I bought a civic in 2006 and it took 6 weeks to get one. A manual would have taken much longer

I’ll balance her out - zero most years. It doesn’t taste good enough to start adding sweetener to things

It’s been difficult to find manual transmisssions for a couple of decades here in the US. That ship has sailed.

While most of my life I vowed my kids would learn manual, I gave up on that idea because

• manual transmission cars are rare and disappearing
• automatics now are more fuel efficient
• CVT are reliable and even more efficient
• EVs don’t shift

My kids started driving in a world of automatics and will soon be in a world with no transmissions

There was huge demand - if they had released what was promised for the promised price in the promised year it would have been the only EV truck, have capabilities beyond any EV car, while also being among the lowest price EVs.

I’m generally not interested in a truck but was tempted by the original announcement. However what we finally got was an easy “no”

wtf would you put that on apple pie? Pie deserves a nice sharp white cheddar

Dude, what did the Prius do to you?

I rarely use a printer now that my kids are in college. When it dies, I had a choice between laser printer, Brother inkjet, or none. “None” is now my first choice

We have great examples of things sold as parts or kits to be assembled

Take handguns as an example. If a murder weapon can be assembled from parts with only the frame 3d printed, and avoid similar laws for traceability, surely a printer is an easier task

What happens if sms 2fa is phased out, and more sites require either an Authenticator app or passkey?

My workplace requires an Authenticator app, actually multiple, and help with my phone bill in return for doing that in my personal device. I don’t know what they do if someone had a feature phone

I went here as well, but managed to turn it around. I now have more belief in America being a great country, but as an ideal, as something we need to work hard toward. I’ve become a lot more progressive as I see what it would take to live up to this myth about ourselves. Let’s do it. Let’s do it for our children, for the next generation, for a better world tomorrow! Lets start small and local, be the neighbor you thought you had, show the empathy we all deserve, make America a Community again

If you’ve seen anything about Matter, it most likely talks about Thread as well. They usually go together

Please tell me this is made up. I still can’t get past the hygiene problems of nose piercings when you have a cold, to even imagine how awful this would be

Maybe they were curious?

I hate this so much - it usually ends up looking like shit on my phone while leaving huge empty margins on my monitor. Browser autoscaling usually just works - why do ui designers think they need to reinvent it … poorly?

Hey that’s a great idea for the euros with actual consumer protection - as a next step to the consent popups, you should limit how many things you can consent to at once. For example, if users had yet another pop up for the next ten “necessary partners” they would quickly abandon sites that made them do that

Hidden scroll bar. We don’t need that extra half centimeter of content, we need a visible scroll bar I can conveniently grab. Why do I have to try to maneuver the cursor to the right spot to make the scroll bar appear, then find the current position, move the mouse to it hoping the scroll bar doesn’t disappear again, and finally get to scroll.

Both infinite scrolling and excessive paging interfere with me being able to navigate to a spot.

• If you need to do infinite scrolling do it the right way and just display it all on one page. It’s not like the content is ever a significant part of the bandwidth needed. Now you can simplify your buggy JavaScript monstrosity by not implementing paging and I can use <CTRL-F> to more easily find what I need
• and seriously stop with the excessive paging - we all have computers that can manage more than 12 lines of stuff. I’m not even talking about the slideshow websites, at least they have the logical motivation of maximizing ads. For example if I’m reading some dreck ranking the us state on some metric, it’s ok to display all fifty on one page. If I’m reading something with a list of thousands why am I paging through 10-20 at a time with no way to jump to what I’m looking for?

Here in the us too. They were definitely still cheap but respectable and their reputation was catching up with everyone else

Now we have to wonder about their EVs. In many ways they’re the most compelling of the few choices we have, for those not wanting a swasticar. But did they learn their lesson about cheaping out?

There’s definitely also fault to be had for US not requiring them

I don’t even think it’s the people who ruin social media that’s the problem- the fascists and racists and haters were always there. And not even so much that they now have a stage and algorithms

The whole problem is there is no longer anything people agree as worthwhile news. No fairness, no trustworthy. The few remaining objective news outlets are pigeonholed into one partisan side or another, regardless whether they deserve it.

To the common person, there is no news. That social media is it. And every if there were, how could you tell the difference?

I blame Fox News more than streamers because they did at least as much as anyone to destroy News, with clear bias and outrage, and misleading its viewers to blur the distinction between news and news entertainment

My state is winning. So far the new federal administration hasn’t disrupted us much: we look so much better as the other side of the comparison worsens. We’re a big part of the fight for humanity, and new regional transit based zoning is already showing increased housing starts