You are 100% correct, so it is especially funny seeing that almost 1/4 of the people downvoted you for no good reason. Holy fuck this site has a huge percentage of utterly clueless Lemmings.

Seems soooo much more complex than simply using regular noise canceling technology which we’ve had for ages now. In my previous company it was amazing how well it worked. You could be maybe 5 feet away from someone you could hear them perfectly fine, but move 10 feet away and everything was just muted down. One day we had some electrical problems and the system was down, and that’s when you really could notice how well the system worked because you could hear people all the way from the other side of the building when before when the system was running those noises were totally gone.

Curious what kind of apps can’t you run? Are we talking 2FA apps? Banking apps? NFC stuff?

Here is the problem with your argument.

In a rather short time, EV’s won’t be a choice. Depending upon the state or country one lives in, a whole ton of places are setting 2030 or 2035 with when the sale of new ICE vehicles will be prohibited. And on top of that, almost all car makers have stated that they will end their ICE production around that time as well. OK, so you admit that not everyone has the same commute. On top of that, not everyone has a garage. Or even a parking space. Some live an hour away from civilization. Those groups individually might be a small percent of vehicle buyers, but together, they represent a fairly significant number of consumers. But if you outright ban the sale of EVs altogether, then what are those people going to do? You are claiming that even with a 10% drop you’ll be OK, but even with your full total range when new, it won’t work with some people’s lifestyles and living situations.

And consumers “punish” Apple for these unrepairable devices by buying new iphones in record numbers.

Until consumers hurt Apple in the ONE place it cares - it’s pocketbook - hope is lost on changing them.

But consumers are like lemmings. We see this in pre-orders for videogames and folks who proudly are buying the latest crop of obnoxiously priced videocards, or in the car industry where some consumers paying way over sticker just so they can have the latest new model.

And then we wonder why companies seem to have us bent over.

This is all good news and all, but we need to keep from setting the bar too damn low. I do not consider 100,000 miles to be a huge benchmark. I understand the constraints of a study of EV batteries since most EVs simply haven’t been around long enough to study, but we as consumers should not be accepting EVs to be throw-away items like gadget-makers have turned most consumer electronics.

Yeah 90% charge remaining is still a decent number, but your 200 mile range when new turned into only 180 mile max range in less than a decade. And since you typically are told to only charge to 80%, your real world range is only 144 miles or so. In the winter that will be down to less than 100 miles.

People shouldn’t be falling for misinformation about batteries (like the repeated dismissed myth that they are worse for the environment), but there is also a lot of overly positive info out there that doesn’t reflect reality.

To be clear, I hope it doesn’t happen…BUT from a business perspective, it really could be amazing.

Nintendo has always focused on the fun. Forget about the latest tech and the best specs. They don’t care about that, they’ve always focused on innovation, trying oddball things and focusing on fun games. If MS bought them, they have the pockets and know-how to do as cutting edge hardware as you can imagine.

So applying Nintendo’s strengths with actually cutting edge hardware,I could see some good things getting released. Imagine a VirtuaBoy using HoloLens technology. Or a Switch 3 console that was 2x more powerful than Series X.

You see that shit literally every single day on Lemmy and Reddit and every other social media platform.

A divided America means a more powerful Russia and China and the benefactor tends to be the Republican party who has members, like Trump himself, who are in the pocket of these foreign nations.

The scariest thing isn’t even that it is happening.
The scariest part is that so many just don’t realize it is happening.

They think it only happens elsewhere or in some dark corner of the web. Literally people you respond to and posts you upvote and downvote are part of this disinformation campaign. Every time you see a post that is painting an especially bleak picture of the economy or our future, step back and think that this could very well be another one of many posts by trolls looking to create dissent, get people angry or apathetic toward our country and your fellow Americans.

BestBuy will match most Amazon prices, so these days there is little advantage to shopping online. I bought my last phone from BB because in the end, reviews can’t show you what a product is really like in your hand. And since the price is no different, then why not?

Anything dealing with visuals or touch and feel,you really should consider buying in person. TVs, monitors, phones, headphones, keyboards and mice. The issue is that BB has limited stock on hand. Obviously their selection will n3ver match Amazon or NewEgg,but if yiu are buying a popular brand then they typically have it.

Mainland China is about 100 miles away. Thats a damn long distance. Strictly from an engineering perspective, that would be incredibly impressive feat if they did it.

Did a quick search and it looks like the longest rail bridges now hit a max of roughly 1/4 what this Taiwan-to-China bridge would need to be.

https://www.thetravel.com/longest-over-water-bridges-in-the-world/#manchac-swamp-bridge-united-states

So stop buying them!

1/2 the people complaining about the lack of innovation will turn around and order a new iPhone within the next 12 months or so. Apple doesn’t know or care about your snarky comments about them, but they sure as hell know you just gave them many hundreds of dollars for a new phone.

What car has almost 500 miles of range at 80% state of charge?!

While new models get released all the time, the Lucid Air is known to have one of the longest EV ranges and it is around 510 miles from 100%.

A car would have a total range of around 625 miles at 100% if it is getting 500 miles at 80%.

It’s not an Apple Tax, it’s a Stupid Tax.

If you buy Apple products, you are already grandfathered into that Stupid Tax.

I didn’t read this opinion piece and jumped straight to the bottom to see who wrote it. I wasn’t surprised:

Barbara Comstock is a former congresswoman and delegate from Virginia and a senior adviser at Baker Donelson. She also was a senior Justice Department official during the Bush administration.

It’s cold in here.

Has hell frozen over?!?

You hear that?

That’s the AI Bubble getting bigger and bigger and bigger and when it finally bursts all these same companies that have been over-hyping it are going to claim “how could we have known it was all BS?”.

I think they are closer than you might think. You obviously can’t consider what it would cost to set up wifi using today’s technology. You’d have to consider early 2000s tech and what that cost. Also for EV chargers today, many areas have rebate programs to reduce costs. There’s also the incentive to charge for the electricity - turn it into a money maker for the business.

I think you have it backwards.

Gas stations don’t need to evolve to become restaurants… restaurants needs to simply add chargers.

It isn’t even a huge leap for customers to expect it either. Some 15 years ago there was a big push for restaurants and stores and markets to install wifi for their customers. This is not all that different, quite honestly. If a restaurant has 15 parking spots in it’s lot, it shouldn’t be a huge ask to install a handful of chargers which can be shared by most of the parking spots. Most parking lots already have some kind of power out there for signage or lightpoles. You can tap off that, or go solar.

What a bone-headed move. A gas station is not really set up to handle vehicles that might be there for 5x, 10x or maybe even 15x longer than a gasoline car takes to fill up. You’d be far better off, putting them in the parking lot of a local grocery store or movie theater or restaurant.

It would be damn cool of it becomes a reality, but highly doubt that it will.