I want them to survive so bad.

I don’t need my vehicle to be a third place. I don’t want a molded dash with an entertainment center that will be obsolete when it’s new and unable to be modified because they abandoned the DIN standard so you could only buy factory replacements. I just want a thing that can do ~50+ miles a day and recharge that overnight. Which Slate could do with just a regular 120v outlet.

Who knows if they’ll actually make it to market or if it’ll be $40k+ by the time it does, but even without the EV incentive $28k puts it among cheapest new cars in the US. I’m just severely unenthusiastic about any other newer cars on the market if my current one dies.

Cycle count is important for the lifetime estimate on the battery, how long before you have to spend a large portion of the cost of the car on replacing / refurbishing a key component.

“Fill up” time is the most obvious and common ‘maintenance’ anyone will ever do on their vehicle. One of the biggest objections large swaths of the population have about EVs is/was that could take an hour or more for each stop on a long road trip or if you can’t charge at home. (apartment / street parking / etc.) They usually do 10-70%r 80 or whatever because the speed trails off exponentially closer to 100%. (logarithmically? whichever.)

This is city center. The park is nice. It was the 1974 world’s fair grounds, it’s a bunch of bridges over waterfalls and there’s been a decent amount of investment / upkeep the last few years.

The business owners in the 70s all opposed it’s construction because they didn’t think it would be good for downtown. Since then they’ve really doubled down on surface lots to charge people going to the park / mall / downtown businesses.

It’s the Walmart model. A lot of the frustration is that it’s a systemic problem where individuals are incentivized against their best interests and the best interests of their communities.

Because shareholders. The Line, must go up.

Thankfully (/s) Amazon has enough money that it’s cheaper to bribe politicians than provide a better product. So systemic solutions are that much more difficult.

Half the issue is they’re calling 10 in a row “good enough” to treat it as solved in the first place.

A sample size of 10 is nothing.

Frankly would like to see some error bars on the “human polling”. How many people rapiddata is polling are just hitting the top or bottom answer?

more than 300 million Americans

I know wiggle room is the gold standard of journalism… but you can just say “all Americans”.

They can also be, not to put too fine a point on it, petty dicks about it.

My city banned Flock cameras. So there are a bunch of them juuust outside the city limits. Since official city limits lag behind development they’re at intersections you would otherwise think were in the city.

You can still get cameras and screens for the Fairphone 2 from Fairphone. No they’re not making more, but they also have never said “unlimited support forever”.

That the process doesn’t require prying apart glue alone makes it significantly more repairable than any other mainstream phone.

The boring company tunnels are a problem.

They don’t have the boring normal stuff you need for an actual transit line, like service access or evacuation routes or proper ventilation. They’re being disruptive by ignoring everything we’ve learned since the 1800s about tunnel building. It might be easier to retrofit than dig a fresh tunnel, but at that point you’re limited to the route they dug, which probably isn’t as useful for transporting people instead of cars.

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Are they close to feature parity with Steam yet? Like after a quick search of it looks like they added cloud saves but that took years.

If they have access to your phone and/or email, they will have access to your bank. There won’t even be much friction because the things your bank uses to trust that its you, are your phone and email.

The privacy aspect is also important, but secondary to that, and more of a drawn out discussion.

Fair.

Other than the “not actually a monopoly” argument, I think it’s important that Steam has that marketshare because they add value. They have a stranglehold on the market similar to the way BarCodes do. You don’t have to register your product with the bar code authority, but it will sure make your product more accessible to more people.

And that’s before cloud saves, achievements, patching infrastructure, community forums, game recording/streaming, and other stuff built into the Steam client/API.

Whether that’s worth a blanket 30% is absolutely a conversation worth having. Maybe it should be a sliding / bracketed scale depending on revenue or units sold or something. But like you said, the big lawsuits are coming from competitors, not smaller developers.

I mean service accounts and email groups are a thing.

This sounds like someone asked an LLM how to give them an email account and it parroted the instructions for a regular user because no one involved new any better.

Looking forward to watching that when I have time.

I think one of the more surprising things about Andor is that Disney somehow didn’t mess up the second season after the first went ‘under the radar’. And Gilroy closed it up so tight there’s no space for a 3rd.

I know people are probably tired of hearing it, but Andor is probably the best Star Wars “thing” that’s been produced. It does it without Jedi or The Force or awkward lingering shots on nostalgia bait. And it has the remove of fantasy/sci-fi so real world factors don’t drag it down into the weeds.

The original movies are classics, the prequels are fun, there’s lots of good books/shows/etc. Andor cuts to the heart of the difficulties of fighting back against fascism. The Empire breaks everyone on the show, on either side. Most of the people making meaningful action are forgotten. Some causes are necessary.

The worst thing about Voyager going forward is it’s never going to get the kind of remaster TOS/TNG/DS9 got.

It was filmed in the transitional period between film and digital and all the effects weren’t done on film like those series. The masters were done digitally, at broadcast quality.

From interviews/behind the scenes stuff someone would basically have to redo all the editing and effects work from scratch if they got their hands on the raw film. Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if someone is crazy enough to do that. But that’s a ton of work with basically no financial incentive.

Tiles and the metro interface in general were a really good idea. Kind of a shame everything’s consolidated around iPhone’s icon system instead. I remember being impressed with my mom’s, but it was such a flash in the pan and had so little 3rd party app support I never ended up getting one.

You could do something similar with widgets I suppose.