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The article laments that we are cut off from the $22K BYD Dolphin Surf, but completely ignores why.

Policymakers want us to adopt electric cars, but they also want to protect domestic industries from competition. The result is entirely predictable. The American consumer is forced to pay more for fewer choices.

If you want mass adoption, you cannot artificially restrict the supply of affordable vehicles and then act surprised when people stick with what they know.

Kia just did this with their EV9 update - it broke CarPlay with a blank screen a few minutes into driving, which then reverted itself a minute later. Another OTA mostly resolved it. Neither of these updates explained what happened or what the fix was.

Probably because the nuclear family doesn’t include grandparents helping.

Hmm, hasn’t been tame enough here for decades ..

We say “comparisons are the thief of joy”.

Was his name … Milton?

Wouldn’t it be easier to just train a camera with continuous recording at your bed?

Then correlate the time you woke up in your sleep log with the camera footage.

Apple needs to go a step beyond this and optionally automatically pick the best card to use based on your location to get the max cash back.

It wasn’t obvious where to add a virtual home button, so I’m adding instructions here:

Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Assistive Touch

Is it just:

pnpm wxt build -b safari xcrun safari-web-extension-converter .output/safari-mv2

And that’s it? Or is there some hidden extra work involved.

How about a Safari/Mobile Safari extension so iPhone users can use it?

Social interaction while spatially reasoning also helps. (Social + cognitive load)