We already have Superman for that, she doesn't have to be just a female version of him. She was older when Krypton was destroyed and didn't have Clark's wonderful parents to raise her.

I've noticed that there have been a lot of criticisms lately that boil down to "it wasn't made specifically for me, therefore it's terrible". Starfleet Academy got the same thing. I'm not the target audience by decades, but I was able to enjoy it anyway. Unfortunately the reaction to this is that anything half good tends to get cancelled, and we end up with generic slop that tries to please everyone and upset no-one. The current state of Star Wars is a great example of that, especially Ahsoka.

Social media and outrage farming has created a really nasty feedback loop.

Apparently it's only loosely based on the comics, and the ending is different. Thing is, some reviewers I find I generally agree with have said it was decent enough. Not as good as Superman, but not terrible either. Reminiscent of 90s stand-alone superhero movies like Blade.

I tend to be sceptical of "bad writing" these days, because it's the standard generic complaint made by people who don't have genuine criticisms. I haven't seen it so can't comment on the look, but unfortunately a lot of modern movies do look quite bland and dull. The look was one of the things I liked about Master of the Universe, which pitched itself just right to be enjoyable, a lot like Gunn usually does.

Houses in Europe were built for a different climate. Changing them now is going to be tricky, but we will have to find ways of doing it. For apartments that probably means lots of AC boxes on the roof and additional pipework on the outside.

It's hard to tell if they are talking about the power output capability of these systems, or the storage capacity. It could be either.

I'd like an eInk tablet, but I've been waiting for a reasonably priced large format one.

Their entire business model is that you are reliant on their servers to run AI. The last thing they want is you buying a power PC that can run it locally.

The only hope seems to be that Chinese manufacturers are improving rapidly. Already a lot of mid range products are using Chinese RAM, and they are supplying DDR 4. Once they reach competitive DDR 5 and GDDR levels, the price should come down.

Same with SSDs. The only decent offers are from Chinese brands using Chinese flash memory, like Fanxiang. The performance isn't mind blowing but they have proven to be reliable.

It's funny you think that China is communist.

It's because they are already invested in the Apple ecosystem, i.e. lock-in, or because it's the default safe choice for people who don't know much about phones and tablets and computers.

Android has better privacy protections, if that's what you care about. You also have the option of running a privacy focused version of Android, like Graphene OS. Even on standard Android you get extensive privacy controls and access to F-Droid, an app store for open source apps that bars anything which requires Google's services to work.

Android has supported IPv6 since the early days. I've got an ancient Galaxy S3 that I was seeing what I could do with, and that is on Android 4.3 which supports it.

Unless you are trapped deep in the Apple revenue farm, I don't think there is much point buying an iPad these days. At the low and mid levels Android tablets are cheaper and more than good enough for sheet music, web browser, most games, watching video, and so on. At the high end, Samsung tablets are better anyway. Better pen for drawing, better handwriting input, better screens etc.

Gouging, but also Chinese tablet manufacturers can use Chinese made RAM. It's a bit lower performance than the latest DDR5 stuff, but it's fine for tablets and quantity is more important than speed here.

Have a look at the price of AM4 Ryzen CPUs now, even used. They have shot up because DDR4 RAM is cheap.

That would suck. Some of the best features of modern EVs are that you can do things like pre-cool them remotely, and they take a lot of the effort out of cruising long distance with lane following automation.

The best outcome would be if such features were available with data not leaving domestic servers, or even better being able to use your own home server.

A better reference would be automotive batteries. 100kWh is on the larger end, but still fits within a typical European mid size car.