National Lampoon is a humor magazine that went out of business in the 1990s. In the early 1980s they did a three part series called "Cliff-Hanger Justice" it was about Wile E. Coyote suing Acme Corporation.

Maybe it's just me.

A few years back I was using RedHat, and I gave up on Firefox because videos would not play smoothly.

Now I am using FreeBSD, and I have recently gave up on Firefox because of a few issues.
1. Buttons often don't work. For example, the "Show More" button on Google does not work.
2. Pages often don't load on first attempt. Whether I click on a link, or enter a URL, the pages just don't load of the first try.

I just gave up. Sorry but, for me, Chrome and/or Chromium, seem to work better.

Not in my experience. And I have had fairly significant experience.
Automatic transmissions start slipping, or shifting hard, or the modules go out, or something. Often it is often not practical to replace.
Manual transmission hold up much better. And if there is a problem, it is much easier to fix.

Will it change the Linux compatibility layer? Will all the software run just the same?

The cost of going to theaters is way up, while the quality of the movies is in the dumpster.
Then there is the whole unpleasant theater experience. People talking, using phones, filthy theaters, and so on.
How can people not be burned out on the superhero crap by now?
The movie will be streaming in two months anyway.

Destroying earth. Last I heard, it uses as much energy as the nation of Argentina.

I mostly use my 13 y/o freebsd box. It feels freer. I don't have some corporation spying on me, and telling me what to buy and when. It does what I need it to do.
I respect that other people have different needs, and values.

Welcome to capitalism.

True.

But this one student needed to know the stuff he was studying. From the article: "it came after a computer forensics student submitted coursework on a USB pen drive and the lecturer spotted some other folders on it."

I mean you're studying computer forensics but you don't know enough to wipe the drive clean (and also metadata in various formats like PDFs and Word that often reveal rather a lot about the history of a document...). You should spend less time partying and more time paying attention.

Anyway, kudos to the lecturer, discovering and proving student academic misconduct is a thankless task.

To prove your age, will have to provide ID. Now they will know everything you post.

Quoted from the article. More quotes:

> "Tesla accomplished this by building a tiny two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel, no pedals, and a sub-50 kWh battery pack."
> "That’s a legitimate engineering strategy for a robotaxi fleet vehicle. It’s not a fair comparison to a car you’d actually buy."

Interesting link, thank you.

If the oil prices stay up (and the orange T seems to be doing his best to make it so) then I agree that EVs should drop in value much slower than petrol cars.

All of what you said but there is more: most people will do some reading before buying an EV. What will they probably see? A few scare stories about charging on the road (if I don't go to a supercharger or a fast charger I've never used or not recently used it's always a bit scary whether the fast charger will work - and of course mostly they do).

But mainly they'll read how much better other cars and mainly Chinese cars are.

Who wants to buy 2nd or 3rd best?

I spoke with a colleague here in the UK who recently bought a car (not an EV) because he was worried what the resale value of current generation EVs will be when the 400 mile WLTP range, 5-10min charge next generation (mostly Chinese) hits the market. And he has a point.

To be fair even I bought my EV (Model 3) second hand to shave of the steepest part of the depreciation curve.

Given that citizens of the US have elected Trump as the US president twice it is pretty clear that EU countries cannot count on the US being a 100% reliable ally in the future.

That has all sorts of consequences and will require the EU to develop all sorts of capabilities.

The question of course is: will this mean willingness to reduce benefits / increase working hours to pay for all this to develop genuine competence through significantly more effort or will it be just performative?