Exactly not. The average consumer does not buy the 20% best selling phones. He buys one of the 80% other ones. It's the 20% narcissists, which are not average. And in fact, sometimes it's not narcissism. My company routinely uses iPhones, because they are more easily remotely managed and have defined End of Sale and End of Service windows. I have an iPhone, because my company bought them and gave me one.

That's the whole point. With Android, it does not matter for the average consumer what brand it is. It does not even matter that it is Android. It's just a generic smartphone, it can install the apps they want, and people will buy whatever fits their budget and their needs, ignorant about brand and operating system. For a single vendor, it is complicated to have one model sell in large numbers, because they are generic. Or do you know what farm your potatoes come from? It's potatoes. That's all that matters.

Use ad-blockers, and then "engagement" becomes just another unwanted expense, like it should be. Make 'em say "I sure wish ISPs would cache my site's pages so that not every user has to hit my little server." Party like it's 1995, dudes!

Right now, I can not, because the parking garage is below the flooding zone of a nearby river, and the circuitry in that specific building is designed to have all wires above that level - the parking garage does not even have normal wall sockets. I don't know when the company owning the building will redesign the electricity. But I have several chargers less than 300 yards away.

That's something the Market[tm] will solve. Those apartments might not be easily rented out. Or people move in who are used to using public transport anyway.

Actually, it's gasoline - an oil (oline) which is easily vaporized into a gas. Diesel in contrast does not vaporize under normal conditions.

No, it is not. It's just the current crop of cars, e.g. the 2025 model year. Now you get similar technology that had costed 50,000 EUR or more a few years ago, in 25,000 EUR cars. But if you look into the 50,000 EUR range, it's different. Take the Xpeng g7+ for example, which offers 20-80% charging in 10 mins at a price point of 53,000 EUR! Or the Mercedes CLA 250+ with a 500 mile range costing 58,000 EUR!

Charging technology is currently switching from 400 V DC to 800 V DC - but that's not just the cars, it's also the charging infrastructure, which has to be improved. First cars with 1000 V DC charging are already presented, and more importantly, 4C or 6C charging is possible now in some models (which means 4 times battery capacity in one hour, or 6 times capacity in an hour). And on the engineering side: ONE Cabot R&D in the U.S. has shown that you can fit more than 200 kWh with current cells into the battery compartment of current cars.

What might be true is that the current offerings on the BEV side are good enough for 96% of Norwegians, 68% of all Danes, 40% of Dutch people and 37% of all Finns.

This is plain ideological nonsense. I know, because I live in a multi-unit rental, and each apartment has its own parking space. And so do all the neighboring multi-story multi-unit rentals. Within 15 min walking, I have five super markets, three home centers, a hardware store and a lot of other stores. Additionally, within 15 min walking, there are a train station with services every 30 min in each direction, two streetcar lines, and five bus lines.

Ah yes, also a sports field, an indoor swimming pool and an artificial lake with a swimming bath. And a golf course.

"Cured" is the wrong word. The survival rate after 5 years is higher than 50% for three fourths of all cancers.

And more importantly, it's in "Good Omens", right in S01E01!

That really was not the intent behind the second amendment. The whole 'to protect against government tyranny' framing came out of trying to fight the civil rights movement. The 'tyranny' pictured at the time was things like desegregated schools, disallowing sunset towns, and prosecuting lynchings.

The original purpose was to appease southern delegates who were afraid their slave patrols would be disarmed by a government that might try to protect people

You will always have to use the software platform the inviting party of the meeting is using. Nothing to see here.

It just means that French governmental institutions will no longer invite to a Teams or Zoom meeting.

The most common solution is called "minimal spanning tree". Some of the nodes are mixing the streams for the whole tree, and most participants are just leaf nodes.

The nice thing about Europeans finally doing this, is that they might create and use standards!

And if they do that, then not just France, but everyone can dump their proprietary meeting software.

Sadly, even areas that are set up like that today, the building is still owned by a developer and rented out. Prices are set by what rent seekers and their accumulated wealth can afford, not what rent payers can.