Sony hwardware started losing quality against other japanese brands - never mind the koreans - about 25 years ago when chinese electronics were still domestic market cheap shit only.

"Sony wasn't particularly good in quality to begin with"

I guess you weren't around in the 80s or were young because Sony hifi back then was top notch and it stayed that way until the early 2000s. Then it was downhill fast.

Thought they could drop the quality and people would still keep buying simply because of the brand name. Shame no one told them that the world doesn't work like that any more (except maybe in high fashion but those people are just morons anyway).

"No ssh-ing down the list with a nice small script and all done"

Poettering and the distro sheep have done their best to make linux admin much harder than it was before or needs to be, so I'm not sure a small script would work now on a penguin box.

I wish you luck but even early 2000s vehicles are stuffed with electronic modules that won't last more than a few decades and may become impossible to replace.

They weren't sacked for writing a script, they were sacked for accessing private HR data. Big difference. Most companies would have sacked them.

"The Cybertruck is the automotive equivalent of the Titan submersible"

Good analogy. The cybertruck however isn't just dangerous to its occupants , its sharp edges are a danger to any pedestrians it might hit which is why it fails safety checks and can't be sold in most EU countries.

Fire breaking out when you have a fuel tank and pipes full of a highly flammable liquid are not a surprise. Batteries however should not catch fire unless seriously damaged and it should be quite possible to design a battery compartment that would survive anything short of an IED going off underneath.

Rear wheelwell covers were a thing in the 70s and early 80s for some manufacturers. The problem is if you need to change a wheel they're a right PITA.

Why did the fire break out in the first place? Was it bad design of the batteries? Its by no means the first time a tesla has gone up in smoke in a crash.

... touchscreen controls for common tasks such as altering the HVAC or radio/media settings and put back buttons. For some reason the authorities in most countries see m to think its dangerous using a touchscreen phone but perfectly ok to use a touchscreen car interface while doing 70mph.

Sure you do. The human eye doesn't have enough rods and cones to resolve the kind of detail you're talking about at the distances you imply so unless you're a genetic freak you're just another tedious troll.

" In my case, even with a 4K TV taking up 30 to 40 degrees of my field of view I can easily make out the pixels"

Unless you have vision better than that of a bird of prey or you're sitting a foot away from the screen with a magnifying glass then you're talking BS.

Is that pointy hair speak for kernel code contributers?

... so long as the girl was above the age of consent and wasn't being coerced or threatened then nothing illegal happened. Sordid maybe, but not illegal.