But Wilma-branded bacon is able to be sold at a 70% premium!

"Will have"? We Americans arguably have one serving as President right now!

I don't know, but regardless - it wouldn't work on Slashdot.

At least based on the photo in TFA, it appears Hyundai is doing an incredibly stupid thing and rolling all that info into the large central "infotainment" screen. If you're the driver, by default there's absolutely nothing straight in front of you except for bare dashboard.

Now, if you want a little pop-up display screen showing important info right in front of you, at the very top of that bare dashboard - think of it as a glorified spiritual successor to the reviled Apple Touchbar (or perhaps consider it a faux heads-up display) - they're charging you extra.

>"Remember when iPhones used to come with free headphones and a phone charger (including the wall plug)? It didn't feel so much like Apple giving you free goodies"

And the misuse of the word "free" continues. Those weren't "free", they were included at no extra/additional cost/price. I mean, you pay me $350,000, and I will sell you my house and give you the kitchen "for free"!! Free kitchens!!!! To be free, there would be no requirement to buy anything (free of cost and of obligation).

>"Hyundai is charging customers extra for a driver's display"

End of the world! They are making a feature an extra cost which the consumer has the freedom to buy or not. OMG! At least THEY CONTINUE TO OFFER THE OPTION....

>"still kind of a slap in the face for a feature traditionally viewed as standard fare."

Tell that to Tesla and certain other vehicles that don't even offer it at all.

I do agree it sucks when you have to play the "trim" game- where there is a feature you want and you have to drag in thousands of dollars of other features you don't need/want to get what you do want. But that has been the vehicles norm for my whole life. They aren't going to offer every customer a completely custom vehicle. It would be a logistics and sales nightmare.

>"in the EV's case, the base trim gives customers the full Tesla-screen experience"

Yeah, the crappy no dashboard experience. The "hey, why not try to unsafely look at the center of the car while driving" experience. The "we don't like physical controls" experience. So don't buy that experience, regardless of the brand or model. I didn't. When I went EV shopping last year, I immediately threw out ANY vehicle that had no front display/dashboard, that had no way to display analog indicators, or had no physical controls for anything important. (Ended up with an Ariya- great controls/displays/layout).

My Sonicares last for several years each (been using them for decades). But I am also careful not to wet anything but the brush head. It is a common failure point to have water enter through the shaft.

>"Dyson is entering oral care with the $499 CameraJet, a smart toothbrush that uses a tiny camera and on-device AI to detect gaps between teeth and automatically blast them with mouthwash"

$500 for a finicky device that does a poor job trying to replace what it takes pennies of money and under a minute to do with floss. No thanks.

>"The brush head oscillates nearly 1,000 times each second while the angle of oscillation is constantly changing to improve the effectiveness of your brushing"

Yeah, I have a $50 Sonicare that does that job just fine after I floss, thanks. And I can get low-priced replacement heads at Costco in multipacks that regularly go on sale...

Darn, all the cool usernames are already taken...

Have you seen the videos from his cabinet meetings? First thing they do is go around the table, thanking and praising Donald Trump!

That doesn't mean Berlin's wife will approve...

Ha! I thought you were making a joke, but - it appears you are being completely serious.

I also had the same thing on my Linux user's group Wiki. Since the wiki is very old, it has hundreds of changes on each of thousands of "pages". That is on top of all the other wiki stuff and search stuff. So it is millions of permutations. Our little computer was essentially DDOS attacked which never ended. Our own users of the site would get loading errors or no response because it was so constantly overwhelmed.

Robots.txt completely ignored, of course. Then I tried banning IP addresses. That worked for a while, then the addresses started coming from everywhere, in the many hundreds of thousands. I didn't want to, but ultimately I had to put up a static information page and the rest of the entire site behind a login, because there was absolutely no way to control/stop it. Fortunately, it really is a mostly-private site so that was the easy way out.

>"Today, git.kernel.org receives about 6M daily requests demanding to see random commits. Of these, 66% are still immediately batted away with the Anubis challenge, but 33% are now solving the math and getting through to the main site â" because apparently what we have to offer is worth spending a ton of cycles to calculate the Anubis challenge... With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic â" everything else are scrapers..."

I would love to calculate just how much electricity and other resources are being wasted on AI crawlers solving useless challenges and scraping useless duplicate data. And in the process, raising electric rates and making RAM and storage unaffordable for millions of users and businesses.

Oh, and also in the process of this "war", legit human users are now being "automatically" misidentified as bots and locked completely out of web sites with zero recourse. And you thought that CAPTCHAs were bad...

"Edgesuite" by Akamai is an apparently one of these poor netizens performing a "protection service" that is flagging Firefox and/or other browsers under Linux on some of their "protected" sites as bots and banning access. Go there and all you will get after certain pages or searches is a cryptic error message like:

  Access Denied
  Reference #18.8b551702.1787659556.715cd97
  https://errors.edgesuite.net/1... ... 56.715cd97

Of course, the link has zero info as well. And there is no way to get whitelisted or request help from Akamai. If you can find any info on their site, it is just to claim they can't do anything and direct you to contact the admin of the site affected. The web sites that enroll in this crap have little to no control, have no idea they are blocking legit people, and will not help users either (they are not set up to do so).

At work, we are now unable to use homedepot.com and lowes.com (with any browser under Linux, which all of ours are, of course) for this exact reason. And no, our IP address is not listed in any of their blacklists as poor reputation. Interestingly, I have no issue with those websites when at home, under Linux/Firefox. So it could be IP address, or version of Firefox or whatever browser, or what screen size you might have, or how many requests come from one IP address (not like we visit either of those sites often), or any other number of super-secret criteria. Utterly infuriating.

An Executive Order keeping magenta out of red electronics will be dropping in 3, 2, 1...

Shut up and take my money!!