Best value: $450 for ten years, includes free airbag unlock codes.

Do they continue paying because they want to, or because their subscriptions were renewed without a reminder or consent?

More likely it will be hot garbage heavily promoted on your your infotainment system with no way to hide or disable it. Satellite radio, OnStar of course but anything streamable, maybe also features you take for granted. Oh, and there is so much potential for ads unless you pay. And don't forget that GM is getting rid of support for Android Auto and Apple Carplay just for good measure. Don't buy GM vehicles. Don't buy any vehicle that pulls this shit.

Buy something you can't afford because of a psychological trick. Realise you've been caught in a trap. Struggle to make payments. Get whacked with late payment fees. Get your phone disabled by Apple. Get harassed by debt collectors. Klarna and their ilk are a pox.

I assume anybody interested in playing XBox games on a PC already has Xemu (XBox), Xenia (XBox 360), and tools to rip discs and play virtually any game they like through emulation. About the only thing Microsoft could add of value would be live service features like trophies, DLC etc. and that's a pretty weak value proposition.

It's not one or the other. A car can do mundane stuff, and provide rapid response in emergencies like collisions or skids, but having a human being who is attentive and capable of dealing with random events is also important.

And that's because autonomous cars with their "extensively trained algorithms" demonstrate repeatedly that they can fail in very stupid and systemic ways. e.g. if the software in an autonomous car does not stop for a school bus then it is a problem affecting all vehicles.

Waymo, which can be considered the best of self driving platforms, has suffered many such issues by its own disclosure. And other platforms are likely to be far worse, since they are not forthcoming with issues.

As far as Europe is concerned you've moved from ally to adversary.

And almost certainly by a greater degree than drinking coffee.

Rust catches bugs early by language design, enforcement at compile time and if necessary with runtime panics. So issues that would follow C/C++ into executable code and may not trigger until the code is in the hands of customers aren't even allowed to happen.

It's still very easy to write application level bugs in Rust but having the door closed on so many by design means less overall. Other niceties like not having to write headers and sources, integrated unit testing, package management, cross compilation also make it a far more pleasant experience.

So OpenAI are going to make a microphone / camera and a speaker device - just like Apple, Google, Amazon et al. Ten years too late and probably even shittier than what already exists.

I'm looking at you OpenAI - all those billions you're hemorrhaging can't be replenished for ever. Just die already. Perhaps with that the bubble might burst and RAM will become affordable again.

Actually it's 3200 and that's not including all the staff disappearing with the sale of some major studios. Basically this is an evisceration and it is clear that the XBox the console is fucked, and what remains will focus on casual and lame content - more Minecraft, more Candy Crush and similar slop.

Github's parent just laid off most of the Xbox division. As bad as it is to drop physical media, it doesn't look like Microsoft is going to last much longer either in that regard.

The fact they're not doing it everywhere indicates they're doing it in Europe through gritted teeth. EU already watered down the legislation so Apple & other phone makers could use "waterproof" as a loophole around the requirement, but for devices that can't like the Switch they're going to do it begrudgingly.

A drone carrying a condom full of epoxy or paint could teabag the camera.