Both can be true at the same time, we have all those same issues too, the gov enabled the rich (and the elected officials themselves) to loot the country. But also uncontrolled rising costs destroyed a lot of businesses which the country needed to function

What fairy tale? I was making an assumption based on watching the industry die in the UK for the reasons backed up by your graph.

Looks like Germany is different from what I assumed

I imagine the same thing which finished off heavy industry in the U.K. is hurting DE a lot also, high energy prices.

Less of a direct effect on assembly businesses, but for heavy production where your process is largely to convert energy to product its devestating. Then you lose those job while also having to pay another county for the product. It fucked us over here for sure

The idea that anyone used one as a truck, or that it could even reasonably be used as one is pretty laughable.

But if I was a man child who wanted a toy car the Chinese one at least looks less like a bin on wheels. https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/gacs-cybertruck-inspired-pickup-launching-in-2027/

If you wanted to gamble some money on it the only smart play was obviously to aim for something safe like 10% and ride the first 24 hour pump and dump. I considered it but the whole thing felt just too dumb even to risk that.

It’s mad that anyone thought this was anything but a panicked debt rescue and exit scheme

I saw some Chinese company had done a reskin or replica of the cyber truck body but actually made it look kinda cool, like something you’d actually expect to find in a film.

It just showed what an abject failure Musk is, as it’s the only car he had a hand in designing…

It had nothing to do with profit and everything to do with the tens of billions in debt that was coming due. The merger then ipo was just to dump that bill on the public.

It’s even questionable to me if some of the space x investors will be able to get out above water… Some of those shares were sold at insanely high values then diluted. Fuck them all of course, but seems likely all this ipo achieves is another year or so of runway for the ponzi

And with those resources they decided to make a huge long term investment in making PC gaming on windows optional, then even the worse experience. Don’t see that loser Tim sweeny doing anything of that value… It’s not exactly a monopoly either… You can install any other available store on your pc, unlike consoles. More competition would be great but steams market share was earned in an environment that wasn’t a walled garden.

Yes because the desktop equivalent cost machine would be faster, no cpu locked at 30w or cut down gpu. Just like with a laptop.

It is expensive for a pretty low end machine but also so is everything now. And it does look nice and comes with a more console like experience out the box.

No one should be buying this thing based on performance alone, but it still ticks many other boxes

Oh hell yes, I’d forgotten about it. Evening sorted

Ben-chode… Add lots of fucking either before or after for authenticity

Copilot

I have like 4 things installed from aur, investigated each one first, and I’m still paranoid about all of them.

And the sequel is of equal quality, the combat was simplified a bit but I like both approaches.

The sheer amount of high quality narrative across both games is pretty unique. There’s very little that feels like filler busy work, which was what most of skyrim felt like for me. Especially after oblivion.

I bought a mac mini to run some cad software as everything else I have is Linux KDE. Hated it so much after a few months I bought a laptop and win 10 IoT LTSC license… Gnome is the only desktop environment that pissed me off as much as macOS, and that’s after giving it a good try recently in Ubuntu Pro while working out a new auto roll out solution for work.

Maybe but I don’t see you doing that over can us so it would need other connection to the ICE. I’d guess all those updates are OTA now.

I’m guessing though, 2014 is my newest car

Yeah steam hasn’t enshitified. The shit bits (forums) were always shit and the rest has stayed the same.

They made a service that works and makes money and that’s enough. Sure it’s a shit load of money, but if it was any of the usual public companies it would have been destroyed by annual KPIs by now

I do too but non of the above actually look young like the creepy stuff. I’d place them in their mid 20s

Same, it’s great

Let’s get McDonald’s support to make it