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Air travel is heavily subsidised, especially through very very very favourable tax rates on aviation fuel

TBF other country’s politicians* don’t tend to go around pushing the interests of the car industry quite so much

*except America, obvs

This is a good point, but the issue is that vendors have abused this need by not just pushing security updates, but also regular rewrites that make the products more invasive/full of language model shit - Exhibit A being anything at all from Microsoft

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The same way a layperson knows how to get any medical intervention: taking the advice of a reputable qualified professional

For context, UK domestic energy suppliers don’t actually do any generation or distribution - they just retail electricity produced and distributed by others. So they can buy wholesale energy and attempt to compete on price, customer service, or other innovative products (eg Octopus’s dynamic pricing).

Normally I’d expect Tesla to do an Uber-style approach of subsiding the prices for the first couple of years to try to capture market share, as well as the more obvious vertical integration with their cars. But in this market, switching suppliers is too easy to make that worthwhile

Yep. I’m using a used ThinkPad X1 Carbon. 8 years old and running Linux like a dream

Hi-viz, you say?

I was questioning the use of the word “prolly”

“Prolly”