I’m a foreigner NOT living in the US, so my opinions may or may not be valid, idk:

Musk, asshole as he may be, is an example of something that’s always been going on in the US:

Immigrants come there looking for better lives, work hard, and many lead exceptional lives. The US has always benefitted from this, and it’s a key reason for its’ economic dominance over the last hundred-ish years.

However, he wants to close the door after him because other people improving their lives scares him. And people voting for slightly more humane conditions scares him too. Think about it, he’ll have fewer billions added to his net worth if he has to treat his employees like people.

He’s simultaneously a symbol of everything that’s amazing about the US and also of everything that is horrible about it.

Ah yes, pesky immigrants not voting for Musk’s favorite candidate

Love how it’s styled to look like a gas station price list

The underlying issue is that nobody wants to develop using any of the available cross-platform toolkits that you can compile into native binaries without an entire browser attached. You could use Qt or GTK to build a cross-platform application. But if you use Electron, you can just run the same application on the browser AND as a standalone application.

Me? I’m considering developing my next application in Qt out of all things because it does actually have web support via WASM and I want to learn C++ and gain some Qt experience. Good idea? Probably not.

At that point you’re running some sort of server on it probably.

For which, it’s not even the most cost effective hardware tbh. There are X86 based tiny PCs for good prices used

Because I don’t want to buy it off Uplay

Oops I thought it was a Ubi title because everyone was discussing it under the AC article the other day

Ready to save money

Yeah right, I doubt that person was going to buy the game anyway lol

Me, I don’t care about any of this, but with the recent announcements from Ubisoft (Steam release on day 1, no more season pass for new Assassin’s Creed, etc) I’m a bit more optimistic towards their leadership direction and given how much good I’ve heard about the first Ghost game, I might just get this one if it works well with Proton.

Yikes. Wouldn’t pass inspection in my country even.

So it’s based on the lumens and it’s hard to make HIDs that don’t exceed the limit, but easier with LEDs. I just assumed that your LEDs were bright.

Interesting. I couldn’t legally drive a car with high output headlights without it having both automatic adjustment and headlamp washers. It’s simply mandatory

Maybe you mean that it’s manually adjustable in addition to having auto-leveling? I think that’s the case for nearly all cars. Or maybe your car manages to stay below some sort of light output limit despite having LEDs.

Who even buys a new phone every year?

People usually clown on Apple users specifically for doing this, but every Apple user I know uses their phone for multiple years. In fact, Apple was giving users multiple years of software support while Samsung and others were only doing 2 major Android updates for flagships. Google was the one to FINALLY change the status quo in the Android world, so that’s good at least, others seem to be following suit. Previously, Android users I knew would just keep going without software updates. Luckily they mostly still receive security updates for a few years after the OS updates stop.

None of the manufacturers gives you a compelling reason to upgrade every year anymore. 10-15 years ago the changes were big because the first smartphones were shit compared to what you had just a few years later. Between the original iPhone and roughly the 5 or 5s, every upgrade was pretty major. Same on the Android side.

Now I think you’d have to go from an 11 Pro to 16 Pro to notice anything. And good news in that department, if you still have an 11 or 11 pro, that still got the iOS 18 update. Actually, so did the older XR and XS.

The only reason to buy a new phone every year nowadays is because Apple, knowing EXACTLY what they’re doing, changes the camera arrangement every year so clout chasers would know you have last year’s model. It’s stupid as fuck, but luckily none of the people I know fall for it.

Are they all trucks? If not, maybe you need to get your eyes checked if they’re all blinding you that badly. Or do they just not aim headlights properly in the US anymore? In EU, low beams are supposed to have a dipped beam.

LEDs legally have to be self-adjustable at least in EU. Your mandatory inspection will usually catch it if that system doesn’t work.

The bigger problem is people throwing LEDs in halogen housings. It’s not the LED’s fault. The other big problem in the US at least I reckon, is having vehicles that are way too tall, so their headlights, while hopefully dipped properly, are above a normal driver’s eye level.

Well then we’ll sue god

This might’ve changed but 10 years ago the small shop next to my school said they wouldn’t allow card payments of under 1 EUR because they’d be losing money. In Estonia

I was being facetious. Obviously it’s a huge problem.

I mean, ethnic cleansing is unlikely to even care about genetics.

Worst that could happen is that you get denied insurance coverage or pay a bigger premium than you should. Or get caught easier if you decide to succumb to a life of crime. Or in the future they might be able to figure out if you have predisposition towards addictive behaviors and market gambling and stuff to you.

So hopefully nothing too bad, but personally I’d still feel iffy about a private corporation owning the rights to my DNA.

Okay what the hell is wrong with it

It took me three times to convince it that there’s 3 r’s in strawberry…