And on Android you can hold Power and Volume Up for the power menu cluster and choose Lockdown mode which requires PIN to get back in the next time. Both OSes are prepared for this.

Plus it often requires making a judgment call on more limited information about something with agency.

Absolutely this for me. For years I assumed a Tesla was an inevitable purchase for me just because of the Superchargers. Even as quality began to dip, and Elon slowly got worse, I figured I could hold my nose through that to get the only vehicle that had a good charging experience. While I *did* break past that before…

I think there’s an argument to be made there though where this is different. I can easily not care about a company when the product doesn’t rely on the company in any way. If I buy a microwave, I have the luxury of not having to care about the company because the microwave will work with or without them, their…

I can’t speak definitively at all, but given the DECADES of work that has gone into trying to milk every possible “new” Beatles work for every dime possible, I have to assume someone would have been willing to throw any amount of money at the number of people needed to do this manually. Which leads me to suspect this…

Went to an Italian restaurant in Copenhagen last year called, I believe, Cafe Fiat. Was amused they had Peugeot salt and pepper shakers.

Talking all of your friends, relatives, coworkers, bosses, etc. into switching to whichever of a dozen+ chat platforms you prefer is ridiculous. The actual solution is to have one interoperable standard everyone can use. Like, I dunno, RCS.

As noted in your own linked article, they did not use AI to recreate John Lennon’s voice. They used it to help isolate and clean up a recording of his actual voice.

I mean, I personally find the Ioniq 6 utterly hideous to look at. Like the accidentally left it on a stovetop for a minute and realizing before it melted too badly.

I have no interest in funneling all of my communication through Meta.

As a Pixel user, who loves his phone, the case situation is tiresome. I go to Disneyland, where I actually see a TON of Pixels in use, and then walk into a store and see a wall of iPhone cases. I can’t buy fun cases virtually anywhere. AirPods cases, Apple Watch bands (unless I want to buy an adapter for my Pixel…

Based on what I read, it sounded like she called people who were far, far closer to her than 911. I can imagine if you assume you’re not going to sink far, and just need help getting out, that calling people who are literally next door seems more logical than calling 911 to have them dispatch a fire engine from miles…

Yep, sounds like you happened to get a bad machine. Most of them aren’t built like that.

Was she supposed to NOT try to get help? Was it smarter to just drown in silence? I don’t get your deal here at all.

And who lives near a pond and doesnt own a glass-breaking hammer in each vehicle?

I can’t speak to that specific one, but it’s a fairly common thing in both Windows in general, and optimizations made by the manufacturer, to have different power profiles and be able to automatically switch between them based on whether you’re plugged in. By default many do throttle to conserve power, especially a…

This is odd. I’ve been in IT for decades and this is the first I’m hearing of this pervasive myth that plugging it in is better for performance. Other than, of course, the fact that many power profiles are, in fact, tuned to give you the most performance when plugged in, I was unaware ANYONE thought that just, in…

*allusion, not illusion

A couple of days ago I saw THREE Rivians at the same intersection. Tesla could have been there with non-delayed pickup trucks with EASE considering I see 3+ Teslas at nearly every intersection in LA.

It’s funny, because I’ve done a couple 180s on this issue over the years.