“Superman is unfortunately from American Midwest, experts say.”

🤣

Same here, mine is 2006 and already quite computerized for my taste.

But recently I did a trip in a 2020s car and it was … disconcerting. First of all it was automatic which I’m not used to. Unable to get it in gear, the 9yo boy in the backseat said: look at the screen, it’s telling you what to do!. He was right. Even so the car would not let me back into a patch of high grass, kept blocking the wheels. Jarringly.

telemetry … cell connection

When did this start to be a standard feature anyhow, and how does adoption track across brands & timeline?

The comic is hyperbolic and not in a good way. “They wouldn’t like it” - yeah, if millions of Americans did the same. And it isn’t even necessary to go pre-digital or pre-internet to “cut out the middleman”.

I agree with you on most, but this:

which includes driving a gas guzzler from the 70s, apparently?

is hyperbole on your part.

First of all, by-default internet connected cars haven’t been a thing until relatively recently (10 years max I guess). And then, gas guzzling does not necessarily correlate with age. Cars consuming less than, say, 5l/100km have existed since at least the 80s (1st hand experience, and the car was already 20 years old at that point).

We (mostly my brother and I) convinced our octogenarian parents to switch the whole family group to Signal, many years ago. It works nicely. What saddens me though, is that Signal will never replace WA for most people, it’s Just One More App for them.

So… Peter Thiel is an alien?

and the modern one later.

Ah! I think I never even saw those. I only know these.

What are those Winamp 2.9 skins? Audacious has had Winamp skin support for ages.

Let companies use AI. The free market will take care of it.

That some deep sarcasm

Torvalds warns

Is it just me or does that sound exaggerated, clickbaity?

“It’s worth noting that the upcoming merge window for 6.17 is going to be slightly chaotic for me,” Torvalds explained. “I have multiple family events this August (a wedding and a big birthday), and with said family being spread not only across the US, but in Finland too, I’m spending about half the month traveling.”

This is relevant to people who are subscribed to the kernel mailing list (where this is probably taken from) anyhow.

Bully the bully!

Did not know this one. There are risks however!

“Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled.”

Is there something here beyond the promotional image? I feel like I’m missing something.

Those really weren’t for kids, were they

Doesn’t KDE/Plasma (or Qt) have this for years?

I hope OP does this and reports back.

Someone else recommended a tin cookie jar.

I’d like to hear results on all types* of connectivity, at least the three you mentioned. Maybe start a logger on the phone before you put it in.

* telephony, GPS…

And there’s always several of them in every episode.

A lot of repetition. I guess if HTML had functions, the document would be 40 000 lines shorter.

My first few episodes were a little shocking (like the comic above), but yeah it’s actually very analytical (yet humorous) and I like that a lot.