but in the EV market that’s slim pickings right now

In the USA, sure. In other countries, there’s plenty of EVs in the US$15-30k range. Kinda sad that the US doesn’t get the cheap Chinese EVs because they’re quite good. I’ve driven some MG and BYD EVs in Australia and I would have bought one if they were available in the USA.

Technically for a lease to get ahead of sellers value, you need it to be really really cheap, otherwise you’re still not getting enough vs. a sell (or trade in, even!).

That’s true, however that’s the case for a lot of EVs in the USA at the moment, since many manufacturers currently have rebates that you can only get when leasing.

In the US, I’m paying around $32k total for a three year, 12k mile per year lease of a BMW iX with around $101k MSRP. It definitely would have cost more to buy it then sell after three years, especially since the Neue Klasse BMWs will be available by then (which may result in higher deprecation of the older models).

BMW have a $9,900 lease credit which reduces the cost quite a bit compared to buying.

This is why it’s a good idea to lease rather than buy EVs and luxury cars, at least in countries where leasing is available and for brands that lease well.

The lease has fixed monthly payments, and a fixed residual value. If the car goes down in value more than expected, you can just return the car at the end of the lease - you’re not on the hook for that extra depreciation.

Buying a car is good if you’ll keep it for a long time (say at least 7 or 8 years). EV technology is changing so quickly though, so I’m not sure I’d want to keep an EV for that long.

Although I’d also think that’s the only modern IDE focused on PHP, isn’t it?

I think Zend Studio is still around. You can get a pretty good IDE-like experience in VS Code too (not anywhere near as good as a Jetbrains IDE though).

But yeah, PHPStorm is by far the best.

Are they doing their own development or are they still mostly reliant on Mozilla? The thing with all these forks is that I doubt they’d be able to continue development if Mozilla were to disappear, since they still rely heavily on Mozilla.

I’m still sad they got rid of MSN Messenger in favour of Skype. MSN had superior video and audio quality.

I had so many international friends on MSN Messenger that I have no idea how to contact any more.

Google Voice is good. I use it to call from the USA to Australia which is only $0.01/minute and doesn’t have any monthly fees. You can see the rates here: https://voice.google.com/rates

I’ve got an Android phone and you can configure Google Voice so that it’s automatically used whenever you make an international call from your phone’s regular dialer.

I started using it around 2006, and even back then it listed the pronunciation on the site.

Some people pronounce it like “fack”, and the official way to pronounce GameFAQs is “game facks”

Am I missing something? I’ve always pronounced it “imager”. How else would you pronounce it?

Building a browser from scratch is going to cost well over a million dollars in development costs. I don’t think they’d be able to achieve it without sponsors.

Most consumer sites are optimized for chrome and even safari, firefox & Edge (Obviously) face issues with scripts and plug-ins.

This is why it’s dangerous that Chrome has such a large amount of market share. Instead of using standard features, sites are using Chrome-specific features and even relying on Chrome bugs that don’t exist in other browsers. It’s exactly the same reason Internet Explorer was bad.

Does anyone even make a 25k truck at this point?

Definitely doable outside the USA. For example, the Toyota HiLux is pretty popular in Australia and other countries, and starts at AU$27k (US$16.7k) drive away (including all fees and taxes).

A lot of other countries have cheap cars that can’t be purchased in the USA, usually due to high tariffs. The most popular EV brand (BYD) isn’t available in the USA, but in Australia you can get a pretty decent entry-level EV (BYD Dolphin), better quality than a Tesla Model 3, for around US$18k.

Depends on how much you download. You can pay a once-off payment for a block of data and it lasts indefinitely. I’ve got a 5TB block I’ve had for over 10 years. I think it was maybe $25 when I got it?

Edit: If you need more data, there’s plans with unlimited data for a few dollars per month.

The web platform is huge… It’s going to take a long time to reach parity with other browsers.

They recently started developing it again, after being silent for a long time. They released Amarok 3.0 in April 2024 which migrated it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.

What’s the advantage over regular Firefox?

So is this really just a local AI model? Or is it something bigger? My S25 Ultra has the app but it hasn’t used any battery or data.

I see it on my S25 Ultra.

What’s crazy to me is that some of the big internet companies in the USA are rolling out symmetric 2Gbps over cable using DOCSIS 4.0, by upgrading their equipment. In theory that should be possible over the Optus and Telstra HFC networks in Australia too, yet I haven’t heard of any attempts to do this.