Comment Re:Can't wait... (Score 1) 23
All electric cars still have horns, car radios, and idiots driving them. The problem is far bigger than just an ICE.
All electric cars still have horns, car radios, and idiots driving them. The problem is far bigger than just an ICE.
Ever participate in a conference call with people in India? The constant honking you always hear in the backgrounds boggles the mind. How can anyone put up with that? No wonder they all seem to want to get out.
Get out of where? I've not only heard an equal amount of honking in every 3rd world country (in some places I've been to people literally honk to say hello to each other, no REALLY!), but the place that I've heard the most honking anywhere is a far more interesting list: Chicago, New York, and London, easily my top three. And yes I've been to Bangladesh and Pune.
I do that every time I go to a website and it has a must-click popup.
Must be nice not using the internet at all from a phone.
Hit the back button and browse elsewhere
I don't "browse" the internet. I go somewhere specifically for something specific. There are two situations where I come across the captchas:
1. Login pages of places I'm trying to log in to for a specific reason. - No alternative
2. Virtually the entire internet including when I type something into the search bar if I am using a VPN. - No alternative.
Tricking the consumer into running these language models on their PC
2024 people. The idea that doing something locally without a cloud is suddenly a nefariously "tricking the consumer".
God I miss the days I was tricked.
"Uh uh uh uh, you didn't install the magic chip."
When was the last time you saw actual sky-blotting smog?
The inability to see the end of the street is not a pre-requisite for negative health outcomes. Why are you looking at the sky when you can instead look at air quality measurements or simply just sniff through your nose in the city if you want to realise how bad air still is.
The public did not ask for BEVs, a few evangelists excepted and they already own at least one.
The public doesn't ask for anything. They inherently hate change. It took years for car makers to even get the concept of the automobile into the public's heads. It's called marketing.
The issue is the marketing right now favours traditional pollution, so you have two different interests at play.
FWIW I used to think the gasoline engine was the be all and end all. Then I tried an EV, then I bought an EV, and I will never buy a gasoline car again because I realised how ignorant I was.
Not saying Apple is on the right side of this, but we've only heard from Spotify
Well. Not really, we've not just heard from Spotify. We've heard from Spotify, from Epic, and from Apple itself about how it followed the EU ruling along with lots of legal opinions on the legality of the ruling.
Not all sides carry equal weight. At this point any normal person would be taking Spotify's point at face value given the recent past performance of Apple directly related to the EU's ruling.
Apple isn't stupid and if they are just doing this only because they want to defy EU regulations, that doesn't make sense.
But they literally are. The EU actively re-opened an investigation into Apple based on how Apple responded to the ruling from the EU, and they are very likely to end up dragged into court again at this point. We covered this in multiple
It's not a case of stupid, this is just a game to them, one that could be worth billions if they win.
This is like saying that the car that slows down after crossing the finishline first, is slowest.
Huh? In what capitalist world has any market ever had a finishing line? Are you a senior manager at Intel by any chance? Do you have a masters degree in resting on laurels?
I await their decision on EV producers and the huge quantity of dangerous particulates EV's spew into the atmosphere. Maybe they should have to capture all that stuff, or close down EV production.
That's more than enough Fox News for you for one day. Turn off the TV.
Every Snap I've seen is alongside the deb package, so the choice is there.
False. You may think you're getting a deb package but Ubuntu will actively circumvent your attempts. For example, try running "sudo snap remove firefox". Then run "sudo apt install firefox"
There are multiple packages in their official source list that operate this way. If you want to install firefox as a
>"Yep, snap ends up being more of a problem than a solution."
Not just screw snap, but screw any FORCED use of containerized packages. Users should always have a choice for native packages- you know, the ones that take little disk space and are not complicated to manage.
You have a choice. Ubuntu hasn't uninstalled aptitutde and you can always add a custom repo to your source list. But fundamentally while I *hate* snap I really disagree with your point. The fundamental point of a distribution is that someone makes decisions for you. The issue here is that Ubuntu isn't the right choice for you, but we shouldn't be saying that any distro should be forced to follow the opinions of anyone other than their own maintainers, because in doing so it would lead to all distros being the same.
Hasn't it occurred to anyone that the The Foreign VPS Incentive Act will cause domestic VPS vendors to lose business?
Lose business to whom? The reason so many foreigners are using American VPSes is because the number 1, 2, and 3 services for it are American. (presumably the whole top 10 is but I haven't looked that far).
Nah. Just the antisemetic ones.
God help those who do not help themselves. -- Wilson Mizner
