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These cars don’t even go onto highways or areas where accidents are more likely.

Accidents are less likely on highways. Most accidents occur in urban settings. Most deadly accidents occur outside of cities, off-highway.

Clearly the driver is at fault here, but a case can be made (and apparently, was) that this would not have been possible had you not provided access to the car to the perp in question.

This is the equivalent of holding gun manufacturers culpable if someone buys a gun from them and then uses it to commit murder - right?

Pocket Casts is available as Android and Windows app; Apple Podcasts isn’t.

Pocket Casts syncs between MacOS, iOS, Android, Windows and Abby device that asked you to open the wenn player; Apple Podcasts doesn’t.

It’s not garbage per se, it just doesn’t fit the same use case.

Many “tech journalists” are about as old as Facebook.

When they started using devices, the iPhone had been around for years, and the only discussion platforms they ever knew where centralized platforms with millions and millions of users run by mega corporations. In their personal life experience, Reddit has always just existed, they’ve never known a world without YouTube, Snapchat is what they used when they were little kids, TikTok had been around long enough that’s it’s considered an established media outlet.

They’ve never seen a Usenet group, they’ve never had accounts on phpbb forums. Choosing a smaller platform with a more selective userbase just doesn’t exist in their reality.

Seems crazy to pay $42,000 per month for the API, have the API randomly break on you, have no tech support available, and just generally witness all the insanity going on at Musk’s Twitter, and yet still hold out hope that it’s all going to be fine.

Strong echoes of Microsoft’s “embrace, extend, and extinguish” strategy…

I particularly like the part where this specific submersible can’t ever be opened from the inside, because it gets bolted shut from outside.

Yeah, I get that, and hypothetically you could just use a mobile device for text creation, using your preferred method of inputting text (e.g. a swipe keyboard, or a stylus with text recognition, etc.) on the mobile device and then send it all to the desktop.

I asked about that, and I didn’t get a definitive answer. The conversation was more like:

“You don’t get it, we grew up with touchscreen devices, physical keyboards are outdated.”

“So do you use voice to text or something?”

“No! You don’t get it. We grew up with mobile devices!”

“But… How do you enter text!?”

“Nobody cares about your typewriting skills!!”

They stared at me.

I stared back.

The generational gap felt like the Grand Canyon.

I’ve had conversations with young people who started work in an office environment that required a lot of text editing/text creation, and they didn’t know how to type on a keyboard.

On a physical keyboard on their work computer, they used a kind of two finger search-and-type system.

Their opinion was that typing on a physical keyboard was an outdated skill that just wasn’t required any more.

I asked them if they used voice-to-text or some other input method instead, and they said no.

Are that point, I just talked away, because I didn’t have any polite follow-up questions, and we simply didn’t seem to speak the same language.

Barely.

It doesn’t even have to be easily replaceable as in: on the go, so that I can switch out batteries during the day. That’s really not important to me.

It just has to be user replaceable, so that I can switch it out at home, with normal tools, when the battery has degraded so much that the phone becomes unusable.

As things are, i have to throw a disproportionate amount of money at some shop to switch out a $10 part, or risk breaking the screen and digitizer when I disassemble the phone with a suction cup and hot gun, just so I can get at the glued down battery.

That’s just ridiculous to me.

The fact that you’d want a dive computer to be waterproof beyond 3 feet might have something to do with that, though.

Sealed devices have way better water resistance

My dive computer has a user replaceable battery, and it’s waterproof to more than 250ft.

This is just a non-argument to me.

Not all countries have the same school hours. In some places, the expectation is that kids get out of school by lunch time.

Also, school meals are not the first line of defense when it comes to food insecurity, like it’s unfortunately often the case in the United States.

I think the internet at its best is when it’s ad-free, not harvesting and selling user data, and free to use.

Wikipedia is one of the most successful projects on the internet, and it works exactly like that.

Hypothetically, I wouldn’t be opposed to some kind of compensation model. But experience shows that as soon as you introduce a for-profit model, people in charge will eventually ask the question “hey, if this is making money, couldn’t we squeeze much more money out of it!?!?”