I think there are multiple hurdles that make a new competitor very unlikely.

The first one is money. You need lots of it to run such an operation (servers, IPs, paying to bypass all these paywalls, etc.).

The second one is the legality, as no one wants to be hunted by the FBI, especially not for running a website that is also losing money.

Additionally, I feel like a datacenter is going to produce a LOT more heat than the ISS.

Is it not public in the US who owns a company?

Or just use your phones measuring App. So far the iPhone one has been precise enough for me when on the go.

Security!

(read the article)

I read the article, but is there any evidence suggesting the Apple measuring app is insecure? It only collects data not linked to you (usage data and diagnostics) and is using the same privacy policy as the Apple camera app, which pretty much every iPhone user is trusting already.

German postage for letters is under 20g, under 50g and under 500g so I had this issue a few times so far when sending a few letters a day over a few weeks. You can see it here for international letters for example: https://www.deutschepost.de/en/b/briefe-ins-ausland.html

Thankfully I just had a scale, but I can see this being helpful when you don't.

I have one playlist I add songs to I listen to on repeat. Going back through it, it really shows what I was mostly listening to at what time.

Yeah Spotify's "Liked Songs" is that for me.. I just throw stuff in there that I want to keep track of.. I have 3,671 songs in there now so it's not super curated..

Not an option for the majority of companies as it only allows open source repositories as far as I'm aware.

Selfhosting gitea is trivial, I'm saying this as someone who has been doing it at work for almost 6 years. Our experience has recently prompted another org (run by people we know) to move off GitHub, they also seem to be happy.

There are plenty of alternatives to Github, from Gitlab and Gittea to Forgejo, but Codeberg is not one of them, which is what I wanted to stress.

Tangled.org

All of the mentioned issues are mostly solved with Apple CarPlay Ultra though so this doesn't explain to me why they don't offer that.

I see CarPlay (and CarPlay Ultra) as being for auto makers who don't want to put in all the effort to design and drive a good proprietary UI (CarPlay is a godsend in cars with crappy UI, i.e. most of them).

Rivian is a luxury vehicle brand with a first-class UI/UX. I imagine going with their own first-class UI and CarPlay Ultra would be a mess; two separate interfaces for the same controls, but laid out differently. Makes a lot more sense they'd be working with Apple to integrate more Apple features into their own UI, rather than having to maintain two separate first-class UIs that are bound to have discrepancies.

And there's the more obvious answer that they want the entire driving experience to feel like a Rivian experience, given how important that's been for luxury EVs on the software side. Supporting a canned OS would make the vehicle "feel" the same as every other car that also supports it.

Apple CarPlay Ultra supports customization as it's use in the new Aston Martin car(s?) shows.

Because the real reason is they don't want you using somebody else's software.

This is genuinly impressive. The OpenAI equivalent is less detailed AND less correct.

Which Times New Roman alternatives would you recommend?