Readit NewsThe UX in some car brands is so horrible I really struggle to unterstand how anyone would ever build/buy those atrocities.
Do plugin hybrids or EVs solve all current transportation problems for all transport distances? No. Is there a issue with subsidizing luxury vehicles? Yes. But I wanted to correct your incorrect statement about plugin hybrids.
[1] https://www.adac.de/_mmm/pdf/statistik_mobilitaet_in_deutsch...
This is backwards, plugin hybrids rarely use their gas engines. BMW 330e 2020 has a 20 mile electric only range (about the same as Prius Prime). Average German car trip distance is 11 miles [0] Even if the trip is longer than 20 miles, it will only use the gas after the electric runs out.
[0] Large PDF, average car trip distance on page 50 https://setis.ec.europa.eu/system/files/Driving_and_parking_...
edit: Anecdotal: My father-in-law is a typical German field staff. Average daily driving distance is ~60 miles. And he certainly would not charge the car at home over night, from his private electricity bill. I doubt many people would.
Why not subsidize public transport instead? Why has the German government been unable to make (useful) climate protection laws in the past years, but these odd subsidies are no problem?
Yes, the SD card sucks massive balls, PSU issues are less of a problem now that most people have decent fastcharge USB lying about now.
The support that the PI is worth _every_ tradeoff. It is not a server, You can use it as one, but you have to spend some money, and do some work.
Yes, I'd love a pi with emmc and proper ethernet. But, I don't want to have to support it myself. Virtually all the other pi clones require significant engineering time from me, _or_ are in a black hole of support, stuck on a hacked version of ubuntu 14/16.
For a real datastore, you need a proper atx board with more than one sata port. That means paying > £200(PSU, case, ram, motherboard). I have one of these, and I don't use it for anything other than storing data(no I don't use own/next cloud. I like my stuff reasonably secure.)
The pi is great for what it is. You're trying to make it do something its not designed to do, and its fighting back.
Why is nextcloud insecure? Could you provide more information please? (I am about to set up a server for personal use)
Schools, financial institutions, and more will pay big bucks to web gateway vendors who will help them deploy man in the middle attacks on their own machines, employ blacklists or whitelists (even on Google search terms not just at the DNS level), scan traffic for SSNs, and so on. It's not a dead market (quite the opposite, startups like Zscaler are fetching unicorn valuation).
It also encourages terrifying but legal behavior for employers like monitoring which subreddits you read or what kind of YouTube videos you watch or how much time you spend slacking off at work.
The arms race between security and exploitation isn't likely to stop, and I have no confidence that corporations with sensitive data will willingly take a privacy-granting approach when vendors promise them unmatched security by decrypting traffic.
I think the two viable approaches are educating the public that your work machine is not private or looking for lawmakers to step in (but let's be real, that option is unlikely)
During my time working for one of these web gateway vendors, I became highly sensitive to what browsing happened on my primary operating system (which had company certificates installed), and what went on my development VM (which I set up myself without corporate certificates)
However, the huge problem is that employees are completely left in the dark about this privacy invasion... only the tech-savvy ones notice and understand it.