.” Biden will also keep in place Trump’s $300 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods. (Associated Press / NPR / Washington Post / New York Times / ABC News / NBC News / CNN / Bloomberg)

-implying we haven't been pouring state money into American companies. Just.. you know... financial institutions.
 
I..uh....what's the point? Once you put the heat sink on, you can't see it anyway
Counterpoint, what's the harm? Even if a gimmick options don't hurt. It's possible someone may find one color easier to work with in seeing if they have proper coverage, it helping to hide a bit of spillover in a custom mounting situation
 
Counterpoint, what's the harm? Even if a gimmick options don't hurt. It's possible someone may find one color easier to work with in seeing if they have proper coverage, it helping to hide a bit of spillover in a custom mounting situation
No harm, but I certainly wouldn't pay extra for the feature, personally.
 
I can see uses for it, mostly for things like, "Which person assembled this PC?" or "When was this PC assembled?" and such. But nothing specifically for the home user.

--Patrick
 
Something @GasBandit needs to save up to be ready for when he retires:


--Patrick
I've made my thoughts on this... well, maybe not clear, but certainly rambly.

 
It's not all bad news, though. The commercial Blu-ray discs you buy movies and games on will still be produced, so there's no need to panic about the death of physical media just yet.
So....save the panic for 2025, is what you're saying?

--Patrick
 
As an IT person, if you were lucky enough to have your computer off from before the bad update went out to after they pulled/fixed it, you wouldn't be affected - I was one of those lucky ones.

Doesn't help for servers that are typically 24/7, but there is a manual process workaround to get back, it just takes time to fix.

CrowdStrike is very prevalent in large environments, which is the largest problem for a bad update... Lots of financial, airline, and governments running it.
 
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Less of an issue if the affected machine is OOB-capable, otherwise yeah, gonna be a lotta miles logged by people who have to drive to a location just to start up a machine in safe mode and then manually delete some troublesome files.

--Patrick
 

figmentPez

Staff member
Please tell me that DigitalTrends is like a tech industry Onion or something.

A Windows version from 1992 is saving Southwest’s butt right now

"Nearly every flight in the U.S. is grounded right now following a CrowdStrike system update error that’s affecting everything from travel to mobile ordering at Starbucks — but not Southwest Airlines flights. Southwest is still flying high, unaffected by the outage that’s plaguing the world today, and that’s apparently because it’s using Windows 3.1."

This has to be shitty reporting falling for a troll post, right?
 
[Brazelton] Google Chromecast, I guess. Sorta.
The new device is not a direct replacement for the Chromecast dongles, though, as it has a different design and is substantially more expensive. Google is replacing 2020's $50 4K Chromecast with Google TV USB dongle with an HDMI set-top box that costs $100.
--Patrick
 
Yay! It's an improvement! For just under three times the price you get... A slightly faster processor, more memory, and all the AI integration you never wanted! :confused: :puke:
 
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