I don’t disagree but in his defence pay phones used to be everywhere and are practically gone today vs relatively few telegraph offices.

I think this is because they are part of the Unicode standard so they’re just standard characters. That’s pure speculation though.

Red had is the go to on corporate, canonical has support too.

But honestly, and hike I’ve seen the support argument I’ve never actually seen someone engage with MS support, on the OS level at least. Generally family ends up helping, or they go to local IT shops, I imagine it would be similar for a Linux distro.

Uber had a fatal crash, albeit with a safety driver who was distracted at the time. There was uproar and Uber scaled back their venture but society largely moved past it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54175359

I used to agree with that. But then Covid happened and I listened to people on the radio call in saying “we gotta let a few old people go to save the exonomy.” As though human life was an acceptable cost.

I genuinely thought people at least were ignorant to the death tole to then but I was mistaken. It got so bad the host cut off calls.

The vaccine then came out and I watched millions shun it, despite being shown to be safe and effective. Sure, some folks thought they were dangerous (disinformation and all) but that radio show told me, some people want the world to burn.

There are people who saw devastation and don’t get vaccinated because it’s an acceptable loss.

This is about 2 decades old now but a bunch of people tried something sorta like a pacing car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoETMCosULQ

I actually ended up switching to Kagi for this exact reason. Google is basically AI at the start usually spouting nonsense then sponsor posts and then a bunch of SEO optimized BS.

Thankfully paying for search circumvents the ads and it hasn’t been AI by default (it has it but it’s off) and the results have been generally closer to 2010s Google.

No for sure I hear what you’re saying, onstar was just a handy example, other vehicles have OTA updates also and systems to disable the vehicle.

My point was the tech isn’t specific to BEV it’s becoming a “feature” in modern cars more broadly

This isn’t specific to electric cars, vehicles equipped with On Star can be remotely disabled in the event of theft (and by extension I imagine a legal injunction). I imagine this extends to other vehicles also.

The real problem is the OTA updates and always-online nature of modern vehicles, not necessarily what powers them.

Ironically a common writing technique is B->C dialog.

Basically cutting out the preamble and post dialog. Most times even in my writing I include “Hello” since that would stand out, but generally get right to the point.

You see this a lot in movies too, if done well it blends in since your scene is focusing on the action and not rambling on.

There are exceptions (teens talking may include a “no you hang up” trope for comedic effect) but that’s used sparingly.

Honestly the only time I’ve said this it was a relief to know that the answer was yes, because while it sucks others are hurting it made me feel far less alone and obscure.