In the Weeds with Dexter Johnson

What's important?: The GOP wants to ban TikTok and are making steps toward it....I feel like they should look on American soil as well.

Links:

- https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/1/23620736/tiktok-ban-china-app-biden-foreign-affairs-bytedance

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What's important?: It's a great day to own an EV....with Tesla opening the supercharger network (it should've been open from the beginning to help bolster overall charging), this provides access to more locations for the entire community. Great job to lawmakers and Tesla.

Links:

- https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/1/23620368/tesla-supercharger-non-tesla-ev-payment-access-app

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If the latest charging strategy doesn't affect your usage, why are you outraged? If you can get energy when it's better for the environment, coupled with optimized charging -- what's the harm in that? Stop looking for outrage and shut up. What's important?:

Links:

- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/users-recoil-at-new-iphone-feature-that-slows-charging-when-clean-energy-isnt-used/ar-AA180acv

- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213323

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What's important?: Great news for current and future Apple SOC owners...full support from the open source king and my favorite desktop OS.

Links:

- https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-6-2-the-first-mainstream-linux-kernel-for-apple-m1-chips-arrives/

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What's important?: Electronics and batteries, who knew that would be an expensive repair. My heart goes out to anyone who has had to experience a total loss vehicle -- I hope you never have to go through that again.

Links:

- https://www.autoblog.com/2023/01/27/tesla-expensive-to-repair-insurers-writing-off-damaged-cars/

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What's important?: Manufacturers are sad that you aren't connecting your appliances to wifi. Cry me a river.... Why should we? To make a botnet? To deal with obsolescence 2-3 years later? To invade our privacy?

Links: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/half-of-smart-appliances-remain-disconnected-from-internet-makers-lament/

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What's important?: We don't need an app for that. Sometimes putting where it's not needed makes a product difficult to use, a car more confusing or a home a privacy risk. Manufacturers, tech giants and coders -- can WE do better?

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Many think this is a purposeful move from Elon to make users utilize the default Twitter app, which uses ads, algorithms and can be monetized. I hope this is it for the platform.What's important?:

Links: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/13/23553161/third-party-twitter-clients-apps-outage-twitterific-tweetbot

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What's important?: EVs and their technology will be used to spy and we have a government that'll take advantage of this...meanwhile, Tesla and other manufacturers lazily hide controls behind a touchscreen without offering industry standards such as CarPlay.

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What's important?: LastPass was breached in the summer of 2022, they admitted it but as of the past few weeks we've gotten damping details about all that's been in the breach. Is it time to switch?

Links:

- https://www.cloudwards.net/the-best-lastpass-alternative/

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