If you don't mind paying to use a search engine, Kagi is actually pretty good. Not as good as Google was 20 years ago, but significantly better than any other search engine I can find today.

Start today. Download VirtualBox (or equivalent software) and if you make a mistake, you can just nuke the OS and start over without risk.

It hasn't happened to me, but passengers have been severely injured before.

An example of a minor incident.

Aaargh, that makes so much more sense now.

Hopefully I'll remember this time.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Is-There-Enough-Lithium-to-Maintain-the-Growth-of-the-Lithium-Ion-Battery-M

"The U.S. Geological Survey produced a reserves estimate of lithium in early 2015, concluding that the world has enough known reserves for about 365 years of current global production of about 37,000 tons per year"

"With known lithium “resources” at 39.5 million tons, we get about 50 years of supply with 100 Gigafactories"

There is a lot more lithium in the world, particularly in solution in the ocean, that is not currently listed in resource estimates. As lithium demands increase, more of these sources will be utilised.

I have not heard of any manufacturer recomending a battery replacement. If you can find any sources I would love to read them.

I didn't know about the newsletter, thanks!

In Australia, roads are paid for out of the general tax pool, and from a proportion of the registration cost. Fuel excise goes into the general tax pool and doesn't directly fund roads.

This hasn't stopped states from trying to implement a distance based tax on electric and low emission vehicles.
Victoria introduced one under the guise of needing extra money to pay for roads. It was a state-collected tax. The federal government collects fuel excise, so the state wasn't losing funding from electric car owners. The new tax collected didn't even go toward roads.
There were numerous other critical issues with this tax, but it's still running.

I want one now.

I fall asleep, then my concentration is ruined for the next few days.

Is this your theme song?

Which distros have you tried? I was given Ubuntu and thought I hated Linux. It turns out that I just hated the UI, and some other distros were actually ok.