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That means they are only depending on apple for the one thing only apple provides, which is app purchases on the Apple platform. Everything else they have locally or backed up somewhere else. It’s literally their point that they’re independent despite having used the platform for so long.

Never did. Doesn’t change the fact that a lot of forums are now deserted and have a pinned post that points to a fucking discord.

I don’t think there are many applications that I hate with more passion than discord and anybody who willingly chooses that garbage piece of software to further hide what used to be searchable forum content behind login walls and proprietary apis should be forced to search for a solution for a simple problem of their most beloved hobby all over hundreds of stupid discord channels for all eternity.

Which is entirely not the point.

Well, none of what you say is wrong. It’s just not the point. There were other options besides tesla - and while they were different (e.g. I’m well aware of the small golf battery), they were there.

You say that for you it was the only decent option. Fine. But not the point. Maybe your usage profile warranted what tesla offered. But “Tesla was the only player in the EV scene back then” is just wrong. That’s all I said.

That’s literally their point?

Regular cars are capable of lasting until they literally break down and die.

These don’t exist anymore. If they do, it doesn’t matter if they move by burning fossils or electricity. It’s not a matter of EVs being movable smart devices that will be left behind eventually, it’s a matter of cars being like that.

I’m pretty sure Tesla was the only player in the EV scene back then.

Absolutely not.

I bought a BEV back then. It was a VW Golf. Still driving it. The leaf, eNiro and i3 were contenders for me.

Had Sony smartphones for years. Loved them. The real issue with Sony nowadays is imho their terrible update policy which only offers two or three years if updates iirc, which is so much less than other players it was a dealbreaker for me. Last time I had one I could flash a custom rom but the camera was locked to the original firmware, with the default mode being much worse than the one Sony offered - which I considered a dick move. Dunno how they behave with their current phones though.

Just checked, the phone will supposedly be updated until 2031, which isn’t bad. Battery, camera, display all seem to be fine.

That would have fit even better to that trans man’s story about his junk falling out of his pants when he went into a stall to piss, just to roll into the next (occupied) stall.

I will never get over how the Borg were so amazingly well introduced just to be utterly torn down within a few years. The whole buildup of Q introducing the federation to something so strong it merely serves as a means to make Picard crawl before him (metaphorically, yes), Guinan giving a back story of how they “developed over a thousand centuries” and destroyed their homeworld while still not knowing much about them and the Borg themselves remaining mostly silent while still being so well written was just remarkable.

And then they introduce the queen and Voyager comes around, making assimilation reversible, introducing drones to have their individuality intact and being their old selves while they sleep and finally having that small exploration vessel just blast through the Borg like they’re paper walls before labelling them nearly extinct in Picard and having them saved by a singing doctor.

It’s a damn shame and whoever greenlit each of those steps of running down such an excellently introduced foe should be forced to write long essays on what went wrong when writing each single borg encounter in Trek. They were introduced to be the perfect storm the federation would just have to live with and bend to… Instead they turned out to be a side note that popped up each time the writers wanted something seemingly dangerous to overcome or conquer. I hate it.

fake environmentalism

How so?

There aren’t that many pictures of the bluebrixx enterprise d from below for comparison (and I still think it’s odd the Lego model was shown from an angle you practically never see it from, but whatever)…

From golem.de:

From YouTube:

The bb enterprise d came with about 2k pieces for about 200 bucks, so the retail price per piece isn’t even that far off. The dimensions are pretty much the same though (bb coming at 55 cm length, so slightly shorter), so I’ll guess that Lego just keeps its course of avoiding larger plates and pieces to end up using so many more pieces for a model of roughly the same size. I really prefer how bb avoided sharp corners in the saucer section though.

/edit

Okay, my mistake: the bb enterprise is 55 cm wide, so the Lego one seems to actually be larger as, due to the elliptical saucer, the model is supposed to be wider than long:

Also, here’s a better bottom view image I found on amazon, for a better comparison:

/edit 2:

Lego enterprise saucer section seems 60 studs wide. BB Enterprise is a bit harder to count from the images, but I’d say it’s 52. So, yeah, Lego 1701-D is a bit bigger.

Got an iPhone from my work… I really want to like it, but damn, I miss the back button.

Might even be cool

Yes, and you call them steamed HAIMs, despite the fact they are obviously grilled.

“I’ll go absolutely barebones on electricity usage. Just a router and my gaming console!”

I don’t think it’s a good idea to opt out of something like a fridge or lighting.

Nvidia making bank though.

Absolutely not.

Mutually exclusive options

Another classic. Pick one output format: JSON, YAML, or XML. But definitely not two.

Emphasis mine.

It takes the input and fails if there is more than one valid one, which decidedly isn’t what’s an “or” in comp sci.