"I built" these days means they ai coded it and have no idea what they're doing. Utter slop.

Didn't Google have a previous lawsuit against foundem? Not a fan of Google but foundem were fucking awful.

Not like klarna are nice

Quite. At least Google delivers some value to society, despite being mostly evil. Klarna is exclusively parasitic, getting people needlessly into debt and pushing a buy now pay later mentality for luxury products.

There are helpful use cases that aren't parasitic. I use it if I want to buy a bunch of clothes in multiple sizes. I return what I don't need and don't need to splurge up front. The people who get into debt for unnecessary stuff they can't afford will find other ways anyway.

I wouldn't say Klarna is exclusively parasitic. Where I am located, Klarna is often the absolutely best choice for payments, and I always pay up front.

Same, I use them because my regular bank are a bunch of muppets when it comes to mobile payments. I use Klarna to pay with my phone. It auto debits from the bank account. I've never paid them any interest. Works fine, other companies are available offering similar services. Key for me: works online/offline, sane process for blocking things, works internationally without getting ripped off on exchange rates, etc. I guess they make some money on deferred payments to vendors. Good for them.

You can choose to go into debt with them and they make that really easy. But it's a choice in the end. If you can't be trusted running your own finances, don't get a credit card from any bank.

And burritos

A local pizza place here in sweden puts leaflet in my mailbox and yes you can order pizza and pay with klarna

We just bought an Audi A6 Avant Performance which is a year old and about the same spec?

Missus is a BMW person and really wanted another, but they were not competitive. I did a 380 mile journey in it at around 85% battery and it was awesome.

Love the looks of the A6 Avant, but at $150K it's in a different price bracket, no? Used to lust for the Allroads 20 years ago, aka German Outbacks.

Cost me £40k for it with 15 miles on the clock. They are definitely having issues shifting them.

No way, that's a hell of a deal. I barely see any in the states, nor other ultra wagons. My last one wasn't Ultra, more like a Pro - a 2002 e28. Was great for my Akita back then, low entry height and the dog net in the back. The current Akita has troubles with my SUV's height.

Go look on autotrader in the UK, there's tonnes around that price. Think they had to make room for the 2026 model.

We did the same btw, have a 4 year old Labrador with hip displacia so wanted the estate with the low boot, hence the estate.

Having interviewed with them for a SRE role I can definitely see how they are awful. The amount of technical debt is hilarious.

That's exactly my memory too, using a tab was second nature and it irked me when I went to gui apps with a mouse and the tab order was wrong, mainly with visual basic apps.

So glad they called out Solovair as a replacement for Doc Martens.

My first pair of DMs lasted me 7 Glastonbury Festivals - and if you'd ever been there you know the muddy ones are a mare, I average 40000 steps a day at the festival and just trying to lift your feet up in thickening and warming mud is a nightmare. Only threw them as I couldn't bear to clean them.

Next two pairs of DMs after moving the manufacturing to Thailand? Crap. Didn't even last a single festival, soles came apart, waterproofing was non-existent.

Solovair are fantastic. They're using the original tooling in the original DM factory. Expensive but worth it.

Yup. Is this post from 2019?

My Pixel 8 Pro is more secure than your iOS 18 handset Apple don't care about.

You are claiming that based on information you don't have (the future). At least you could call it a prediction rather than state it as an obvious disfact.

I don't think I've ever something so incorrect.