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You’re getting downvoted, but I’m in the exact same position. Car made in 2021, no connectivity at all. I cannot start it remotely - why would you do that? Is it really more convenient than turning a key or pressing a button once seated? I guess people really do like it, I just find it hard to imagine.

Starting the climate control from a distance sounds comfortable, the first few moments of driving can be too hot or cold.

I don’t have a built-in GPS, but if there was one I don’t see a benefit of using my phone to control it.

Windows? What?

vehicle … cloud

Flying cars sure turned out differently than we imagined in sci-fi.

Next you’ll claim stink lines don’t make something stinky.

Gibson shared some of the most examples

The author doesn’t know how to spell egregious, and didn’t use AI to add it in.

It is indeed fuzzy. It depends on context and in the speaker. When speaking geographically, unless that context is very clear, many people will say “continental Europe“. Moscow and Belarus are definitely in continental Europe.

“Mainland Europe” usually means continental Europe without the UK.

“Europe has strict privacy rules.” Here, it means the European Union, but the speaker may have intended to include Switzerland and the UK. Technically it also includes overseas areas, though people usually don’t think about those.

“European houses are made from concrete.” This speaker is equating Europe to their narrow experience. Building practices, codes, and materials vary widely across Europe - whichever interpretation you use.

“European banks are highly regulated.” This is about the EEU, even if the speaker didn’t consciously think about it that way.

Is Belarus Europe? It depends on the conversation you’re having. Is Georgia? In most contexts, most people would say yes, although it’s not currently in the EU. Azerbaijan I’m not sure, I think most people would say no in most contexts. And of course the UK is a special case, with people even jokingly removing it from continental Europe.

McAfee has always been more of an advertising application than antivirus. A free version would constantly try to scare you into buying it. A paid version always reminds you that you could be paying more to clean your PC, including showing perfectly normal settings as “potentially unwanted“. Even if you pay for all the bells and whistles, you’ll need to click away constant reminders of how good a job it is doing at protecting you.

But, to be fair, the other big names do exactly the same.

The Windows 95 up to XP shells had unparalleled keyboard navigation and customisation built in.

So I guess penal labour is not forced labour? Let me check the definition.

penal labour is forced labour …

Oh.

Well it’s not like the US has a higher percentage of people in a penal labour system than any other western nation.

Oh.

Well at least they’re only using penal labour in the common good, and not in for-profit companies, right?

Uh-oh.

Wait wait wait, what happened to the woman at 4:11? Did she survive? Did President Cleveland swoop in to save her? We need to know!