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The cheapest Minis are made by GWM in China, and are using different motors and batteries. However, comparing prices between cars nowadays is a complicated matter. BMW's iX1 and iX…

BMW also makes rare-earths-free motors for their EVs and - at this very moment - theirs are far more advanced. They offer almost twice the power (up to 300kW vs 160kW) and are on a…

Working in the music industry and not being aware who Rick Rubin is… is a bit weird.

It’s not about goodwill. Selling parts is simply a good business. The margins at authorized dealers are crazy.

I guess it depends on who you’d ask. BMW made a switch from prismatic cells to cylindrical design only recently, and it looks like the biggest gain was in costs and weight efficien…

Europe doesn’t need new entrants. They got legacy automakers that are no worse at making EVs than Chinese and American startups. The problem is: they can’t make them cheap enough t…

There is also Mercedes eActros line and MAN eTGX. There are already thousands of them in Europe. Funny how that just happened, without fanfares and trillion dollar evaluations. Spe…

You can absolutely be a hobbyist photographer for a fraction of $3k. A hobbyist lens collector is a different story.

I tried this approach years ago. Now I consider it an anti-pattern. You really don’t want the look of your website/document to be dependent on its structure. Things like li:has( > …

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Well, nowadays, you can implement a lot of logic for forms using HTML and pure CSS, without JS at all. Example: form:has(.conditional-checkbox:not(:checked)) .optional-part-of-form…

How about mobile monitors? Like Uperfect?

In that case people (some of them at least) would switch to a different browser. Reducing Chrome market share would be healthy for the web too.

It was cool to smoke when all the cool guys in the movies were smoking. One of the reasons it’s not cool anymore is that the cool guys in the movies don’t smoke nowadays (although …

I once shouted into the phone while on a call with a helpline person. They screwed me over with an invoice that looked like a contract extension (domain, hosting), but turned out w…

Strange. As a father of two I prefer hotels over AirBnB. Laundry could be an issue, yes, but not having a kitchen is actually a feature for me. Someone else taking care of feeding …

And Porsche has its Active Ride[1] tech, already implemented in Panamera and Taycan. Yet, for some reason they, supposedly, want to use the so-called Bose tech too. [1] https://you…

Well, the iPhones were in fact faster. Faster at playing the animations, at least. I worked on an app in the iPhone 4S and Galaxy S II era and we wanted to use the same trick on bo…

Certainly not only TikTok, but - IMHO - the most damaging part of every other social media _is_ the one based on it: Reels, Shorts, etc. The endless swiping for the next dose of do…

Trump can make that illegal in no time. „No foreign funds” is a well known method of fighting opposition, tried and tested in many soft regimes (looking for a recent example, Hunga…

I remember the communism. Boy, you have no idea. And, frankly, your comparisons between EU clampdown on disinformation and hate speech (however effective or justified it is) to com…

Uhm, that Polish plane wasn’t shot down. Don’t spread silly conspiracy theories. Polish military spendings were rising steadily since long before the accident, but a significant in…

They shoot down their own redundant satellites, and it was in 2007 in 2010.