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Yeah, you don't need to enable it. If it detects a touch device it listens to it automatically. Drivers are standardized too so you shouldn't need to update or install anything. IMO touchscreen features in W10 and W11 are one of it's best qualities... Apple/iOS really shot itself in the foot by doubling down on touchscreens being for ipads & phones only.

The segway itself could've lived up to the hype.... If it were as affordable as a vespa! it could have taken over that non-highway travel niche but it cost 10 times as much and had less range. The hype was tone deaf to the average person's disposable income. You can't revolutionize the world if only independently wealthy people can afford your toy. I'm sure that wealthy tech bro ceo was very out of touch with working Americans wages. Later he died by driving off a cliff on a segway.

You see them and their successors now in crowded pedestrian spaces (often for security guards) and it's arguably less intrusive than a skater but with long distance potential. That said I think the monowheel electric skateboards are the best thing for that now and not nearly as expensive.

You might enjoy the 1971 novella "A Meeting with Medusa" by Arthur C Clarke. It follows the captain of the last nuclear blimp as they become irrelevant, then later when his specialized skills are needed again. Giant blimps are used to explore Venus and the gas giants since they can't be landed on and lag time makes remote piloting impossible.

This is interesting since blimps over Venus was recently in the news again for better or worse and is a relevant proposition. We will certainly have blimps over Venus someday (though probably not manned). The gas giants put out too much radiation and autonomous flight is too well developed for the Jupiter story to hold water now though.

Yeah but sony made VHS also... It was their Alpha release. They intended to wait a bit and release beta, which has already been developed shortly after vhs hit stores. What they didn't expect was to be copied by a competitor before that happened, effectively making VHS a standard. As you say, magnetic tape is magnetic tape and they thought their first attempt would quietly fade into history when they put out version 2. Instead it was a desperate marketing war for relevance.

It makes so much sense now

Minty green?

That's the joke

I think he means The Jesus

joined a month ago

And here he is all federated!

It is an interesting problem whether federation is better for people with tens of thousands of followers plus a formerly meaningful blue tick from a centralized source.

TD;DR:
Before jumping to conclusions realize that:
1-6: incest ain't so bad.

Thanks for posting that. I think it sums up the double speak nicely.

Somebody's brought a Yamaha cp80 to Afghanistan only to have it burned. I suppose this somehow helps allah

I'm just sure this meme guy went on to have a very successful life in the food industry... And they were happy to accept both the data and spirit of his research.