It’s not quite what I’m saying, but it’s a starting point. It also isn’t really a thing yet. They’re expected to be available in 2027, so with EV incentives being eliminated, the now $27,500 basic model is already 30%+ more expensive before even appearing IRL.
Yes and no. There’s a YT video of some guy fixing anything on any car. The catch is that for components for easy things are getting harder and harder to reach. I always used to change my oil myself because it takes 20 minutes and I know the filter got replaced. Harder and harder to do every car I have. So even basic maintenance I can’t do myself anymore.
Modular components could be workable in terms of you pick frame 1, 2, or 3 with batteries. Then you pick wheels/motors packs A, B, or C. Then you pick more and more options. If you own the A and C options, it’s a 45 minute swap out with a system that confirms things are plugged in right. Not every configuration would work together. Toyota uses a lot of interchangeable parts between cars. I mean do this with a whole back end or front end. So like 5 swappable zones that work in maybe 15 possible configurations per frame.
Maybe you want a battle wagon. And want to grow out of that to a pickup. Or start with compact car and expand to a compact SUV.
100%. They all look the same.
instead they will do it by making some tech execs part-time lieutenant colonels…
This is to shield them and their actions when the people their system target get called “enemy combatants.” It’s literally a tech Gestapo.
Holy shit, this is absurdly shocking. I can’t believe this isn’t bigger news. The CEO of freaking Palantir is a Lt. Col. not just for “no reason” ?
Headline should read “Websites have been tracking you by browser fingerprinting for a while. Google publicly doing it for 6 months.”
Test your footprint: https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/
Yeah, has that gotten off the ground yet? Or is it still just investor stage pipe dream?
I just want an electric car that can do exactly this.
Modular components on an option of 3 frames. Reparable to a degree. Bare bones functionality. Physical buttons, no screens. Open source software. Upgrade not the whole car, but components as you go. Literally what video games taught us.
If I had Mark Cuban money, it’s the first thing I would do.
Here’s an idea for a “distraction free” phone:
Any android phone.
In a work profile use a primary launcher app that only shows 3 or 4 important apps. Disable everything else.
Lock all the rest in the normal profile with a password that is a randomized 32 or longer character string that you can’t possibly memorize.
Write it down in glaze on a plate, which you smash and store in a bag with some super glue.
Y’all, the last thing the suckers who will buy this want is some Nanny State telling them they can’t buy this.
It’s a stupid fake phone. Let them buy it. Who cares? If not this, the grifters already have 700 other things lined up behind it. Let them pay for our schadenfreude, as they have done so many times before.
As a daily Linux user… Yeah.
Eastern Europe loves the app Viber that Rakuten bought, which has had ads for years.
People LOVE a walled garden of their friends are there, too.
Also, because this was news like 6 months ago and has been posted and reposted here roughly 84 million times.
And they’ll ironically lose the lawsuit about the lies and deception of this, the defense of which will be funded by donations from the idiots that buy this phone and receive messages every hour asking for more money for the legal defense fund.
By “Most Human” clearly they mean the most flawed and greedy.
No idea, all I see as options now for Paypal and credit card.
Only if you donate. Otherwise bad news, Signal.
Was this part of a survey where they get the “survey says” answers on Family Feud?
2018-2019 is when they officially turned the corner and decided to focus only on ad revenue. But the SEO abuse dove it into the ground by 2014ish. They were making money enough to expand by orders of magnitude into other areas, so they simply didn’t want to tweak their search or strategy and kill their golden goose that funded things like Good Drive and their shit social network and loon, etc.
It is, but it’s a use case that has a shitload of money behind it.
Do you know why we have had reliable e-commerce since 1999? Porn websites. That was the use case that pushed credit card acceptance online.
The demand is so huge that firms would rather stumble a bit at first to save huge amounts for a bad but barely sub-par UX.
FS?
As in “F’ing Shit”?