Traveling in the US it can often feel like everyone wants to scam you or take advantage of you if you don’t pay attention.

Heck, even store prices and restaurant prices aren’t the real price.

Store prices are without sales tax/VAT, and restaurants wants you to tip 20% so they can keep not paying their “employees”.

I’ll make my own DNS, with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget about the DNS!

Unlike news about the Boring Company, which always was 🫣

Besides - isn’t the term typically used “sold at auction”?

Typically followed by whatever exorbitant amount someone paid for something that’s only that valuable because too many people have too much money, but that’s a topic for another day.

Ideas usually aren’t the problem.

Executing on an idea is though, and executing successfully on an idea is even harder.

As such it stands to reason that people with real business experience, connections and network are more likely to have success in executing an idea.

Chance of success is low. I think it was somewhere around 13% of startups that “make it” long enough to be deemed successful.

But it doesn’t mean they have better ideas, or as the headline suggests - “are more radical”.

Apparently we’re both half right.

Not sure if I just never tried driving routes in offline Google Maps, but I see that it works now.

However, other types of routes are unavailable.

https://imgur.com/a/FANmMOr

Download yes, but you can’t plan routes offline.

I’ve used TomTom on iPhone since 2010. Improvement is huge.

I do suspect your complaint is more likely to be directed towards the hardware and touch interface of your infotainment than the software, but a satnav with outdated maps is not worth much IMO.

If you’re looking for something for free I can also recommend Here. Also great for when you are traveling where roaming is expensive as it allows offline search and routing.

Personally I’m a huge fan of TomTom Go. It’s free to try out, but costs money if you want to use it for anything but a negligible amount.

TomTom has really dialed in the turn by turn directions over the years, and of all the navigation software I’ve tried over the years they still reign on top.

And in a country littered with speed cameras I’m more than happy to cough up $20 a year for a family subscription.

Ars mentions that Apple (on average) now supports new Mac’s for 7 years, but even though Apple stops delivering updates at least the (non-Safari) browsers and other software may continue to receive updates for quite a bit longer.

In this day and age browser security is the first and most important line of defense, and as long as your browser is updated and your firewall is up you can have some sense of security.

I personally never touched a Chromebook, and have no idea how hard it is to get Linux onto them, but it sure proves Stallmans old argument about freedom.

We’re happy to serve 🙃

Can’t have world domination on credit!

Plus the lawyers defending Trump must seriously be bottom feeders. It’s not the kind of lawyers that is good for society.

Not saying they’re assholes, but self-centered maybe.

That is a good question.

I suspect the answer can be found by looking at the Linux ecosystem.

20,000 opinions and 200 of them are willing to build their own distribution.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Unix and Linux, but there’s a metric ton of toxic personalities involved.

I’m sure a lot of it can be attributed to people having to be somewhere on the spectrum to even spend time contributing to free software on their own spare time, but a lot of people who build their own stuff tend to get quite attached to it as well.

Maybe all this friction actually is a good thing and it causes progress, but on the other hand I can’t help to think about where we could have been if everyone was pulling in the same direction.

Or the fact that a lot of people don’t like to live on top of each other, or that a lot of people have to live not in cities to enable city life.

It’s almost as if people think produce magically appears in the store shelves.

But it’s 2023 - we should be able to mine ore responsibly, not keep digging like it’s 1903.

But how do you know that the frontend is trustworthy? People assume that frontends only talk to one backend.

Web should have thought people otherwise, but for most people it’s pretty indistinguishable from magic.

On the same line 😈

Never said they weren’t.

But when you put a flyer under someone’s windshield wiper saying you are purposely letting air out of their tires for driving a big gas guzzler, heating up the planet, and polluting the local environment with their exhaust - and it’s an EV, right?

Weight doesn’t matter so much to pedestrians btw. Front end design and hood design is much more important.

Lots of new cars now actually have a deployable hood that lifts (next to the windshield if you hit / are about to hit a pedestrian.

This allows for a more cushioned landing.

Doesn’t help if the vehicle is so tall you get smooshed in the grill, though.

Increases tire width also helps stopping quicker in many circumstances, but yes, definitely, added weight makes it harder to stop in conditions with reduced grip like rain and snow.

What we need is better safety systems - ie. automated driving as an end goal.

Kids and bicyclists will still be at risk due to their own behavior, but autonomous driving will still be able to perceive quicker and be more consistent in reducing speed around observable high risk “actors” in the environment.

Not saying any of this is an argument for unnecessarily big and heavy cars, but at the moment there is only two electric station wagons in the market. So if you want a bigger trunk than a sedan can offer, but not an SUV you can choose between the Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo or the MG 5.

Not much to choose from sadly.

The Audi A6 Avant is coming, so is the ID.7 wagon, but they’re still at least a year out, if not 1.5.

And the Nio ET5 wagon is coming out right about now as well.

And this will bring the total amount of electric wagons up to 5, three of which comes from VAG.

In the meantime there’s a boatload of huge electric SUV’s that offer no advantage over a wagon except maybe roof height since batteries eat up some underfloor space.

That might be copyright though? The McD M.