Agreed. My sedan has been electric for nearly a decade now, but I'm still driving a diesel pickup (1-ton, though a 3/4 ton would be sufficient) because EV pickup range is inadequate -- and I think it may be inadequate for a while. I need 250 miles of range when towing a trailer, which means I need ~500 -- maybe 600 -- miles of range without.

I'm not generally a fan of hybrids, but I think plug-in hybrids with large-ish batteries may be the sweet spot for a while with pickups. The Dodge Ramcharger is looking really good to me, though I'd like to see them make a 2500.

In Europe, Ford is not a prestige badge. They are competing with the likes of Renault, VW, Nissan, and Honda. And now of course the Chinese brands like MG, BYD, Jaecoo, Sonoda, Cherry, Omoda, and others.

They just aren't offering much for the European market. We aren't keen on light trucks, and most of their EVs are shitty fossil conversions. That just leaves the dwindling fossil market for them.

Could also be a warranty issue. Some poor designs rely on firmware to enforce limits and prevent damage.

It's bizarrely common with EV cars already. Some have fake engine noises, and some even have a whole fake clutch and gear shifting system. The silence and instant, uninterrupted torque are the best things about EVs.

Electric motors have instant torque without the spinning mass and gyroscopic effects.

Hopefully as well as the simulation mode, they work on creating entirely new ways to control the bike that take advantage of it being electric.

Europe has ARM, Linux was created here, and there is plenty of domestic enterprise grade hardware in things like telecomms.

China has been transitioning away, and shows it is possible. They have domestic CPUs, RAM, storage, motherboards... Europe can catch up.

I'd have gone with "Every web browser is Mozilla", personally, but yes.

If you're using a user agent for any sort of security purpose, you're not just doing security wrong; you're doing security so wrong that somebody is going to write an entire book as a postmortem about your company.

Moreover, if your service can't handle the traffic of a mere thousands of clients (four-digit QPS) hitting it at once, you have much bigger problems than security. I forgot how to count that low a long time ago.

Finally, the elephant in this room is that those "unauthorized" clients are YOUR USERS. They are people who bought YOUR HARDWARE and want to use it with your service. Basically, you're flipping off your paying customers. That's the fastest, easiest way to ensure that you don't have any of those anymore.

Already done. When I was choosing what 3D printer to buy to replace my aging Snapmaker A350 last year, I read about Bambu's questionable commitment to openness, and decided to buy a Creality printer (K2 Plus with CFS) instead. Over the year that followed, I bought a Creality Hi with CFS as a second printer, plus two additional CFS units, a filament dryer, a spare Creality tool kit (since the Hi doesn't come with one), and more than half a grand worth of filament.

I've personally spent well close to $3,700 on Creality products in the last year (not counting third-party filament and the DXC2 extruder upgrade) precisely because Bambu comes across as being a bunch of litigious a**holes who are trying to lock down their products and prevent users from being able to modify the hardware that they bought.

As far as I'm concerned, they've dug their grave in the 3D printer market. Stick a fork in it. They're done.

Yes they are. e.g. as mentioned here

1% of any group are criminals.

If 1% are making more than 50% of money, then the obvious answer is that they are enganged in criminal activities.

Or just regular sports betting. The silly stuff gets all the press but in reality it's all just a sports betting platform. It was just a stupid way to get around state regulations using the current incredibly corrupt national government.

It's just up to various forms of insider information. Not trading because this isn't trades this is gambling.

And the supreme Court is completely corrupt. So no attorney general is going to want to risk anything getting anywhere near the supreme Court because you never know when those corrupt assholes are just going to rule that states cannot Levy fines at all.

Basically right now and for the foreseeable future it is open season on consumers. Keep an eye on any elderly relatives you have that you care enough about to potentially be forced to bail out.

Will tell you that there really isn't any growing demand except for Elon musk's own companies wanting to launch more satellites for satellite internet that itself has pretty much maxed out the number of potential users because there's only so many people who don't have access to wired high-speed internet and can afford $100 a month for high-speed internet...

This is hype and people buying in because they are anticipating a bunch of people who can't get in on SpaceX IPOs and are going to want to just buy something related to space.

YouTuber Patrick Boyle has a pretty good video explaining all of this in detail and explaining why the SpaceX IPO is a giant scam that's going to hit the economy like a truck. Most notably the rules of the NASDAQ were changed to allow all sorts of nasty little shenanigans and because of the size of the IPO it basically forces fund managers to buy into it because of how large a percentage of the NASDAQ it becomes.

I don't even know emotionally or intellectually how to process just how bad all this is going to be when it comes down on our heads. And we all know it always comes down on our heads and not the heads of the billionaire Epstein class assholes who made all this happen...