Perhaps, but having tactile options like buttons and dials is considerably safer as the ui can’t change and you can keep your eyes on the road

Meh. Debatable.

I think a few crucial buttons and a screen is most safe. To have all the modern features and settings of a normal car and have buttons alone would leave you with a 747 cockpit you have to look at anyways, and you’d have to cover more area to find things.

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Oh don’t worry, it isn’t! Its just backed by Jeff Bezos himself…

Yeah…

This world sucks, and sometimes you gotta make some shitty pragmatic choices. I would judge someone harshly for a Tesla but less so for Slate given that 1. Jeff isn’t so openly racist so much as being a greedy bastard of a human being, and 2. Slate is backed by him but not fully owned by him.

Or moving to a different area

You’re basically asking for what slate promises to be.

Also, you totally didn’t say it, but I feel like whining about it so: A lot of people think that the infotainment in cars could be stripped out to lower the price, but a big touch screen is actually very cheap and it might even be more expensive to have a bunch of bespoke buttons per model, so really, the idea of a gutted out vehicle wouldn’t save any money. The only actual money savers would be in areas like the suspension, build quality, engine size, that sort of thing.

This could be solved so many different ways.

The most obvious is getting rid of the stupid CAFE regulations and Chicken tax that basically incentivise the fuck out of making these monstrosities.

The others are less likely to be done in a country like the USA with its 2 party system where the options are conservatism and fascist conservatism.

As humorous as this sounds, this is not at all how battery chemistries works.

Some chemistries just charge faster than others.

for the common types of Lion or Lipo batteries, they max out pushing 2C which is around 30 minutes.

For something like LTO, where you lose capacity/density, you can get that up to like 4C (very rough numbers here as this all depends on the temperature of the battery while charging, age and other factors).

So like… this could have been accurate if this was referring to switching to LTO, but afaik, no one makes LTO batteries in this form-factor (not that it can’t be done though).

Is that why most politicians, musicians, comedians etc, still treat it as their main platforms to get info out? Because they don’t take it seriously?

The big problem is actually that they do. That social inertia works so slowly that they didn’t.

That some random crypto company making Bluesky was the closest to a solution, and it looks like it will also have some power crazed person leading it.

Gotta say this difference seems very arbitrary. He bought a company, and platform. Both direct how people spend their time. A platform is obvious but a company, he directs what the people who work there work on. Its definitely a match to somewhere far past where money buys you things.

No, that was absolutely that. Do you not think he gained a massive amount of control with that?

Oh nowadays you can get 26tb drives pretty affordably, so a 4 bay NAS could be getting you 50TiB now.

Of course most people don’t need all that though… including me honestly but hey, that data isn’t going to collect itself.

pretty sure that’s meant in a light hearted fashion

Imagine not having a double digit bay NAS with triple digit Tebibytes of space.

Alternatively, your setup is kinda slow and you’re kinda lazy (not used pejoratively).

In what way? You don’t own anything on the fediverse. The people who run the various instances do.

Maybe they even have a TOS that says you own it, but then what? its still up to them to continue to host it, and they have no contract with you.

Unless you are self hosting your own instance, and only count what is on that, you own no more than with larger social media sites.

To be clear, I think that federations certainly are better than monolithic sources for a variety of reasons for real people, but they aren’t a solution for ownership.

Are you like… just not reading the parts where I explain how these are massively different situations?

2 things can be bubbles while being massively different in the forces at play.

I dont think I misunderstood, I think you’re thinking that this would make places dark where they shouldnt be or light up a whole country or something, but thats not how it could work

No. The housing crash really started to go off when regular people could not pay their bills. These arent regular folks here. These are mega corporations.

This is in a category I’d like to call hopebait. People so badly wish things they feel are bad simply stopped themselves, that they’ll upvote anything that appears to confirm this.

In this instance, there is nothing of substance in this article to suggest the end of anything is anywhere near in sight.

One guy, who makes bets constantly, made another bet.

As mentioned in a different comment, this isn’t the problem.

These aren’t planned to block out the sun everywhere. They’re planned to light up specific small regions.

There are real problems like the potential for mishaps blinding pilots (hopefully only temporarily), ruining earth based astronomy, adding to space waste, and more, but the fear of blocking out the sun would only be a real one if they had an amount of mirror coverage its hard to imagine.