The worst defeat in party history is definitely Reagan 1984.

Can we not do clickbait titles?

Issue with waiting for the R2/3 is that the tax credits will probably be gone by then.

The issue is that the alternatives generally aren’t that much better in a vacuum. Infotainment vs Tesla infotainment (removing the CarPlay merits): It’s not even close. Tesla is like 10-15 years ahead of everything else on the US market in their price range. Car manufacturers famously lock in their tech and designs something like 3 years before public release.

Will there be meaningful software updates for your Kia EV6 in 2028? Absolutely not, no way.

Do you want to tow anything more than 1000Kg? Good luck outside of Tesla.

NACS? Not one single other car available yet.

Do you want a dashcam? Rivian is the only other brand, IIRC.

I’m not apologizing for Tesla, but it’s really painful how awful all other cars are compared to the competition.

Not necessarily Carl Benz himself, but it has been litigated that the company had ties to the nazi regime. I’m not arguing that Mercedes was founded on Nazi values, I’m just saying there was a connection and a less than stellar history of bedfellows.

Everyone forgets where the German cars, Henry Ford, etc came from politically.

I was looking into my first EV, and politics just didn’t weigh that much into the decision. Now, the “infotainment as a perpetual service”, that turned me off and away from Tesla. With CarPlay my car dash will never lose service, and will always be free to use with updates from Apple/Google. I can’t imagine why people would ever pay for their infotainment when CarPlay is better or equal in all cases to the alternative.

That said, if Tesla and other brands were equally weighted in my purchase decision, I’d then happily rule Tesla out based on merit.

I really hope this thing fails. The whole concept was poorly executed from the price to the operating system. If it was possible to modify the UX like you can with macOS I could see a developer turning it into a gaming device, but as it stands it’s just an iPad you strap to your face. It also only shipped with only an M2 base processor in the M3 generation which is mind boggling to me for a device that everyone wants to use as a gaming device.

You can pick up an iPad and return it within the refund window.

What is it that rust is less preferable to?

It’s for the best. X11 is 40 something years old now and lacks any future proofing and security.

The multitouch trackpad for me is a great way to get the eye candy of having linear animations tied to your finger movement. In a practical sense, I use linear animations in MacOS to “peek” between desktops and pages in Safari all the time. The fact of the matter is that linear animations are just far smoother, and useful than ones that snap into place from a single input trigger. I even have a trackpad for my home desktop setup and literally don’t use my traditional mouse unless I’m playing a game that doesn’t support controllers.

A good example of this is to compare Windows’s app exposé with the MacOS one. In Windows when you swipe up (or down? I forget which one) with 4 (3?) fingers, once you hit a certain point the app exposé just appears no matter how slow or fast you’re doing the gesture. On MacOS, you can do the app expose gesture on the trackpad as slow or as fast as you want and it’ll animate in time with the speed of your fingers doing the gesture.

in my searching I found XClipper, but unfortunately it’s windows only on the PC side

Only building outdated chips on an old fab process. And they’re having a hard time hiring Americans to work there.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/TSMC-Reviews-E4130.htm

sounds like a permanent clipboard history that you can search

that’s exactly what PastePal is, and what I’m looking for

someone needs to figure out a root method for Samsung phones that doesn’t trip Knox… I wish they weren’t the only OEM that had a complete ecosystem…

Yeah, I’m basically going to have to refuse to use any app that’s lacking in Wayland support. Really no reason to build a Linux ecosystem that has legacy parts from the get go.

I’m in the test phase of all the available ones; KDE is by far my favorite, and I really like gnome as well (but I can’t use it because Dropbox relies on application status icons which are absent from gnome; I tried the extensions to bring that back but they didn’t work for me when I tried them a while back)

Can you not use an M.2 wifi card? Or do wifi 7 cards not exist yet?

MySpace didn’t die overnight; didn’t it take like 8 years for Facebook to overtake it? Anecdotally in my group of friends, the big exodus from MySpace to Facebook took like 2 years from ‘08-‘10

I still don’t understand the point… it doesn’t have games and it came out with an underpowered M2.

I can’t believe it still can’t play games rendered on a more powerful MacBook Pro… it can’t play any VR games? Not even beat saber? Skyrim VR? Like what’s the point lol.