It's an anti-waste measure: a large number of supplied chargers are essentially thown straight in the bin because people already have a compatible charger.

Some of GDPR's language around consent for data processing (which, I will note, you only need if you don't have a legitimate and expected purpose for storing and processing it!) has implications for friction: many 'cookie popups' are not compliant because they make not giving consent harder than giving consent.

But deletion requests are not so strong: if you make people really jump through hoops then you might get in some trouble, but the expencted standard is basically at 'sending an email and getting a result within 30 days'.

Depending on the data "sending an email and getting a result within 30 days" may not be basis for approving deletion request. You have no way to identify whether the data is associated with the person (if the data is not associated with the email).

So additional validation would surely be subject to friction.

Pilot pay has been trending downwards for a while. It's pretty badly paid for how high-stress and high-skill it is.

Also because generally in those cases you don't really want a guided tour of the whole product, you have a problem you want solving and you would like to see how to solve that problem with the product. Which either talking to a person who knows the product or reading through some documentation/guides does, but a guided tour generally does not (or at least does not do efficiently).

Or at the very least, at the price we're talking here, companies should be hiring a trainer who knows the product well, who can actually teach people and answer questions. not go through this, go through that, clicking that: half the things are not useful to their particular problems and shouldn't be taught at all to this group.

It's much like how many plants have accidentally found that a great means of propagation is to produce a compound that is both a great chemical warfare agent against other plants and microbes and also tastes interesting to humans or makes them feel funny.

If you're savvy you can get a really good discount on a second-hand EV as well because people overestimate the wear on the batteries and assume a second-hand EV will have terrible range.

This suggests that it is useful in some niche embedded use- cases, but should probably not be enabled by default on most desktop/server kennels

Dark matter doesn't necessarily have to be a new kind of particle (though there are enough constraints it's a bit hard to explain otherwise): it could be cold dust, gas, diffuse and tiny black holes, or large amounts of cold rocky planets.

Astrophysicists have gone all through this. Absent direct observation or at least a good explanation of what it actually is, I don't think anyone really likes dark matter. The main objection is that it feels a little too flexible: you can explain a lot of things by adding mass in different places. But it's not infinitely flexible: you don't need arbitrary and utterly weird distributions of dark matter. And so it's generally emerged as the best explanation of observations so far, and not for lack of trying with tweaks to theories of gravity themselves.

Whatever you've done, you should keep an eye on your logs for anything suspicious. A quieter log is easier to monitor.