I was recently ona holiday here in Australia where someone else on the trip rented a BYD Atto 3 EV and it worked great, even though we were traveling over 300km each way. We had to stop and charge for maybe 15-20 minutes at a fast charger in both directions (the cost of which was apparently included in the rental) but overall it was great.

Can I run this locally somehow, ask it things and get the same results back as I would talking to the real Grok AI? Does this include all the training data?

Doesn't matter what the law says about repairing the equipment, the contract between McDonalds and the franchisees says that they must only use these specific Taylor ice-cream machines and that they must only get them fixed and maintained by Taylor.

Unless you somehow force McDonalds to remove the requirements from the contracts, any other changes to the law don't matter.

If you want a genuinely good safe, buy a safe with a good quality dial combination lock. No battery to run out of juice and no electronics to fail. And no backdoors in the system that could be exploited.

Oh and you need to buy said safe from a proper locksmith or safe company since nothing sold by a big-box store of any kind is in any way a "good safe"

How is Microsoft "breaking win32 compatibility"? I have many many win32 apps and games that run just fine. And secdrv.sys isn't even a Microsoft thing, the fact that an old insecure 3rd party driver doesn't work anymore is not the fault of Microsoft (although the decision to explicitly block it rather than let it run and fail is on them)

At this point it's a well known fact that HP does crap like this so why do people keep buying HP printers?

The problem in the US is that there are powerful vested interests who profit off people being in jail so anything that means less people go to jail (or return to jail after getting released) means less profits for them and less "campaign contributions" for their bought and paid for politicians.

Ask Linus Sebastian (of Linus Media Group) how well that "IP68" rating works to protect your phone from liquid damage...

If you ever wanted proof that the music industry stopped caring about anyone but themselves, look at the recent decision by Universal Music to pull their music from TikTok. That move has actually HURT Universal Music artists (who can no longer use TikTok to promote their music)

But there is almost certainly a law that would probably apply if a manufacturer sold a TV that was previously receiving over the air broadcasts just fine but after a software update was no longer able to do so.

My current TV is a 32" Samsung dumb TV. It works just fine for watching over-the-air TV (which is all I use it for). All my other content watching (YouTube, Disney+ etc etc) is done on my PC.

If the relavent authorities had the guts to stand up to the NIMBYs and vested interests and pass laws that take away their ability to stop new housing being built, so many of the problems plaguing the bay area could be solved.

The "this is for security" argument is BS IMO.

A home screen web app is simply an icon on the home screen that, when pressed, triggers a "load this URL in Safari and pass it this special flag" action. Safari is the one that interprets the special flag and displays the app in the special full screen mode or whatever it is.

All Apple would need to do is to add a method for icons to go on the home screen that would (when activated) trigger Firefox or whatever along with the same special flag. What the individual 3rd party browsers do when they get the information is up to them.

Make it so that the API involved triggers a UI confirmation prompt (so that users know that what icon is being added, which browser it's going to open in and what URL the icon will go to) and there shouldn't be any real security problems.

Basically no CEO is ever going say that their competitors product is better than their product.

If fuel cells made sense as a power source for road vehicles, someone would have figured it out by now (the technology has been around since the 60s if not earlier).

They make great electrical power sources for spacecraft (NASA has used them since the 60s) but they can't beat either internal combustion or batteries as a power source for road vehicles.