Well the article is about the federal government so your state laws are not the subject of the discussion at hand.

You said it was simple to collect odometer readings from all EVs. I disagree. I think that’s the most labor intensive solution we could come up with.

We meter every gallon of gas sold because that’s an easy thing to do at the point of sale. The gas station already tracks how much fuel you’re buying so they know how much to charge you which means there is no extra work required for anyone. You could say the same for DC fast charging an EV but using any other power source would require additional work by someone that does not currently have to happen. That adds complexity and cost to the proposed solution that is not necessary.

That’s a great idea that I fully support. Unfortunately, you and I both know it will never happen.

No, there are no annual safety inspections. Some states do emissions tests but mine does not and EVs would obviously be excluded from those anyway.

You could do that but it’s considerably more complicated than a flat tax. I would much rather pay a flat fee to not have to deal with inspections and/or tracking mileage.

Yes that system would work but I’m not sure how you arrived at the conclusion that “inspect every EV in the country” is simpler than “flat tax on EVs”. Running inspections at that scale seems multiple orders of magnitude more complex than a one time fee.

You’re talking about 5G vs cable or DSL. This article is about the upper bounds of wireless technology. Those aren’t the same topics at all. One is about physics and computer science, the other is about the business plans of telecom companies.

Other types of taxes are exactly what this article is about. A flat tax for EV owners is their proposed solution to the problem. Sure, other options exist, but people are commenting like this is an insane idea and it’s pretty vanilla.

Fuel taxes pay for roads. If you don’t buy fuel you don’t help pay for roads to drive your EV on.

If you use it weekly it shouldn’t be free to you, certainly if you use it more frequently than that. Give money to the projects you depend on or they will disappear.

OK, but that’s not what this article is about and that’s not what I’m talking about either.

That’s not comparing similar technologies though. Modern wireless like 5G would be more comparable to fiber optic speeds, which are way faster than 5G. Even if that wasn’t the case fiber would still be much more reliable and power efficient.

Wireless will never ever beat wired unless something about our understanding of physics fundamentally changes. It will also not be practical to do this kind of thing over significant distances inside the Earth’s atmosphere.

The data carrying capacity of any signal is proportional to the carrier frequency you use, the higher the frequency the more potential bandwidth. Additionally, higher frequencies bounce off of things (including water vapor and particles in the air) much more easily. In other words, you need to use high frequencies to transmit a lot of data but high frequencies can’t travel long distances without insane amounts of power, and even lots of power doesn’t work very well.

This has been my experience. I am pushing 40 and the last few years have beaten the optimism right out of me, and I already thought that was long gone.

I have often wondered if this is what most people have experienced throughout history or if this another fun millennial game we were forced to play. I’m sure every generation has had their stupid trends and societal problems but watching a country collapse under the weight of it’s own stupidity seems less common. Not new, but certainly not something every generation deals with.

Ah, that makes sense. If only straight lines were the norm 😁

What does the electrician need to get up there for? It looks to me like that is already done. I’m not saying you’re wrong just that I think caulk is the best you can do to finish it out from this point both in terms of finished look and ease of removal in the future. Of course it would be better if you had a square and plumb room to work with but that ship has long since sailed.

Caulk is removable

You’re right, but that doesn’t make hotels suck any less

Hotels suck in comparison to renting a place. Renting may be causing other problems but it isn’t like they bring nothing to the table. If hotels didn’t want to lose out then maybe they should have stopped charging $300/night for a closet with a shitty bed in it.

I was gonna say large guns and bombs but yours is better

Copy/paste from another comment I made a while back:

Look into docker containers in general. If I was going to start from scratch in your position this is what I’d do:

Install a Linux distribution on the computer you plan to use for self hosting. This can be anything from a raspberry pi up to a custom build but I would recommend starting with something you have physical possession of. I found Debian with the KDE plasma desktop environment to be pretty familiar coming from Windows. You could technically do most of this on Windows but imo self hosting is pretty much the only thing that a casual user would find better supported through Linux than Windows. The tools are made for people who want to do things themselves and those kinds of people tend to use Linux.

Once you have a Linux distribution installed, get docker set up. Once docker is set up, install portainer as your first docker container. The steps above require some command line work, which may or may not be intimidating for you, but once you have portainer functional you will have a GUI for docker that is easier to use than CLI for most people.

From this point you can find the docker installation instructions for any service you want to run. Docker containers have all the required dependencies of a given service packaged together nicely so deploying new services is super easy once you get the hang of it. You basically just have to define where the container should store it’s data and what web port you want to access the service on. The rest is preconfigured for you by the people who created the container.

There’s certainly more to be said on this topic, some of which you would likely want to look into before you deploy something your whole family will be using (storage setup and backup capability, virtual machines to segregate services, remote accessibility, security, etc). However, the above is really all you need to get to the point where you can deploy pretty much anything you’d like on your local network. The rest is more about best practices and saving yourself headaches when something breaks than it is about functionality.