One of the affected vehicles is the Tesla Model S Plaid.

Not been a huge fan of Tesla lately, but you have to hand it to them for naming a super fast accelerating car after a Spaceballs reference.

They are seeing an upcoming recession/depression and are removing as much risk as possible from their balance sheets and stockpiling cash in some kind of fungible form. And the stores are a huge one aside from employees. They usually don't own the buildings, which would actually be an asset - they have possibly long term leases or leases up for renewal soon that they want to stick on someone else before it is unaffordable.

They aren't the best and they aren't the cheapest. So they are going to go downhill fast when the economy drops a little more.

That story does not sound like it was a language barrier issue. We have idiots in America too. The problem is going for the lowest cost human being and giving them a script instead of training. They literally can't go off-script unless they've been around for years and have accidentally learned something.

Tell me when that channel was about science fiction and not just space or future themed fantasy? Renaming themselves Siffy was just an acknowledgement of reality. And the reality of trademark law.

It has to be at least a little inconvenient, though. The end users DO NOT READ. No matter how scary the warnings are, whatever told them to do it is scarier and they ignore these warnings. We're at the point now where we don't even need malware to steal someone's bank account information. Just fake virus warnings on a web page with a toll-free number. And this is across the board, at all education levels. Critical thinking skills work against this but even those with the skills forget to put them to use if the sirens are blaring loud enough.

They probably forgot to tell the companies they subsidized that they were trying to dump on the global market in order to buy a longer term lead. And that it may not work out too well in the end. I can't imagine any other purpose for them propping it up so hard. The US never became a market for these, but the US trade war has had ripple effects in their other markets and is probably collapsing the propping up that China is doing.

10% of Iceland is covered in glacial ice. It's Greenland that people usually think about when they imagine Iceland. Greenland is 80% covered in ice.

Microsoft is already releasing their next console as a full PC and it will run Steam games. Probably for less than what this will cost.

I was going to argue against needing 2.5Gbe or more but then I remembered the size of a lot of Steam games. It will be faster over Wi-Fi in some cases.

It's even in the summary:

This is something a Windows PC does not have, but Xbox would.

Sure as an argument about savings, it only works on the people who think those numbers are big. But if you realize how small those numbers are, a penny is completely worthless and unnecessary.

The half dollar coins are inconveniently large. Just get people to use the dollar coins we already have. 4:1 is an OK ratio for the next step up in coinage.

Certainly not at the five and dime store.

If the total with tax on a dollar is $1.0875 now, they charge you $1.09 at the register. What difference does it really make if it becomes $1.10? You are overestimating the value of 1 penny and the few seconds of labor it takes to generate a wage of a penny.

At least with a traditional PC, you can upgrade parts. Selling for the cost of a PC but not upgradeable sounds really bad. The Steam Deck at least offered a form factor that required a unique solution.

This is a world where even Microsoft wants out of the console game. The next generation of consoles will be Windows vs Linux desktops connected to a TV. And most of the Steam games at least run as well on Windows without Proton. And then maybe Sony decides to sell games on Steam and Xbox, so their console is essentially unnecessary. And finally, Nintendo will still be just doing their own thing.

At least they acknowledged how bad HDMI-CEC implementations are. This is probably a bigger deal than most realize considering it could wreck their perceived quality if they get it wrong.