Convertible in Tropical Turquoise and India Ivory?

fully electric 1957 Bel-Air

That would be gorgeous.

Ideally you just look for a Honda or Toyota from like 20 years ago, assuming you want gas powered. Look for only like 1-3 owners, regular service history. Those things will last into 600k+ miles if they received regular service and parts are dirt cheap.

Nothing quite like the twist of a good knob.

Honestly that seems a bit worse

Like most people who drive, they probably would be buying a new car every 5-10 years. Is that far fetched? I've know several people who spend half their money on cars, buying/trading them every year or so. Most fediverse people would be saavier than that, but still.

I never understood why people think VR can be a mass market product. It’s literally single user. It cannot be looked at by two people at the same time. Such a silly concept. It’s good for gaming, some work, robotics, remote access, etc. But mass market? iPhone-killer? Price-accessible to all? I don’t get it.

There is some open source software that is associated with Facebook, like compression with Zstandard, a very common and useful compression format. Don't care that it's from them in that case.

Latest is the ray ban glasses, but also portal tv, oculus.

What's "false" here exactly?

Also at the end you're like you're like "but they force us to keep connected to fb" which sounds very disqualifying for many users here...

Maybe that’s the one tech we should try to bring back with FOSS next

[rant]Same; however, my local library has the shittiiiessssttt system in place for paying. Half the time the cards don't work and they're not reloadable so if there's like 5 cents left you have to print one single page to use it up. I have 4 or 5 cards now with less than ten cents left on them. They say there's a new system in the works but I think they only have enough money to pay one person to do it because it's been a really long time.[/rant]

No, they use the generic refillable cartridges as well. They just use that style of cartridge, not a specific brand.

Why the hell would they use hp cartridges?!

Edit

Oh it's refillable, that's fine then

Hazarding a guess, but wireless earbuds means your Bluetooth has to be active, and your Bluetooth radio is something that can be used to track you

I'm not OP, but here are the downsides I'm aware of:

• Poor reparability
• BT always active
• Codec support
• Latency
• Some need apps for full control and they can come with ads/tracking

Foggenbooty pretty much nailed it.

Poor repairability, but also, why would I use 2 cheap dacs (1 in each earbuds), when I would use wired earphones and have 1 good dac. And the fact lithium needs to be mined for 2 batteries is super problematic considering the conditions lithium miners face.

Of course then there's the issue that everything with a battery has a limited lifespan. Those batteries will die one day and render your wireless earphones useless. My headphones will last for the rest of my life, meaning less e-waste is generated.

BT being active is a privacy nightmare, and the ones that require apps is also a privacy nightmare.

But then also they are just inferior to wired headphones in every way. So yeah, I'm not gonna buy an objectively worse product for way more money than their wired counterparts, that also exploits lithium miners and our planet and is also a privacy nightmare.

I got fed up after the battery died on my 4th pair of AirPods, and the 20+ year old Shure IEMs I have, still work good as the day I bought them.

I have 4 pairs of AirPods on my nightstand where only one ear works, and the other ear gets maybe minutes of usable time, or is crackly and awful sounding. To be fair, one pair went through the wash. But even then, I’d rather wash a pair of 25 dollar wired headphones, than another 250 dollar pair of AirPod pros.