... the gamers were right all along and Neil was full of shit.

If you jurisdiction requires communication software vendors to provide law enforcement with a backdoor and/or encryption decryption capabilities, your jurisdisction is not only broken; it is unacceptable.

So entirely unwritten legislation that you're supposed to just mind-read is the norm, got it.

You breaking the license is not the problem of whoever sold you the item.

This, precisely. You might have purchased a physical item and do own it, but you absolutely were not granted ownership of the software running on the physical item. You were granted a license to use it. A license with terms and conditions. A license that can be revoked.

What does California market share matter to the world? Imagine if companies had to bend to conflicting rulings of hundreds of different courts from different jurisdictions.

Have you pondered what Airplay is ubiquitous and why people love it? Once you do, you'll have your answer.

I'm a chemist. To me, "organic" just means "contains carbon-carbon" or "contains carbon-hydrogen." :-P

Some company/organization/"AI influencer" will declare that AGI has been achieved in 3-10 years. But it won't. They'll just be redefining what "AGI" means to be something less than they mean now; and come up with some new term "Universal Artificial Intelligence" or something to mean "true Sci-Fi style AI." (Like when they said "we have AI, what you're talking about is A*G*I")

Is FCC LARPing neither Nokia nor Ericcson are a thing?

This.

Amazon doesn't deliver to most rural addresses - they just ship it via USPS. Amazon simply cannot replace USPS with their existing infrastructure. Heck, I'm not exactly "rural" and most of my Amazon deliveries come by USPS or UPS, not by Amazon delivery vehicles.

Because if you succesfully hacked the bootloader, your malware is invisible to the OS.

And I fight for the users.

Disclaimer: I am an "EV enthusiast". I currently own another electric trike, an Arcimoto FUV. I also own a Rivian R1T electric pickup and a Ford Mach-E.

I've had a deposit in for an Aptera for years, and I'm one of the "small investors" who has stock in them.

At this point, I'm assuming that my deposit and my investment won't ever produce anything for me.

I hope they succeed, even if I wasn't an investor and deposit-holder. The idea may be kind of silly, and absolutely not for everyone (neither are motorcycles.) But they're always begging for more money to actually start production, and always failing to raise as much as they say they need.

At this point, I imagine the first few dozen vehicles will be delivered to the "high value investors", but that true large-scale production won't happen.

On the technical front - yes, the solar panels are largely a gimmick. Maybe if you always park outside in somewhere terminally sunny like SoCal, Arizona, or Florida, it might make it so that you never have to plug it in; but in most areas, it will make a small dent on your charging needs. The big "selling point" is the extreme efficiency. There are a few ways to measure EV efficiency. The EPA uses "Miles Per Gallon equivalent" or MPGe to rate EVs. By their measure, the most efficient vehicle is the Lucid Air Pure, at 146 MPGe. My Rivian is rated at 73 MPGe.

Most EVs measure efficiency in either "miles per kWh" (one gallon of gasoline contains 33.7 kWh of energy, so an easy conversion is to take this number and multiply by 33.7 to get the "MPGe") or "Watt-hours per mile" (inverted, so a lower number is better, this is similar to what many metric countries use for gas vehicles - liters per 100 km where a lower number is better.) That Lucid Air Pure gets about 4.3 miles per kWh of energy, or about 230 Wh/mi.

Aptera claims 10 miles/kWh / 100 Wh/mi. That is more than double the efficiency of the most efficient "full size" vehicle. My Arcimoto FUV, a similar "two seater three wheel EV" gets about 5 mi/kWh in mixed city/non-interstate-highway driving. The Arcimoto is great for city driving, and while it is absolutely capable of highway driving, it isn't very aerodynamic so its efficiency drops like a brick on the freeway. The Aptera _IS_ aerodynamic, so should be much more efficient on the highway.

Imagine being so out of touch with reality, you still try to paint AC: Shadow as some sort of failure. After all the reviews and released player numbers are out. This is embarrassing as fuck :D