Florida has culture in the same way a bathtub has a scumline.

Its also renting a car that I don’t have to maintain, nor give much of a shit about, which has its own value.

I do not aspire to -own- anything they’re manufacturing right now, its all trash.

The module in each door is actually a cost saving - All you gotta send to the door is canbus/linbus, power, ground and an optical cable from the headunit for (potentially) an in-door amplifier.

• Sub 500 euro/mo lease
• Enough range to handle my 340km round trip with the A/C on or in the snow.
• Not a disgusting soft blob with a cheap strip club interior (looking at you mercedes) or a brick shaped SUV (looking at you Hyundai, though the front ripping on the Rangerover is quite handsome)

Just give me a premium-ish feeling sedan from a boring brand. Why can’t I buy a small, fully loaded ford or citroen or hyundai any more?

No, I steal the content and have the ads auto-stripped by not being a mong and having a few plugins installed.

People pay for that?

Because they can pay for it, and because humans enjoy spectacle.

Tommy Tallarico mentioned, time to deploy the ROBLOX_OOF.mp3

Americans too fat to walk from the carpark to the beach.

I’d say that as if it was a joke but it appears to be what happened here.

Why the fuck would you allow vehicles onto the beach in the first place to drag their oily bullshit up on the sand

The IPO means they’ll be listed in things like the S&P 500 which means they’ll get automatic investment from our pension funds and the like.

Someone needs to do the needful.

I mean seriously, just try ollama with lfm2 on a macbook with the current NPU… Why the fuck would I pay these clowns to run that process elsewhere? Why would I pay for model access when they’ve plateaued and open/free models are everywhere?

I don’t think absolutely every sharp edge needs to be sanded off everything. I think certain things should require proficiency to be considered a learned skill.

Computers are still a skill, and we sanded the edges off until it was playmobile pieces rather than a productive work tool.

I wouldn’t dare call myself an accountant even if I can competently file things. Why do people think they understand computers when they have reading comprehension failure and can’t understand the computer is telling them what they need to do? These people don’t know computers, they barely know windows. They were always going to have to learn something.

Skill issue.

Equally, I have no idea how to do anything in Windows 11. Its as alien to me as linux is to you. I understand macos better than I understand windows.

quote: “it seems to go down well with modestly technical people.”

Ya’ll need to read and surround yourself with people who can tie their own shoelaces.

Yeah, thats the vibe I have with Endevour/Arch… its just “get the fuck out of my way and let me do my work/play vidya game”.

I hate snaps and flatpacks, just make real packages guys its not hard.

Also, just a follow up reply: I’ll do what I want, thanks.

If you have a struggle with it thats on you, I’ve found it easy to get working and keep working. Even all my games through steam and lutris.

Don’t assume everyone will struggle with reading error messages and googling.

My dude, its… easy?

Hard disagree. Less people should drive, they have no mechanical sympathy and scant grasp of what they’re doing.

Its just as a society we’ve decided to enable them because it meant we could sell cars.

I’ve not had the experience you’ve had.

Skill issue. People cannot just passively expect to understand a complicated thing without applying themselves.

If they can’t use a computer, they can’t use a computer.