You can vote with your wallet though. So don’t throw money at them or just deal with it. Plain and simple.

I’m aware that the diesel price in the us always has been quite low in contrast to Europe, but still I don’t see the issue.

1. The devices will offer to transfer data wirelessly, but won’t tell you that some data isn’t transferred. Instead using iTunes is a must as (in our case) more data is copied. This excludes data from managed apps - understandable.

2. When updating and recovering the backup on the new device is done, the regular setup experience starts. But, as your WiFi is also copied over, the device starts trying to update and install apps in the background, even before you logged into your Apple ID. So you’re constantly annoyed by popups asking for the ID. If you try to enter it, another pop up will interrupt amd stop you from entering the credentials. It even aborts touch/face ID setup and makes you start over again. I’ve had some colleagues starting over on Touch ID for like 5 times before they were faster than the popups. That mixes with popups for company accounts like mail credentials. And even a required change of the unlock password. Sometimes up to 10 different popups spawn in a few seconds…

Seriously, why? Is it that hard to stop these prompts till the setup is done and then prompt the user for everything needed once?

In theory you can use iPhone and iPad without apple account - basically as dumb phone. But of course you won’t get AppStore access.

Yes, and I’m not against ads in general.

It’s about the balance of actual content (the user wants to read and cares about) and ads/popups the site owner needs to run the site or generate some kind of income. If the user has to click away numerous things to be able to see any “real” content, then something’s clearly wrong. We’ve gone from showing ads to support the site to generating just enough content for the site to make the user visit and show them ads.

Sad times.

Today most commercial or news sites use those plus dark patterns to make it go away as hard as possible. I usually just close the tab and never come back. My choice is “no” not “ask again later”…

Same for those annoying chatbot buttons which just take away screen space.

Photogrammetry relies on unique points on an object. Imagine that the software doesn’t have any information besides what’s visible on the photos. Basically it tries to match the same points on different photos and is then able to reconstruct the object by estimation.

This works great for objects which got a unique texture or many unique points. Like a newspaper, which has a lot of non-repeating text and thus a non-repeating texture. This doesn’t word great for single color objects, as the software can’t distinguish different points on the object.

This does also work on matte,opaque objects, as reflections will show the surroundings and may alter the color.

Now combine the above: cars are usually single color, shiny and have very little corners and edges. This is photogrammetries worst nightmare. Even if you coat the whole car in a single even layer of something, then it’s still single color…

What works (but it’s a painful task!) is to sprinkle colored matte dots onto the car, preferably in a random pattern. Then you take houndreds of photos of the car. It’ll take a long time and it must be done in an even lit place. So no direct sunlight but a cloudy day or inside a building with a lot of indirect lighting.

In short: Don’t try it and buy a scanner like Einstar instead. Renting a more expensive scanner is also an option. You’ll still need to coat the car, but it’s faster and less painful.