So don't buy an electric car if you're in an apartment that doesn't have chargers?

Americans have been poo poo'ing EVs since day one with rationalization after rationalization, and the result is that China is RAPIDLY taking over the automotive world.

If true this is a petty, immature, and self-destructive stance for people claiming moral outrage. Tesla serves a greater purpose than lining Musk's pockets.

Let's destroy everything good when there's someone involved who we don't like.

God bless the early adopters even though we've had electric cars for a while so it's questionable to use the word early here. Repairs are one area where the Tesla Model 3 and Y have a leg up due to their ubiquity.

I was with you on this part.

...but then you pick out the one American company that is keeping up with the Chinese as your example?

OK I'm back with you again.

100% of ICE car owners require a public gas pump. Your conclusion assumes 100% of EV charging will happen at public chargers which is not true.

Wow. This is the wrong way to solve a simple problem.

Let me help you out a bit.

• Brother
• Epson
• Xerox
• Canon
• Cheap imported printer? (Are those a thing?)

The political winds are wildly distorting peoples' EV outlooks.

I know it sounds ridiculous, but take just a moment of time, close your eyes, and imagine a future where we've solved most of our climate concerns. What does that world look like for the United States, for example? Will everyone be driving a gas car? Will everyone be taking mass transit? The answer to both of these questions is probably no.

In countries like the United States you can't shift everyone to mass transit without a mass migration to urban areas. Not going to happen. And gas cars, while not the sole contributor to climate change, are still a major contributor.

So EVs will and should continue to grow in popularity because they *do* help us bridge the gap between where we are and a place of climate stability. Driving requires energy, and EVs allow you to get that energy from renewable sources. It's amazing how quickly people forget this.

And it doesn't hurt that most people who drive EVs really like them.

Albeit a flawed experience, this is essentially what experiences like Copilot are already doing. You use natural language to tell it what you want, then it spits out changes that you can accept or decline. Yes the output is a traditional computer language, but that's because 'natural language' programming is fundamentally imprecise and therefore unusable. And even if you could get a computer to reliably compile it while filling in the blanks in ways that make sense to the authors, you still have the challenge of having the next batch of authors being able to understand it years later, when in fact they may have their own way of interpreting what you wrote.

Traditional programming languages will persist for the same reason mathematical notation will persist: because we need an agreed-upon way to express our intent. None of this you know what I mean hand-waving.

Their Android app is borderline malware. Not because I *know* it's doing bad things, but because whatever they are doing is shady enough that it's not allowed on the Google Play Store, and the installation process is a set of back-alley instructions for sideloading an untrustworthy APK to your device.

I did not know this fact until the recipient of the gift I bought had it out and we were trying to set it up. I decided to use a sacrificial non-critical device to run the app (which is both a controller for the drone as well as a real-time video monitor).

This is one of the first times I find myself recommending an iPhone, only because DJI is understandably unwilling to ignore the platform due to its ubiquity, and thus are forced to play by the Apple App Store rules. This is unfortunate for Google, who I think is on the correct side of this debate, because DJI apparently found the loophole of too popular to play by the rules.

While company A brags about the cost savings of replacing their call center staff with voice chat bots, company B sees this as an opportunity to differentiate themselves by offering customer service with live human beings. Every erosion in customer experience is a new opportunity for a competitor.

Likewise companies C and D both see that AI is making them more profitable, somehow. Company D sees the opportunity to pull ahead of company C by hiring more people who know how to work with AI. Every new innovation is an opportunity to pull ahead of your competitors.

In all cases, no matter how much automation improves your company, out-performing your competitors often involves out-hiring them, and this will continue. Site note: this by no means takes away from efficiency gains that sometimes manifest as firing. Both can be true. I don't see AI as a guaranteed efficiency gain yet.

This is just the excuse of the season. Like the tide comes and goes, so will there always be periodic layoffs and hiring freezes, and companies will always latch on to whatever PR excuse they can find. This time it's AI.

It's comparable to the price of Hughes satellite internet. You want to use that instead, be my guest. Or better yet, launch your own constellation of satellites and price it how you think it should be priced.

That's exactly what I had to do. Pretty it still flew when I was offline though. It was mandatory for the initial setup.

Just bought a DJI Neo which uses phone control if you don't have a controller. To drive it you need to download DJI Fly which, for Android users, requires you to SIDE LOAD an APK directly from their website. Did not know this until I had drone in hand, ready for the gift recipient to try. I used a secondary device because there's no way that app is going on my main phone.

So yeah, DJI is clearly up to something on Android. They would be on iOS too if that option existed.

Samsung offers so many models that you can just pick one and label it as mid-range. Their SXX phones (sans Plus, sans Ultra) essentially *are* their mid-range phones. They list them for $800 but they are frequently discounted. (I think I paid $350 for my S23 through Google Fi?)

Add to that the previous generation with plenty of updates left on the commitment, as well as their FE models, and you've got a ton of "mid-range" Samsung options.