I think you don't understand the concept of a "crisis". Sharing cars is subject to a subscription service, and in a place with generally excellent car free mobility it becomes an optional expense.

The cost of living crisis has hit many things in the UK, Netflix subscriptions, internet, phone replacement, eating out, entertainment, type of stuff bought. The second hand market is booming. The optional expenses (which for most this service is) are plummeting. Hell the only one really making a profit are those people who make sweaters, and only then because buying a new woolen jumper is cheaper than turning the heating on allowing people to save on their gas bill.

A fuckton of the UK services industry is currently under dire straits. There is nothing wrong with the business model, they are only pulling out of one specific location where it currently isn't viable.

It is. Very much so in the UK, and many parts of Europe. Your problem is you equation considers the two possibilities as being "own a car" vs "share a car". The reality is the real question is "share a car" vs "don't share a car". Ownership is not in question in a place where car free mobility is trivial to achieve. You may not understand what it's like to live in a place where needing a car is optional for all but rare conveniences. (I wrote above a joke about needing to go to a hardware store, but really not owning a car, and not sharing a car didn't stop my sister from renovating her apartment in Hammersmith, it's like she used a website and all the things magically appeared at her home).

There is no "peak" time here. People aren't using this for their morning commute. They are using them for relatively rare trips which usually don't massively align with others. Mathematically there simply is no problem, not unless someone decides to create a "hardware store day" where everyone without a car suddenly needs one to go buy a bunch of 2x4.

While Zipcar may be a curiosity in the USA, it's just one of several car-sharing platforms in London. It's very much not a unique service there.

That's my point. For very many adults the adapting will be burden on them. I see you've never dealt with a bored kid before. The article is written from an adult's perspective because it recognises that adults will be involved and impacted by this change, even if only to support kids with whatever new thing they find.

(Assuming that new thing isn't simply a VPN that allows them to keep accessing their social media).

While I'm with you in general there's a few points to make here: The vast majority of Windows 11 users log-in via PIN - Microsoft nags you to do so quite hard. When login via Hello is enabled there's literally no button press required, on successful entry of the PIN it auto-logs on. If you have at any point enabled windows Hello then there simply is no button. (Fun fact I just double checked this,... I can't even not login via PIN now... Not without going through the "I forgot my PIN" prompts).

And on top of everything, there is no menu to speak of. There hasn't been a button that said "login" or otherwise properly prompted the user since Windows XP. Windows Vista introduced a little arrow that has stayed with Windows 10, ... and as I said I don't actually know what Windows 11 has because I've never seen it. Not on my home PC, not on my work PC.

I've legit not seen someone reach for a mouse to log in on Windows for a decade.

Except it is debunked bullshit. Despite virtually countless exploits being discovered there were precisely zero actually demonstrated outside the lab. Your concerns are just not worth giving a shit about unless you're the type of person running a virtualised environment for untrusted parties in a secure facility. In which case apply a patch an move on with your life.

Thankyou for admitting your original post was incorrect bullshit, I mean you did predicate it on the fact that Intel was cutting corners, but glad you admit now that what they did was industry standard. It's nice for you to agree with reality occasionally.

Citation required. Show us one example of a practical exploit outside of a carefully controlled lab environment. I'll wait. (No I won't, I don't intend to die of old age here).

And yet there were plenty of practical lab exploits demonstrated for AMD (and ARM) as well.

Honestly I'm not surprised you can't compute what other people think. Not only is most of what you wrote wrong, you even contradicted your original post. Thanks for playing.

Those were all competing modes from day 1. The other modes I mentioned were either only nascent in the UK or not present at all.

You're not helping your case by quoting a quack like him. He's a pop sci author that specializes in junk science. Exactly the kind of guy that I would expect to do a lazy study pointing to cell phones bad.

Like I mentioned on other comments I'm still not at all convinced and correlation is not causation.

I keep coming back to the fact that these same studies have been done with every new form of media and they always find a correlation.

The problem isn't the New Media the problem is we don't support parents and kids enough so the parents plop their kids down with Penny dreadfuls or radio or TV or Internet and now cell phones and screens.

In another hundred years these same dumb studies will be done for cyberdecks.

So I'm aware that the abstract says that they controlled for socioeconomic factors I'm just dubious of that.

It's far more likely that kids spending a bunch of time on screens is a symptom of other problems.

That said on the off chance that the phones are a problem they are a miniscule problem compared to everything else kids are up against in 2025.

Taking your kid's phone away isn't going to magically make them get better grades or take up sports.

Even so I think it's far more likely that you're seeing the same basic problem across different economic groups. And because of that you could replace the phone with basically any form of media. Which is why you get the same little panic every time a new form of media comes out and the same group of social scientists running the same experiments blaming the New Media for causing the problems.

I'm not a huge fan of folk music but having listened to a little bit of it just because I'm a lefty and Lefty's tend to blare the stuff I can tell you that the same problems that we had a hundred years ago or more we're getting sung about in folk music back then and are getting sung about it and folk music today. We haven't solved any of the problems. And it's the same damn problems. The only thing new is obesity and that's just because we have reasonably reliable access to food for most people... Most people. There are still several million kids having sleep for dinner every night...

It's entirely possible even likely that what we are seeing here is just that latchkey kids are more likely to have smartphones at an early age.

The problem isn't the phone itself it's overworked parents with low pay and no social support.

The abstract at least says that the account for socioeconomic factors but I'm not able to read the actual study past the abstract.

Also I guarantee that these exact same studies can be found for television, the internet and if you go back far enough you can find the 18th century equivalent of these studies for Penny dreadfuls.

Every time a new form of mass media or a new device for mass media shows up you can bet somebody is going to find a correlation between everything bad and if. Meanwhile we never actually do anything about things like child hunger or forcing kids to get up early to go to school when we have plenty of studies indicating the teenagers need more sleep and it needs to be later in the morning...

You know whether people should or not they do. I've more than once come across somebody using Excel like a database application. It's exactly as bad of an idea as it sounds but people do it and for the most part despite time spent debugging problems it does work.

I guess what I am saying is the answer to, there isn't a tool that can do what the customer wants to do, should not be, tell the customer to knock it the fuck off.

Antitrust is mostly how Microsoft stays in power but they do one thing. It's called the 80/20 rule and the idea is that 80% of your features are used by 20% of your customers but it's a different feature for every single customer. So you can't just take features out because you will rapidly start losing customers even though on paper very few customers are using those features. Basically when you have a sufficiently complex application it has a ton of features only used by a small group of people but you keep adding those groups up and suddenly you've got market dominance.

Before the industry consolidated that was part of what put Microsoft on top. Of course nowadays they just don't let anyone compete

Headline is they refuse to give up Instagram reality is that they refused to gag order.

I just got a article in my feed that the lead actress for the Asoka series at Disney refused to do another season because she wasn't paid enough.

The actual facts are that season 2 filming is already done and one of the other less important characters didn't come back because they didn't offer her enough money to afford to live in London where the shooting was.

I'm so sick of clickbait. Lately it's being written by shitty AI so it's gotten even worse.

In the last decade, we’ve had massively improved cycling infrastructure and also the rise of scooters, e-bikes and Lime and similar bikes, along with Uber. I think each of those will have eaten away at Zipcar rides.

A shame, bc Zipcar filled a niche, but if they can’t make the number add up, then not a surprise

As much as I like to live in your fantasy world, the reality is pointing to singular incidents doesn't help. If what you said was remotely relevant the war would have been over as soon as we hoped. Unfortunately in the real world it seems Russia is perfectly capable of manufacturing.

Sorry, I really really want to get behind your delusion. I too would love to think that Russia only exists because of the brilliance of the people they are attacking, but there's just zero evidence to back that up, and plenty of evidence against it.

Oh yeah this debunked bullshit. Sorry but literally everyone was doing "unsafe and insecure things" because that is how modern highly optimised CPUs are designed. AMD, Intel, and ARM have all been hit with a variety of these lab-only "exploits".

The fact that you need to dig back to that ol' chestnut shows you've really not paid any attention in the industry for the past decade. Intel has done so much shit, and the only thing you fall back on is the one thing they actually didn't do badly / differently from anyone else.