Agree! I don’t know why other people don’t get how convenient it is to have a distinct character for every single number imaginable.

This, 100% It’s like how people started saying “PC” because personal computer was too long for them, but now I exclusively hear people taking up to a minute on each letter! (peeeeeeee-seeeeeeee)

Ascii needs seven bits, but is almost always encoded as bytes, so every ascii letter has a throwaway bit.

Wait till you here about every ascii letter. . .

I’m just curious, but taking Elon’s ahem “politics” out of it, what kind of price would you start thinking about the cybertruck? Would you choose it over another electric pickup?

I don’t disagree, but I think it’s worth acknowledging that the US government could very easily regulate things so that Tesla are responsible for the financial burden they’re putting on the world when they inevitably scrap these vehicles.

That doesn’t address a bunch of other problems, but changing the global system of resource allocation is a hard thing, and making companies have some semblance of financial responsibility for destroying the planet is an easy thing that any government could do tomorrow. Just like how capitalism will (and did) inevitably result in child labour, but that can be (and was) outlawed directly.

I’m not trying to undermine your point about capitalism btw, just make the case that even within the constraints capitalism has, companies are getting away with an outrageous amount of destructive behavior.

Can’t pretend I’d be sad to see them crash out completely, although it does make me feel a little uneasy for repairability of existing Teslas.

Nazi or no nazi, it isn’t gonna be good for the planet to have a whole bunch of cars deemed irrepairable, although my guess is a buy out would stop that happening.

Musk was courting democrats until he fell out with them over labour rights. I think his “republican phase” started due to pushing for less workers rights in the US, so that he can make cheaper cars.

That was obviously a long time ago, before X and DOGE, he’s clearly in a delusional hate bubble at this point and expecting rationally explainable actions is unfortunately too big an ask.

What’s your reasoning for thinking its not gardening?The article goes into some detail to explain that a fair amount of gardening skill is involved and its a lot more than just letting your lawn grow wild.

Yeah, I don’t understand (amongst many other things) why distinguish between 3,500% and 3,521%? What insane sum was used it generate that figure?

Also, at this point a part that costs $10 is now $362.10. Is there any point using tariffs here rather than just making them illegal?

Yup! Completely butchered that spelling, sorry for anyone who tried to google them.

Ah that sucks! What kind of issues did she have?

I’m obviously one person, so not a good sample, but I’ve had F4 with stock android for about 3 uears and haven’t seen any bugs yet, even with android auto.

As to the camera, I’d agree it’s “fine” but if you ignore the repairability and ethical supply chain angle, you can definitely get a much better camera for the same price range.

To be fair, it does have a big security emphasis. I don’t know enough about either /E/OS or GOS to know how they compard but /E/OS does some cool things like sandboxing apps etc for security.

I’m writing from F4 as well. The longer I own it, the more I’m impressed. Fixability has saved me replacing the phone twice now (I dropped it on the screen, and got cement in the usb charger).

If you’re just considering spec, its fairly pricey, but the repairability easily makes up for it. Have a pair of their bluetooth headphones too which I love.

Question for OP: how did you find installing /e/OS? I have android still but am thinking about trying to install.

Might not be the same, but they do partner with Murino to offer an /e/os degoogled alternative.

I’m not gonna try to convince you otherwise because I think our world views are too different for that to be worthwhile l, but I do want to understand, when you say “are the problem”, what in your mind is the problem?

Is it that you think they’re taking up state resources, what resources do you think they’re using vs work that they do?

Is it because you have an idea if what the make up in America should be in terms of languages, birthplace or race?

Not trying to debate you, genuinely interested to understand why you feel like that.

Tbf, all these headlines miss that indexes like the S&P 500 are still far down from pre-tariff-mania. Investors are more or less updating their views for how screwed the markets are, rather than betting that everything is fine.

This is a genuinely interesting article about global politics, but I sorta get the impression there’s this underlying “Does Europe pick US or China as a trade partner?” question at the heart of it.

Seems like this pulls into very 1 dimensional view, and surely the answer is just, Europe should be sceptical of China and USA’s motives, trade wherever it’s beneficial, and push for the things it values (positive take would be workers rights, renewable energy etc).

Trump is trying push a whole pick sides narative on the world, that seems pretty ignorant to actual reality, and just ends up with everyone more fractured and weak.

They have pretty high tariff rates in the EU tbf[0], obviously not anything like 104%, but still very high compared to normal rates.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly20n4d0g9o

I not sure what personal is, but I’m curious, are there stats on job losses for artists, translators or journalist since AI?

I would use AI for some tangential stuff, like translating a menu, but not sure how many would use AI in a place where they’d previously hired a translator.