Software that is completely unnecessary. There is zero reason a battery powered vehicle needs to be much different software wise than an ICE. They do not need 20" touchscreens packed with a custom infotainment system written by hardware focused developers.

So you have a billion dollar aircraft carrier. How many million dollar missiles can you shoot at it before it sinks?

For Russia’s aircraft carrier? Zero. That thing was always catching fire and had to be towed everywhere.

Yeah…definitely work on that toxicity.

The gamer girl that’s into gamers is a myth yeah, but what I’m supposed to do.

Maybe don’t have this toxic attitude. That will absolutely come across when talking with women.

I have heard Hinge is okay.

Do you have any hobbies?

I met my wife on Tinder years ago before there was a premium version. I also used OkCupid. Both were bought by Match which ruined them. Badoo has always been filled with scammer from what I remember.

From what I have heard, dating apps are way worse nowadays. That sucks for lots of people who are shit picking people up in person. There are also fewer third places where it is obvious that single people are open to being social rather than getting annoyed that they are being approached.

A better alternative might be to find a hobby group and try to meet people there.

What sort of crack are they on that they think unauthorized use of an entire work for commercial gain is fair use? I think copywrite laws are ridiculous but that is a pretty low bar they are trying to set.

They should have to pay for their usage or retrain the model without it. Going to guess they would prefer to pay up.

I could forgive VW if they actually did something to rectify the bullshit they pulled. Instead, the EV charging network they were forced to build out, Electrify America, is absolutely the worst of the bunch and frequently has at least a third of the chargers not operational. If I had to pick least favorite car companies, it would be between them and Hyundai/Kia. Hyundai/Kia would probably take it because they were the only brand who was dumb enough to not have immobilizer in their cars which has led to high theft and the other bigger reason would be them frequently being caught using child labor.

Cheaper, not free.

By “controlled lending system,” do you mean the library? If so, it is ridiculously expensive for them to offer ebooks and audiobooks. One ebook costs $60-100 and they can only lend the licensed copy for two years. You would think audiobooks would be more expensive to do but publishers charge roughly the same.

RISC-V still has a ways to go before it usable for much.

First OS was MS-DOS on a Tandy. First Linux distro was Knoppix.

Sorry. When I said “both,” I meant Google and Samsung. Apple definitely has better security, ocassionally to an annoying extent.

You can fairly easily factory reset phones from both. While you can report your phone as stolen and the IMEI will be blacklisted on US carriers, it would probably work fine abroad.

When you do not have much of a bank account and you could easily be starting at tens of thousands in legal fees, it’s pretty easy to be unable to find them.

Summer is still a few weeks away…

I’m starting to think Kim Stanley Robinson predicted the future.

Like this?

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Not specifically, no. When I did change to building my own NAS, I cracked open my older 4TB backup drive to use as a spare.

Wow. Mao’s idiotic Great Leap Forward dragged down the entire world’s life expectancy.