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Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?
Honestly it seems like a no-brainer to me to put a solar panel on the roof of electric cars to increase their action radius, so I figured there’s probably one or more good reasons why they don’t....
Naming is hard (sh.itjust.works)
Oh tell me again how it loads faster and takes up less resources
Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)
Reminder to switch browsers if you haven’t already!...
Visitor to Taiwan hit with $9,000 fine over 'roast chicken and pork combo' lunch box (www.abc.net.au)
Taiwan’s customs officials have issued a fine of NT$200,000 ($9,369) to a traveller for attempting to bring a lunch box containing pork into the country....
California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices (www.wshu.org)
Need this nationwide. I hate having fees added on to the price of what I’m ordering.
China launches world’s largest electric container ship with 50 MWh battery (thedriven.io)
Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)
Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM (9to5mac.com)
Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect (www.techradar.com)
Do you prefer the headphone jack to be at the top or at the bottom on a phone, and why?
Retirement crisis looms as Americans struggle to save (www.cnn.com)
The number of US workers in the labor market over the age of 75 is expected to nearly double over the next decade, creating a looming retirement crisis....
YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious (chipp.in)
Aldi plans to open 800 new locations in the US as Americans feel pinch of high food prices (www.cnn.com)
How often do you change your mobile phone plan?
I feel like every two years I need to call my carrier and complain if I want a decent deal. They will do things like upgrade my plan on their website to have 10 extra gigabytes of data but won’t upgrade me to it until I contact them. There’s also all the new member exclusive deals that I feel make it impractical to just sit...
Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service
See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn’t use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don’t agree to their terms, then I don’t get access to their new products. That...
TIL personal credit scores only started in 1989 (en.m.wikipedia.org)
I always assumed credit scores were an integral and historic part of the American financial system....
Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. (www.reuters.com)
Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News (www.ifixit.com)
A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. (slate.com)
Netflix: Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly (torrentfreak.com)
Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX (www.spacebar.news)
Target Acquired (sh.itjust.works)
Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla (www.cnn.com)
In a series of posts on X Monday night, Musk said that he would not want to grow Tesla to become a leader in artificial intelligence and robotics without a compensation plan that would give him ownership of around 25% of the company’s stock. That would be about double the roughly 13% stake he currently owns....
What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for?
I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.
‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)
‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever
Younger Americans are friendlier to China (www.economist.com)
Google “search” (lemmy.world)
Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)
Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.
How poor is the average American?
I’ve been watching a few American TV shows and it blows my mind that they put up with such atrocious working terms and conditions....
iMessage will reportedly dodge EU regulations, won’t have to open up (arstechnica.com)
Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them (www.cnn.com)
Disclosure of sensitive credentials and configuration in containerized deployments - ownCloud (owncloud.com)
I haven’t seen this posted yet here, but anybody self-hosting OwnCloud in a containerized environment may be exposing sensitive environment variables to the public internet. There may be other implications as well.
Motor emissions could have fallen by over 30% without SUV trend, report says (www.theguardian.com)
It's all the same no matter what they say (lemmy.world)