Bought the headset for my 16 year old, I set it up for him and bought a few games, just so that he could immediately start playing with it on his birthday.

He doesn't have FB so I created a new Meta account, and somewhere along the line it also created a FB profile for that account. No big deal, no one's ever gonna use that anyway.

Just a few weeks later my personal FB and IG accounts were suspended, as well as a couple rarely active business pages I run.

Their claim was "I violated the rules", although not saying specifically which rules. They gave me no opportunity to appeal, and stated that my account would be deleted in 30 days.

I literally open FB like once a week for sending happy birthday messages to friends or browse those "what's happening in your city" types of groups. I'm in my 60s and have no motivation for doing anything "against the rules".

If the reason was because I inadvertently created a new FB account, why not ban THAT new account, instead of my old one? It's ridiculous.

I'm kinda bummed I lost 20 years of FB friends all around the world, who now probably think I'm dead.

Out here in the real world EVs are everywhere. This is the future, you just need to leave America to experience it. Mostly Chinese, or locally-built Chinese EVs, and a handful of Chinese-built Teslas. I own an AIO UT sedan hatchback which blows away all others in its category and it cost under US$15,000! And I'll bet you've never heard of it if you live in the USA.

ICE car dealers including Mazda, Toyota, and Honda are closing down and reopen selling XPENG and ZEEKR and MG and BYD. Petrol stations are disappearing all over the city and many are being replaced by EV charging stations. There will soon be a tipping point where petrol stations are going to be more difficult to find than EV stations. I charge my car for free with excess power from my 20Kwh solar panels.

Sadly, special interests in America will ensure that the future (which the rest of the world already enjoys) never arrives in the US.

My Xpeng G6 can theoretically charge 10%-80% in something like 8 or 10 minutes, but the advanced high-KW charging infrastructure doesn't exist anywhere yet. So for me it's closer to 20~30 minutes at a charger station, or several hours via solar at my house.

MG (Chinese brand now) offers lifetime free replacement on the battery. They've either calculated that the battery is gonna live longer than the car, or that it's worthwhile to offer that to get a customer. Either way it's a win for the consumer.

A reasonable argument. EV charger stations are not everywhere. Yet.

There will definitely be a tipping point, in the not too distant future, where finding a petrol station could become more difficult that an EV charging station. Where I live in SE Asia we are seeing petrol stations closing frequently. Some are being replaced with LPG stations, some are turning into EV charge stations, and some just turn into other businesses.

Who's nervous? I'm not. Car batteries are similar to phone batteries, you typically shouldn't charge them to 100%, at least not regularly. That last 20% does take a bit longer to charge, so you'll see most EVs are spec'd at "80% charge". So just consider 80% == "100%".

Ford Focus gets 300 miles (conservatively) on a full tank. Toyota Corolla does better at about 435 miles.

My Xpeng G6 goes 370 miles at 80% charge, not including regenerative braking. Plenty of other EVs go even farther.

Today, EVs are generally on a par with ICE vehicles in terms of range. In just a couple years with newer battery tech you'll have lighter and longer range EVs that will put all ICE vehicles to shame. You can debate people online all you want, but the world will just move on without you.

100%. I live in SE Asia where the car market and all the associated infrastructure has been turned upside down by EVs in just the past 4 or 5 years. It's such a shame that Americans are being denied the opportunity to purchase such a wide variety of EVs as we have here, worse yet, they probably don't even have a clue how good these vehicles actually are. Teslas are fine, but they are not by any means the best you can buy these days. Go pull up some random Youtube EV reviews from Europe or Australia or Asia and you'll get a taste.

"How am I supposed to charge it, have a cable going from my house across the road?"

Perhaps stop at an EV charge station? New EVs have fast charging and you can charge 10% to 80% in 30 minutes (or less). If you're pressed for time, just top up for a couple minutes and you will still have enough charge for several days. It's not all that different an experience to a petrol station.

and and let's hope HL3 has a native VR option too!!

I am legacy user going back to GAFYD, I transitioned to the free version of Business Starter a couple years back. I'm a single user for my domain, and was stuck with only 17GB storage. When they migrated my account to pooled storage I went into the admin panel and added 100 new "users" and Google instantly gave me another 1.5TB free storage, which I'm now making good use of. Thanks Google~!

While that strategy might work for the domestic Japanese market at the moment, long-term it's a terrible strategy, as Japan automakers are losing significant market share to Chinese EVs in the EU, UK, Australia, Mexico, and SE Asia. Last month Honda and Nissan and Mitsubishi merged in an effort to save themselves. EVs from Honda, Toyota and Mazda are some of the dullest and least innovative EVs on the market, and way too expensive to boot. Their CEOs are arrogantly (and quite wrongly) claiming hydrogen and PHEV are the real future.

I live in SE Asia, I've only ever owned Japanese cars, my family has only ever owned Japanese cars for as long as I can remember - that is no longer the case. Japanese car dealerships are closing down countrywide and being replaced by dealers for Zeeker, Xpeng, MG, BYD and Neto. Even Japanese car factories in Thailand are closing down, only to be replaced by Chinese EV factories. Everyone is seeing the benefits of EVs and could care less whether the car comes from Japan or China - they want affordability, slick design, and an innovative and exciting driving experience - and Japanese cars are not offering any of that.

China will decimate the Japanese auto industry within this decade. Japan's economy relies heavily on auto exports. Japan is in for a world of hurt.

I recently visited Indonesia for 6 weeks. Couldn't access Reddit so I opened a VPN, which worked. However I discovered that all Indonesia are doing is redirecting DNS queries for these banned sites. So I used the free Cloudflare app "1.1.1.1", which allows you to change your carrier's DNS on an iPhone, and this worked just as well as a VPN, if not faster.

You may be surprised to learn that Google Voice accounts under Workspace will now become paid only, even if you already chose to pay monthly to continue using your Workspace account. So you'll now be paying for Workspace + GVoice. There is discussions on Reddit of people transferring their accounts to a free gmail account in order to save the GVoice number. But you will need to act quickly because at the end of January GVoice gets an overhaul and the legacy interface which allows transfers will be removed entirely.

This is a complete clusterfuck, but a more and more typical move from Google.

Since most "live action" movies are mostly CGI these days.

I got the game on my X1X, played it for 6 to 8 hours, experienced no issues with crashing, graphics seemed fine.

However, I thought the game was just shitty, and BORING! What's the point of building an "open world" game when you can't interact in any meaningful way with 99% of it? People are so caught up complaining about the graphics, maybe they are overlooking how dull and lifeless this game is. Am I the only one with this opinion?

I am so happy MS gave me a refund. I won't miss this game at all.