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This smacks of sociopathic rage-bait, at best. Mediocre young adult sci-fi premise at worst.

This. 100% this. My first look at their marketing images resulted in "well, that's the most awkward looking thing I've ever seen."

This was exactly my experience when I stopped eating fast food regularly.

After getting my M1 MBP I mostly stopped paying attention to the new releases until the M4 came out and I decided to see how much "better" it was and was equally completely baffled by the insane number of SKUs and their seeming overlap. Insane product lineup decisions.

I'm a habitual device-swapper and I'm staggered by how... satisfied I am with my 8 year old Thinkpad X1 Carbon with Fedora KDE on it.

This is increasingly becoming the case. There have been a few posts on Reddit of people successfully porting Arch and other distros to phone hardware (typically seems to be OnePlus?). My handheld game console, a Snapdragon 8 Gen2-based Android device by Retroid, just got official first-party support for running Linux on it.

My kingdom for a fully local native version of Photopea. It's by far the best Photoshop alternative I've ever used.

The law does not permit the behavior. Tennessee explicitly requires local registration and taxes due on any vehicle owned by a citizen of the state that has spent more than, IIRC, 2 days within the state. They have no income tax so these property taxes are the state's main funding method and they have been increasingly thorough on enforcing it. It is considered willful and intentional tax evasion.

Tennessee has specific rules about vehicles that reside within the state for a certain amount of time requiring a local registration and taxes to be paid. This is the law where Cody resides. He willingly and knowingly evaded paying those taxes. Tax evasion is a crime, not a mistake, therefore a polite letter is no more warranted than receiving a polite letter and a chance to return stolen jewels from a jewelry store.

Now add a gas-powered range extender to that Bolt EV and it could easily be the only car that a person would have to own, subsisting just fine on 120vac charging most of the time and requiring a top off of fuel any time an unexpected errand comes up or a road trip is tendered.

Some of the trends in these comments are wild.

>>EREVs/series hybrids don't get better fuel economy

They sure do if 80% of your driving is done purely on battery, which is how nearly every Volt owner I know operates. Once every couple weeks they'll exceed their EV range, let the gas engine take over, and be done with it. The fuel is sipped so infrequently the car will require a "maintenance mode" to run fluids through the ICE but the car is still perfectly useful for a last minute blitz to St Louis or whatever.

I love the Volt. I personally have an i3 REX and I love it even more because it is absurdly lightweight and RWD.

>>Just get an EV

What about renters who don't have access to level 2 charging? The small battery in an EREV can be easily topped up with a normal extension cord (20 amp rated) run out of a rented house or apartment to the car.

Alternately, what about people who can only afford or have the space for one car? Not everyone wants to own the small city EV + ICE road trip car wombo combo, nor do people want to spin the roulette wheel of charging infrastructure that is still barley adequate, especially in the flyover states.

People claim the EREV i3 won't do extended highway but I did Boston MA to Wichita KS in one shot in my 2014 with a hurt battery using Hold State Of Charge mode starting at a 75% battery charge and using a 7 gallon fuel cell in the frunk with a transfer pump to allow longer stretches between refueling. It worked a treat. I have since removed the additional fuel system once I got to Wichita and now it is my daily commuter and goes 2000+ miles between fillups.

Surely you realize that using a computer in this fashion in the modern era is relegated to a fraction of a percentage of people, right? I agree with the sentiment that an OS should be usable without a pointing device, especially for accessibility reasons or instances where a pointing device is faulty or unavailable, but it should also consider the other 99.999% of general purpose computer users.

This is fair. I should have been more explicit that my wonderment is how something that is gospel in the car guy/mechanic community has somehow completely avoided filtering into the greater consumer discussion with regards to catastrophic failure and reliability.

I'm not immune. I recently bought some New Balance shoes from Sheels, figuring I'd be getting reasonable quality footwear. Both sets had hole damn near worn through the soles and delamination in multiple locations after ~6 months of wearing them as an office worker who does no abnormal amount of walking or exercise in them. Come to find out their "non flagship" models are cheaply made garbage as opposed to the quintessential white leather model that costs, iirc, the upper $300 range and is made in America.

Google "jatco CVT nissan altima" and realize how extremely lucky you have gotten.

I'm being somewhat hyperbolic, but there was a developer who made absolutely FANTASTIC Instagram and Snapchat 3rd party apps for Windows Phone back when Snapchat was the must-have GenZ communication app. The CEO of Snapchat killed the project, naturally. If I recall it was genuinely out of malice, as the CEO is a well known Apple fan to the point of supposedly originating the "Android cameras suck" meme by not properly hooking Android camera APIs on the Android version of snapchat resulting in extremely poor photo quality even on flagship devices (IIRC until recently it would simply screenshot the viewfinder instead of requesting a photo be taken).

Lacking some of the most popular apps of the zeitgeist at the time made the whole platform effectively a nonstarter.

On the topic of general purpose OSes for the ESP32 a project I've been a big fan of is SolarOS, which provides Python and Lua runtimes for user application development and a rapidly expanding API and list of built-in applications. I use it on a LilyGO T-Deck to turn it into something similar to a classic PDA with a python program that reads battery status from various devices I have running on ANT BMS units, far quicker than the utter garbage first-party ANT mobile app.

https://github.com/nilseuropa/solar_os

Samsung smart appliances in general seem to occupy a similar place in the market to vehicles like the Chevy Traverse or Nissan Altima, where people with technical knowledge in that area know them to be absolute horrific maintenance and repair liabilities and yet the consumer base places them second to God.

Obviously the review of a brand-new device or vehicle with 100 miles on it is going to have a disconnect from the realities of 60k miles of rocky ownership but I remain baffled when people buy a 7 year old used V6 Traverse, a vehicle extremely well known for catastrophic engine failure, and if I question their decision I get a "the reviews were good!". It seems like journalistic malpractice to not retroactively update reviews with a warning when critical widespread shortcomings are found later in a products life.

Still have fond memories of my Nokia Lumia 925. The combination of an OS based around a pure black background and that beautiful AMOLED display put it a solid class above anything my peers had at the time, and I loved Windows Phone 8.1's implementation of the Metro UI after drooling over a friend's Zune several years prior. Shame that Snapchat killed Windows Phone.

This sounds like something that LLM assistance might actually be ideal for.

This is tragic to read. An ARM-based Thinkpad ultrabook running Fedora on it would be a "forever" device for me. I adore my X1 Carbon Gen7 but the battery life could definitely be better and I could stand for it to run a little cooler.

The memory foam tips I've tried in the past get destroyed by the absurd amount of ear wax my ears generate when something is in them.

I have searched far and wide and have found nothing. I haven't even found a basic-functionality wired earbud that matches the AirPods frequency reproduction.

I have extremely weird ear canals and no, I mean absolutely NO in-ear earbuds will stay in my ears for longer than 15 minutes, even with the christmas tree earplug-style tips on them. For that reason I am relegated to either my bulky but beloved Sennheiser WH1000XM4 headphones (or, even less practical: my wired planar magnetics) or... airpods 3. Somehow despite trying every brand of "not-in-ear-ear-bud" a-la Airpods/Earpods I have found absolutely nothing that has the frequency response of Apple's design. The fidelity is nothing to write home about but I'm not missing any of the music. Even well-regarded "flathead" earbuds, conversely, simply have no response whatsoever below 120hz.

"Confirming the button contains no cyanide" sent my sides firmly into orbit. This is fantastic.

One of my locally owned fried rice places doodled a simple pencil cartoon of them cooking fried rice to satisfy their evil landlord and it has cascaded into a series of mildly unhinged pencil cartoon doodles every few days on Facebook. It is an incredibly refreshing break from the local food/eats FB groups being utterly flooded with identical looking slop posters and has earned my business several times. Also it's just... incredibly in-touch marketing in general.

I am certifiably not a fan of Musk but the yoke in the cybertruck when combined with the drive by wire steering is an absolute engineering masterpiece and a masterclass in systems calibration. The yoke itself has a relatively narrow range of motion of .94 turns lock-to-lock and at slow parking lot speeds that means you can do a 3 point turn, park, parallel park, navigate around, without making large movements of the steering input and you never have to (because you physically cannot) go hand-over-hand. Then at highway speeds the steering ratio is vastly different and the vehicle feels solid as a rock. It's absolutely effortless.

Now, on the flipside, the yoke also exists in the Tesla Model S Plaid, which has a traditional manual rack. In here it is the worst god-damned thing to ever curse a vehicle. The width is roughly the diameter of a school bus steering wheel and going hand over hand with it is annoying at best and the whole experience feels like utter garbage.

Its conclusion-drawing required a lot more guidance than I expected, but it concluded that my given my house's age (1940s with ducting added later) the A/C is about correct, and was able to tell what part of the house various rooms were in given their solar loading and the temperature differential across them on a sunny day vs a cloudy day.

My hometown of Wichita, Kansas recently installed two fully plumbed public restrooms in our downtown core and it was, predictably, met with incensed rage online at the cost of durable vandal-proof public utilities and tearing up concrete to run sewer and water lines to them, and used as an example of "government waste on stupid bathrooms", similar to a project starting next week that cuts down one of our asinine five-lane highway-sized surface streets to a more reasonable 3 lanes as a traffic calming measure, to a similarly predictable chorus of politically charged pejoratives and entitlement.

It's such a shame that somewhat objective, proven improvements to the general quality of life in an urban area are so quickly dismissed by selfish entitled idiots and used as political leverage by politicians because it's "Big Government".