If you're going to all that effort, why not just use something that's powered by OpenStreetMap like OsmAnd?
dan
joined 3 years ago
That fear of the company letting you go for anything at any time…with a union they just can’t do that
They also can't do that in countries with workers rights. This should be a standard right, not something that requires the workers to unionize.
Edit: I understand that unions make it easier to enforce.
What if I like my workplace being ionized?
or where you have to pay for updates
Some people prefer paying with money over paying with personal data.
Having said that, these days the paid solutions also collect your data ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm surprised to see that WordPress still use Trac, as I didn't realise that it's still being updated. I haven't seen it in the wild for a very long time. I used to use it for source control and bug tracking but that would have been maybe 15 years ago.
Huh, interesting. I wonder why it's so infrequently used then. Maybe people are afraid of using an AI that referred to itself as "mechahitler".
I would have thought they'd get access to xAI's models for very cheap.
Grok really isn't that good, though. So few people use it that xAI are renting out most of their AI servers to both Anthropic and Google.
And I would be interested on how they are referbing the equipment and selling for a profit
My understanding is that an e-waste recycling company is contracted to take all the old equipment. The original company can say they've recycled it, record it as such, and doesn't care what's done with the equipment after that - whether that be reselling it, recycling it, whatever. The e-waste company is the one that handles finding the useful stuff and refurbishing it.
They do an upgrade, ever server/switch/router etc ends up in the dumpster
How many customers do this?
At least here in the Bay Area, hard drives and SSDs get destroyed, but a lot of the other equipment goes to e-waste recyclers who end up refurbishing it and selling it on marketplaces like eBay.
A lot of homelabbers get their equipment from eBay, and the source of that equipment is almost always second-hand data center equipment.
Oh no! I didn't know that. I was considering getting a Polestar a few years ago, but ended up getting a BMW instead (an iX, then an i4)
They said they're just gonna withdraw and focus on the European market instead.
Makes sense. In the end, the USA only accounts for around 7.5% of EV sales globally so it doesn't make sense to overindex on US sales when it's much easier for them to sell in other countries.
There's some Chinese EVs in the USA - you can buy BYD busses, trucks and forklifts (we use BYD busses at work for transportation between buildings), and Waymo's new van-looking cars are manufactured by Zeekr.
The Polestar 4 and Volvo EX30 are also both built on a Chinese platform (Geely / Zeekr) but the US is OK with them since they're partially manufactured in South Korea and partially in the USA at Volvo's factories.
The issue is that there's huge tariffs, it's hard to get Chinese cars approved to sell in the US, plus the US is still mostlyl holding on to the legacy dealership model. The Chinese cars are so much better and cheaper than US brands, but the US has to protect the dying legacy US brands.
It's pretty common for stock to drop after IPO. This is just a bigger drop than usual.
I'm glad S&P didn't give in to SpaceX's demand to add them to the S&P 500.