Making money is more valued than making strangers happy.

But car batteries are quite large. Even my shitty Honda Prologue that was less than $35k new has an 85kwh battery. Yeah, you might not want to give up 50% of your battery. But giving up 20% of your capacity? That's as a Tesla home battery, which is a decently substantial amount. And you'd still get hundreds of miles of range.

USA average house consumes 30kWh/day. That and solar power and a little care not to run the AC or clothes dryer and you could probably run off the grid indefinitely.

You're right, claiming that "a product made by Apple is the cause of all this is silly." But that's not what the article did, did you read the summary? They argue 33-52%.

That is a feeling you have. You aren't supporting it with any evidence, just feels. There's obvious counter-examples - why are birth rates down even higher in places where there's socialized medicine, no student debt, heavily subsidized childcare, etc.? If you're going by evidence, rather than feel, that clearly suggests there's more going on.

Furthermore, you seem to have read the article, but you dismiss it with "it is still not magic." What a meaningless statement! Scientific method requires some kind of counter-argument, not just hand waving away the parts you don't want to be true.

I mean...isn't that what people use computers for? browsing the web, simple games, and maybe a word processor? What else would they do with one?

"Taikonauts" is not a word.

$10k subsidy went away, of course vehicle sales went down! Next year Ford is releasing a $30k electric pickup truck, the Ranchero, then it will go back up!

If batteries and EV components were to stay the same, then I could totally see American car manufacturers sticking it out with ICE cars, despite EVs having advantages in some ways. But we all know the technology is getting cheaper and better, and not having EV plans would be tantamount to giving up on being anything more than a niche company.

I get carsick easily and throw up from rollercoasters that my little kids can take. You get sick the first time you do VR, but your brain very quickly acclimates and like by the 4th time I used it I didn't feel VR sick at all. YMMV.

I'm sorry to hear it, as the Oculus/Meta Quest is one of those few technologies that makes you think "holy shit!" It really is an amazing experience, it feels like living in Science Fiction. Then the best actual use is playing Resident Evil 4, a Gamecube game from 2005. I also enjoy taking 360 videos.

I thought Apple would be able to take this amazing technology and find some practical application for it...and I see I was wrong! I still think it can happen someday.

Richard Stallman doesn't believe pedophilia is wrong, so I think it's fair to ignore his other legal opinions as well.

Ironically enough, this would be good for most of Slashdot. It could have saved creimer.

I teach at a highly rated high school. I use AI to help me come up with ideas for lesson plans. I don't just accept it whole: even if I wanted to, AI lesson plans simply aren't coherent enough to actually use for an extended time.

As for the criticism that teachers use AI to make it, students use AI to do it, the process is a joke: it's two separate issues. Nobody cares how the teachers do it. We could use tarot cards, and if it made good lesson plans, hell yeah. The whole focus is on the students. Students need to know how to do the independent thinking on their own, or at least how to do the independent thinking with the assistance of an LLM (no teacher I know actually believes this, but I could see the argument being made).

And certainly every single teacher is aware that students can use AI to cheat. It's like at the forefront of teacher thought right now. I'm an English teacher using motherfucking blue books like it was 1987. Schools are all implementing paper tests, switch to in-class assignments only, weighting homework at 0% or nearby it because cheating on Homework has become trivial, etc.

Oh, finally, about AI grading. I'm sure it happens, but I've never heard of it happening. I guess I could see that for like a practice assignment? I don't think AI is trusted enough for students or parents to accept AI grading results, even if I wanted to do that.

Your argument is completely disingenuous. It actually weakens your argument, because if you had a good reason, you wouldn't be speaking obvious bullshit.

Every single person here knows that a car is generally used for normal, everyday stuff. Going to groceries, etc. If you see a car on a road, the chances are one in a million it's being currently used to commit a crime.

Likewise, every single person tech-literate enough to be on Slashdot knows this is used to store pirated media files, not your collections of homemade EDM or circa 1922 field recording.

Why BS? Why rely on an argument that everybody here knows isn't really true? Why not just call a spade a spade?

Yeah, but Chromebooks are always 1:1 so students can do computers at home if they're sick/have homework/etc. Can't lock the network.

But then everything becomes test based. What about writing a long essay for english? A research paper for history class? A project for science class? A program for Computer Science?