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I don't know about OPs situation, but house arrest often allows for basic movement (groceries, court cases, etc). The list is strictly defined and the law may not allow for covid tests.

Wild, I have been working on something almost exactly like this on and off for about a year. Well sort of, similar concept.

Basically, python notebooks with an "accelerator" library and strictly defined inputs and outputs - allowing you to run parallel jobs with parameters that do complicated backend operations normally not efficient in python, and then transform the result into a standardized format.

It's for a security-related-space set of use cases, but it doesn't have to be. So, I am very pleased to see something with a similar workflow that I can take notes on ;)

Depending on country laws, refusing to reveal keys or even device-level encryption itself may be illegal/cause you to be detained.

The best thing you can do is bring a wiped device through, and assume that it and its data can be seized at any time. Also treat any device as disposable - once seized, it should not be trusted.

The key difference is that apple cares what their computers look like when they're open. Dell doesn't. An ugly switch would ruin the line of the Mac's case and look out of place.

Now, you may disagree with that philosophy, but Apple is wildly successful for it. Personally, I don't like Macs anymore, but I do absolutely respect that attitude.

Elementary OS 6.1 5 years ago

But perhaps it's okay for this one distro to have an obsession with visual design?

The linux desktop is a house on fire, and elementaryos is standing in the living room holding up paint to a smoldering wall.

There's really no point. A few high sensitivity assets are lower resolution, but any state actor that wants very high resolution shots of military facilities already has it and on a quicker update cadence than google maps allows.

Tesla is fucked long-term. I suspect Musk's plan is to pivot to being an energy/charging company - that Tesla cars were just a vehicle to get him a worldwide charger network and accompanying infrastructure (it's the one thing that Tesla does just about flawlessly.)

This was always my take as well. He wants to make cars (they're a halo product), but the real value of tesla is in skateboards, batteries, charging. I suspect that things like the roadster/cybertruck are tesla preparing to transition to a business model where car sales are not the largest part of their business.

Panel gap matters because it is a clear indicator of manufacturing precision, and it also affects weather proofing. It is a very strong signal (but not the only one!)

Most people buy cars based on brands, and also a very substantial amount of car purchases are impulse purchases.

Anecdotally, I rented a jeep a few months ago (compass) and it was truly abysmal.

I notice that you said not that "my tesla is great" but that "they are great". Do you own one?

I will not purchase a car that has a panel gap I can fit my pinky in. I will not purchase a car that is at the bottom of reliability ratings. I will not purchase a car without radar sensors for the adaptive cruise control.

Regardless, I ended up buying a faf bmw and I'm loving it. So I did okay, anyways.

Sorry! To be clear, at the time I purchased my car, there weren't any that ticked off the boxes I was looking for.

Teslas were the only ones that did, that were also electric.

If I were to buy an electric car today, i would probably consider a polestar, taycan, audi, tesla. I would give them a fair shake! I'd probably end up with the taycan though, tbh. I would rather wait a year or two though, there's some really interesting things coming down the pipeline.

Tesla’s official response to the clip is that the auto high beam system still is classified as beta software, meaning it’s not fully developed

Things like this (and panel gap, and build quality, and over promising features) are why I have yet to buy a tesla, and likely won't any time soon. Even though they were the only viable luxury electric car (during my last car search), I decided to pass. I will probably seriously re-evaluate them for my next car purchase, but right now, no thanks!

BTW, I got my first demo of tesla FSD a few weeks ago. In san francisco, on market street, a place I'm sure is tested extensively. Within minutes, FSD had the car perform an illegal AND dangerous mid intersection merge followed by an extremely hard and jerky lane follow correction. lol.