Yeah, I was considering Polestars at one point, but to get an equivalent of Tesla Model Y in terms of leg and boot space would been Polestar 3, and the price difference is not small.

Sorry, do you think a business failing is only possible with government coercion?

No, more like that actual monopolies are possible only by government coercion. Failure obviously doesn’t require that.

And what government coercion gave Google near monopolies on web search and video? Microsoft Windows accounts for 70% of desktop computers, did a government give them that? Whom did the government coerce for Amazon to have such domination of server hosting and online retail?

Yeah, that is true at least in the short term. Windows indeed had even larger percentages at some point, but eventually it has been chipped away by competition.

I’m not calling free markets a magic tool that always works well. Rather a tool that needs to be controlled carefully and as little as possible for the best results. For instance, making Microsoft stop bundling IE with their operating system in the 90s, I’m not sure if that decision had any effect. Then again, EU declaring that mobile operators must adhere to certain rulesets opened up the market a whole lot. So it’s not just about following the best ideology, the details of decisions have to be good as well.

Current Polestar stock is 1Y -54%, 5Y -95%. NASDAQ is talking about throwing them out of the market: https://eletric-vehicles.com/geely/polestar/polestar-q3-results-miss-wall-street-estimates-announces-reverse-stock-split/

Comparison point: Tesla 1Y +30%, 5Y +154%.

Doesn’t need a lot of oil to upkeep a population of 200k humans though.

I don’t remember that ever happening without government coercion. Can you refresh my memory?

I’m somewhat interested in what’s coming up from Kärcher. Being a company based in Germany, EU, I’m stupidly hoping that EU data protection laws prevent them from doing the shittiest things.

https://www.kaercher.com/int/inside-kaercher/company/media-information/media-information/3690-fully-autonomous-robot-vacuum-and-mop-rvf-7-from-kaercher.html

If you want to fix it you need a new economic system.

We could try actually free markets with no benefits to anyone. By benefits here I mean tax breaks, government contracts and subsidies for companies.

Either not taxed enough or there’s almost no competition in the thing they do. And in a healthy free market, there should definitely be competition in a field that nets that much profits. The logical conclusion is that something is actively preventing the competition.

Then again, if you say that Linux Desktop sucks, the real Linus will probably agree with you.

If it’s the size of an iphone 13 mini or smaller, I’ll buy it.

All is console, console is all.

The real problem is not Rust, or that somebody decided to rewrite sudo in Rust. These are both good things.

The actual real problem is that Ubuntu adopts these in their mainline distribution when the release version is 0.something. I mean sure, this will get the worst bugs noticed and fixed sooner but come on. Have a little empathy for your dumb users. They didn’t choose to be that way.

If Valve makes ARM Linux work properly as a gaming/desktop OS, I will uhh hmm.

I will buy this thing.

I wonder if they’re still using Arch for the basis of this. Its ARM version is kinda not so great, although not terrible either.

It was kinda fun to watch. The least shitty Alien after Aliens, possibly. Timothy Oliphant is kind great in everything he does.

But it was also quite derivative. Almost as if an AI wrote the script.

Though I will agree that the average Chinese is ironically happier than the average American.

You would be wrong.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world

• China 5.97
• USA 6.73

Self-reporting happiness might not be 100% accurate obviously (Finland #1 lol) but it seems like the best guess we have.

China is not a socialist utopia. The average Chinese person still has a better quality of life then the average American, because China is a capitalist utopia.

ftfy

They did choose to adapt them at version <1.0.0

Could be a brave decision that will lead to these tools getting good a lot faster. Many such decisions seem a bit stupid if you only look at the short term.

I’ve been hearing this for 2 years. How’s Putin’s cancer doing, by the way?

Like many, I thought for a microsecond that they actually brought out a new phone model that will fit in a pocket.

But no, of course they didn’t. Because why the fuck would anyone want that.

This is your freedom, enjoy it.