That would apply to any and all social media though

Sounds awesome, when do we start?

But that'd be difficult, and the EU is all about easy PR wins

OS will be cheaper. No monopoly rendite + development across more shoulders.

Not direct numbers. But you can see r/BuyFromEU has 795K Weekly visitors. That is A LOT. In comparison, r/OpenAI has 676K Weekly visitors and r/webdev has 691K Weekly visitors.

Defeating the point of deduplication...

You don't have backups if you only have one "backup". Look up sysadmin's 3-2-1.

On a single drive, deduplicate all you want. But you need to have two drives, at least, anyway.

You can also sponsor the development of Neovim. The money goes to funding developers.

https://neovim.io/sponsors/

Tell me you haven't actually paid attention to Neovim without telling me.

When you launch a plain nvim instance you get the following:

> Help poor children in Uganda!

> type :help Kuwasha<Enter> for information

It already doesn't make sense to own a car for me. It's cheaper to just call an Uber.

I'm guessing that's a fairly city viewpoint. My car is setup with roofrack and carries a lot of other gear I want. I'm regularly in places without reliable cell etc. Visiting friends can easily be an hour drive.

Yes, a city viewport. I usually just walk, but when I don't I most often take the subway, not even Uber. Though I feel like in Toronto the subway or some part thereof is closed or under maintenance or whatever way too often. It's not very reliable.

Depends how often.

Multiple Ubers per day are expensive. ($55 x 365 = $20,000)

All in, a budget car costs less than half of that per year.

But if you replace some of that with public transportation, or a car is otherwise impractical, the math changes.

For some this is the case. For others, this is not the case.

some -> most ?

In west/east coast cities maybe.

Talk to anyone from the midwest about not owning a car and they'll laugh you out of the room.

Well, unless it's because youre proposing they switch to ATV's and Snowmobiles, in which case there some people can technically get by without a traditional automobile.

It’s also in their best interest to set the price so as to maximize their own profits. If switching costs or monopoly power allow them to set a higher price, they will do so.

Have we learned nothing from a decade of subscription services?

Nobody said we should allow monopolies?

Especially Adam Smith. The claims are scattered throughout The Wealth of Nations, but he hated them with specificity. He said they raise prices and lower quality, misallocate capital, and corrupt politics, among other things.

> Backup cameras are an enormous safety improvement.

Sure, however....

> Plus touchscreens are much cheaper than buttons and knobs.

And how much LESS safe is using a touchscreen while operating a motor vehicle? Its literally no different from using an iPad.

There are large implementation differences in touch screens. My wife's care needs several second: turn the radio on, wait for the splash screen, press the drives heat control, wait for it to appear (100s of ms - long enough to notice) then find the button in the miedle of the screen - finally I can change the heated seats. My car that button is always has the button at the bottom of the screen in the same place so is is ms to look and see.

You still lose the tactile feedback of the button though. It's much harder to hit it while not looking versus a physical knob.

There's a reason Euro NCAP requires physical climate controls for ca models to get a five star safety rating starting in 2026.

Typically, yes. Although I chalk much of that up to traditional ICE companies being extremely slow to adopt new technology and implementating it poorly or only superficially.

Yeah, the real question is what comes after the install...