Also, run an OS that doesn't allow every running process to read your GPS location. And allows you to turn off your cell modem.

Perhaps it has to do with sales numbers? The Model S and Model X were not selling well.

Pretty sure the Mercedes S-Class is also not selling a ton of units.

268K of 5 top end Mercedes models were sold in 2025 (and like 1/3 of them were sold in Maybach or AMG version!). Where is Tesla S and X combined sales were only 32K in 2024 and 18K in 2025.

You wouldn't mistake Mercedes S-Class for E-class and E-class for C-class. Even BMW 7 vs. 5 vs. 3 look more distinct than Tesla S vs. 3 and X vs. Y. The Mercedes and BMW do the good job of market differentiation while in my view Tesla failed here, and thus cheaper 3 and Y cannibalized sales of S and X. Thus, paradoxically, given that Tesla started in luxury segment, Tesla hasn't recently been capturing that high margin of the luxury segment (which is doing very well overall - just look at those Maybach and AMG numbers)

Also an insurance company that A.M. Best rates B+. Which is fine, but when buying insurance I want to make sure that my company can weather major catastrophes.

Presumably, yes, if they're playing it on a different OS.

I just dont understand how anyone can go "yeah okay lets install these guys rootkit complete with keylogger and who knows what, totally legit!", and for what? to play a game

I wonder if a lot of Windows users are also BMW drivers. If they're willing to shrug off $250 a year to be able to copy files efficiently on their computers, they are likely also to applaud the wonders of $50 a month for heated seats.

> BMW drivers

£50 for a heated seat, perhaps, but you also get by far one of the best turbocharged inline-6 engines ever put in a 4-door saloon, the S58. Analogous to Windows NT, a well-engineered kernel.

$250 (currently $200) is a single perpetual license. Annually it's $40/yr.

It's easy to lose a few minutes each day to Explorer shenanigans. For people making real money that adds up fast.

No, encryption keys should never be uploaded to someone else's computer unencrypted. The OOBE should give users a choice between no FDE or FDE with a warning that they should not forget their password or FDE and Microsoft has their key and will be able to recover their disk and would be compelled to share the key with law enforcement. By giving the user the three options with consequences you empower the user to address their threat model how they see fit. There is no good default choice here. The trade offs are too varied.

Always on FDE with online backups is a perfectly reasonable default. The OOBE does offer the users the choice to not back up their key online, even if it's displayed less prominently.

>By giving the user the three options with consequences you empower the user to address their threat model how they see fit.

Making it too easy for uneducated users to make poor choices is terrible software design.

I have never received a Crypto spam email from any place where I opted out from it. Same for cloud. It feels different. With crypto it was everyone wanting to ride the hype train. With AI they spent a bunch of money up front and are desperate to see ROI.

Then the anonimization is a key component of their goodness. When I compare searches between Bing and DDG I find the DDG ones superior every time.

It might depend on where you live. Nine times out of then when a vehicle with an obnoxiously loud and high revved gear vehicle drives by it's a truck. Probably more like 95% of the time.

Around here, it's usually beater Accords or other random generic sedans. With fake LEds, slammed to the ground, and lots of dents.

Your doctor is bound by HIPAA, you could consider doing something about it. OpenAI may not be bound by HIPAA so your available recourse is lesser.

My doctor is in the EU, and none of them care, it's been documented heavily in the past months.