The best car we ever owned was a 2007 Tiguan so when we went to shop for an electric car for my wife we made sure to check theirs out. I’m not surprised they’re failing. We looked at an ID3 because she wants a small one and it was more expensive than the others we looked at and it had far fewer features. My wife can’t park for shit and the ID3 didn’t even have 360 degree cameras as an option, never mind self-park (something our 2007 Tiguan had).

It felt fast, I’ll give it that, but other than that it just felt stingy and barebones, not to mention it’s ugly. The inside felt like some Scandinavian minimalist thing, but it felt cold and empty rather than cosy; I was half expecting an echo. All the trim was just plain plastic with no textures or anything. The computer was crap and the voice control was annoying. The sales guy was talking like the car would sell itself but we walked away with no interest in it whatsoever.

Then we looked at a Suzuki, which was basically a Toyota, and it was two grand cheaper for a car that was less than six months old and had 360 degree cameras. It had all the features (except self-parking) and felt much more premium.

That just includes nukes. Russia and China have both deployed weapons already.

Sounds like maybe a Roald Dahl thing like Matilda.

Frankly I think the UK would like it if NI rejoined Ireland, it’d probably make things a lot simpler for everyone. There was a vote in the 70s and it was like 99% remain in the UK. The UK government has said that they’ll do a vote if it ever looked like the majority might want to rejoin but it’s not there right now. I know a few people from there and they agree with that.

I understand that a party that wants to reunify got voted into power there for the first time ever but I don’t think it was on any promise to reunify if you know what I mean, but I think things are slowly heading in that direction.

If the people of NI actually wanted to reunify I don’t know anyone in England who would have a problem with it, but the government won’t hand over any land if the majority of the people there want to remain part of the UK. Trump is just making his comments because he’s pissed that the UK wouldn’t help with the Epstein Wars.

Was it whacky or serious? Demon Headmaster?

Gotta admit, the old map looked more aesthetic.

I played Stray the other day and it was getting a bit choppy sometimes. My PC is powerful enough that it shouldn’t have any issues at all with that game. I think it’s just optimised in a way that the game doesn’t like.

I wasn’t bothered because I didn’t like the game all that much.

Hate to say it but some people like this. I know my Auntie will be thinking about all this shit now. She likes to enjoy the Christmas time and have everything ready by early November.

I’m in the market for some tools but I couldn’t find anything I need that’s Canadian. There’s a huge fucking ocean between us and Canada, it’s not gonna be smooth trading.

I found OVPN to be basically the same thing. They’ve actually proven in court that they have no way of logging customer activity.

I used to live on quite a large cul-de-sac and we knew most of the people, it was a really good community. Four or five times a year, and at Halloween and Christmas, we’d have street parties and everyone would come out and the kids would tear around and we’d put up tables with drinks and snacks which everyone would contribute to, though there was no pressure to pitch in. The WhatsApp group was really active and would get approx 30 messages per day, usually just people giving stuff away or asking where there kids were. My wife is really anxious about our daughter going missing usually but on that street she would come home and the kids would be playing and she’d jump out of the car and run off, and my wife was fine with it. There was always someone looking after them. We had to move because we wanted to be closer to the school, and we were renting and our landlord was a real problem, but we still get invited to the parties.

Our new cul-de-sac is smaller and it’s not the same but we regularly speak to about a third of the street and know the other third enough to say hello. People just don’t hang out on the street here like they used to at the old street, it’s more of a back garden place.

That’ll just look like the US government thinks they good, even if they’re not.

It’s just from Claude but it guesstimates his out of pocket expenses are around $15,000. A few grand for the materials then like another 10 for casting it. He’s probably made the wax cast himself and is valuing his own time around $85,000.

Anything but Linux…

I don’t see why they don’t at least try it, it’s free.

Alternatively could you daisy-chain them and mirror the display?

Why wouldn’t you just get an old Nokia for like £10? We see loads of these, they get released a you never hear from them again. You may like the idea but for most people you need stuff like a browser sometimes because it’s pretty much necessary in modern society.

Finding them shouldn’t be so hard though. Surely we can make the search function better. If I search for a community I’d at least like to be greeted by the most active versions at the top. I’ve no idea how it ranks them right now.

I’m in the UK and only once have I been in a cinema where people were shouting the things. It was some pretty mediocre horror thing and there were some teenagers shouting jokes but it was only like two times. The cinema was pretty much empty and it was just us and them; I think they just found the film a bit boring (we certainly did).

I always thought those concierges in fancy hotels act a bit like that. I’ve heard that guests can show up with weird rich person problems and be like “I need three gold Ferraris by 9pm” and the concierges will have to make it happen.

I use Linux (though dual boot Windows for Fusion 360 and a lot of Windows at work), but if someone asks me about switching to Linux I don’t ram it down their throat. It’s good and all but it’s really not for everyone, and despite what people on here would have you think it’s certainly not as easy to use as Windows. You’re much more likely to run into a difficult problem and not know how to fix it though it’s changed a bit since you can just get Claude to take a look at things now. Windows can have annoyances but generally you can live with them.

Linux, I think, is for people who are quite technical and people who aren’t technical at all (and just need a web browser). For the people inbetween Linux can be a struggle. It’s improving incredibly quickly but the out-of-the-box experience is still pretty terrible (looking especially at KDE here).