Also if you are able to charge at home you can subscribe to a smart tariff that gives you electricity for 4p/kWh overnight. That’s £3.20 to fill an 80kWh battery that on a modern car will take you up to 320 miles.

It’s getting better.

https://transportandenergy.com/2026/04/16/42-of-councils-to-...

I don’t think it’s that surprising. People will pay for software that has better usability and better functionality.

Mostly people stick to what they know even if better alternatives exist

I've tried the alternative for Photoshop and came out unimpressed. It's even worse for Illustrator, and I hate this software. They're not perfect. I don't like the pricing either or their attitude. Still, After Effect, Illustrator, Indesign are very good. I'm not ripped off with the suite at the end...

I have the same issue with Maxon and Zbrush: nothing is close, but it's still the best at what it does.

We have an even worse company around: Autodesk. And they have competition in the CAD, 3D creation world (that they tried to destroy, but Blender changed the game and Houdini is another world)... but not so much around Revit. Architect would destroy them if they could. But no alternative works.

So let's not insult user here: people tries the alternative. They're not good enough. They're worse.

Yeah a bunch of people promised me GIMP is just as good as Photoshop. Look I'm glad GIMP exists and thankful for the free software, but it's not even close to equal.

> So let's not insult user here: people tries the alternative. They're not good enough. They're worse.

You mean you tried and thesy didn't suit your usecase. That's ok. But there are many others where alternatives would be suitable. Best example: MS Word

It is a feature of most game engines. Unreal has a standard SetGamePaused function, for example.

But like most things in game development there is no solution that fits every use case.

The SR-71’s star tracker was so sensitive it could track stars during the day.

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-sr-71-blackbird-astro-na...

being halfway to space probably helped

Scientists are not lying. Reich is notable in his field and no-one is disputing his genetic research.

What scientists are wary of is how any discussion in the field gets jumped on and twisted into ammunition to reinforce racist beliefs, whether the science actually supports this or not.

“What scientists are wary of is how any discussion in the field gets jumped on and twisted into ammunition to reinforce racist beliefs”

Yet nothing ruined the reputation of the scientific establishment more in recent time than their tendency to change their behaviours and adapt their beliefs for political motives

There are always those trying to discredit scientists who do not reinforce their personal beliefs.

I would dearly love to be as busy as I care to be.

Right? That's my ultimate goal.

Perhaps we should be using ‘apocalyptic threat’ instead?

Sure. That’s fair. I still think it’s potentially hyperbolic, but it’s closer to true than false. “Existential threat” is just plain wrong.

I can no longer edit my comment to add this, but this article really hammers the point home.

In the UK, by 2050, less than 1% of land will be needed for solar and wind production. Similar to what is currently used by golf courses.

The infographic showing land use on that page is eye-opening. Considering that the UK would naturally be covered in rainforest and not fields.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-englands-new-land-use-fr...

Agreed. As a kid it felt there was so much energy to make things better, to fight the system. So depressing growing up and seeing so many peers and idols becoming the same inward-looking grey old farts they used to mock.

Perhaps this is inevitable.

> Perhaps this is inevitable.

There is certainly some logic behind the old joke about young people with no heart and old people with no brain. It's natural to become a bit more conservative as you age. Though I would clarify that I think it is natural to become more of a normal conservative; the current conservative party in the US is ... not.