I beg to differ. Acts of rebellion like this can land the "rebel" fined at best and in prison at worst.

Whataboutism is not actually an argument.

It WAS. I challenge you to provide a link to Darwin sources of MacOS 26.

It's not a "massive list" and the things mentioned are barely an inconvinience (oh noes, Photos drops location details and Facetime doesnt work unless you had contact within 30 days, oh noes). The biggest would be restrictions on the web browser and you can have per-site exclusions.

So what the fuck are you talking about?

I am reading through the list in your link and I don't get it - what part of this is supposed to be "unusable"?

"Author of Systemd Quits Microsoft To Prove Linux Can Be Trusted"

does not mesh with

"It is unclear why Poettering decided to leave Microsoft."

Apple Watch? Apple Silicon? Airpods and AirPods Pro?

Literally best-in-class after best-in-class.

You clearly aren't a fan. If you were, you'd knew the precise movie where instead of being competent and making the right decisions and getting fucked anyway, the franchise turned to supposedly smart people doing dumb shit all the time.

Konami that got right back into it after covid killed their pachinko business? THAT Konami?

This study found that *on average*, a majority of PHEV drivers in _Europe_ don't both plugging them in, making them no better than a "conventional non-plug-in" hybrid.

But as an individual PHEV owner, you can make it far better than this study says - simply by plugging in whenever possible.

I got a PHEV (the BMW i3, what BMW officially called "an electric vehicle with range extender) as my "entry into electric vehicles" - and in four years of ownership, I used maybe ten gallons of gasoline. And I'd say half of that was "burning it up just so it doesn't go stale". It prepared me to fully commit to battery-electric-only with my next vehicle.

Yep. They're always saying solid state batteries are 2-3 years away.

Sure, when solid state actually does happen (and I expect it will) it will be a game changer for EVs.

But Toyota just keeps postponing doing anything serious with EVs because they keep claiming this is right around the corner.

Wasn't the 2025 Prius supposed to use solid state batteries?

Specifically cross-platform, not vendor-app or vendor-cloud dependent.

I still have some Hue bulbs, and a few WiFi bulbs that are dependent on vendor lock-in that I'll be replacing when they go out.

Any newer devices are Matter/Thread compatible. Local control, no vendor lock-in.

Plenty of other companies have an OTA cadence on par with Tesla's now.

Rivian, Lucid, even Ford is at least in the ballpark.

Yes, Tesla's software is good, but they're not the only ones doing updates of substance with frequency any more.

> The "premium, authenticated digital identities" created by Hyperreal's system are "not replacing artists," says Hyperreal CEO/Chief Architect Remington Scott

Yeah, they're allowing the families of dead celebrities to wring a few more dollars out of their corpses...

The overwhelming majority of these charging stalls are 10kW AC, not 150kW+ DC.

And that's still less power than is used *JUST IN CALIFORNIA* for just *AI* datacenters.