I think it’s unreasonable to say it’s fossil fuel propaganda. I like having shade and coverage in a car parking lot.

It’s not that the solar covering is just for solar power, but it’s a convenient pitch to combine the use cases where sure, solar covering parking is more expensive than solar straight on the ground, and sure, a plain covering is cheaper than a solar covering, but right now the lots are uncovered bits of asphalt that could be better.

I frankly don’t know about Apple and Tim Cook specifically, but broadly a lot of enthusiasts may not be as excited about revenue and profit as they are about how good the experience is for them.

For example, looking at a well executed enjoyable game with no bullshit micro transactions or loot boxes or anything most would agree that is a good game.

But revenue and profit wise some random low effort mobile game with micro transactions would blow that good game out of the water business wise.

Unfortunately, lots of “better business” is explicitly screwing over the customers as much as they can possibly get away with, so I’m not super excited about arguments around revenue, profit, and market cap as a measure of a company I should like to buy from.

Octopi two finger swipe from above is search apps.

In settings you can enable swipe to open a folder, tap to launch one app from it.

It has it. It’s in launcher settings “swipe up/down on folders to open them”

It’s putting whatever you want and what you don’t want on the home screen, including for example launching into search.

My phone stock launcher search dialog that once would have been to type the app name became a ‘multi-search’ that would do internet search and AI search and app search was sluggish and third set of results. So I go for a launcher that keeps the app search field just a quick name based search of applications.

It does also do things like let me opt into fitting more icons on the screen at a time, since the default launcher has some ludicrous small number of icons on screen at a time.

Also, the scrolling lets me scroll letters to rapidly get to apps starting with ‘m’ for example without typing, though I never use that.

It also presents a different ‘folder’ design where a tap on it launches a default app from the group, and a quick slide opens it up to select a less popular, alternate app quickly.

Also, two finger swipe from top takes me straight to typing app name to launch.

Someone else I knew swapped launchers just to have a different wallpaper behavior that their stock launcher wouldn’t do.

Currently using Octopi.

in the Appalachian foothils.

Think part of the ‘fuck cars’ problem is the messaging lacks nuance. For example, the problems nearly do not exist in your scenario. Their problems are mainly around big city centers, and perhaps transit between those big cities. Appalachian foothills hardly have enough traffic or land usage to trigger the usual complaints.

Conversely, mass transit is a particularly terrible idea for Appalachia. Rural contexts in general make mass transit a challenge, but those slopes mean you pretty much have to have roads way too curvy for any bus, let alone getting rail going.

In short, a hellscape of traffic lights and crosswalks with no where to build because you have to split it with cars, I get the ‘fuck cars’ sentiment, but rural and esspecially mountainous areas, well cars are about the only reasonable answer.

To be fair, this may be about as well as a run would go for me if I tried.

True, but it’s at least a rough indicator, and having intact concrete pricing from back then was a bit challenging, and sears catalog came to me as a very well preserved source of vaguely appropriate pricing.

We are talking about a genie here, not like they want to help you out (depending on the lore).

You are assuming you’ll even be allowed to utter specifc numbers at all.

Think a genie scenario would have you utterly blocked before the first syllable that could possibly be helpful.

Yeah, one would think that would blow a grand jury ruling. Vandalism, arson… ok.

If it weren’t an external gate and was instead someone’s front door, then maybe, but as it stands, it’s all property damage and attempted murder is a crazy reach…

A fine career as a lawyer awaits you

Still same boat, you are compelled to conform with whatever the actual truth is.

will be… impossible to know will be… a sequence of numbers between 1 and 69

You could be compelled to say any number of unhelpful things instead of the numbers.

“next week lottery numbers are… impossible for me to know”

“the best thing I can do with my life right now is … something I wish I knew”

The curse can be stubbornly unhelpful no matter what.

I think that would apply to people tricked into reading/watching AI slop video, but I think his definition is a likely one that could apply.

You try to google search, you get an ‘ai overview’. In a bizarre scenario, DuckDuckGo made a big deal of asking the users and showing the users overwhelmingly wanted to skip AI results by default, and duckduckgo still defaults to AI summary unless you take measures to opt out.

An analogy is dificult, but I suppose imagine a subway dropped off someone and there’s no stairs up, only a tunnel for a Tesla to take you to the next stop. You “use” a car, but were given no option to do otherwise because you were stuck underground and they forced you to take the car to carry on.

In either case, his definition certainly is a likely one for a Gen Z respondant to be thinking when they respond “yes they use AI”. On the flip side some probably felt as you do and responded that they did not use AI, because they did not voluntarily do so.

To provide a relatively decent source: https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1997-Sears-Christmas-Book

Around page 286. So 1997 christmas season, Starfox and Goldeneye going for $80… FFVII for $60…

N64 had the challenge that every single game was a circuitboard, so that inflated costs. Nowadays the price is for just the right to download a copy.

Yeah, AAA productions:

• Must be multiplayer, ostensibly because people ‘demand’ it, but a narrative easy to believe when you know players are stuck with your servers and you can effectively shut down the game when it no longer makes money for you.
• Relatively fewer games to be made, no chances may be taken. Conventional wisdom tells them that people got over turn-based in the 90s, so even the FFVII remake refused to do real turn-based, while Clair Obscur showed that it was still absolutely welcome gameplay.

You are correct, and the critical number is that sodium is over 3 times as massive as equivalent lithium.

But to keep in perspective, we are talking about an element that’s only about 5-7% of a pack, so theoretically you could maybe get to only 10-15% more massive as a penalty for swapping out lithium. Which is some applications is still unacceptable,but broadly we have seen a lot of accepting that same tradeoff going from NMC to LFP…

Sodium battery performance is better in the cold.

Currently some sodium battery products are out in the market and aren’t appreciably cheaper yet and the answer to ‘why’ was ‘cold weather performance’.