The transaction fee is not paid by the consumer (directly), and lord knows sellers are not going to lower prices based on payment method.

Who said the device based service has to be closed source?

Why? The company shouldn’t have to eat the cost just because you decide after the fact that you don’t actually want/need the item. The company should be liable for warranty claims, but not simple returns.

It says right in the article that it supports having up to 20 of these batteries in parallel, which gives you much more than 20kwh.

“International” person here. Obama was respected, even when we disagreed with his policies. Trump was widely ridiculed during his first term, and his voters have now been included in that ridicule for voting for him a second time. It’s going to take generations (if It’s possible at all) for the US to get back to the level of respect they commanded during the Obama years.

The war in Ukraine is solely the fault of Russia.

The rules of the English language have never had anything to do with making sense.

The only grammar thing that annoys the hell out of me is “on accident”. No idea why, it just really sticks out and bugs me when I come across it. I rarely mention it when I see it though, because I know that noone actually cares.

Why does it sound like you think “least worst” is synonymous with “good”? And you are also combining your opinion of the type of system with specific implementations of it. The two are related, but separate. For example, an autocrat can be a fantastic leader, and overall great for their country and everyone in it. That doesn’t mean an autocratic government is a good system in the general sense.

Of course it’s not necessary. The democracy +capitalism combo is just the least worst setup we figured out so far.

I know this site is heavily weighted towards IT professionals and other pure-office-work type professions, but sometimes in office work really is better than work from home. Online meetings are largely useless, even when it’s a proper meeting, not just a should-have-been-an-email meeting.

In my current job, remote work isn’t an option, and I can’t tell you how much time I’ve wasted trying to get engineers and software devs to understand things that would have taken two seconds to understand if they would go physically look at the thing. But of course, they can’t do that because they are working remotely. Instead we get to waste half a day playing picture/video tag

As a millennial, at no point did we actually want participation trophies. The feeling of coming in last was not changed in the slightest by receiving a junk trophy.

Things happen by accident or on purpose. No one over the age of 3 should be using “on accident”.