> 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...

Or maybe Windows just works better for their use-case? Did you consider that?

> You're clinging to privacy as though it were security, in stark avoidance of Kerckhoffs's principle.

TIL that IPv6 is a cryptosystem

You can use Shannon's maxim instead if you're going to be deliberately obtuse. The point is true for any system intended to be secure, and a network is such a system, as is the security software such as the claimed NAT software.

Or do you really want to argue that Linux Netfilter/nftables or BSD pf being open source is a security problem?

Well, seeing is how that happened before the tariffs, yeah, I'd have to agree with GP.

And in fact, it's possible the latter is a direct and explicitly desired outcome of the former

A completely ridiculous and nonsensical proposal I can only assume was said in jest.

Hey, if your entire business plan is to produce actual garbage, maybe you should be held responsible for making sure that garbage has a pathway to proper disposal.

The company, sure, but selecting a fall guy to deal with arbitrary expenses will not help get anything done for the environment.

Yes, a jest. But essentially you have to directly impact the take home pay off CEOs as that appears to be the only thing they will change their behaviour for.

It sounds like a description of most of a deposit system to me, and deposit systems are good at encouraging recycling.

See "core charges" for many automotive parts to incentivize the return of waste for refurbishing at the higher end and bottle deposits for cans/bottles at the lower end. It's weird how things so common in one part of our society can seem so foreign in others.

Is he in the minority though? Remind me again who won the popular vote two years ago.

Turns out many people aren't big on racial discrimination "but hip and cool B-) this time". When the core principle of an organization is at conflict with the concept of hiring any ethnicity with no specific preference, you have a racist organization.

> It took a long time to actually get to diversity that was beyond token "person of group" inclusivity.

Are we really beyond that now?

Many of the initiatives I've experienced are the same thing today, which is why I'm not a big fan.