You won’t get banned, but Patrick will add you to his list if you scare the normies.

I think it’s different from XP in that they made an already paid product entirely unusable.

On XP I could at least continue using it many years past the EOL, offline, or online at my own risk. The EOL of Windows 10 removes my option to use the software that I paid for and also the hardware that I paid for, for the purposes that I bought it for in the first place. I paid for the license and I paid for the hardware. It’s fine if they stop supporting it, but there’s no reason for making it unusable for backward compatibility.

They’re basically forcing people to repurpose their almost new hardware, sold until recently as “Windows machines”, for Linux.

It’s not very exclusive though, lol.

Look, Microsoft left windows 10 to rot. The only update they’re shipping is the nag screen for Windows 11. When you get the update, it hogs all your ressources to download the entirety of Windows 11 and keep it in ram, only to show a blue screen that says “Your pc can’t run Windows 11”.

Click OK/cancel/whatever, doesn’t matter, because nothing happens. Then it repeats the whole downloading update procedure from the beginning next time you reboot.

If for some reason you need Windows on a less than brand new machine, then your only option is to disable updates or else it just won’t work.

Yeah BYD will survive, but smaller brands like hiphi, neta, nio, LI auto, etc. There are more than 160 different Chinese brands trying to enter the markets. Most of them will or have already failed in Europe, even if they are active in other countries.

Plenty of new European brands have also failed for the same reasons.

It’s up to the admins of the instances to delete them, but I think it would make sense to delete them.

There was a lot of communities opened a few years when the first wave of redditors wanted to move everything here. It has a negative effect when people search for a topic and find empty pages and no activity, as it appears as if there’s no interest in those topics. It would be better if it was completely empty, so anyone with legitimate interests would feel more inclined to start new ones.

I do see some chinese brands on the road, but not many in comparison to other more established brands.

The thing keeping people away from chinese brands is the uncertainty of future repairs. The “flood” might come in a few years once people have more experience with how it’s handled. Currently, as people get their first EVs, they want to be able to take their VW to the VW shop, not take their BYD to the random no-name mechanic with a BYD sticker on their window.

Everyone is also waiting for the statistics from the EU inspections. Nobody wants a car that can’t pass the inspection in a few years time. Tesla has proven to be a huge failure in that regard, and I think that will scare people away from not only Tesla, but also the unknown chinese brands who yet have to prove themselves.

It also doesn’t help that these smaller brands pop up and go bankrupt in the same year as they scramble to find their markets.

EU brands might not be any better or cheaper, but at least they are better represented locally.

A fake quote about traps and putting a hair on the image is a nice self reference to what this really is.

I dunno. The test results were a little shaky.

It might work better in a shorter dad joke format.

Like:

• Your kids are driving your car around in the driveway!

• Yeah, they’re my Parkinsons.

I performed that song in my youth. I’d play the keyboard solo during the intro and then rush to the microphone while holding the final note on the keyboard when the song is about to enter.

They have 2 reasons to do this:

1. To drug the soldiers.
2. To put the blame of failure on individuals.

The purpose is to have an army of cannon fodder when they take on NATO and to push through the inevitable failure when doing so.

Good thing that the father has a stable job at the gas station to support his family.

I don’t really trust the observations of someone named Cockburn on the topics of lust and love.

Don’t tell me how to pronounce TLA.

https://www.surfertoday.com/skateboarding/the-story-of-jim-phillips-screaming-hand

Sounds like people just moved in instead of buying a real house.

It’s a sick variation of the screaming hand.

What would happen if you were placed in a cubicle and money appeared when you pressed the 5 button combination?

I know I would attempt other combinations. Even if I was told the right combination from the beginning.

The money keeps coming every time, and the payment is clearly an acceptable cost, so there are obviously a lot more money available.

It’s not that I’m greedy. I’m just not happy being fed only a trickle of the potential.

Robot vacuum designers are limited to using only the “o” vowel. That’s just the way it is.