prmoustache

That is not what the first article says.

It says Tesla registrations increase and I believe this may be a trend accross all EV brands with the influence of the Iran/US conflict on the price of gas.

Are ByD cars that interesting? Specs look good but I had a few rides in that sedan model most Ubers drive these days and it is conceptually flawed. They put batteries where you are supposed to put your feets as a rear passenger which mean that any regular adult sized person end up with their knees in the face as if they were seating on a kids chair. So uncomfortable.

With such a basic design error, I wonder how many frustrating flaws an actual owner has to put up with. I've driven chinese rental cars in Mexico (an MG SUV and a chevrolet small sized sedan) and both had electronic issues. For instance the rear window heating of the MG would startup on its own once every other time their was a significant bump on the road (which happens frequently in MX) and the actual touch sensitive non mechanical button buttons weren't very sensitive so it was a pain in the ass to turn it off. Both android systems were absolute crap with annoying bugs. Overall not a very pleasant experience.

> a fuzzy plastic display will not faithfully represent what your viewers/users will see on their devices

Looks to me like it would be the opposite unless a majority of your users are on a Mac. MacOS has a 30% market share in the USA and only around 15% globally.

> I bought the new 8 inch Alexa tablet [...] for putting on a video in bed while I fall asleep

That's...horrifying.

Have you tried closing your eyes?

This would only work for a few months until car thieves start having a habit of mounting different plates.

Obviously the perfect crime is harder to do in an orwellian society. But happiness and freedom too so nothing good is gained from that.

>For a ~2500-3200 USD phone (base model, international pricing), that's not happening.

Honestly I have no idea. To me spending 800usd for a phone is already completely crazy yet apparently smartphones in the 1000 to 1400 range are plenty already. What is the ceiling at which volume will go down drastically? I honestly don't know.

Same for transportation, I don't understand why people accept paying north of 35kusd on a vehicle and that is before the additional yearly expenses. Yet there are plenty of cars sold in the 50k and above. I bought mine second hand for 6.5kusd and even if it died tomorrow after 2 years of use it would still have been a better deal than leasing even the smallest and cheapest new cars on the market for 4 years. Yet I still see plenty of brand new cars in the street every day (and I am thanskful of that, otherwise the second hand market would disappear) so plenty of people are willing to buy really expensive stuff whenever much cheaper alternatives exist.

I have a friend who is not at all into luxury stuff but bought one because he never used a computer and was appealed by the screen size to make the administrative stuff he was struggling to do with a regular smartphone.

Having said that he is also known to make some bad purchasing decision and living in constant debt.

TBH the idea that one person could have so much power is bad imho, it only attracts sociopaths.

I like the swiss model more where one party never gets full power, even if it means societal changes take more time to happen[1], it seems less risky to me as there is never one power grab whose decision can influence the next election by stuff like redistricting, puting clearly leaning judges to federal court, etc.

[1] famous example is the women right to vote in the general election happened in 1971 which is quite shameful

Next time bring a bicycle.

People can buy a prebuilt pc running steamOS automagically updating itself with immutable images.

The advantage of consoles are:

- No minimum/recomended config to check and insurance that a game or an accesorry bought for a console gen will work well for that console gen. In term of game compat this is something Steam tried to with the steam deck but has no way to enforce really and the biggest one imho. When you buy a brand new "budget" computer in the price range of a console you usually knownyou won't be able to play some of the upcoming AAA titles at least woth decent graphic quality.

- availability in retail stores

- ability to sell games in the second hand market but I don't think this is something that is here to stay with the disappearance of physical medias

In this case it is none of the above and it is about deals on selected ip characters for movie/shows production but there are many ways to "buy" stuff. In theory Microsoft could just shutdown the xbox divisions and just sell the XBox brand + some selected IP rights. The buyer would be free to use whatever tech they decide on next iteration of console/OS.

What kind of exclusivity do they have on Elder Scrolls if all their games were releases on at least 3 platforms?

Do you meam potential upcomimg game that may be vaporware for a decade or two?

Yes in contradiction to what the downvoters might think, I am not judgemental. By all means use what works for you. I was just pointing out how one thing can be done different ways and I might not even have thought about using OBS for that purpose while being a user myself of the program.

My wife is not super tech savy but has no problem plugging an hdmi cable and learned the function key to switch monitors modes. "friends" somehow never asked for it as there is no visible screen in my living room and those spending some nights on the couch usually bring their own laptop or phone and whatch whatever they want anyway.

Having said that we are not the typical household with TV turned on 12h a day. We have a screenless kitchen+dinning space separated from the living room. I know it is less popular these days but we prefer it that way, especially when cooking stuff with powerful smell, and it allows us to enjoy having a meal and having a conversation without distraction. Cooking/eating alone we might individually decide to watch something on our phone/tablet/laptop but the unwritten rule is to turn it off when it becomes a family moment. In the living room we are using a video projector instead of a TV so deciding to watch a movie or a TV show is more an active decision to gather together, bring something to eat and drink, turn off the light and watch a specific thing we all agreed on. I might be the only one occasionally turning it on in the evening to play a video game, mostly in the winter when days are short. While we ocasionally have a binge watching couple of days this is a rare occurence and turning on the video projector is typically not even a weekly event. For instance this month I think we only turned it on twice. We never really have moments when someone is alone zapping randomly through channels.

I don't really understand how some people can get bored enough to decide to sit in front of a screen and watch "random" stuff when I barely have time for all my hobbies. For instance when I am watching sports it is usually on replay while I am doing house chores so it is usually on a tablet or laptop in whichever room I happen to be. I will never decide to put aside a hobby or sport I can enjoy myself and watch other people — regardless if they are professional and better at said sport — do it and enjoy it themselves instead of me. I know I used to do that when I was a teenager but this is now a foreign concept to me.

YMMV, it works and in our case bring us a better quality of life: better sleep/rest, more time for conversation with my daughters, more active and enjoyable sexual life with my current partner than with previous ones who were glued to a TV every evening, more time for hobbies and gratification of making stuff ourselves.

> Isn't this just giving in if your only reasonable backup location is a US cloud

my backups are not in a US Cloud.

Contacts and calendar on self hosted carddav

Pictures and files on self hosted drive.

Deltachat on mail servers (non us hosted provider) and XMPP conversation backups.

I don't backup whatsapp automatically, only do manual exports once in a while of important conversations that get copied to my self hosted server. Whatsapp pictures and vids are automatically synched with syncthing.

I host encrypted backups for another tech savy relative on a server of mine and in exchange he also host space for me on his own local backup server. We are 2000km appart so it allows us to keep a safe backup in remote location in case of fire or natural disaster without relying on the cloud.

Only thing I have missing is an automatic backup test of random files to compare checksums. I have done test backups manually but last was a bit more than a year ago so it is time to run a new one and add this automation as well.