Why Lemmy world specifically? I'd just go for Lemmy in general and then it's a shorter message and doesn't lead to Lemmy world becoming even more bloated/slow.
I also have the OP7P! Easily the best phone I've ever owned, but the pop-up camera broke for me last year. I'm thinking my next phone might be the Nothing Phone 2, but it does hurt getting a phone that's 4+ years newer and STILL has some downgrades (Screen PPI, hole punch, and no telephoto camera).
First result searching for "Tesla reliability". They're ranked 27th out of 28 automakers by Consumer Reports with an average of 171 mechanical issues per 100 vehicles, many of these issues being impossible to repair without going through Tesla themselves (though this is becoming more common amongst automakers, it's still bad lol).
I'm glad your wife's Tesla has been reliable though. Electric cars by design have the opportunity to be far more reliable due to fewer moving parts and regenerative braking, but unfortunately Tesla are not really living up to that potential.
Engineer here. I wouldn't buy a Tesla. They're safe cars (outside of the self driving tech) but their reliability is awful. I'm not in the market for a new car right now but I expect by the time I am, Tesla will likely no longer be the dominant player in the EV market. I appreciate the engineering that went into making them so safe and performant, but every aspect of them that Elon touches is awful, and they've arguably already squandered their headstart in the electric car space.
I think Elon is trying to say they're stealing IP because lots of the Twitter employees he fired went to work on Threads. This is probably where the fediverse stuff comes in clutch, as they're just implementing ActivityPub, so it's not like it's industry secrets or anything.
I did an internship a few years back and they paired me with another intern to make a fairly simple python script. We were both so bad with git we ended up just sharing screen the whole time and writing the same code twice (once on each of our machines). It was not very efficient.
i tried to get access to facebook's api to mess around (as a student) but they declined my request. i ended up making a bot that ran in a headless browser wasting far more of facebooks resources and i used it to create shitposts that updated the post with the number of reactions lmao.
The stuff about recording your camera/tracking eyes/recording mic are all bullshit (ish). That stuff is all possible, and does happen, but not from popular apps. You don't really need to worry about that unless you're going to really dodgy websites (and giving them access to your camera/mic), OR if you're a high profile figure who may be targeted by far more sophisticated attacks. These privacy invasions are uncommon in popular websites and apps because it's very easy for users to discover that kind of data/processing usage, and the blow to their reputation is far more expensive than the profits they'd get from recording you (not even sure what the commercial incentive would be for that). There are thousands of nerds like me in the cyber security industry who monitor websites network activity for this kind of shady shit, so they wouldn't get away with it.
Location is a far cheaper (and less conspicuous, data-usage-wise) process, so far more apps will be recording that. Google, Facebook, Apple, and likely dozens more companies know exactly where you've been throughout the day, whether by GPS or by wifi (maps of the locations of different wifi networks exist).
As for targeted advertising - any app or website that has a share button for Facebook or other apps is most likely sharing your usage habits with those apps. This is a symbiotic relationship for the apps/websites, because letting Facebook know you've been searching their site for X means Facebook will start showing you ads for X, and you might go and purchase from them after seeing that ad. Many believe their phones are listening to them because their targeted advertising is so specific, but the reality is they don't need to listen to you. They get far better info from your searches and browsing history.
Sorry no sources at the moment because I'm at the gym, but I guess my source is that I graduated with a bachelor's in cyber security in February lol.
They are more likely to roll than normal cars (SUVs excluded), and when they roll they're generally more likely to crush the roof due to their weight. So yeah, while they're better off than the car they hit, they're still not amazing safety wise.
Weird behaviour. Decentralisation shouldn't mean tribalism.