Inflation has been falling for a couple years and is fairly low right now, though not as low as it was back when interest rates were zero.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273418/unadjusted-monthly-inflation-rate-in-the-us/

The dollar has been fairly strong in recent years.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy/charts

Inflation in 2022 was likely due to price gouging with companies like Exxon Mobil reporting record or near-record profits at that time.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/XOM/exxon/gross-profit

By late 2022, companies had jacked up prices high enough that the demand curve had likely reached the “crossover” point. Since then prices and inflation have been falling back to normal.

The Fisker Ocean has solar panels on its roof. It can add 4 or 5 miles a day if fully exposed to the sun.

Not enough to matter. It’s a gimmick.

If you don’t have an EV, you may think that EV owners are worried about range, and they’d welcome any increase. I have not found this to be true.

It’s more like having a car that starts every day with a full tank. You’re never going to burn through that in a single day. Pretty soon you don’t care about range, efficiency, or pay much attention to the battery meter. It only matters if you’re on a road trip, which for me is a couple times a year.

I would not want to give up a nice full-roof sunroof for a few extra miles a day.

All Mac laptops do. And my work Windows PC looks like it has one but the company was too cheap to pay for it, so all it has is a spot that looks like a fingerprint sensor.

Not really, but another massive international project, ITER, is trying to do this. Its timeline is measured in decades if not the better part of a century.

It’s an old federated message board system. Message boards are called “newsgroups “. It predates the web so it’s usually accessed via a special client app. To use it you’d need:

• A Usenet client app, called a newsreader. See Wikipedia. Many are probably abandoned by now.
• An account with a Usenet provider. A search engine will point you to several options. There used to be some free ones. If there still are, it would be a good way to try it out. But note that the free ones often don’t carry all of the newsgroups — they omit the binary groups, which are known to carry pirated software and, let’s say, diverse video content.

I think you’re exaggerating. Quite a few of them are from the field of functional medicine, which is certainly totally legitimate.

A literal answer to the title question. I like it. What charger did you have and was it covered under warranty?

The Tesla chargers – do they live up to their reputation for being reliable? Or are they also unreliable, but Tesla puts so many chargers at each location that you can always find a working one?

From what I’ve heard that’s not true of Tesla though. My car will be able to use their superchargers starting next year. I hope they remain reliable.

There’s no way Apple lets the automaker access app data from your phone. Apps on the phone can’t even see data from other apps on the phone.

There are two ways I can think of for the infotainment to get the messages. The first is by OCR-ing the CarPlay screen, which is shady as hell. The second is a feature like this one where the car has Bluetooth notification integration.

Google Bard can do this. I showed it a picture of my garage and asked for suggestions on how to organize it better.

Note that it will not work with images that contain people.

Is that basically the premise of NixOS?

And of course there have been forges launched, including SourceHut, Gitea, Gogs, Forgejo…