That's the bare minimum under the new EU Ecodesign Rules. Also for phones this is long, but for PCs/Notebooks this is rather short.
>With your old android, you’re either running an open source stack of some sort, which is out of the reach of most users, or operating on an ancient os that Google or your carrier (or both) has long abandoned that leaves you vulnerable to a variety of issues.
That completely misses the point that old Android Devices still get updated and recent Apps that work well, while Apple blocks their users from enjoying that. No more iOS Updates on Apple usually means no more App Installs/Updates after a short time
Wrong. DHS tells the Airlines your ESTA Status, so they won't let you board if you don't have a valid one. And if you don't have one, the Airlines will check for a Visa
"DHS communicates a traveler’s ESTA status to the carriers. However, DHS recommends that travelers print out the ESTA application response as a record of their ESTA application number to confirm their ESTA status."
They also have DHS Agents on the departure Airports, which already tell the Airlines which Passengers aren't allowed to board. If the Airlines violate against this, they face severe consequences like a ban from US Airspace
Note that they said "professes to represent" (emphasis mine). What the US professes to represent and what it actually represents for various people aren't totally unrelated, but it's a relationship that's always been pretty fraught.
and further that you're intending to use it as a burn on Trump and his government?
Regardless of what you think about them and Neo-Nazis/white supremacists, I think it's unfair because the policies of the current administration with regard to war, debt, environmentalism etc. evince a total disregard for the futures of children of any colour.
> I think it's unfair because the policies of the current administration with regard to war, debt, environmentalism etc. evince a total disregard for the futures of children of any colour.
If you want me to assess what I would be needing the next 5-10 years, I'd make a very different thread here on HN.
The defining conditions is my current setup and business requirement. It works well and we've resisted pretending that we know where we will be in 5 years.
I am reminded of the 2023 story of the surprisingly simple infra of Stack Overflow[1] and the 2025 story of that Stack overflow is almost dead[2]
Given that the setup works now, one can't add that it is only working "for now". I see no client demand in the foreseeable future leading me to think that this has been fundamentally architected incorrectly.
The ISO 27001 has me audited for just that (disaster recovery and monitoring) so that settles it, no?
Also worth noting that these are the two things you don't really get from the hyperscalers. If you want to count on more than their uptime guarantees, you have to roll some DR yourself and while you might think that this is easy, it is not easier than doing it with Terraform and Ansible on other clouds.
I have had my DR and monitoring audited in its AWS and EU version. One was no easier or harder than the other.
But the EU setup gave me a clear answer to clients on CLOUD act, Shrems II, GDPR, Safe Harbor, which is a competitive advantage.
Hetzner is also working on their own Managed RDS offering. Their own S3 Offering is also relatively new. Back then, they've also had job offerings for DB Experts
The Trade Balance between the US and Europe was very balanced if you included services. So the US wasn't getting ripped off in Trade.
The dumb actions by the current US Administrations give the EU a big incentive now to buy their services elsewhere in the future, so Trumps fever dream about the disbalance might come true thanks to his own actions
1) The "pointless text" was a reminder that the system detected you were tired, and asked you to take a break. Which is usually a good idea because it kicks in, when you're really tired and your reactions are shit.
2) It looks like you pressed the Microphone button for the voice control by accident
3) It's the AR-Navigation which shows you where you need to drive in the real-life situation. That's usually a paid extra and you need to enable it
The pointless text is a complex, visual distraction and false positive. Hypothetically, if I'm really tired and have bad reactions, pedestrians better hope I'm not reading that text at the wrong time. You seem to think it's a safety feature to ask the driver to read while driving. I just think that's interesting.
As for the AR-Navigation, I already see what's ahead of me by looking forward at the actual road.
Embedding everything into a grainy image, and using a transition effect to command attention, is unhelpful in a tense moment.
It was enabled by default. I disabled it.
Normally, I would have used Google Maps, which shows very clear and strong, clean icons to indicate lanes. This is extremely helpful! Smart and empathetic design that understands my needs when driving in an unfamiliar place.
But the Car Play was too dysfunctional to use.
As for the microphone button, I didn't see a microphone button. Maybe they should make it more visible, or find a more ergonomic way to handle an error.
I used to have a BMW that was doing that. My 'capacity/tolerance' to driving is max 10-12 hours. All I need is meat, caffeine, and SecurityNow and/or Metallica. I get it that BWM is trying to do the 'right' thing, but they should allow people to turn the darn thing off.
They do. You can deactivate all assistance either completely or selectively by pressing the button with the car symbol and the lighting circle around it. (Green if you have all activated, red if all deactivated)
> endless alarm dinging when you exceed whatever speed limit it incorrectly read from a sign
That's mandated by the EU, and also that it gets reenabled every time you start the car again.
BMW made it pretty simple to turn it off. You can just press the car with the green circle about it and disable the assist systems or you press the microphone button and say "Hey BMW, disable speed warnings"
That's the bare minimum under the new EU Ecodesign Rules. Also for phones this is long, but for PCs/Notebooks this is rather short.
>With your old android, you’re either running an open source stack of some sort, which is out of the reach of most users, or operating on an ancient os that Google or your carrier (or both) has long abandoned that leaves you vulnerable to a variety of issues.
That completely misses the point that old Android Devices still get updated and recent Apps that work well, while Apple blocks their users from enjoying that. No more iOS Updates on Apple usually means no more App Installs/Updates after a short time