For EVs, the e-Golf has been dead for years but they may bring the name back to electric as an id.Golf next time

Normal users should accept that if they let their kid play Angry Birds they’re risking an accident with all their other apps getting mucked with, and if they don’t like it they can buy five iPads.

https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/shared-ipad-overv...

It just makes stuff up (or gets it from somewhere, who knows) and then links to a tangentially related page as if it was the source. Either that or it identifies the page as being a source it wants to use, and then summarizes it incorrectly. Not sure the order of operations it’s doing internally, but regardless the citations are bullshit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1vxw5pu/acce...

It's like leasing a car, except with a car lease you have the option to pay extra to buy it out at the end and take ownership; with this lease agreement you don't.

It has the usual modern car cost cutting where steering wheel inputs are plastic panels with mysterious capacitive regions and no feedback so you can't feel if you've successfully pressed anything, whether you pressed the right thing, or if your fingertips are too dry and don't register. Most of the center console inputs are replaced with a screen with another row of cheap capacitive touch icons below it.

Charging is behind the times again with an awkward 2-port arrangement, but it's different from the previous gen's J1772 L1/L2 and CHAdeMO for L3 up to 50 kW.

For 2026 they replaced the CHAdeMO port with NACS, supporting a maximum of 150 kW L3 charging, but it still uses a separate J1772 port for L1/L2 unlike every other car where the NACS port does both.

All things considered it's a solid entry level EV.

What's special about slander that we can have a say "you're not allowed to make defamatory false statements about people," but we couldn't have "you're not allowed to spy on people and sell information about them"?

Granted slander is a civil and not criminal matter, but if I could sue companies for sharing personal information about me that would still be something.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/2027-macs-m7-chips/

It's unfortunate that the big tablets have made it impossible to upgrade features like this anymore. I had bluetooth audio units in two cars that long predated standard bluetooth. Now the screen is too central to the operation of everything that you're stuck with 2012 capabilities for the life of the car. Some features added by $3000 infotainment computer replacement, but only what Tesla wants to give you, which is still not CarPlay.

Slate IMO is going a little far by not even having built-in speakers, but hey at least whatever system someone decides to add to it doesn't need to last 20 years and can be swapped out without losing the air conditioning controls and the backup camera.

It's not very good resolution by today's standards but it's the cheap entry point. Quest 3 (non-S) has resolution comparable to the Steam Frame but costs $250 more.

If you only want to use it for streaming, you might look a used Quest 2, which has similar optics and screens as the 3S. I'm not sure the state of software support or whether its worse CPU/GPU matter for streaming performance. But I bet they're very cheap secondhand by now.

As far as I'm concerned, not being able to bring your phone to the infotainment system is a negative, not something to brag about. I had my last car until it was 19 years old, and I have zero faith that an in-car computer will perform adequately for that long.

The other specs of the Model S are still very impressive and I don't have anything to add about on those.

I'd rather just bring my phone, which gets replaced every 4-years or so anyway.

I really think COVID shutdowns did the mini in. People couldn’t go to the store and try holding a phone where they could use it comfortably one-handed again. And then by the time they could, Apple axed it.