Other people actually reported that coast guard not only responded with "we don't know anything yet", but also with "nobody of us would have told you a cause and we don't know who did"
I've not seen any proof apart from wild speculation by owner/journalists yet.
And yes, the owner too pointed at electric cars - but neither people on board nor anybody near the ship was telling about that. So I'd guess that's just repeating headlines too.
My point was: don't claim "maybe it was electric cars"! because people don't understand "maybe"
"Of the 3000 cars onboard, 25 are electric and one of those has apparently set light to the whole cargo"
BULLSHIT!
Nobody said so.
But "journalists" nowadays are full of shit and all reporting "currently there's no proof that some electric car started the fire" (always with #electriccars) - what everyone reads as "yeah, sure the electric car was it!"
meanwhile electric cars are actually LESS likely to start a fire and still nobody in the know has actually claimed electric cars had ANYTHING to do with it.
A company that has a long history of products literally catching fire/melting is not a company any reasonable person would call okayish.
do they though?
I mean all big companies have such cases - a bit more if they are cheap (and yes, asus mostly does cheap) - but mostly it's "more products sold equals more fire".
Just look at the tons of samsung fires! They even got some of their smartphones completely banned on flights. (btw: I'm not a fan of either)
well, I did buy a couple Asus products back in the days - all were in the "okayish" department (broad strokes okay, but some horrible descisions in the details)
that's better than what you get from most cheap hardware vendors
you shouldn't compare their consumer notebooks to the more expensive lines of business vendors (although those are now crap too)
it's much easier to take just about any girly voice and call hundreds of people instead of taking the time to make a single convincing call. Someone will "recognize" that voice.
you have a problem with "taking videos" (you'll notice if it does that in the background - your phone will get quite hot) but not with "recording audio" and pretty much any location data available?
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone though. People who know how to handle the issues (i.e. how to replace the stock OS - it sucks, but /e/OS is okay) don't need my recommendation.
For most people it's just a pretty expensive mid-range-specced phone.
to me that just makes no sense - I mean there's probably some kind of math-evaluation that said so, but... uh...
slower compared to what? It's not like you can take a stopwatch and look how long a second feels.
Time "now" isn't fixed either - move closer to a black hole or just move faster and your time becomes slower - COMPARED TO THE REMAINING UNIVERSE.
But you'll only notice when you return and compare clocks. Back then, when everything was faster, there wasn't something to compare to? So nothing was faster?
Other people actually reported that coast guard not only responded with "we don't know anything yet", but also with "nobody of us would have told you a cause and we don't know who did"
I've not seen any proof apart from wild speculation by owner/journalists yet.
And yes, the owner too pointed at electric cars - but neither people on board nor anybody near the ship was telling about that. So I'd guess that's just repeating headlines too.
My point was: don't claim "maybe it was electric cars"! because people don't understand "maybe"