Only because your jurisdiction has crap privacy laws. Vizeo is a US brand that doesn't sell into Europe, because if they did this would be a massive GDPR violation and they would be looking at a hefty fine.

People have reported that simply removing the WiFi modem from LG sets has no ill effects.

Google Calendar and Outlook both seem to handle getting things like meeting requests in different timezones. They adjust to UTC when displaying on my machine, or JST when I'm travelling.

Not to mention that cellular works because the cells are relatively small. With satellite cell service, each vehicle serves a much larger area, but the radio spectrum is the same and can only service a limited number of devices.

If an area becomes overloaded a terrestrial provider can just add more cell towers and reduce the cell size. If a large area covered by one satellite becomes overloaded, SpaceX is screwed.

Recently they have been introducing limits on their "unlimited" satellite internet product, because it is getting over-subscribed. So you are absolutely right, they have already hit their capacity limits in some areas and are trying to wring as much revenue out of them as possible by enshittifying the service now.

Windows does support UTC. I use it myself. You can set it in the GUI, or with Powershell:
Set-TimeZone -Id "UTC"

Because it's cheaper to suffer some cyber attacks than it is to employ people to go and manually adjust the temperature. The supermarkets save a lot of money with these automatic controls, because they pay the spot price for electricity. The prices are announced 24 hours in advance, so they drop the thermostat a degree or two when electricity is cheap, and then up a degree or two when it's expensive, to keep within the legal limits.

This loss is insured and will cost them far, far less than they save.

Car manufacturing is massively subsidized in the West too.

The Chinese are winning at manufacturing because they just do it better. Their supply chains are unrivalled, and that makes them extremely agile.

We can compete in Europe. Manufacturers here are now starting to offer cars that compete with Chinese models on price, which suggests that they were just ripping us off before.

I wouldn't buy a Liberty Phone because I'm European, but we do have Fairphone and I wouldn't buy one of those either because I need top tier cameras. I know a couple of people who have them and they are pretty good, except for the cameras which are mid tier at best.

The Model Y isn't a very good car anyway. No physical controls for most functions, including things like gear selection and headlights. The automatic systems don't work very well (they don't in most cars, e.g. the auto high beams tend to blind other people because they react too slowly, and Teslas are some of the worst for it). It's uncomfortable and you have to deal with frequent software updates and in-car monetization.

Right, we can learn about longer term habitation on other worlds in low gravity, and about collecting resources. The Moon has water and H3 and other stuff.

This time the effort of getting there will probably be more sustainable, because China is unlikely to give up even if the US somehow gets back there first, and because the whole industry is more sustainable now.

I hear that some of the AI generated ports to retro machines are as good as the originals.

Back in the day some game designers would farm out the actual coding of their games. The Bitmap Brothers did that a lot, but still managed to make games like Gods and Speedball 2.

These days most indie devs use frameworks that can boil game development down to writing scripts.

I think if the designers know what they are doing, and particularly if they do the graphics and sound themselves, they could probably get a decent result with AI writing the code. Likely no worse than some of the crappy developers from back in the day, lazily posting Atari ST slop to the Amiga, for example.

All of which is small fry compared to the fact that he digitally raped a women.

Let's also not forget that he's in the Epstein files and statements he made at the time suggest he knew exactly who Epstein was. Even if he didn't rape any children himself, he continued to be Epstein's friend.

It's more of a quality issue. An AI generated game could be good, it's just that because the barrier to entry is so low now, literally just type a prompt and then complain about the things that don't work right, that people with lame ideas and copycats are not dissuaded by the effort required.

Musk is doing his usual "our product is shit but all the better ones are fake and ours will be the greatest when it's finished!"

Musk's robots are crap and his AI is mediocre. He's nowhere near having AI operate his robots, which is why he has humans remotely tele-operating them.

It's so fucking embarrassing. Not that he bullshits everyone this way, but that people take him seriously.