I'm curious, but suspicious. Tesla Y is the top selling car model by a large margin inside China, and UK reviews I've read of Chinese EV imports has made them sound underwhelming. UK reviews make them sound nowhere near as good as a Tesla, although decently priced.

But if you could post what model you're talking about, and what the cost of that car is vs. a Model Y in your home market, that might be interesting!

Ultimately the Tesla 3 or Y cost less than median value new car, Nissan Leafs are cheaper than that, and compliance cars like the eGolf or the eFiat 500 were (once you consider the lower maintenance/fueling) the cheapest new cars you could buy.

Electric cars are the future, whether that happens in 5 years or 20. I think the subsidy helped get the industry started and smoothed the 1st stage of adoption, which was always going to be rocky. Despite my issues with Elon Musk, ultimately I think it's a good thing that the world's #1 largest car company by capitalization and world's top selling car (along with Rav4 and Corolla) is from an American company, and the subsides made it possible. But of course they were temporary, and while personally I think they should have been phased out, they were always going to be a temporary measure.

Before September 2025, the government was throwing in $7,500, and maybe your state government was kicking in a few thousand extra, and then the local utility maybe was subsidizing your charger. So your $45k Tesla was effectively selling for $35k. Of course nobody is going to buy a used Tesla for $33k when a new one is selling for $35k, but the depreciation was still being taken as if a $45k vehicle was selling for cheap. What we're seeing isn't as much a change in demand for EVs, as much as seeing that removing government subsidies has normalized the used car market.

I remember buying an egolf back in 2015, I paid like $21k after subsidies. This was a good price, but that basic value held true for a number of years. Used price was great, for many years I could have sold it for $15k+, and it even went over $21k during 2022 due to supply side issues. But articles talking about used value mentioned that the egolf used value had tanked, going for $37k to $18k. But really that was a 10% drop, because if it went down a normal 30% or whatever you'd literally be buying a used car for more than you would spend on a new one!

The numbers are often taken from sticker price (the article itself doesn't discuss how it got its numbers). But of course many cars sell for under sticker price...or in 2022, during supply chain shortages, were actually selling for $5,000 above sticker price. Now that we're mostly over the supply chain issues, these cars are going to see an additional $5,000 drop in used value. But it seems statistically unuseful to account for a one-time extraordinary industry issue.

It’s hard to imagine. Aside from being partially able to get around corporate censorship, local LLMs are incomparably shittier.

Timeline hopper here, just through the gate from funny laugh lady land. Believe it or not in that line Musk is still the richest man ever over there - richer even - but he's a woke social librul because he knows which side of his bread has butter on it.

Notably, President Harris also prefers rockets that will launch to rockets that will not for some reason.

But don't eat the fish. Just in case.

>[T]he oligopoly seems to be facing the first credible challenge to its capacity discipline...

What an interesting way to describe that. A disciplined way, you might say.

But a pair of sunglasses is a better form factor than bolting a camera to your helmet or t-shirt. It's not revolutionary, but it is better.

Watching was a thrill ride from beginning to end. Still issues with Booster landing but they will sort it out. The re-entry tiles did great. The satellites did great. Ship did so well they will try for a catch next time, if there's nothing counter in the flight data.

Hardware rich development proves itself again. The next one is built and being fitted out for a launch just a couple months away. Behind it, the factory has begun several more.

It's hard to believe they started building this on a beach in tents, with a flying water tower.

PIckup artists are the most obvious use case?

I would think it's people recording themselves doing activities who don't have a hand free to take out their phone. Maybe athletics and athletes: bikers, climbers, skiers, or really anything.

Or people taking lazy travel videos: just walking through an interesting area.

I've owned a few Rokus, and the whole reason you get them (or fire sticks) instead of Apple TV or just getting a new TV is because it costs about the same as a Big Mac Meal. For $150, what's the point?

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a “mouse.” There is no evidence that people want to use these things. — John C. Dvorak, 1984

  Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it’s smart it will call the iPhone a ‘reference design’ and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else’s marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures Otherwise I’d advise people to cover their eyes. You are not going to like what you’ll see. — John C. Dvorak, 2007

  iPhone which doesn’t look, I mean to me, I’m looking at this thing and I think it’s kind of trending against, you know, what’s really going, what people are really liking on, in these phones nowadays, which are those little keypads. I mean, the Blackjack from Samsung, the Blackberry, obviously, you know kind of pushes this thing, the Palm, all these And I guess some of these stocks went down on the Apple announcement, thinking that Apple could do no wrong, but I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it. — John C. Dvorak, 2007

  The Apple iPad is not going to be the company’s next runaway best seller. — John C. Dvorak, 2010

  Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores. — John C. Dvorak, 2012

Get over it. That was big, a company Sony had just bought out, 25 years ago. The people responsible didn’t work for Sony stvthr time and anyway are since retired.

I was waiting and waiting to play Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge! I'm just hoping they add Barbie Horse Adventures!

Slashdot is still convinced that "correlation isn't causation!" is this amazing insight that researchers have never considered, and that all science is therefor invalid.

The radiation pressure that prevents the inflow of mass to a black hole has no effect on another black hole.