What, see the speed in the HUD (it changes colour if it's above a certain tolerance to the limit) or see an alert if low on fuel or an engine fault? Whatever you may think through ignorance of the subject, good design does exist.

I twice (5 years apart) rejected both Volvo and Tesla in favour of BMW with the physical controls being a major part of the decision.Porsche was my only other consideration and again, they get ergonomics for a driver. Voice controls aren't perfect and frankly when driving I want to control many things WITHOUT needing to devote unnecessary brain power or focus on it.

Nothing of what youâ(TM)re misleadingly stating is reality.

The fact that itâ(TM)s a win-win (less waste, less manufacturing and shipping emissions for the world, less manufacturing and shipping costs for Apple) doesnâ(TM)t make it bad. Whether the retail cost is too high is irrelevant and ultimately the consumers fault if it is given there is strong smartphone competition. I say this as someone who buys and manages phones for my family and enterprise.

And I DONâ(TM)T want you or anyone else to get a charger with every phone that you buy, just like I donâ(TM)t want you to get a plastic bag automatically with every purchase. Whatever point Brazil are making, the result shouldnâ(TM)t be to pack a charger into every box.

It happens in government too, nothing unique with âoebig businessâ. itâ(TM)s just the general result of rules requiring that roles are advertised, of meeting quotas and targets etc when the reality is that many jobs are stitched up before the advert is even written. Source: Iâ(TM)ve been on the receiving end where a close acquaintance happened to be involved and casually talked about the non-available role Iâ(TM)d been interviewing for at a dinner.

Hi - Remember me? Sincerely, Lars Ulrich.

Said the person who clearly has never used it or realises what Edge actually is under the hood.

Exactly. We have started promoting it to our org which has previously been all Chrome. Even a Google diehard volunteered that they really like it and weâ(TM)re surprised that it wasnâ(TM)t actually another bastard like IE. As I put it to people, itâ(TM)s the same browser but for MS orientated organisations.

You are likely correct, the exact same comment was made by mainstream media when this whole thing was a story last year.

(*sigh* 2022 and Slashdot comments still ignore WYSIWYG formatting and punctuation)

My organisation is notionally working to a hybrid model, but with a minimum of 3 days a week in office - days decided by each team. The issue is that all the productivity gains of the past 2 years arenâ(TM)t being compensated for. Most people now lose 9-10 hours minimum to travel. Everyone loses some time to distractions (only now do we realised how little work some other departments have that they spend their time roaming around to âoesay hiâ. Tellingly, we are finding ourselves still having Teams meetings while sitting in the office as itâ(TM)s easier to screen share than huddle around an individual desk or squint at a large screen in a meeting room that had to be booked. For many, there is only downside to the ahortsightedness of âoemandatingâ a flexible hybrid. I now need more staff but donâ(TM)t expect to get them. In my case, itâ(TM)s raised the likely hood of people moving on for the first time in years.

Especially if that (using waste vegetable oil) is exactly what the charger mentioned is already doing⦠The Luddite hating on EV for Australia carefully left that detail out.

I think youâ(TM)ve imagined most of these problems, not that Iâ(TM)m denying that MacBook Pros are a bit weighty but only in comparison to other light business machines, not most consumer devices. And why would milling creating shavings be a problem? Donâ(TM)t you think those get reused / recycled?

My 3lt 6 cylinder pure ICE BMW gets a bit better than 55 mpg real world on long trips amd has pretty awesome performance. Itâ(TM)s good but not THAT good pottering around town. Thereâ(TM)s no reason they canâ(TM)t meet the goal with good performance - hybrid in particular gives great acceleration off the line.