silversconfused

Cost of ownership is nuts. My car basically just sits, but I have to pay $1000 a year just to keep it legal. My bike was $50. And that was it.

Did you ever try a bike from a bike shop? This sounds like a department store bike experience. Multispeed bicycles are not generic widgets you unbox, hop on, and go. They need tuning, like a musical instrument, and a lot of the adjustments are interdependent on one another.

Unless EV door handles and airbags are that much more complicated, I must be missing something. The problems with EVs are support infrastructure and profitability, NOT reliability and complexity.

It was a time bomb to disable functionality after a certain date and should never have been there in the first place. The decision to silently disable the override in about:config is just more evidence of how sick this it. This is not software empowering the user. This is software assuming the user is a moron who may break it.

Right, so we fork.

Doesn't seem to want to build against NDK 3.9 with gcc 4.7, but it was fun to try.

Accepting anti-features in exchange for security hotfixes isn't going to win everyone over.

An EV drivetrain is extremely simple and reliable. They are dragging their feet on purpose to extend their returns on ICE investment, not because it's "too hard".

There's no reason for local software to stop working when a remote server is unavailable, reconfigured, neglected, or your clock is wrong. They are doomed if they think this is sustainable.

We have all the proof we need that MS is running an ad farm from the base windows experience. What proof do you have that he was infected with malware beyond that?

That's just making the user need _more_ passwords, and will result in bad password mangement and lost access. Also pins are quite a bit easier to shoulder surf, so this is just nuts.

If they are going to pay for 1/10 a developer, is anything stopping you from picking up 10 of these orgs as employers at the same time and delivering 1/10 of your effort to each?

It's hard to make parts for things that are designed to be unrepairable.

That said it's also hella not cost effective. I'm in $400 or more, and have only printed a few daily use items. My printed clothes dryer knob has been working great for a few years, and my printed curtain rod brackets are working fine so far this summer. The replacement button I made for my father's CNC lathe is working fine a few years in too. That said, being able to sketch something, bang it out in openscad, and have a part waiting for me on the bed the next morning is pretty magical.

It'd be acceptable if we could run code on it, as root, like we actually own it.