Do most gas stations in Germany happen to have huge parking lots to install chargers? EVs don't complete their charge in 5 mins like gas cars. They need the space for cars to stop for at least 30 mins.
Yeah, fair. What I thought was that critical thinking is a skill that everyone should have, which makes it a life skill rather than a hobby where everyone has a different one and its fine not to have.
Though something like learning multiple languages or even just a second language is another example where it could be classified as both hobby and crucial life skill in my books.
Not everything has to have immediate effect to be good in the long run.
You can argue all day about Tesla and it's controversies, but Tesla basically spearheaded the movement of EVs. They showed the rest of the world how to build proper EVs and charging infrastructure when the traditional car makers were still refusing to move forward. And now western car makers are basically sitting ducks when Chinese EV makers are on the rise to take over the market. Stuff does not have to be perfect right now because tech can improve, and the know-how people built up now can still be used in generations after.
SpaceX also did not "just launch some spacecraft". They also spearheaded the way for reusable rockets, something that satellites rely on. You cannot deny that their Starlink system helped immensely in places without access to good internet, not only in warzones, but also in rural places where updating internet infrastructure is deemed a waste of money to corpos.
You forgot "extremely niche" in that sentence.
Throughout the video he has been emphasizing that this feature is only probably going to appeal to only a handful of people who wants it. He also mentions that the crypto value the phone carries has been tanking for a while, and tells the majority of people to buy other 600 dollar phones rather than this.
Can't speak for other people, but I myself have multiple IEMs, and would use it on my phone and PC. The dongle would not be fixed at all times in my example.
Don't mind the downvotes. Fair trade and eco-friendliness are both important, but sometimes you can't get both. Gray area exists, and I don't judge anyone who places one before another. Provided they understand both of course.
Kind of a shit article that points to another article I'd rather it be linked in this post instead.
The article's use of the term "AI" to me is kind of a blanket term for machine learning/deep learning. While I'm pretty skeptical (and so should you be) of it's recent use in generative content, advertisements, and theme parks, as a person who takes a mild interest in 3D animation and deep learning, I want to be the devil's advocate here and just point out some amazing and legitimate uses of deep learning like motion capture and 3D object creation that could be applied to their workflow. Disney actually publishes some interesting papers like face re-aging quite frequently on their research studio website. I just hope that people don't hear the term "AI" or "deep learning" and immediately think of generative AI and its controversies and write them all off as evil.
Wow that sucks.
I'm assuming that you've gone through all the troubleshooting steps already, so I won't bother you with that.
Edit: sending it back to repair is probably hard too, since Sony's market share is so low compared to Apple/Samsung, I imagine it would be harder to find a place that fixes them.
It would seem so, but it's also arguable that by removing the port, you are forcing customers to buy wireless headphones that are much more harmful to the environment, something that goes against their motto of eco-friendliness.
I'm guessing you never lived through the iPod/MP3 player era? You do not need a professional audio device to enjoy music. Most people would happily live by with a crappy $20 earbud.
You have to remember that not that long ago, every phone used to have a headphone jack built in. It wasn't until Apple created the problem of removing the headphone jack, and created the solution in the Airpods (which generated massive amounts of profit), that other manufacturers followed suit. It never was organic.
IMO, once phone manufacturers decide to remove headphone jacks from their devices, the discussion of wired vs wireless is inevitable since you are forcing customers to make a choice/sacrifice. Headphones very much still use 3.5mm jacks, especially in high end headphones where there are also other types of plugs for balanced audio. Wireless tech is not going to replace it anytime soon, and headphones that end with a USB port are few and far between. Although there are solutions out there like dongles and Hi-Fi Bluetooth receivers, to some they are still an extra thing to manage, while with a built in headphone jack all of the hassle would be gone.
I know phone calls are always mono. The reason I mentioned laptop use is because I could also play other stuff in the background along with the phone call, and forcing the headphones into Bluetooth phone call mode makes the overall audio quality crappy. That's why I use laptop integrated mics to keep the headphones in stereo mode.
One thing people don't/forget to mention, is that the microphones in even earpods tier wired earphones will sound infinitely better than most mics in Bluetooth headphones, even in the multiple hundred dollar tier range.
Also, you won't be forced to go into crappy mono sound mode when on call using Bluetooth headphones. When I use BT headphones with my laptop, I almost always use the integrated mic on the laptop instead of the built in ones in the headphone due to this.
Do most gas stations in Germany happen to have huge parking lots to install chargers? EVs don't complete their charge in 5 mins like gas cars. They need the space for cars to stop for at least 30 mins.