but you don’t have to go to a specific menu for it. Just press and walk away.

IDK why you need to do that, I use a hotkey on my keyboard.
So regarding speaking for yourself, how about you respect that not everyone do like you do, but your way is the only kind of hardware that exist.
I am not the arrogant one here, you are.

A physical power key on a desktop computer should physically shut off power IMO, but that option doesn’t exist anymore. And from an energy preserving perspective that is bad.

It resets wifi settings and a favorite setting you can make to start a combo program faster, like washing faster or more thoroughly in the bottom drawer. And it resets 2 settings for water.
So quite annoying to have to do all that shit again, except for the wifi which is completely useless, and doesn’t have a single function to make it worth it.

So is this going to continue for another month, and when USA is out of ammo again, they will beg for peace talks again?
Maybe next time Trump will give Israel to Iran? /s

This is crazy, there was a peace deal, although it wasn’t a good one for USA, it was better than this.
USA global power is collapsing, and congress, the courts and the people are all allowing it to continue.

I suppose from the principle that everything is possible, this could be true.
VW would absolutely be a very attractive brand to buy, more than anything Stellantis, which is more vulnerable AFAIK.
China already own for instance Volvo and MG, but I’m not sure lawmakers would allow them to buy VW?
I’m also not sure the Porsche family would be interested in selling out to China either. Probably a last solution if VW should get into real trouble as in nearing bankruptcy. But I don’t think that will happen, because the VW group lineup that includes Skoda Audi Cupra and Porsche is very strong.

That’s just nonsense. You are imagining things. I wrote what it was.

That switch is hard to reach, and basically useless, it’s better to unplug the cable.

The power button does a graceful shutdown

Which is pretty useless, because you normally shut down through software, and if you can’t do that, the system has likely crashed anyway, so it’s better to shut down fast, than having a crashed program causing damage.

That’s exactly how our stupid Siemens dishwasher works. You have to press the power button for ½ a second, and then it only shows that it registered when you release it!
But if you press it for 3 seconds you make a factory reset.
And you have to press the power button first before you can do anything!?!?
Why not just allow people to choose the program they want, and have it turn on with that?

I have a tendency to press those buttons way harder than necessary, because it feels like they aren’t working! 🤡
Last time I ever buy anything from Siemens, it’s simply too demented.

Absolutely this. Why do I have to press the power button for 3 seconds to force it to shut down?
If I made a bad overclock that could fry my system, I want it to shut off immediately!!
In the good old days, we had a REAL power button on the front of our desktop computers, that physically shut off power to the PSU.
And the computer didn’t use any power when not used.
This idea of pressing a button for x seconds before it does what it should have done instantly is moronic IMO.

OK
It was a wink because I agreed with him. If you find that creepy, I think you may have a problem.

Ah of course. Poe’s law though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

No, and that’s the problem, it is not always that clear anymore.

Freedom of speech is horrible in USA compared to functioning democracies. But admittedly it’s way worse in China.
China is a totalitarian regime, that USA is gloating about being slightly better in some aspects, is what’s wrong with USA.
It’s insane that on some issues, USA is actually as bad or even worse than China.
A win compared to China is not hard, being worse than China on many issues on the other hand is insane!!!

Really, are you sure you want to go there?

https://www.searchinvestigations.org/blog/missing-persons-statistics

According to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC), there were over 600,000 missing persons entries in the most recent reporting year.

China may be bad, but to claim USA is better is delusional.

Absolutely, as a European I am more worried about China than before, because without EU and USA being allies on the global scene, there is no doubt that China will dominate even sooner.
None of us can balance out China alone. But hopefully China will be a more graceful world leader than USA. 🙏

“Land of the free”

🤡🤣🤣🤥

The country with the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Where you can get 20 years in prison for stealing bread to survive!
And people are killed in their homes by police, and in the streets by ICE! 🤢🤮

China is also doing a lot more to curb global warming than USA is.
USA is a total scumbag country in that regard. The main global villain on environment too.

Why is it creepy to say that for instance better democracy shouldn’t be an issue?
And UK has to pay the same as everybody else!

Absolutely, I should have written: What remains of it.

I agree Zelenskyy has handled this very well, but in this case it seems like he is making a HUGE mistake, that he has given no good reason for.
Trusting the old Russian school general, over the most successful defense minister by far they’ve had this entire war is INSANE!!
Fedorov has been behind ALL the successful strategies since February, that have turned the war around completely, so Ukraine now is dominating Russia.
When I write ALL, I mean literally ALL.

He had been defense minister for mere days when he succeeded in doing what others before him hadn’t achieved in years. Turning off starlink for the Russians, because he figured out how they could be detected to be Russian. Mind you Russia used fake Ukrainian identities to spoof the system.
He has made several tactics and strategies that are described as GENIUS! Who do you imagine can replace him and continue the victory streak Ukraine has experienced for the past 6 months?

Zelenskyy has been great, but Fedorov has taken it to a whole other level. Not the idiot general that refuse to modernize.

As I wrote “I hope they know what they are doing”.
But it certainly doesn’t appear so. There is no logic explanation given for why this should be good, except Fedorov doesn’t have a military background. Which is UTTER bullshit!.