No argument or anything here, just saying what I think is an interesting nuance as someone who has spent a lot of life driving in snowy places.

I’m in Denver now and it’ll be really interesting to see how these things handle the effects of a real storm. If I had to make a guess it would be that they’ll all just stop driving for a day or two.

No doubt you're right, Capitalism has been winning for a long time, but the world is constantly changing, and right now it looks like we're gradually making the planet uninhabitable. I personally wouldn't count it a win if the entire game gets destroyed in the process.

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The minivan market is small. There are really only 4-5 available and every single one sends telemetry data from the car and makes it hard/impossible to opt out of selling your data. Additionally, without pretty extensive work there is no means of physically disabling the telemetry, which forces you to trust they'll honor your opt out request (vs re-enabling it with some update).

I'm clearly in the vast minority on this, but it's so frustrating that there are no options beyond buying and installing a third-party bypass to disable this type of tracking. Worse, I'm aware that the absence of data is data itself. Is my insurance going raise my rates because my vehicle won't provide telemetry for them to buy?

Improve Adblock capabilities, better tab and session management, improve sync, improve site css and js management, built in dark-mode.

Hell, just look at the list of most used extensions, it’s a great place to start understanding what users want.

This tech has existed for many years in motor vehicles and works reasonably well in far more complex environments than literal rails. It doesn’t seem at all like a challenging technology problem.

The things that come to mind are: failures of politicians to enact requirements, negligent or greedy rail infrastructure and/or train ownership, and unions afraid of lost jobs.

What stops the OS from granting access to read the directory structure by default, but not read/write its contents? It’s imperfect, but better than the alternative.

Also, macOS does it somehow, or at least seems to. I get the prompt you’re describing all the time as of a few years ago (I’m fuzzy on when it started)

I worry that rational takes like this end up completely lost in the battle between motivated parties who yell far louder, but have minimal investment in actual outcomes for those who will be depending on these technologies. The debate over self-driving vehicles is another example.

I’m not familiar with this one and search didn’t get me anything that seemed relevant. Got a link to something describing the incident?

My mini is holding up ok. Battery needs replacing but I haven't done it. Like mikepurvis, I carry power banks around if I'm doing anything where I'm not going to be able to recharge easily. I use one like this https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerCore-Magnetic-Slim-B2C/dp/...