I mean yeah... They are ugly as shit, have stupid fucking interiors and some serious QA issues, but to this day Tesla makes one of the most solid EV drivetrains on the market. The Model Y was the global top-selling car for a reason.

But then you get the option E: the friend's dog. Which makes things even more difficult. You ask the audience and there are suddenly not enough letters in the alphabet for options and you're truly fucked.

What were the anti-air capabilities of Sauron? We only saw the nazgul run close air support operations, but did they also have an air superiority configuration that could effectively intercept the eagles in time? Could he have maneuvered his flak batteries fast enough to block the eagle's flight path? How many of the orcs were carrying manpads (orcpads?)

It is kind of annoying, but in my experience not more annoying than dealing with wires. My current wireless pair have been the longest surviving earphones I've ever owned by a significant margin because it has no thin wires to weaken and break after so many repeated tangles and wraps and bends and twists and tugs. It is one very major weakness removed. Also no more cable noise, no more having to cable manage your chest to stop the wire from smacking against your torso and making that annoying thumping sound you hear deep in your ear hole. Sure batteries are a weakness in themselves but I honestly will take the inconvenience of charging them once a week or so over dealing with goddamn wires. That's a good deal.

Speaking for "away" use though. Earphones that I take and wear outside. At home it's a whole other story.

What if it's coming right for me, and I have let everyone know that it's coming right for me by shouting "IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR ME!"?

The problem is not with the controls fundamentally, it's with the low quality controls. A glass touch surface has merit: it's extremely easy to clean and keep clean, you're never gonna get boiling pasta juice in there and corrode the contacts or whatever. It's just that the manufacturers use the worst, most pathetic sensors that stop working as soon as the surface gets slightly moist. My own induction stovetop is pretty bad in that regard, but my parents' significantly more expensive one is perfectly fine. The control part of the glass surface never gets very hot either.

Point is, it's pretty good when done right. But they often don't do it right.

Speaking of Data, his existence anywhere near that ship's bridge is a humongous breach of all sorts of security to begin with. He's a not-very-well-understood piece of tech that's been proven to have at least one hidden backdoor into his brains that can let others assume direct control over him and use him to do some exteremely dangerous things. Letting him into the bridge of such an important ship and giving him such high clearance is just insane.

But of course why worry about Data given the captain himself and his history with the Borg. In other words it's Star Trek, so whatever. The show must go on.

Sorry but what a dumb question to ask. A car lets you go way farther, way faster, with way less personal energy expense. It gets you over hills without getting your clothes all sweaty. It lets you carry more stuff and more passengers. It protects you from the weather. We would all like to live somewhere we don't have to use a car if we don't want to, but still a car simply gives you more options than a bike. It's dumb to even consider a bike might offer more freedom.

I had a Samsung S5 back in the day. That thing had a replaceable battery, an SD card slot, a 3.5mm socket, and one of those god awful wide-ass double USC mini sockets. It had no problem with water. I got that phone soaking wet many times. I showered with it. I literally washed that phone when its screen got filthy with my hair and face greases. It didn't bat an eyelid. What I'm saying is it's already possible to have fairly water resistant phones with a whole bunch of orifices. We don't need to ditch the USB port to get there. Doesn't make much sense to make general consumer phones more waterproof than that either.

Used the everliving shit out of that machine for many years. When it got a bit too slow, I flashed it with cyanogen, squeezed another year out of it. I don't think I ever got as much value from a phone since then. I doubt it's even possible now.

Still kinda is. Some devices might not be able to connect to your tailnet. You might be trying to reach your devices from a device that isn't on your VPN. The funnel might work, if you can work within its limitations.

Holy balls that is an absolutely embarrassing thing to post. Who the fuck cares if it takes 0.06 seconds (yes, that is six hundredths of a second) less to maximize the application window? It's such a meaningless improvement to such a low impact metric that it's embarrassing to even mention it. Convinces me even more that they know it sucks so bad that they're grasping at any positive number regardless of how practically insignificant it is.

Who this?