dan

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The screen looks like they just copied and pasted BMW's version

I can understand having both charging connectors, as it means you can charge anywhere without an adapter.

I don't understand them having different functionality though.

Yeah, I think your case is an outlier where ICE cars still make sense. The majority of people don't drive that far - the average driver in the USA only drives 37 miles per day.

Tax credits and other government rebates are almost never effective for anything, because companies just increase their prices. One of the reasons solar power is more expensive in the USA compared to other countries is because of the 30% tax credit. The tax credit just brings the price down closer to what it should actually be.

In my area there's a $4k rebate on heat pump HVAC systems... As a result, quotes here are around $4k higher than quotes for addresses in the next county.

They have their systems only they use, therefore they can easily make them on Linux or emulate.

Also, a lot of systems are web-based (and therefore automatically multi-platform) these days.

It's usually fine if you stick to a good well-known brand, but there's some cheaper cameras that are bootleg clones of other brands, that can't run the latest upstream firmware so they're stuck on a hacked/modified version of older firmware.

The good Chinese brands, if they do have a hard-coded password, usually make you change it on first login. I'm pretty sure newer Hikvision and Dahua models do this (plus their resellers/rebrands like Amcrest, Lorex, Annke, etc). You need to pay more than the garbage brands, but they're worth it.

Of course, there's all sorts of junk on Amazon that don't follow any sort of standards.

It can get cold if you're protesting at night, so don't forget to keep warm by wearing a face covering 😊

Hard-coded default passwords have been illegal in California since 2020, so it shouldn't be as much of an issue with newer devices. Companies aren't going to make California-specific versions of their devices, so they'll often just follow the California standards everywhere.

To be legal in California, the device either needs to have a randomly-generated password unique to that device (can be listed on a sticker on the bottom of the device, or in the manual), or it needs to prompt to set a password the first time you use it.

I still wouldn't ever expose a camera directly to the internet. Keep it just on your LAN (eg using a VLAN) and VPN in (eg using Tailscale) to connect to it remotely.

There's a site that lists all the insecure cameras: http://www.insecam.org/

Any camera you expose to the internet with no protection is vulnerable. The issue is just that they're accessible over the internet without a password.

Follow best practices by keeping your cameras on a separate VLAN that's isolated from the internet, and you'll be fine. Use a VPN like Tailscale to view your cameras while away.