Yep and the choices are improving every day. If you’re too tall for a Volt, you can buy the RAV4 Prime.

The metal plate didn’t actually penetrate the cab. It merely knocked the cab off the truck. That’s how the driver survived.

Right hand drive though. It's technically legal but will definitely put off a few customers in the US. 

One of Doug Demuro’s videos features a US version of this. Can’t remember the company name, but it imports the ute’s shell from Australia, and grafts it onto a US-spec Pontiac G8's chassis, which makes it compliant for sale in the US. Not cheap of course.

If automotive engineering was based entirely on “reality”, 99% of the population would drive a Corolla or its equivalent.

I’m sure the Mach-E is a great vehicle. I think it looks much prettier than the Model Y, whose excessively sloped rear reeks of BMW X4/X6. I love how there’s a physical wiper stalk and an actual rain sensor. I love the gauge cluster screen. I own a Model 3 and have my share of obvious quality complaints about it.

Regarding gift cards, a lot of employers will give those out through raffles and the like because gift cards are not considered taxable income. And then some of the cards get re-gifted at Christmas to the employees’ friends/family.

Yeah I find that most if not all gaming-focused laptops always cut costs when it comes to the touchpad since like you said, the expectation is that the user has a mouse.

Regarding the SSD, I’ve found that it’s always cheaper to get the smallest possible SSD configuration from the factory and upgrade it later, instead of getting a factory configuration with the larger SSD. Especially if you have an eagle eye for sales on Amazon and at Micro Center.

Regardless of how the virus actually broke out in the first place, China still attempted to cover it up, and arrested whistleblowers. Even if some Western tourist sneezed and caused the first outbreak, it’s still on China to not fuck up the response. Yet they did.

Exactly. This recession makes 2008 look like an economic boom in comparison. Welfare payments are absolutely necessary, more so than ever. I'd rather see a few deadbeats abuse it than see tens of millions of people become homeless. 

The theater itself doesn’t charge for parking, but if it’s in downtown SF/Chicago/NYC/Boston/etc you’re definitely going to pay for parking to do ANYTHING downtown, not just watch movies.

By all means, if you can afford it, go for SSDs (I have 2TB of SSDs in my gaming PC and a 2TB hard drive). But HDDs still have a place in this world that won’t go away for at least a decade - even for games, at least the ones getting cross-gen releases on PS4/XB1, plus 2D indie games that aren’t built to need fast…

I’d say leave Parler alone. If all the bigots finally ditch Facebook and other mainstream sites for Parler, it’s more convenient for undercover FBI agents to spy on them there.

Sure in theory you could desolder the internal SSD and completely replace it. After all people have managed to upgrade the OG xbox to 128 MB RAM.

Except that Microsoft’s expansion drives are proprietary and expensive. They never supported internal storage upgrades in previous consoles - you needed to jump through a few hoops using a PC and Clonezilla, something that not every user is comfortable doing. Plus the warranty is voided as soon as you attempt it -…

Blackberry basically is the Sega of the smartphone world.

Technically you can't actually upgrade the SSD, only supplement it. There's an empty M.2 slot that'll be enabled in a future update. 

On the other hand Sony has supported third party user upgrades to internal storage since the days of the PS3. Even the PS5 will eventually get a patch to support a variety of standard M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSDs. That’s not possible on any Xbox without some advanced technical know-how. I'd say that's a huge step in customer…

Could it be some kind of buffer for extracting compressed game installers? On PC a lot of software installers are heavily compressed to help customers avoid exceeding data caps. However that comes at a cost of needing more free space than the installer’s size, otherwise the installer cannot extract. I wonder if Sony…