Timing first, friction later: Whatsapp was first, it extended like wildfire in Latin America before the 2014 buy in by Meta. I attribute it to the ease of configuration: you didn’t need an email, it was just your phone number, and then all your contacts were reachable. It didn’t lose traction even when it changed from free app to “free for a year”. Friction came later, Telegram gained some ground but it was very niche, my friends that were in CS were using it “for the bots and the stickers” but you needed to invite your contacts to use it and it didn’t make sense if they already had Whatsapp. Later, more and more businesses started using Whatsapp to chat with customers and eventually it became the default.

a good Stargate is a buried Stargate, or at least with a closed iris.

just, don’t ask him how many horses he owns

The algorithm felt it wasn’t hitting the right taste clusters

yeah, and make them binary gendered, last time we had a ternary gendered alien, we were sad.

I’d qualify your issue with the away mission as a bug, is there a way to report those for the benefit of everyone?

Action Saru!

dios mío!

Hi Karim! really loving SFA, and Jay-Den is definitely an awesome character, the Trek world needs more Klingon scientists!!

Jay-Den’s voice is really great 🔥 fit for a warrior.

What’s your favorite Klingon phrase?!

this legitimates the fediverse too much! I’m in shock and awe.

prime minister Nayrok?!

6 days later I’m caught up! loving the show, thanks!!

shit, should I be watching Academy!?

I think you’re overestimating how much services care about retro-compatibility of clients. Try opening a YouTube video in the iPhone 6 app, you can’t, and not because the video is now incompatible, it’s because the old app has not been updated, and YouTube changed their API, so even if the software doesn’t change, services are not being provided to it. Same will happen to the Tesla app, Navigation, Netflix, everything that relies in external services to work. Sure, the car features will probably still work, but in the case of navigation, for example, even if it uses an offline database of maps and it calculates routes directly on the car’s hardware, new versions of the maps will not be available, or, routes might not be able to be calculated.

I wonder if in the future, installing your own software in the car will become illegal: given that car software can even control transmission, a car manufacturer could argue that it could compromise safety of the vehicle and pedestrians, an unsafe car framework could mean that someone can potentially program the car to accelerate when frontal sensors detect someone, to be a bit extreme, but don’t tell me its impossible.

they’ve shown her throughout the season rebuilding a motorcycle

I feel like the “what is a star date?” line was to retcon the issue that Kirk will just throw random numbers for every date in his log in the following years

this episode was the most lower decks episode in the show, and I don’t say it as a compliment.

a lot of hate for the movie in this thread, hate the suits that develop projects based on the success of others instead of going for what has made their brand successful over the years. if they wanted new audiences they could have tried with something original, but the numbers said otherwise.