It’s not the connector that’s the problem with EA stations and the like, it’s the total absence of maintenance. I for one appreciate CCS1 and J1772’s simplicity of implementation. NACS was designed by a marketing team which means far more complexity behind the scenes. They’ve done well keeping their stations running but the pins and sockets only matter for the sales brochure.

Honeymoon lasted a month

That’s half the off-peak rate from Pacific Power.

~$0.07/kWh? Where’s that? Is that an overnight rate where they rape you in the daylight and cuddle you when the sun goes down? My advertised rate is $0.067/kWh but there are tariffs and surcharges that bring the difference in a 1300 kWh bill and a 1301 kWh bill to $0.16

Showing content costs them money, showing ads makes them money. Simple as

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It’s a chance for them to lock you (normies) into their platform forever. They’re not going to give that up.

I dip them in my coffee

I don’t think these companies notice anything shorter than a 3 month quarter

I got my 3090 for $600 when the 40 series came out. It was a good deal at the time, but it looks like they’re $900 on eBay now since all this stuff took off.

Two words to remind you-
Palmetto Georgia
It’s like the Bermuda triangle for packages

It’s because corporations, seeking profit, will find the absolute cheapest way to get the star.

Then consumers, seeking savings, buy the absolute cheapest option that has their desired level of superfluous features they can find.

You end up with refrigerators that can tweet, but the compressor grenades itself 2 week out of the 1 year warranty.

This is what happens when the marketing department runs the engineering department

Great, now I will need one of these for my computer