So we likely will stop at the peat stage

Hey, that's cool....

As long as all this "green" movement doesn't endanger our continued manufacturing of good single malt scotch!!!

I avoid a million dollar lawsuit by paying attention when I am driving and not driving like an asshole.

And...don't forget...staying off the fucking phone!!!

Do your tail lights include radar for detection of vehicles in your blind spot...(?)

God I hope NOT...

Current safety inspections do not test these as there are no standard, non-destructive, tests.

You know not all states require "safety inspections", right?

I'd rather have a car that is MORE basic...take out all the stuff I don't need..I don't need 500 sensors outside the car.

I've been driving long enough to not need lane warnings, I really don't need cameras everywhere, I don't use them...I'm old school and actually turn my HEAD to look where I need to look...and use my mirrors.

This stuff not only is $$ in a minor fender bender, but upfront costs...and maintenance cost. I mean God help you if you get electrical system gremlins in your car.

I want my car to accelerate when I want it to...stop when I want it to and go the direction I steer.

I dont' need a lot of other crap to babysit me.

I'm not sure what that proves, exactly? 2011 was just 13 years ago. It hasn't been that long. I think most of us here have non-Apple hardware as old and older that's still gets regular use.

Well, we're talking about iPads here...or, tablets in general.

The iPads DO have longevity...my iPad Pro from 2017 (I mistakenly said 2015 earlier) is chugging right along, good battery life still, and has held up on a LOT of traveling.

I use it pretty much daily.

Yes, "only" about 7+ years....but anecdotally, most of my friends have burned through 3-6 Android tablets over this time....

And with the iPads...you could generally in the past get better hardware on them....my Android friend back in the day was blow away that I could get .5 TB onboard storage on a tablet that size...apparently Android didn't have an option back then.

The iPad / Apple Pencil combo, is very hard to beat for creatives....using apps like the Affinity Suite (Photo, Designer, Publisher)...Procreate...FCPX and nowadays...Davinci Resolve.

You can run some VERY powerful art/photo/video apps on the iPad....and while the Android and Windows tablets are catching up, all of these apps pretty much first came out on the Apple tablets.

And the new iPad pro's announced today, with the M4 chips can out spec MANY full blow laptops out there on the market.

They are pricy, but I find in the tablet market, you get what you pay for in many cases.

I can take my art work on the road with me easily with the iPad....I can work on things easily on the plane or pool side....and not have to lug around a laptop to get the same power and apps.

Most of the time, the apps that run on the iPad are not paired down, weaker versions of the desktop version...they are the full blown versions only adapted for non-keyboard use...

That's not the story for these apps on other tablet platforms...at least not from what I've found.

I've seen renders of some pretty difficult things (high megapixel, 15+ shot focus stacking ) render on the iPad quicker than the same job on a laptop...

This is nice to have in such a light, easily transportable package.

The investigation was launched after an employee reported the problem to Boeing management, and Boeing informed the FAA.

What's the over/under on this employee being found dead in the next couple weeks?

...inding them guilty of violating national security by passing a law instead of letting the courts decide. I'm no expert on the US consitution

Ok I'll help you.

When something is declared a national security threat, it is not something that is done through the courts, never has been.

A tablet with its official keyboard sold separately tends to be more expensive than an entry-level laptop.

Several American public schools are experimenting with making the introduction to computer science course a requirement for high school graduation. (See "Should High Schools Require a CS Course Before Students Graduate?" from July 2023.) If the operating system of a tablet is inadequate for a student to complete a course required for graduation, that makes the tablet less valuable to a high school student.

Wow...nice how long these things last, it's only now looking long in the tooth to me, and that's only for some pretty resource intensive apps I want to use...for daily things most people would use, it would still be overkill for most things.

How do the Android tablets stand up to the Apple I pad Pros as far as longevity?

I use mine pretty much daily.

But I'd like to use some of the newer, resource intensive apps on my iPad like Resolve, FCPX, and the newer Affinity products, etc....Logic Pro.

I'll likely keep my current one...maybe just keep it in the kitchen plugged in all the time just to have quick recipe reference there...and get the new one.

I think the 13" would be a bit too large to carry around on travels or to neighborhood pool, or when out and about comfortably....might get the 11" one loaded up....

12mos, interest free with AppleCare+ is just about $200/mo for 12 months. Not too bad...for loaded iPad Pro, with new pencil and the keyboard (I've never had the external keyboard before...might go to store to try that out first to see if I'd really use it).

On the phone, push power 5 times put it into emergency mode.

Yeah...in an emergency...you most likely are NOT going to have a chance or time to grab the phone and click anything accurately 1-2 times, much less 5.

If the cops grab you for any reason, first thing they likely will do is immediately separate you from your phone....as would anyone wanting to get IN to your phone on a stop.

Password/passcode all the time in place of biometrics is STILL the superior way to lock your items.

It still has no fingerprint sensor. Face ID is a handy accessory, but some requirements need something that works whatever you look like or when you actually don't want the thing to unlock unless you actually do something instead of merely being present. It should have both, especially for such a price.

Biometrics of any kind are a bad idea, especially if you want to keep it locked from authorities, etc.

Passwords/passcodes work great still......I use them on all my electronics.

We've seen how "successful" the recent movies/shows are after they went by "replace the hero with a woman, and make her gay" mantra....

Will they change and go back to decades old, proven characters and storylines....or will they continue to remake everything to fit the "narrative" they seem to have today?