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The part i really dont like is the subscription model. Charging more for more power on Car has always been a thing. Vehicle manfutures have has 2 or more vehicles use the exact same motor for 2 different versions of the car (i think the old w203 shape the C220 and C200 were like that, and the Mk4 golf Gti and Mk4 Polo GTI also but the polo gti had 20 kW less). It makes the car alot cheaper to make and design. I can actually see this happening far more with electric cars as standardising the motor across different versions at different price points make quite alot of sense to actually making electric cars more affordable. This should be a one time fee. Im okay with one time fees for vehicles especially when you buying second hand. Oh original buyer didnt want the extra power or heated seats and new owner would like them there will be a purchase option after you brought the vehicle. This also leaves the option by getting it enables by a third party thats not the OEM. They could have done it the PC Maker way and created a "TI" or "K" version of the car with all power enabled for a higher price which leaves the early adoptors with some buyers remorse.

Not a jet pack, has no jets engines. But cool idea.

All screen protectors for the type of fingerprint reader on the samasungs suck. Need to get one with a cut away around the reader.

Use G5 top slot for GPU (its the only slot connected direct to CPU) and M2_2 (Below middle PCIe slot and on the left) for SSD. M2_2 runs at PCIe4 x 4 and is connected to CPU and does not go through the chipset.

Seems this is a feature available on all Ryzen 4000 Pro and 5000 PRO CPUs https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/pro-security

I feel your pain. Here in south africa they also extremely expensive. 3070 go from R14500 ($903) to R17400 ($1078) 3080 go from R19200 ($1196) to R25000 ($1558) For reference import tax is only 10% and Vat is 15%. The PS5 and Xbox Series X go for R12000 ($748). Most of the time for Graphics cards its cheaper to order from Newegg or Amazon and import them yourself than buying from a retailer.

Reviews and criticism are protected by copywrite law. Not the same thing.

What these governments don't get is: If a back door is made for the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand officials, other countries like South Africa will also want a back door. The back doors will then eventually get into the hands of criminals organizations as corruption is everywhere in South Africa. What's worst than no encryption? Compromised encryption were no one knows it has been compromised.

I laugh at anyone who thinks this will be cheaper than the total ownership price of buy a car. This is only beneficial to the person that wants to have a car for a short amount of time or one that wants to change cars very often. Companies that will providing these services have already work out how much the car is to buy, what the maintenance costs will be, what the insurance costs will be and any other costs. Those cost are added, then multiplied by some factor for when the car is not being rented/subscribed and finally multiplied by another factor for the profit mark up. this is then calculated to a monthly rate. Also don't forget that the cost will be increase yearly because to account for inflation.

To me i see the whole "Car as a service" will probably only be a niche thing or situational. Self Driving car will happen but driver-less faces problems the law being one of them (Not saying it wont happen but will take very long for it to happen). Trains are far more easier to make completely driver-less and only quite recently becoming driver-less, i think majority still aren't driver-less. Planes can takeoff, fly and land themselves but still have a full team of pilots, even during autopilot one pilot must be at the controls. For cars i see the law stating a driver must be at the wheel all times even when self driving and probably will take some time to get to the point were the law changes they probably first need to prove them self. Also the number of cars wont change and traffic wont go away even with self driving cars because lots of people need to be at work at the same time. As for buying habits, people don't just buy the most convenient car that get you from A to B. Buying a car is extremely personal, people buy SUVs, 4x4, big luxury cars, supercars because they can not because the need them. You need many things for cars as a service to happen, drive-less cars and mass adoption, peoples buying habits to change, and people to get use to the idea of less convenience and having less mobile freedom. If self driving cars become mandatory, which will only happen once mass adoption has taken place (My guest probably 30 years or more for this to happen). Biggest out cry will probably motorbikes as they will probably be banned.

The trick is to copyright your face and sue any company that does facial recognition when done on you. Since governments care more about copyright infringement then privacy or any other crime.

This would probably only apply to phones, tablets, cameras, etc which are designed to have a recharge port. If they wanted to go completely port-less then this would not apply to it. It might stifle innovation an extreme small amount but honestly looking at connectors used over the last decade it really hasn't affect innovation yet so why would it in the future. The lightning port has been around for 7-8 years if ports were so important for innovation apple would have already changed it to something new.

To me Apples concern has nothing to do with innovation and more to do with customer choice. As always its all about MONEY. If they must use Type C customers have far more choice in chargers and accessories. Third parties no longer have to get the Made for iPhone certification. Edit: Apple knows that if you have lightning everything you less likely to switch to another manufacture for your phone. As for this standardization it will be good for the consumer. Can you imagine what a disaster it would be if governments didn't not regulate the plug type all houses must use.

Generally power stations dont output at 230v. Here they output at 20 000V generally. They transform it to 132kV or as high as 765kV for transmission. At the sub station it is about 11kV and only once closer to domestic properties then transformed down to 230V. Quick fact to produce the 50 Hz signal the turbines in a power station spin at 3000 rpm. For 60 Hz they will spin at 3600 rpm

The only real risk is to there income from fines. As for the statement that knowing where the police is puts them at risk is BS, if people really wanted to harm police they can just call and report a fake crime then have them go exactly were they wanted. As for checkpoint it will now mean they actually have to patrol and do there jobs.