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Comment Re:This is a good thing. (Score 2) 249

The 3 cylinder Geo Metro in the 1990s achieved over 40 miles per gallon. 30 years later you're telling me we lost that ability?

Yes, but only because most Americans are unwilling to drive a Metro-sized car anymore. They've been conditioned to think small/lightweight cars are unsafe or unmanly or etc.

Comment Re:In other words: (Score 2) 249

The fact that the government is mandating fuel efficiency means that most people don't care. If they cared, nobody would buy the inefficient cars so the manufacturers wouldn't make them, no need for government intervention.

The invisible hand of the free market solves a lot of things, but it's never quite figured out how to avoid the tragedy of the commons. Everybody wants to live on a livable planet, but nobody wants to pay for the technology required to keep that way.

Comment Re:CAFE needs reform (Score 1) 249

I traveled to poor countries where traffic is 90% scooters. This is all they can afford. I hope we can do better.

Being inexpensive to purchase and operate is one advantage scooters have over automobiles; the other is that they are small enough to maneuver quickly through heavy traffic and easier to find a parking spot for in congested areas.

Comment Re:Anti-features (Score 1) 31

Maybe I'm just a weirdo but I am very annoyed at them for trying to take away the option of local-only accounts. Why do I need to let them be a third party to everything I do starting with logging in? Nobody asked for this.

At this stage, the best way forward is to apply the "Debian" patch to your system to restore local accounts, and strip out the all the daft AI guff

Comment Re:What nobody notices in Steam HW Survey (Score 1) 29

I saw an interview with Linus Torvalds the other day, and he seems to think Nvidias getting better behaved with its drivers now (although my understanding is he's not as fussed by closed source drivers as others are in the industry).

Nvidia are shits though. I know they used to maintain a CUDA implementation for macs. Now? Nope...

Comment Re:If you want to do business (Score 3, Interesting) 51

In a foreign country, you have to follow their laws, just as foreign businesses must do in the US.

I generally agree with this. But I dont think apple is saying they will break the law, but rather that they'd just wIthdraw from the market if forced, which has been their approach in the past.

Plus, while india is a big market, apples 10% of it probably isnt a huge segment of apples revenue, and they have the warchest to just sit it out until Gen Zs flip out hard enough to force the govt to back off.

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