Low-bandwidth cellular chip…

Depends on where you live and where you plan to go with it. Our EV at current range is fine to get to the nearby large city in the summer over a fairly long stretch of highway. In winter it would probably be doable but at the least it impact our stopping/charging schedule. At 70% range it might not be doable at all in winter and we’d have to be careful in summer. Governments pushing EVs absolutely should be pushing a reasonable recycle/replacement cycle for batteries and the infrastructure to support that.

No shit, right? While not all people in that group are racists, bigots, or homophobes it is the side which is more likely to attract such. Gotta have some real blinders on to think that a black, gay man is going to be welcomed by all as “part of the team”

Is there an audiobook version?

They’re fine for certain things on an evolving menu etc, but not anything where a tactile sense might be needed to avoid distraction. A lack of volume knob is the thing that pisses me off the most in many vehicles, including my own.

Also, power should be a physical cutoff and NOT a soft button for head units. The one of my car is a software toggle and when the system started glitching, froze and also put out high volume noise with no way to kill it except to shut off the vehicle when I could safely do so

Sounds like an earlier version of this

Yeah. I basically focusing on nitpicky professional details and missing the “is this movie entertaining/fun” part.

These are great

But, what if the player from the other team trips and falls over one of them. They might get pregnant! - concerned soccer-mom

Yeah. Part of that is how the big guy is proportioned. My dad and I are the same height but sit very differently in vehicles as he’s more lower body and I’m more upper. He likes the seat wayyyyy back compared to me so I have to mess with things if I’m picking up his car for him.

For myself, I drive a Civic and it’s generally comfortable, but - and this may sound dumb - it’s got a sunroof gives me a bit more clearance. If I close the shade on the sunroof, my head is barely clear of the ceiling at my normal seat position and it’s a bit claustrophobic. Pretty much every car I’ve had since my teens has one and it often feels very different driving vehicles without.

Two vehicles may be the same height and overall dimensions inside but just the seat+steering can make a notable difference in comfort between body proportions.

That’s fair. The problem is when they get marketed as an even bigger peen-supplement to the people that already run an F350 for what’s pretty much just grocery or fast-food runs (maybe a bit of muddin’ because that makes sense with $80k+ worth of truck)

Ditto. “The Cloud” is just another name for somebody else’s computer which you don’t control

Raw high-def video and image files? But yeah, there’s unlimited and then there’s kinda pushing the limits of what’s reasonable. 233TB is more than the contents of some orgs’ datacenters

Somebody should redo this but with Hanks’ actual arm and then a skinny geek-arm :-)

To scalp something though you’d have to have enough people want a thing that’s hard to get. I’m not sure that’s the case with the CT anymore

So, a third ceasefire now, with them starting new attacks within 30 minutes or less? Or are we past third yet?

But if they force Google to open their app store, I hope that do it for fucking everyone.

At least on Google devices you still can sideload apps, and fairly easy TBH. My biggest annoyance is the “you can’t buy stuff in apps without giving us a cut” which fucked up stuff like ebook apps etc

Or even the opposite analogy. A guy goes to a bar that has an ID requirement. Has a few drinks. Meets a girl. They end up having a conversation and she and he hook up.

A week later, the cops show and the guy is charged with a sex crime because the girl was under 18 even though:

• By all appearances she was of a similar age to him and consenting
• She was in a place where only adults would be expected to attend
• The ID requirement of the establishment meant that she should have been well above 18

So what’s the liability of the bar, both towards allowing underage patrons and allowing them to hook up with older individuals while potentially intoxicated? Could they be sued and/or shut down? How does that story change if the bar was known to look the other way on underage patrons, or not properly check ID? How about if the girl in question was known by some of the staff? How about if the man knew that underage patrons were not uncommon.

Who has a case against the bar: the man; the girl or her parents; the police; or maybe all of them?

Nobody should applaud an establishment working under the rules and doing their best being shut down, but when that establishment has a known history of illegal activities on their platform/premises there’s a case that can be built against them.

That said, the internet is not a bad, and as a globally accessible platform with no physical presence validating ID and policing users/content can be quite difficult. Hell, we see that here on Lemmy with a not insignificant number of people who engage in illicit activities or troll .

The common thing I’ve seen in more well -knowncases was the abuser striking up a relationship and pretending to be somebody younger, getting compromising details/photos from the victim, then threatening to release those to family/friends unless the victim follows their wishes (which often providing further sexual images/acts).

Not sure if that might be the case with a service like Omegle, but it was essentially what happened in the Amanda Todd case and other similar cases.

One of the things it asks permission for when hooking up Bluetooth etc is “call history”, “contacts” or “text messages”

I’d assume the system needs those to read it messages or call/redial. It wouldn’t need OCR to do other things with that data