The US pretends to support choice and competition but the minute they have their asses handed to them, suddenly it's circle the wagons.

And aside from being a stupid hot take that not everyone wants a cluster, the model Y actually does have an extra screen - for the benefit of back seat passengers who can watch Netflix - while the driver smashes into the back of a semi because they had to avert their eyes to check or do something on the touch screen because of the lack of HUD, cluster, physical controls etc.

Teslas don't have a HUD or cluster and they suck for it. They disguise this as minimalism / innovation but really it is about compromising driver safety & convenience because it saves them a few bucks. Same goes for some of the other BS they've done like removing physical controls.

They're totally big enough to warrant a battery. Not everyone is running appliances all day and certain heavy duty appliances (AC, washing machine / dryer, cooktops) are not even on the 110v circuit.

Wrong. If solar is charging a battery and the battery has outlets as most power stations do then you have a backup power supply.

That depends if people are running AC and whether it's on the 110v circuit or something else.

I think if you own a house then you should. Not only can you generate more power, but it's hooked up to proper batteries and inverters that deliver more power back to the house, or to the grid. But as the name implies, a "balcony" system is meant to be a couple of panels you hang out of a window, or put on a balcony that are affordable and easy to set up especially for people in apartments and rentals.

Hooking up solar straight to a microinverter doesn't maximize the benefit. Plug the panels into the battery, and the battery (which includes an inverter) into an outlet. During the day, the battery will charge itself with any surplus over demand then the surplus can feed in during the evening. Probably pays for itself in a few years and can also serve as a backup if there is a power failure.

I've heard some pretty sad excuses for AI slop (Shunned at a Funeral) but some very clever uses for it too (Amelia). "The best thing the government did...was invent me!"

As long as they're honest about it being AI I'll decide what I want to listen to. It's hard for it to show any creativity, but creativity is sorely lacking in all current music.

...laura

Your browser leaks uniqueness out of every orifice and every single one of those things has a legit use case. And in aggregate they supply enough bits to be unique to your computer.

It's not about browsers being "complicit" and all about browsers trying to deliver a modern experience which is capable of supporting things like accessibility, audio, video, camera, microphone, serial, graphics and every thing else.

I think there are settings and switches that browsers could do to mitigate some of this risk, but there is no easy solution to it either.

If some shitty McDonalds app is broken then that's a minor inconvenience. But if your bank / payments don't work, or you can't board a plane because of the app's protection then that's a serious problem. And while people might moan than apps use attestation, they have their reasons which are obvious in most cases.

We could argue that Google should provide attestation for "curated" forks and I'd be favourable to the idea. But until it happens, GrapheneOS is not something normal people should use. It breaks apps. The only people it's suitable for are people who are either hyper-paranoid, or genuinely have something to hide.

They're not "banning" Graphene, they're using a convenient device / app attestation as a security mitigation and Graphene happens to break it.

Anything that uses the device integrity / attestation services of Play won't work - banking apps, digital keys, government apps, crypto wallets, transit / ticketing apps etc.

The problem is the leak is very hard to plug. Sites legitimately need to know your screen dimensions for stuff like layout. They legitimately need to know your OS for recommending the right download links. They legitimately need to know your graphics capabilities to render the right thing. And so on. The problem is that in aggregate all these things basically make your machine and your browser unique and distinguishable from another.

As for why Aliexpress wants this uniqueness, it's probably to do with their business model of blasting offers at people and wanting to track engagement, fraud, bots and so on.

Same is true for the left too. People's buttons are so easy to push especially the more entrenched they are.