I made a digital drum reader using Piezos on an Arduino with my wife some years ago, For that you need way more than 2 analogue pins.
I don’t see why newer Raspberry Pies couldn’t have something like 12 analogue pins, it would be amazing for many things, and it’s dirt cheap to make today. The ESP32 has 18 AFAIK.
In some ways ESP 32 has way better features than Raspberry Pi, but it is not nearly as user-friendly and it lacks audio. It’s also not a general purpose computer with the things that entail, but “just” an embedded system, although a very good one for sure.

I think it’s strange that they haven’t extended the 40 pin IO capabilities. For instance analogue IO would be very welcome for many purposes.

That’s not the point, the point is that their new developments do not do for the community what the original products did.

It looks to me like they have lost focus on their original purpose. Which was to provide cheap and open compute opportunity for education and tinkering.

According to his father, he didn’t use to be a racist fascist, which disappointed his father a lot.
After becoming openly both racist and fascist, his father has expressed how happy he is that Elon finally came around.

So no I don’t think he was always crazy. Selfish and entitled yes, but not crazy like he is now.

It’s still way worse for Tesla than the market in general.

Absolutely, but that is back in the Tesla S days, before Trump was elected the first time.
And Elon Musk has gone more and more insane over the years. And now USA as a country is becoming an enemy, and Tesla stands for everything bad about Trump.

USA becoming an unreliable partner became clear November 2024. And Crystal clear within months of Trump taking the presidency.

Considering Model Y was only 2.8% of sales, then with a 20% bigger drop than the market in general, it would probably have been about 25% higher, speculating that model 3 would add another 1.5% that would be (2.8+1.5) x 1.25 = 5.4% marketshare before this latest drop.
So with a total drop of about 70%, discounting Tesla it would probably be about 67-68%. It wouldn’t for instance be less than 65%.

That won’t cut it, Elon Musk still has control of the board, and he is still the biggest stock holder.

Tesla stock is not valued on being a car company, but valued on insane ideas that some of their other products will be way bigger than Tesla cars, despite those products either don’t work, or has gone almost nowhere for years.

Tesla as a company is almost certainly dead, and will most likely be broken up in a few years, and the stock be worth less than a tenth what it is now.

But in the meantime, Elon Musk continues to do huge damage to democracy with the money he has from Tesla.
If you want to own stock in a company that is actually doing what Tesla is claiming to do, I think Hyundai would be a way better bet, Hyundai owns Boston Dynamics, and their robots actually work.

I absolutely agree they shouldn’t be. There are way to many safety issues with Tesla, and they shouldn’t be legal to sell in their current configuration.

Admittedly EV sales dropped 70% because of changes to the tax benefits.
But still Tesla declined among the other brands, after for the longest time keeping their market share in Norway pretty steady while declining across the rest of Europe.

For comparison to the 83 cars sold by Tesla, VW ID.3 sold 299 cars, and the Tesla model Y was only ranked 6th. That’s how much behind Tesla is now, from its previous leading position.

Congratulation Norway for finally waking up to the fact that Tesla cars are actually pretty bad, with 45% of 4 year old model Y failing the mandatory safety check in Denmark. So you might as well buy a better car, and as a bonus not support Elon Musk fascism.

I can’t unsee that front as a bathroom scale with markings where to put your feet. 🤣

Anyways congratulations to BMW for doing well with EV.

Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.

Unless the students are acting incredibly naive, it’s almost impossible for the anti-piracy group to lift the burden of proof here.
In general all you have to do is to claim you know nothing about it. For instance having “evidence” that your IP address was used for download is useless as evidence.

Also the Anti Piracy group has a reputation of themselves working outside the law here, so maybe an investigation into this group could be a good idea.

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Schlüter

Johan Schlüter was for many years the embodiment of anti piracy in Denmark forming “AntiPirat Gruppen” (Anti Piracy Group).

I 2014 idømte en fransk domstol ham 18 måneders ubetinget fængsel

Translation: In 2014 a French court gave him 18 months UNCONDITIONAL prison term!
The case was followed up with a €5 million lawsuit. For the fraudulent handling of Charles Trenet copyrights.

In 2015 he was reported to police for defrauding 100 million DKK from copyright holders. The investigation found “inconsistencies” in 4 companies owned by Johan Schlüter tro the amount of 200 million DKK (€30 million). Later that year AntiPirat Gruppen" was declared bankrupt.

i juni 2017 tiltale mod Schlüter og to andre advokater i Schlüters advokatfirma.

Translation: In July 2017 cases were raised against Schlüter and 2 other lawyers in the company.

So the people handling these copyright investigations and cases do not have the best reputation. In fact they are the real thieves stealing from copyright holders, embezzling their money through their judicial con job. Promising to help, but doing more harm than good, to a degree that in Denmark laws have been changed to basically protect against activities by anti piracy lawyers that are immoral and illegal.

Thanks for posting, but people will find something else stupid to complain about, because there is pretty obviously a storm of propaganda against Firefox, which I very much suspect is driven by interests that are against an open and free internet.

Blocking these features may calm some people, but in reality, none of these features were used for anything unless specifically used by the user. So the claim of it making Firefox slower or using more resources or being used for telemetry were all outright lies.

A sentiment is tried to be created that Firefox is just as bad as Chrome, Edge, Brave and Safari when nothing could be further from the truth. But even people who consider themselves IT savvy are falling for it. 🙁

Interestingly these attacks on Firefox coincide with Chrome getting steadily worse, forcing Googles own standards and preventing plugins that block advertising, while reducing functionality for Firefox on Google/Alphabet owned sites.

WTF?!
I know Sweden is way more liberal with what is considered street legal than Denmark,

systemet kräver i sin nuvarande form ständig förarövervakning

Translation: The system in its current form requires constant driver supervision

So it’s more like “assisted self driving” which of course is an oxymoron.

I åratal har Tesla sålt funktionen ”total självkörningsförmåga”

Translation: For years Tesla has sold the function “fully autonomous (self) driving.”

I wonder why they are allowed to advertise that?
But it seems it is following EU regulation, so I guess we can’t blame Sweden for it. But those shitty Tesla cars shouldn’t be street legal in EU even without FSD.

45% Failure rate!

A 4 year old model Y revision just reached the age of mandatory safety check here in Denmark.

Article in Danish:
https://fdm.dk/nyheder/nyt-om-trafik-og-biler/tesla-skandalen-fortsaetter-naesten-hver-anden-tesla-model-y-dumper-til-syn

Translation of the headline:
The TESLA Scandal continues, almost every 2nd Tesla model Y flunk safety check.

The previous record was held Buy Tesla model 3 with about a third of the cars failing!
The average for all brands is about 7%.
And a similar priced VW ID.4 is less than 2%. LESS THAN!
Without question the VW is way better quality, and even the cheapest Chinese cars we can get here have way lower failure rate than Tesla!

So very obviously Tesla and safety are not things that go together.

This is what many of us warned against already 20 years ago. It’s one of the inherent dangers of ALL proprietary software.
Back then most people didn’t believe or understand it, now that such dangers are out in the open, nothing continues to happen about it.
Everybody knows today, but (almost) nobody gives a shit.

The Xiaomi SU7 was pretty insane when it came out. I think if it was available here at a comparable price to China, it would be pretty much a no brainer for me too.

American-controlled CPUs

and fucking invest into not needing to use American-controlled CPUs as every single one of them contains a backdoor.

China has been working intensely for at least 2 decades to catch up, and they are still about a decade behind!

Netherlands has ASML which is a huge advantage for European independent manufacturing, but even with that it’s an insanely expensive investment to make a realistic competitor to AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom etc. because they have loads of patents that are hard to avoid, and they have decades of know how. This is not even accounting for the software infra structure that would have to be built almost from scratch.
Chip production is a global enterprise, and even USA isn’t independent anymore. They depend on ASML and TSMC for their most popular products in AI, Smartphones, servers, laptops and desktops. And more and more Arm is taking over from Intel/AMD.

What we may be able to do would be using Arm and have TSMC help us with manufacturing. But to make such a project succeed is not an easy thing, we had European computer companies in the 70’s and 80’s that were heavily subsidized by governments that dominated home markets for several European countries, and they essentially all failed against international competition.
So what we risk if we were required to use a European product funded by EU/European governments would be to have to use an overpriced under-performing technology, that would be a millstone around the neck of all of Europe, making Europe not catch up, but instead fall further behind.