Did he use that filter purely for anonymity? He looks better without it.

The lower the mass sits, the better the truck handles.
If you have something heavy (like a battery pack) which you need to include in the design somewhere, putting it as low to the ground as safely possible is the right choice. So that’s not a stupid decision at all. It’s what literally all EV makers do because it’s objectively the right way to place the battery pack.

Watching that clip, I don’t see the typical signs of a battery fire. So I guess, wade mode did in fact keep the battery dry. Wading through a stream reaching to the top of the wheels would probably work fine. But if you stay in the water, it eventually gets through to some electronics and power is cut off by the overcurrent protection. So just don’t do that.

Obviously, wading ain’t swimming. The mode is probably useful in some edge cases. Driving straight into a lake just isn’t one of them.

Optical audio is somewhat an abandoned standard. The copper port is as good. And professionals use external devices connected to USB and synced in their digital audio workstation software now.
USB-C gets somewhat more frequent now. But USB-A is the mechanically superior standard for sort-of fixed installation (like on the back of a PC). And if you have a USB-C device, chances are, you also have an adapter already.
Thunderbolt is pretty niche. It’s more a mac thing. It’s nice to have - but 99.9% of the users don’t have any matching devices and routing those PCIe lanes to a PCIe slot is better.
It is somewhat a hot take - I know. But if you really use the 2.5 G Ethernet, you probably want 10 G anyway. So just go for a board with that or add it via PCIe card.

For stereo, TOSLINK is fine. But so is the copper port right next to it. I removed it because it’s basically unused fluff for more than 99.9% of all users. I used that port (on a dedicated sound card) once to connect a DTS 5.1 active speaker system (marketed at gamers like me) back in the 00s. It doesn’t really have enough bandwidth for 5.1. But I’m no audiophile, so it was fine. Thing is: Just plugging in the copper cables works as well and provides the full bandwidth.\

And motherboard-integrated DACs are pretty good now. Even audiophiles can’t hear the improvement in stereo in blind tests (they probably can hear copper sounding better in 5.1 though).
It’s basically the Betamax of audio connection standards. Technically better, but market adoption is negligible.

If you actually need a car, this one is the most important cost saving measure:

• Drive a reasonably sized car which isn’t optimized to exploit laws made for trucks.

It’s Microslop. The people who had any resemblance of work ethics left a long time ago. No one still working there gives any shits about QA - especially not the management.

Actually:

The on-board video ports are for emergencies when your actual GPU isn’t working. One of each type is plenty.
That 2.5 Gb Ethernet isn’t giving me any actual benefits in practice as no other component in the network supports it anyway. If you need more speed, go all the way to 10 Gb.
No one really has toslink equipment anymore and the optical standard on that connector is shit anyway. You literally get better audio from the analog ports.
Get rid of the fancy special USB ports as well as the legacy low-speed ports. Just give only the normal super-speed ports which always work well without odd hardware quirks or driver issues. And 4 are actually plenty. I connect at least one hub anyway.
Also don’t waste precious PCIe lanes for useless bling like six SATA ports, multiple NICs, or Wireless. Just route the unused PCIe lanes to the PCIe slots. Maybe I want to add an AI accelerator later.

Trump already won that war 20 times. So it’s probably all fine.

It’s called entry-level for a reason. Back in my days, you could start such a position without any formal education as long as you were willing to acquire the required skills and knowledge without needing a nanny. We had to go to the library or actually buy the books for knowledge. Now they can just use the internet.
The actual requirement for doing the job never changed. And it’s not knowledge.

Nah, AI isn’t that good. When you don’t properly review every single line twice, you get the most absurd bullshit you’ve ever seen.
I use Claude Code Opus daily btw.

The owner of Valve and therefore Steam.
Steam is a typical middle man business taking 30% (unsuccessful games) to 20% (extremely successful games) from the overwhelming majority of all PC game purchases.
Not selling on Steam is basically financial suicide for game devs because Steam is a quasi monopoly. Most PC gamers only buy there (rather than on a dev’s own site, GOG, Itch or anywhere else). So game devs pay the Gabe toll - just like almost all phone app devs pay the Apple and Google tolls.

Big media calling her a communist is all it needs to destroy a candidate in Murica.

Computing was never as great as it is now. Never before did we have so much free open source software at such a high level of quality to use and tinker with. Never before was it this easy to find help for the most obscure problems. Never before was playing on Linux a viable option.

But online and offline social networking really got enshittified a lot. 3rd spaces online like offline are fully commercialized. Online, everything is remembered and if it can be used against you, it will be used against you either by the government or some rando just because they can.
But you can use a VPN and as many pseudonyms as you need to properly separate your community-specific personas. And if you live in a city of religious fanatics, the internet also is a great to find like-minded people. There are communities for everything.

Every picture taken after the first is also an “after” picture.

You really sabotaged your post with the red.

Btw, Israel has universal healthcare.

To be fair, Iran briefly had a democracy. The elected leader immediately started to nationalize the oil industry. Obviously, The Great US Empire had to immediately regime change him.

The reason most countries opposing The Great US Empire have autocratic regimes is evolutionary pressure. The countries who tried to go with a democracy either became vassals of The Great US Empire or got regime changed into chaos or an autocratic regime by The Great US Empire.

It actually is. Just joining a conversation exclusively to say that you don’t care isn’t.

Just ask your maid where she gets her nails done.