The EV market in the US is pretty well saturated by the incumbents. Every upper middle class person who wants an EV pretty much has one, and usually as a second vehicle.

As for the rest, EVs could be a real boon if they were affordable to them, domestic auto makers aren't that interested in this market, even for ICE vehicles. And even a company that might be, such as Slate Auto, is having a really hard time keeping the price down. By the time their little truck is really ready to go, I suspect it will be closer to $30k, still too high for the lower class frankly.

But it's not just tariffs. It's also the rolling back of certain mandates that made selling EVs attractive or even necessary in the US market. Besides that the fact is EVs aren't doing all that well in the US market. It's a similar situation in Canada. Since Canada is a much, much smaller market than the US, I expect Hyundai to similarly discontinue that same model there also.

Well seeing as there simply won't be any WD drives in the consumer market this year, I guess beggars can't be choosers.

Not to mention Firefox is really the only browser left that can run uBlock Origin, making it safer to just browse the internet. I use it on my Android phone because of this. All other browsers now have to use the Lite version which doesn't work as well.

The difference is most humans don't have a perfect memory. And those that do, if they were to put an entire extract from a copyrighted work in their own work would called on it. And people have been successfully sued for copyright infringement over creating something that was too much like something else they had heard or read, even if it was the product of their own mind.

LLMs have been shown over and over again to be able to reproduce literary works word for word if you prompt them in just the right way. They could reproduce code also.

I have been bending Firefox to my will with userChrome.css for some years now. It does get annoying having to fix it every year or so. I have tabs where they should be, underneath the url bar, but no status bar, sadly. So far I can live with it and it looks mostly the same as it did 15 years ago. Actually my entire desktop system has looked virtually the same for the last 20 years, ever since KDE 1.1 and Gnome 2, Mate, and now KDE Plasma 6.

Shudder! I absolutely hate pastel colors in Android. I have to run a root app to force them to grayscale since all colors are pastel. It's awful. Pink may complement the colors in my wallpaper, but just maybe I don't want pink. Why can't I choose the colors I want? If they make my eyes bleed with bright, saturated colors, that's on me.

Maybe so but AMD's AI Max 395 processor can, with 128 GB of combined memory (in a $3000 glorified laptop), do a decent job of running OpenCode with a variant of the Qwen3 coding model. Not quite like Claude Opus, but almost as good as Sonnet, from my testing (accessing it via OpenRouter). A desktop version with 256GB of RAM would make a pretty capable coding agent machine, if it were only affordable to mere mortals, which it won't be.

15% growth overnight is impressive, but a) how much of that is really going to stay long term, and how much is just individuals' curiosity buying a few months worth and b) what percent of their business is suddenly lost to all the DoD contractors and subcontractors? I suspect they've lost far more than they've gained. I commend them for sticking by their principles, if only temporarily, and even if I might disagree with their reasoning.

I take no joy in it. It's amazing to me how quickly constitutional democracy is dying in the US, and how few of my American friends actually care (they honestly believe that the next guy will be a sane Republican and everything will go back to normal). If it was only their own lives they were ruining I might not care so much, but this is extending now far beyond the United States. The same forces that are tearing down the institutions of democracy and making a mockery of everything the founding fathers stood for are also marshaling in other countries including mine.

15% jump in private subscriptions probably doesn't come close to replacing the number of subscriptions that DoD contractors have that they must now cancel.

It's the trump MO for the last year. Do whatever he and his cronies want, using tortured legal reasoning and then when the courts eventually tell him no, the damage is done and it becomes part of the message. "The activist judges won't let me do what you asked me to do."

Crazy to see the US becoming more like Putin's Russia every day. I'm not sure anyone is falling out of balconies yet, but there have definitely been suicides.

Does Claude Pro now work for the Excel plugin? Last I tried it said I needed a Max or Enterprise subscription.

That's a really good question. Why does Trump and MAGA think in those terms?

That's nothing. Just wait until you see the price tag for the 128 GB version. Currently the Mac Pro with M4 and 128 GB RAM is about $11k.