This. You can have awkward interfaces and high prices, but you need to offer something compelling. VR gaming continues to exist because it's fun. 'Alternate environments', though? Who the hell wants to sit in an office, but in VR?

"One app out of dozens managed it, therefore it isn't Reddit's fault" isn't the strong argument you think it is.

Charging for API access was reasonable. Fees 20x what was expected that take effect immediately with a notice period of a couple of weeks, not so much. With 6 to 12 months notice, maybe some apps could have actually transitioned to a different business model. As it was, they would have needed to just eat the API costs for most of the next year while they worked on moving users over to expensive monthly subscriptions, and none of them had that much cash on hand. That's why 90% of them are gone now - were they all run by narcissists too?

Firefox doesn't get to control the window manager, but it *does* need to know how to tell the window manager to draw a Firefox window.

Because it's important that it's the latest, being the latest means the Intel part is better regardless of actual performance. Unless it's a product category where the AMD part is newer, in which case latest doesn't mean better. Just read through the Intel slide deck, it'll explain it for you. And if it doesn't make sense, try sniffing glue and then read it again.

People also overlook that the extra load on the grid will come with extra revenue for the grid to pay for upgrades. Also, smart chargers give the grid a ton of demand management capacity essentially for free - instead of spinning up gas peaker plants to cover spikes in usage, just turn off home chargers for a few minutes at the time. Nobody will even notice a 5 minute gap in the middle of a 6 hour charging session.

The grid will be better off with a ton of EVs on it. We aren't going to just add a ton of load to today's grid without changing anything else.

200k income isn't 200k profit. If you have two guys working on a game who need to be paid, you're not going to have much change out of your $200k in sales.

Defect rates mean that new manufacturing processes tend to struggle with big chips like desktop CPUs or GPUs. Smaller, high margin chips that are extremely power-focused like phone chips tend to be the first customers of a new node.

Each of those businesses is receiving regular emails from Google about how many people have seen them on Google Maps, and how they can get even more impressions by buying Google advertising. When you're using Google Maps, to Google your attention is a product to be sold to as many businesses as possible. Helping you find the thing you're actually looking for comes second.

Your experience is being made worse in order to appeal to business customers. Google Maps getting worse isn't an accident, they know what they're doing. It'll be made bad enough to get maximum value out of you, but not so bad that you actually leave.

So it'll be possible to send messages between this year's Google messaging platform, last year's Google messaging platform and next year's Google messaging platform.

To be fair, there have been a bunch of battery advancements in the last 15 years which are shipping in products you can actually buy right now. It isn't all vaporware.

Toyota's announcements though, they're always just an excuse for not doing EVs yet. The technology they need is always coming really soon, any day now. And Toyota's imaginary technology is always so much better than everybody else's current technology, so it'd be a shame to switch to EV right now, you should just keep driving on fossil fuels until Toyota's amazing EV launches real soon now.

Meanwhile, other companies are selling real EVs that actually exist.

Steam Deck?

Most EVs already support scheduling charging, so just offer cheaper off-peak rates and most owners will use them.

They've already been experimenting with blocking web access from mobile, though.

One of the major differences is the third party app shutdown.

For a lot of users, Reddit isn't reddit.com, it's Relay or Sync or Reddit Is Fun or Apollo. Those apps are going away. So you can't just give in and go back to what you're used to, you have to switch to something new.

If you're already being forced to switch to an unfamiliar (and worse) UI, the barrier to switch to a unfamiliar UI with a different backend is much lower.