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Where's your hometown and when do you travel?

That's not my experience at all. I live in France with no car and I don't fly domestic (obviously).

I'll do Paris to Lyon (400 km) during peak holidays in next few days. That's €192 back and forth, for 2 persons. And I don't have any preferential prices.

I'll go further than Lyon, right to a ski station actually. That's another €100 for 2 persons, back and forth.

So that's about 1300 km at €150 /pax at one of the most expensive time of the year.


And plastics are full of endocrine disruptors, which are pretty bad for human health too.

My current theory is that long term plastic exposure is what is driving the obesity epidemic.

>despite at least a decade of people pointing at it being historically exponential and asking they don't assume the exponent will continue.

So crazy and true. Sources:

https://www.economist.com/interactive/essay/2024/06/20/solar...

https://www.exponentialview.co/p/the-forecasters-gap

7 years ago (!): https://xwpxpfefwalgifkr.quora.com/A-modest-proposal-to-the-...


>This sort of issue shouldn't even be state or municipal issue, it should be a household one.

And I guess you believe that every consumer product and service should be treated strictly as household issue.

For absolutely everything - even the most dangerous, toxic and antisocial ones, I can find one good use case credible enough to ask other to behave themselves. And I'm no David Hahn.


No dude. Just for software.

All because of the pervasive ad-based business model. Ban ads and things will change. Some says "ad are easy because payments are too costly" but the day we ban ads, payment processors will change their own model to make sure they capture all the market previously owned by ads. And freemium works for platforms that pretend their users can't pay.

Just ban advertising. Everything follows from the all out war on attention, and ads are its fuel.

I have a pretty libertarian steak, but I do sometimes think that banning advertising in general might be so beneficial for society that it would be worth taking the free speech hit. Not sure how in the hell you enforce it though. "What is an ad?", for example.

One thing I enjoyed when I drove through Incheon and Seoul, Korea, recently was that there were basically no ads/billboards outside.

I've used LineageOS for many years (on One Plus 6T). Recently switched to GrapheneOS for a new Pixel 9. Couldn't be happier with the change - especially Sandboxed Google Play.

GrapheneOS offers so much privacy features. And is always up-to-date.

There's single thing missing: option to turn on flashlight while screen is off using the power button gesture. But installing the "FlashDim" app does that (with no permissions except accessibility).


Yeah, I’m on GrapheneOS with the 9 as well now. Wanted to give Google a chance, lasted 2 hours ;)

I do sorely miss two LineageOS customization features, though.

* Keyboard navigation settings, GrapheneOS is super AOSP barebones there, which indeed makes gestures superior, but with LineageOS I’m far faster with the buttons.

* A feature that IMO should be in the base version of android, but somehow is not: Volume buttons for moving the cursor in a text field. Using touch for that is many times harder and slower when it’s stupidly simple to do so with the volume rocker.


Not sure what you expect from the keyboard, but I like https://keyboard.futo.org a lot. Source: https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/latinime

There are action shortcuts for cursor navigation.


>Businesses get sold, circumstances change, etc.

More importantly, founders also lie about their intent.

It's easier to trust owners when they commit and are ready to go to court over their promises. Ever heard of Lavabit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit

It's never ridiculous to ask. What's ridiculous is for founders to make their customers believe they're ethical when they're not. Let's ask then, and you don't have too high expectations.


With such a shitty product? I doubt it. This car is dead on arrival (just the shape makes zero sense and goes against everything EV need and against all their benefits).


Well, we've yet to see the actual product.


Said to be an EV. Has a hood longer than a Mustang. And a front shaped like a school bus to make the drag coefficient explode and kill its range. Must be a fake product and a marketing ploy.


The long hood is a classic Jaguar style element from back when they had incredily long V12 and inline 6 engines. The bare engine blocks alone were about 4 feet long, not counting all of the accessories, fan, radiator, etc. I agree it makes no sense in an EV.


Quite similar to the Rolls Specter https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gd4AaWqWYAA7P_l?format=jpg&name=...

youtube carwow on that. Also pinkish looking expensive electric https://youtu.be/ANPKMbm_cvQ?t=26


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