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DoomBot5 ,

The hardware still looks so great, but responsiveness has gone to the shitter in recent years.

DoomBot5 ,

Recalls still require the customer to take action. They're much less likely to go into the shop to have it fixed than press a button on their phone and have the car fix itself overnight.

Your suggestion for not allowing safety software fixes OTA is dangerous.

DoomBot5 ,

Right, because the recall for the icons on the screen needing to be a tad bigger is as serious as uncontrolled acceleration of a giant hunk of metal.

They need a new name for software update recalls and physical recalls. They both need to be serious, but a distinction is needed.

DoomBot5 ,

You do realize your entire first point is invalidated by the comment you're replying to? I just said the customer has to press a button on their phone to initiate the update. On that same phone they can view release notes that clearly outline the recall. Additional on first use, the car will display those same release notes on the screen.

Sure, safety vs convenience is a huge factor in software development. The biggest factor to safety is unpatched software. You know, the kind that requires significant effort to update, such as needing to bring your car into the shop to apply.

Overall your doom and gloom argument against OTA safety updates is pretty weak.

DoomBot5 ,

And how often were they actually followed vs discarded because the customer just didn't care?

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Mr hackerman couldn't get to the car because it crashed first due to a software bug the customer did not have time to take his car to the shop to fix.

The real world is quite different than the idealistic one.

DoomBot5 ,

Samsung store does that too. It's quite annoying

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Toner in laser printers is powder. Can't dry out what's already dry. If you get a brother laser printer, it will last forever.

DoomBot5 ,

Sacrificing children is pretty common in Linux

DoomBot5 ,

Makes 0 difference. The charging circuit is in charge of that logic and will accept whatever voltage is supplied (within spec) and step it down to what the battery needs.

DoomBot5 ,

They all do it now (except USPS?)

Amazon made airport workers toil in 100-degree heat without shade, water — The trillion-dollar online retailer plans to appeal workplace safety citations and $14,625 in fines (jalopnik.com)

Amazon made airport workers toil in 100-degree heat without shade, water — The trillion-dollar online retailer plans to appeal workplace safety citations and $14,625 in fines::The trillion-dollar online retailer plans to appeal Cal/OSHA citations and $14,625 in fines.

DoomBot5 ,

To be fair, it's the corporation that lets them do it. They still have their jobs and salaries after all.

DoomBot5 ,

Which is just DNS with extra steps

DoomBot5 ,

That would disproportionately impact further north not south.

DoomBot5 ,

Honestly, that makes sense. Outage reporting service is nice to have. A way to pay your bills is a requirement. They clearly have different SLAs.

Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck (www.engadget.com)

Last year, two Waymo robotaxis in Phoenix "made contact" with the same pickup truck that was in the midst of being towed, which prompted the Alphabet subsidiary to issue a recall on its vehicles' software. A "recall" in this case meant rolling out a software update after investigating the issue and determining its root cause....

DoomBot5 ,

Full releases have plenty of bugs.

DoomBot5 ,

Rules are written in blood. Once you figure out all the standard cases, you can only try and predict as many edge cases that you can think of. You can't make something fool proof because there will always be a greater fool that will come by.

Amazon Prime Video won't offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan | The company is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to charge $3 more for ad-free viewing. (www.engadget.com)

Amazon Prime Video won't offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan | The company is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to charge $3 more for ad-free viewing.::Amazon isn't only interrupting its Prime Video subscribers' viewing experience with ads -- it's also removing their access to Dolby Vision and Atmos unless...

DoomBot5 ,

Content has always been available, but the number of people pirating decreased. It's now having a resurgence.

DoomBot5 ,

not sure why it was an issue running the two separate sites until now.

Because that's twice the maintenance cost? The better question is why did they take so long after the merge to shut one of them down.

Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution. (grist.org)

Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.::Nearly $1B in federal funding will help decarbonize transportation and clean up some of the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution

DoomBot5 ,

School busses don't have adult strangers and other issues tied to them. They only go from people's homes to school and back.

DoomBot5 ,

Hopefully in a few years they'll have some range extender carts the bus could pull behind it.

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Batteries are over 90% recyclable. They're actually pretty environmentally friendly after the first round.

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Yeah, but you don't always need such a large battery, and that takes way from the storage area, which is important for long trips.

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Dumb take. All it's warning you is that without those, you won't have a way to recover your account it you lose your password or if it's hacked and someone changes it.

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