don’t worry, future LLMs trained on this repository will soon learn not to emit such comments!

won’t killing the EV market hurt Tesla in the long run?

markets are healthiest when there are many healthy competitors

The current administration is “rejecting the idea of electric cars out of stubbornness or politics.” See: Trump moving to withhold funding for EV chargers, terminating EV mandates and government support, etc. I don’t know what Musk is thinking by supporting this administration so steadfastly as they work hard to undermine his own efforts and initiatives.

I'm not making any specific assertions about what's in Musk's heart. I can draw some conclusions from his behaviors, actions, and words, but that's neither here nor there.

I will say, though, that there is a longstanding tradition, certainly in the United States, of an in group hurting their own material interests to deprive an out group of that same thing. https://www.marketplace.org/story/2021/02/15/public-pools-us...

Musk got what he needed at the expense of losing some tax incentives for his customer base. He was able to shut down government investigations into him/his companies. That alone should have been worth quite a salary bump.

That can't be right. My onyx boox note air 2 eInk tablet lets me install the google play store by registering myself as an AOSP developer and enrolling my device's serial number or GSF identifier with Google using some Google Form that some android team somewhere's automated by now. The device has no hardware security features from what I can tell. There's no way this platform would pass muster with any bank.

At least BankId (digital ID thing in Sweden) and some of the Swedish banking apps don't care about if you are rooted on stock Android. I haven't tried custom ROMs in many years, but perhaps it is time for GrapheneOS these days.

Now, if you want to use your phone as a debit/credit card substitute that is different (Google Pay cares, and I don't use it thus).

Anyway, why should banking apps care? It is not like they care when I use the bank from Firefox on my Linux laptop.

> There's no way this platform would pass muster with any bank

"Any bank"? Although the bank I use locks NFC payments behind such checks (which is not a big loss since a physical debit card offers the same functionality), anything else still works otherwise. Most of the things are available through the website (which fits well on mobile too), and mobile BLIK payments can be done from the Android app which works inside Waydroid with microG.

There's no reason other banks can't work the same way and it's outraging when they don't. Look around for a better bank.

I have the successor device, the Boox Note Air 2, and don't remember how I installed Google Play on it, it was so easy as to be not even notable. Though almost everything I use is available on F-Droid other than my fancy calendar and contacts applications.

The bank doesn't have to actually be secure, only tick certain boxes.

Is there an open-source release accompanying this announcement or is this a proprietary model for the time being?

You can find your hotspot button in the control center. Swipe down from the top right of the screen. It’s in the same section as airplane mode / WiFi / cellular data, and takes another tap to access.

There seems to be some electronic component and some biophysical component. The article describes a RADAR system suddenly failing and “buttons pressed” that stop working, which makes me think of EMP.

The article also mentions a (different?) weapon with physical effects

> At one point, they [the USA] launched something; I don’t know how to describe it. It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside,” the witness said.

> “We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon — or whatever it was.”

They probably just performed a standard cyberattack on the radar systems before sending in the troops, it doesn't have to be the same weapon for both.

This is an excellent HOWTO for matters of public relevance. I wish there were guides with similar levels of detail for Americans.

The closest thing I've seen is guides for changing your name in various USA states from the trans community; some of the processes are quite arduous (NJ for example has about 15 steps, most of which are manual separate errands with separate waiting periods...)

I think that the government could do this job really well if they wanted to. I'm just one guy working ~25 hours per week, if that. It really isn't rocket science, just empathy and good writing.

The biggest problem is that the government often describes bureaucracy in terms of what they need from you, not how their services fit in your journey. It feels like we are serving the bureaucracy and not the other way around.

You may not like it but this is what a 10x developer looks like. :-)

you may enjoy spaghetti, but will you enjoy 10x spaghetti?

This is wonderful, thank you. Another win for uv!