If likes and boosts are overrated, then is there a way to find others' posts about a topic or to get more replies to my posts?

With global warming, those ice roads may not be around for much longer.

The high price is due to the obsession with SUVs, and people feeling they "need" one, just for that one time in 20 years they may need the extra cargo capacity. Give me a sedan with a hatchback any day.

There's a reason I call Buick vehicles, "ick", and that is one of them.

Honda and Toyota aren't great when it comes to the user interface. Hyundai does a much better job on that front. Ford isn't horrible about their systems from what I saw the last time I rented a vehicle, but Hyundai is definitely better.

The cost of RAM has been going up and up and up. $200 worth of RAM from January of 2025 is now up into the $600+ range for the same RAM if you buy it today. In the next year, it might end up over $1000 because AI is destroying the computer industry.

Once you go to a display for your instrument cluster, you get away from the, "what the hell is that weird light that just popped on in my instrument cluster?!?" problem, because the display can TELL you what is wrong in a way that static indicator lights can not. For Apple Car Play or Android Auto, you get navigation from your phone, so you don't need to dig out a map to figure out where you are, or how to get somewhere, and it's right THERE, so you can actually focus on driving. Heads up displays are also getting more common, so you don't need to look DOWN to see what you want/need to see(something that not all car makers do well, but does help keep you focused on the road).

Who wants to have to replace the battery when you can manually turn a crank in the front of the car to generate the electric spark needed? Who wants anti-lock brakes, or seat belts, those just get in the way, right?

Poorly implemented features are the problem, not the fact that they are there. Now, a larger screen does not automatically mean a higher resolution, or a lot of "useless" features. That's the fault of some of these auto makers, they put controls in places that are not easy to get to in some situations.

My 2022 Elantra has no connectivity issues with my Samsung, I get in, wireless Android Auto kicks in, and done. There was an issue with navigation enabled Hyundai cars(the head unit had issues) and wireless Apple Car Play/Android Auto, but that was fixed with I think the 2025 model year that brought the updated head unit.

The issue really came down to a conflict between the "Hyundai provided navigation", and what you can get from your phone, and for whatever reason, the head units with navigation as a possibility could not work with wireless Apple or Android systems, but wired worked.

Voice controls work.

Task Manager does NOT show GPU memory usage though. You need to use Process Explorer to see what the task is that is using your GPU memory for example. I don't know why Microsoft hasn't just incorporated all those Sysinternals tools into the OS at this point, or at least put them on the list of optional features you can enable.

That is because Wall Street is dominated by stupid people with a lot of money. They hear about AI this and AI that(promoted by NVIDIA), and all Wall Street cares about it AI. That makes CEOs and executives want to SAY that they are going to incorporate AI into everything, in the hopes it causes the stock prices to go up.

The culture of "put your kids in front of SOMETHING to keep them entertained" is the problem, because just watching things does not make a child or even someone older actually think. Pushing the idea of using technology to teach and in the case of phones/tablets/computers, to engage and encourage THOUGHT is something you don't see often enough. Games have also shifted from there being puzzles as a part of the game experience(even finding those secret locations in the original Tomb Raider isn't seen as a popular thing these days).

Parents need to get off their asses and actually encourage their children to use the technology for learning and to develop useful skills. Aiming to be an "influencer" is the sign that parents of these children haven't done a good job, because being an unskilled but charismatic person just to gain followers to make money isn't necessarily going to work for the vast majority of people. It's like the kids who focus on sports in the hope of one day going pro and getting paid to play, it's a dream, but one that most can't count on, so a good "fallback" career should be seen as essential.

From the summary: "Current prices are tied to retail. Without physical discs holding digital hostage we'll see a larger spectrum of pricing." As I understand this, paid downloads did not lower prices of AAA games because of retail price parity contracts. Paid downloads did, however, make the $5 to $20 tier for indie game pricing viable.

One thing not mentioned in the summary is that publishers of games distributed in physical copies owe a royalty to the age rating agency of each region in which a game is published. Publishers of downloadable games do not, instead relying on self-certification through the IARC form. The age rating agencies allow this because it's a lot more practical to update a game once it is found to have been misclassified.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who ever posts in the tag for a particular toy line. Either I guessed the wrong tag, or I'm the only person on fedi interested in that topic. Which is more likely?