Exactly.
Each of those knobs needs an injection mould, each switch behind it a supply chain. Iterating on digital design is far cheaper as well.
It’s far cheaper to use what are effectively 10 year old tablets in the cheaper cars. Since LCDs are being mass manufactured for other things that likely get a nice economy of scale.
That, and to pull them out during road rage incidents. Also pull them out when you’re scared of a black person. Don’t forget take them to school to get revenge.
They need them for a lot of reasons.
The Alexa division is struggling so they are well into the extract phase of the product.
Google will get there in time as well.
Please highlight where I said that
In Zimbabwe, which has a ton of problems.
Whether those problems are better or worse on the whole from the ones prior to decolonisation I’m sure will be argued back and forth below by people who just read the Wikipedia article.
I’m saying there isn’t a religion that doesn’t force it’s shit on people.
So basically you’re fine with supporting things that hurt others just so long as you’re left alone.
Religions have yet to prove to me they are not just another tribal group that wants control with extra steps.
The main issue will be application support.
Linux running on the desktop in 2025 is helped immensely by everything being web based. So long as you have a browser you are fine for a lot of general computing.
The phone space is ruled by apps. The phone makers and the companies developing apps prefer it this way.
Getting a banking app, or Uber or Facebook Messenger to work on a Linux phone is going to be a massive pain in the ass (ignoring the rest of the OS which is definitely not even close to useable for the general public).
I would love a Linux phone but we are so far away.
Kagi does provide a good experience but it can never replace the free search engines. It relies pretty heavily on Google’s search API it just allows you to massage the results with tools Google took away.
The incentives don’t allow for this shit in an organization like Google. They can only respond to stock price and earnings.
Very likely someone back channeled a demand and they folded like a deck of cards.
So the team responsible for that AI box added Trump dementia to the list of things it won’t respond to.
The team responsible for the news bits didn’t get the request so that just shows up in its place.
One thing I don’t see people mentioning is that Netflix has a bunch of good games for “free” if you already subscribe.
Same.
The people I’ve noticed complain seem to buy giant drinks and let them sit around for a while.
Never been a fan of flat warm soft drinks myself.
Yeah the last time I drank a can of coke it was crazy expensive. Like an entire dollar or some shit.
The market that accesses YouTube from a PC or Mac is shrinking rapidly.
They would prefer you use one of the apps and at some point that will be the majority, if it isn’t already
The thing to understand is that people don’t see outside of their silos.
While it’s obvious when you line then up like that most people will never see that posts. The interact with social media passively and they’re likely to only see one of those posts as they scroll.
The US is famous for its advanced weapons but those depend on massive supply chains all over the country.
They can’t even supply Ukraine with artillery shells.
All the factories the US had to spin up in their last conventional war are gone and are the people who knew how to run them and work them.
A civil conflict would be pretty short unless an external power started supplying one side with arms.
Nah this is all unique. This has definitely never happened anywhere else and they’re are absolutely no parallels that can be drawn.
The US is such an exceptional democracy, land of the free and all that.
It’s currently a propaganda refinery.
My guess would be some sort of government service or charity whose funding is state related but is close to a border with another state.
They can probably serve out of state people but are not set up for it.
That, or New Jersey still has laughable IDs that are essentially laminated paper. The US is weirdly stuck in the past that way. Only recently have their IDs started to resemble ones from 30 years ago in Canada.