I don’t mind the angular design, it’s the specific design element of having a straight line from the headlight to above the passengers with the huge windshield. It just seems like it has so many drawbacks for driver visibility and other packaging issues. There’s a reason you don’t normally see this outside of really low cars, or buses/trucks with a flat front.

I’m waiting to see if Slate can hit their crazy $24,950 target base price. With a 65kWh battery, that’s a pretty great price. That’s almost cheaper than buying batteries alone. I’m wondering if it will be able to do home backup power.

Honestly, too many Cybertruck vibes for my taste. Maybe it’s better from other angles

You’re comparing high end 512gb prices with low end 2tb prices. I somehow doubt Valve is selling this with a no-DRAM-cache SSD. It’s only a $50 different if you compare fairly, and I doubt you’ll find anyone willing to buy the old 512gb for full price either.

Valve’s pricing is incredibly normal here. Yes the price is high, but they’re not straight up ripping you off like Apple’s RAM and SSD upgrades.

I’m not seeing a 2TB M.2 SSD for less than $250. Depending on the speed they put in it, it could easily be market price. The current Amazon best seller is $350 and is over 2x the read speed of the cheaper one.

A modern Camry is actually a whole foot longer than a Rav4, but the Rav4 is 1 inch wider and quite a bit taller. Definitely not the exact same size.

THE NEW 2027 DODGE RAM 1500!!

shows picture of AI generated Toyota Tacoma with the wrong badges

The guy is also standing right next to the computer terminal where you can search for books, and starts telling you everything they think they know about the book you’re looking up, whether you asked or not.

Wtf, it sounds like the Tesla was going 60+mph in a residential area… Is this another case of the driver holding the throttle down preventing autopilot from braking? That’s what happened on the first case Tesla lost too

I recently got rid of my smart watch when Samsung enshitified it and locked a bunch of features like weather updates behind an account, years after I bought the watch.

Now I have a dumb mechanical watch (quartz crystal, not spring winding) that will last years before I need to replace the battery. Everything it does, it does better than a smart watch. Not having to do the wrist flick gesture 1-3 times to check the time has been amazing. And I’m not constantly broadcasting Bluetooth anymore.

Idk, in my experience that’s exactly what Google was useful for. One of the many reasons it was so good around 2010 is it could find stuff without knowing exact keywords. Googling a full sentence question has pretty much always been possible. All the AI data is literally coming from the same place.

These days there’s so much noise in the results, I can’t find much of anything I don’t already know I’m looking for.

Back in my day, you could have just Googled it. Web search is complete trash now though thanks to a combination of Google and AI.

The term “influencer” is about as descriptive as “AI” now, it’s way too big a category to really say anything useful about.

Personally I would consider independent product reviewers as “influencers”, and companies being able to fake that by paying a real person via strict sponsorship terms or using AI are both a huge problem.

Both iPhones and Pixel phones have shipped with LRAs (Linear Resonant Actuator) instead of rotating mass for quite a while now. An iPhone’s taptic engine is basically the same technology.
I’m not sure how many phones have multiple, but I think it’s common on gaming phones. That being said, I don’t remember the phone in Pantheon having to steer, so one haptic motor might be enough if they got lucky.

The motors are being used exactly as designed. There’s no difference between this and playing a racing game that’s constantly rumbling the controller.

The only wear and tear happening are the contact points with the table, which will slowly wear down the plastic and table surface.

I don’t think DDR5 has any encryption built in? Maybe you’re thinking of the error correction controller that’s on the module now? Memory with inline encryption is not very common, and as far as I know, not actually very secure if the CPU/TPM isn’t the one holding the encryption key.

The article seems to imply the game was never sold with a factory seal, so this was sealed after the fact for some reason. Seems extra fishy to me.

The key difference is the centralization of the collected data (like the whole Flock problem vs individual stores having their own CCTV). The issue is that Tesla employees have access to WAY more surveillance data than they realistically should, without having to put any effort in to collecting it.

Edit: I just wanted to clarify what I meant by “effort”. Normally to get at CCTV data, police would have to get a search warrant for each individual business with probable cause for some crime. If all the data is in the cloud, most cloud providers will just give it all up willingly without a warrant, possibly to anyone if they’re selling the data.

This might surprise you, but I don’t think anyone here is complaining about ease of installation… The “factory bullshit” is built right in to Windows now, and trying to remove it goes way beyond “post-install configuration”.

Also, as someone who’s done server deployments… doing automated linux installs is trivial.

Looks like this homeowner got lucky the car didn’t hit a wall. Replacing just a garage door is way easier than repairing structural damage to the walls… Hopefully the driver’s insurance pays for all of it.