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So, he's managed to encourage and support the coal-rolling Right-wing, and alienate the Green-friendly Left, while demanding a $50 billion payout, from his electric car company, that has lied about FSD since, what, 2013?

Now, fire whole teams, cease all hiring, and ... profit?

Well played Elon!


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You think he's a fool, but remember that extra space in the cybertruck battery pack? That's where the CyberCoal™ add-on pack will go, which will allow customers to expel huge clouds of choking black smoke at the push of a button. Electric performance, gasoline pollution. It'll be the best of both worlds!


With 30+ years of personal experience, my qualified statement to the next reader is that the above is 100% accurate.


Is there a listing of what data is sent back to your servers and how that data is stored/handled?

I work in a secure environment. I like the idea of this app, but leakage is a huge factor for my teams.

That aside, I've already downloaded a copy and plan to try it out in a non-secure environment. The concepts here look like a great idea. GL and thanks!


Nothing sophisticated right now unfortunately. But we're planning on releasing a version where all servers, models, and build CI for the app are self-managed. Let me know if that's of interest.


This is the issue.

Even when an entity is cornered for wrong-doing, it'll be a fine, paid with other people's money, that amounts to a pittance compared to the profits gained from their malfeasance, all while "admitting no wrong-doing".

The C-suite that made the call, set the culture, and determined budgets suffers zero penalties in a majority of the cases, so there is literally no incentive to comply.

We can thank congressional bribery for that.


I cannot wait to read the reviews about which core piece of smartphones they fucked up with this one. After 3 Pixels, ALL with issues that never should have been present, I decided Google can shove it's Pixel phones.

I prefer AOSP, rather than all the shitty overlays, so I went with Pixels and just FML. Complete pieces of shit.

What kind of fucking clowns make a smartphone with a shitty, barely functional fingerprint reader, in this decade?

GL to anyone that uses them, and I sincerely hope YMMV.


I have heard really good things about the Pixels. Also GrapheneOS supports almost exclusively Pixels, so I would think that they aren't that bad.


> Also GrapheneOS supports almost exclusively Pixels, so I would think that they aren't that bad.

I don't think that necessarily follows; GrapheneOS uses the Pixel line because it lets you install a custom ROM and relock the bootloader, and they're a security-focused ROM so that's a big deal to them.


Hmm I think it's not only that: "We strongly recommend only purchasing one of the following devices [those are exclusively Pixels] for GrapheneOS due to better security and a long minimum support guarantee from launch for full security updates and other improvements": https://grapheneos.org/faq#recommended-devices

This is the list of requirements: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices


That's fair; it's not just the bootloader, but I would still argue that all those are security-centric and not a general quality thing.


Sure. My point was just that there is value for those who care about security.

Also I have quite a few friends (many Android devs) who have had Pixels for years, and seem happy. My point was that I don't think Pixels are particularly bad. In fact, they are pretty good in some metrics. And very far from being "pieces of shit" like the original comment is saying.

I personally have a Fairphone, which I believe is very good in what it does. But very different from e.g. a Samsung flagship, of course.


I sincerely hope your experience is different from mine.

My experience was, "overpriced garbage".


Sure, that can happen I guess. I just wanted to say that I have seen happy users of Pixels for years :-).


I swap between Androids and iPhones every 18-24 months, so I can stay current on both. I use both equally well, and find both to be fine, generally.

I've used a lot of Androids over the years, but the Pixels, in my case, all had substantial issues that never should have been, which really is garbage, considering the price.


> After 3 Pixels, ALL with issues that never should have been present, I decided Google can shove it's Pixel phones.

I can understand issues, but what I can't forgive is Google not taking responsibility for those issues.

My mother had a Pixel 3 that died an EDL-death at around 3 years old. She wasn't a heavy phone user, and this was obviously a defect, but yet Google would do nothing (Case ID [9-9224000032592] Google). They suggested paying $411 for a repair when second-hand phones were selling for $300.

My mom was planning on trading it in when the Pixel 6 was released, but it failed about a month before and as it wasn't working Google also wouldn't accept it towards an upgrade.

7-year software upgrades are great and all, but by not standing behind their hardware I really can't recommend buying them.


It happened almost entirely due to DEregulation.

Some economists are idiots.


Update!

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>Would stronger typing help here?

While we're not programmers, we can say with certainty that hitting the keys harder, does NOT change the behavior.

-Ops Team.


>Democratic freedoms, in the United States at least, protect people from UNREASONABLE search and seizure.

You're conflating what's written in the law and the sad reality of how a lot of that is simply ignored by law enforcement, while they are standing on your neck, searching your car.


Pretty fun, that precisely for you "standing on neck, searching car" is REASONABLE search and seizure, not for him. Pretty expected.


Standing on anyone's neck, while searching their car without a warrant or probable cause is a problem, for everyone. I'm not even sure why I have to clarify this, but ok!


>There are better examples than this one to complain about the justice system.

True, but why bring the Count of Mostly Crisco into this?


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