These security measures don’t actually deter the theft itself. The opportunity cost is simply too big, even if only one in 5 people are intimidated enough by the threats to unlock their phone, that still makes it worthwhile to steal iPhones.

It cannot be understated how important electric scooters will be for developing markets in Asia and Africa in the coming years. Replacing the noisy and highly polluting 2 stroke engines in those vehicles will do way more for the environment and quality of life than any $50k electric SUV will ever do.

We’re seeing the same cycle repeat itself, the same is happening today with Chinese cars what happened with Japanese and Korean cars decades ago. Western makers with their gas guzzler land yachts resting on their laurels losing the battle against more efficient and better built Asian products, sending them into a panic where the only recourse they have is to beg the government to issue protectionist policies to prevent them from being swept away. It would make sense if the Western cars were still made locally, but in the globalised and heavily automated economy of today I don’t see governments finding it too worthwhile to kneecap their own energy transition just to protect a couple thousand jobs that can be retrained into other industries anyway.

I worked in China but left right after the initial pandemic lockdown in June 2020, back then I barely saw any electric cars on the streets (lived in a big second tier city, not 100% sure on cities like Beijing and Shanghai). Mostly buses and taxis were electric, and only partially.

Now I go on Youtube and look at footage of China’s streets and it’s completely changed.

This is good for vanlifers who can’t fit a TV inside their vans, parents of small kids who don’t own iPads, and… that’s it? 🤔

Can you even use this as a standalone second controller for the PS5?

Apple has horrible (i.e. nonexistent) support for non integer scaling, and the way they “solved” antialiasing for OLED panels is by not supporting subpixel rendering at all, macOS still uses grayscale antialiasing, which means it doesn’t take into account the subpixel positions of the panels and instead just antialiases based on brightness levels.

You can force Windows to use greyscale rendering on all text by using MacType.