Your uncle's slow arse Barchetta doesn't need acceleration limits. There's very few EVs on the market that are as slow as this. Almost 9 seconds 0-100km/h. That's almost twice as long as the limit being proposed. The new lowest end trim of the 2025 VW ID.3 is as slow as the Barchetta, as is the slowest trim of the Renault 5.

Your uncle's ancient car can join my grandma's mobility scooter on a list of things that won't need a acceleration limits.

Have you seen traffic in China? Top speed is very much already limited.

There's a pedal you can step on for that. I assume you mean ADSD vehicle, since there's precisely zero self-driving vehicles available on the market for consumers. There's precisely zero incidents of ADSD overpowering a simple step on the brake pedal. That said I'm sure there's cases of people who are too stupid to both drive and be driven around.

Dude... one of the affected models is the second cheapest Model 3. Only the cheapest Model 3 RWD has a 0-100 time over 5 seconds. In fact just a quick look at the market I couldn't find a single AWD model EV that is slower than 5seconds to 100km/h. The only other car in Tesla's entire offering is the Model Y Standard that is slow enough for this.

Welcome to the world of EVs, we have a fuckton of acceleration.

... a significant portion of every city has people living in it with more than $100,000 in assets. Like outside of the slums you can bet anyone with a hint of grey in their beard does.

This isn't the security risk you think it is. God my wife is a teacher and her woefully underpaid arse had over $100k in assets when we met. In fact most people who have paid off only 1/4 of their mortgages have $100k in assets. What's the difference between whether that's in stocks, bonds, or housing?

The rush is that burning it is buggering up the planet. If the US refuses, it becomes a security issue and we be dealt with appropriately.

I thought I wouldn't use the pen, that it would not recognise my handwriting. It actually works really well. It's a decent way to enter and edit text.

We will never totally stop using oil of course, but we need to mostly stop burning it for fuel, outside of a limited number of applications. We need to do something about plastic pollution too.

I'd say that will he the harder transition to manage. Electrifying everything isn't too difficult and most of the tech is already mature. Replacing or dealing with plastic pollution seems harder, as will be dealing with increasing costs as fuel oil product consumption is greatly reduced.

That's one of the reasons why so many young people in the West are disillusioned with Western democracy. They want somewhere to live, they can't afford anything. Meanwhile in China the government plans ahead, builds massive new cities, and young people can afford to buy a nice modern apartment or house.

Having visited one such development, it was like walking into one of those show houses. Not an IKEA one either, a high end luxury one. I didn't look too closely to see how much was real solid wood and how much was veneer, but the apartment was spacious and very well furnished and finished. The owner was a logistics office worker and his wife a full time mother.

We really need to figure out how to deliver that with Western style democratic systems, because the old "look how bad life is in the Soviet Union!" isn't going to work this time.

European manufacturers are finally getting their act together on EVs it seems. The Skoda Elroq is probably going to be the best selling EV this year, in the UK.

We need EVs, we need to get off oil. Some pain is inevitable, all we can do is delay it, which makes it worse.

Whatever method it is, it will probably defeat the purpose of ending unsigned side loading. Whatever the hoops are, users will be trained to jump through them.

Obtainium is such a useful tool. As well as open source apps, it can update apps that you aren't allowed to install in your region via Google Play. Very handy if you travel a lot, as developers often put regional restrictions on things like transport and loyalty apps.

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Fedora has currently halted the proposal to drop 32bit support in Fedora 44, only to say "because it was too early". They very much leave it open for it to be dropped soon.

That said for Linux gaming it's probably the best option on the market at present.

How can this be? I was told that Mr. Google was evilly rubbing his hands in glee at the thought of take even more control of your phone, cackling away as lightning flashed outside an arched window behind his throne.

He gave up on the much hated Privacy Sandbox too, which was going to send all your data to Google. That said he also decided to keep third party cookies, which kinda sucks.

Why not ask Steamdeck owners? It's not like this would be a new experience for Valve. You can go see exactly how this works right now based on past performance without some future uncertainty.

Err what? Steam is Steam. If you want to see *exactly* what this will look like then connect your controller to your PC and push the home button. Steam will switch to console mode. There's no reason to think this will look any different than what Steam's existing console mode has looked like for over a decade now. There's literally no reason for them to create any different product for this.