Hey, Tesla tires and wheels are suuuuuper expesnive relative to normal cars.
Like several hundred dollars per tire (or in the case of the fatty dumpster, like $600) becauase the cars are so heavy you can’t just use ye olde normal tires on them.
I would very much like EVERY tire and wheel thief to go after nothing but Teslas and leave everyone else alone. Better money, and absolutely nobody will ever recall seeing you steal shit.
Hey if you’re near a Tesla storage lot, there probably IS a couple hundred cybertrucks nearby.
Sitting there, having their wheels stolen and rotting since nobody is buying them, but that’s still technically nearby.
Elon has always been a terrible person
The problem with Elon is he’s been provably an idiot for the past 25 years.
The first thing I ever heard about Musky is that back in 2000-ish he wanted PayPal to take their infra, throw out all the Linux/BSD in use, and move everything to Windows NT.
Anyone who was even remotely IT adjacent in that era can come along and tell you how utterly moronic that idea is.
Anytime I’ve ever heard him blather on about some stupid shit that doesn’t exist except in his delusions or talk about, well, ANYTHING technical or specialized all I was ever able to think of is that he got lucky that Thiel didn’t drain all of his blood and leave his corpse in a ditch.
Uber-like surge pricing on electricity
We don’t really: that story you heard from a few years ago was the only company that billed like that. The customers made a bet that the pricing averages through the day (lower at night, higher cost during the day) would average out in their favor over fixed-cost billing, and frankly, it did right up until it didn’t.
They took a risk and got bit by, frankly, not understanding how the system works and basically ate the spikes.
Everyone else paid $0.09/kwh or so during that whole period, and the electric providers ate the cost because when you’re averaging out spikes across millions of kwh, it won’t lead to bankruptcy.
“Work 50% longer weeks so you can make something that’ll both make me richer AND cost you your jobs!” is not the motivational speech he thinks it is.
Or, if it was named by users of Microsoft products:
New Teams (2) Final-Final (1) Final-THIS ONE
They’re almost certainly doing that because they’re forcing you into SMS 2fa as a ‘backup’ to the TOTP solution.
Cheaper to get everyone’s phone number so you can send them a text message when they fuck up their totp app/delete it/get a new phone/whatever than deal with support calls.
It’s stupid and insecure and incredibly dumb, but, well, business decisions.
You’re thinking the MOS (now western design) 6502, not the Moto 68k chips. 68k is Macintosh and Amiga and other systems of that era.
No, they won’t.
At best you’ll get some sort of nearly worthless concession because they have to slap in cellular hardware to make the ad bit work - something like you’ll get free traffic updates on your gps nav (sold seperately) - since they need some sort of enticement.
No way they’d offer anything remotely looking like a meaningful discount.
Look launching our billionaires into deep space is no better than interstellar littering.
We should be better than that.
I bet we could launch them into Jupiter or Saturn no problems.
Every platform ends up coated in a layer of CSAM filth, so I wouldn’t really attribute this to a malicious intent desiring Bluesky to be destroyed as much as people are horrible and gross and the internet is a prime example of why we can’t have nice things.
The real test here is if Bluesky is going to do the legal minimum, or actually do something aggressive, proactive, and useful.
Lol. Some galaxy brains were ‘Oh my Apple would never roll over and simply do what they’re told! They’ll keep our data safe!’ and mad at me for saying exactly this was going to happen.
Well, huh, look at that. A corporation that rolled over faster than a well-trained golden retriever. Who would have guessed it.
For what they’re charging, you’re not going to get elite private security, you’re going to get mall cops on their day off.
This is not for the actual rich, it’s for tiktok influencers to show off.
Ah cool, the one time I read the article it’s wrong and saying that there hadn’t been someone who had stepped up yet.
Well, I’ll go back to making uninformed comments based solely on the headline, because clearly the articles are not adding any value. (/s, etc.)
Make H5N5 great kill everyone again!
Well, “maintainer” is usually a single person job. They didn’t write all the code or whatever, just were the gatekeeper to what got added and making sure shit works.
So I mean, it’s not great nobody is stepping up, but it’s also not like they magiced up the entirety of linux’s wifi support single handed, either.
They were NiCad batteries, which would leak, and then completely eat and destroy the charging/temperature board.
Source: I have one and uh, they did and it’s completely useless because it won’t power on without the batteries attached, and I’m at a total loss as to how to or where even I could get/fix that charging board.
Shame since you’re right, it’s super cool, but must-have-a-battery was a horrible design choice that’s made repairing it seem like it’s probably not possible - I’d have to buy another one to get a working charger board at which point, well, I have a 2nd one so why fix the first?
Not voting was a vote for Nazis, so yeah, the ~40% that did not vote are being clumped in with them.
While I don’t disagree, I still think using a Kindle device is stupid.
No reason that they can’t just go ‘oh we didn’t sell those books, we should clean up all that unauthorized content’ at some point in the future.
Buy something that’s not made by Amazon, even if it costs a bit more or has worse features, because well, they’re not to be trusted.
(Or custom non-connected firmware if that’s a thing for Kindles. Never really looked so no idea if that’s a thing.)
Listen, I can’t just not use Amazon. Where else am I going to get my SYPHILICHODE nail trimmers and LEAKCROTCH underwear?
You can’t just find horrible garbage to buy ANYWHERE, you gotta buy it on Amazon.
I can live without it for a week, but man, these underwear don’t last too long so I gotta keep buying more!
(/s in case this was not sufficiently clear, but this is the ultimate problem with all these pointless little internet symbolic gestures: nobody will notice, remember, or care about them since they’re only going to be a very minor stoppage in buying things, which everyone ends up buying ANYWAYS after the week is over.)