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  • French Car Brand Renault To Go Completely Leather-Free By The End Of 2025

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  • Well, it's right there in the name!

    ...

    Mine was a 2001 Fiat Multipla, powered with natural gas. One of the most reviled cars ever made, and produced when Fiat was at its worst. It was awesome.

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  • As I wrote elsewhere, I believe there are still cases where leather really makes sense from a comfort/durability standpoint.

    I, like most people, still eat at least some meat, so it seems rude to not make good use of the rest.

  • French Car Brand Renault To Go Completely Leather-Free By The End Of 2025

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  • I guess your cars usually go to ~1million kilometers then?

  • French Car Brand Renault To Go Completely Leather-Free By The End Of 2025

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  • The car won't last forever anyway, if it's used regularly.

    I threw away my last car at 19 years and 380'000km with no tears on the cloth seats.

    And yeah, fake leather is almost always a big no.

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  • I don't ever want leather seats in my car but your answer seems... Unrelated to my comment?

  • French Car Brand Renault To Go Completely Leather-Free By The End Of 2025

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  • You won't believe how many years I've had a driving license without spilling something on my seats...

  • French Car Brand Renault To Go Completely Leather-Free By The End Of 2025

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  • Leather boots can, in my opinion, have their place. Leather shoes are often more hard-wearing, comfortable and maintainable, then many of the alternatives.

    That does not include leather sneakers because in those the construction and sole will self destruct way before the leather, so you have a shoe with good upper and a crumbling sole.

    But leather upholstery always seemed to me to be hard to justify. They seem to me to be functionally inferior and way more expensive.

    Car seats... Noone ever had to change car because the seats were worn. And leather is hot in summer, cold in winter, and sticky against sweaty skin.

    Office chair... Really? I have mine with a mesh back just to breathe a little better.

    And with a couch... Just why?

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  • I never understood leather car seats.

    Can someone here explain to me the appeal of car seats that get extra cold in winter, extra hot in summer, and that will get all sticky against my sweaty leg if I sit down with shorts...

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  • The global leather goods market is gigantic, and Grand View Research predicts it will reach USD $405.28 billion by 2030, up from $242.85 billion in 2022.

    I have generally rather mixed feelings about leather, but that seems like a ridiculous number to use as a reference. As far as I can tell it's the total price of the sold goods?

    Which includes lots of stuff that has nothing to do with the leather...

    Luis Vuitton is going to be raking in millions whether it uses leather or it switches to hemp or whatever. They're selling prestige and brand, not real products.

    (In the current political climate "going woke" by cutting leather would probably backfire in terms of image... But if they silently switched from leather to plastic noone would notice given the quality of their leathers)

  • Arrrrr! Welcome Aboard The Good Ship Matey 🏴‍☠️

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  • I mean...

  • Arrrrr! Welcome Aboard The Good Ship Matey 🏴‍☠️

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  • If you're not Bezos, you must be Bob Iger.

    Either way, I feel you should educate yourself on the concept of a joke.

    And work on general reading comprehension really.

    OP: Makes a meme about torrenting things he can't find on streaming services.

    You: not true, you can find everything here!

    Me: Well, ackshually really no (provides real life examples).

    You: (downvotes) it was a hyperbole!

    You must be real fun at parties.

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  • Yeah, nice try Jeff, except no, there's a lot on justwatch but it definitely doesn't tell me where to find "anything".

    Either you are so boringly mainstream not to know, or you are simply full of it, but there is plenty missing from the streaming world.

    Especially if you consider markets outside the US.

    For instance, in Italy The West Wing has not been available for years, neither streaming nor DVD. Only option is used DVDs off of eBay.

    But even in the US, where exactly can I stream the original Spider Man animated series from 1967?

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  • Well...

  • Supermarket Billionaire Wants to Build Al Gigafactory in Europe

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  • The European Union also exports a whole lot of stuff.

    Last time I checked some estimates, the EU was supposedly emitting more CO2 for the stuff we export, than was emitted abroad for the stuff we import.

  • ‘Europe is not the US’: Tech insiders call for smarter AI rules

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  • Oh but I know full well that ML can do wonders in many of these circumstances, my doubts were about LLMs specifically.

    And my question was mostly an honest one. The chance of learning something that I really didn't expect, is worth the risk of being "that guy".

    The main current application of LLM seems to be the production of gargantuan amounts of horseshit.

  • ‘Europe is not the US’: Tech insiders call for smarter AI rules

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  • use a LLM to chew through huge scientific datasets to search for correlations a human would never have noticed

    Are LLMs really any good for something like that?

  • 'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'

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  • good old fashioned tech monopoly behavior

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    I am looking for a new sports watch/replacement for my Garmin fenix 6 Pro

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  • The communication protocol of these strap is fairly standard. My Garmin Instinct watch can use my Polar H10 just fine.

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    I am looking for a new sports watch/replacement for my Garmin fenix 6 Pro

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  • Suunto is actually Finnish. Now it's been bought by some Chinese holding.

    Last time I checked I had not found any proof that this has really caused anything to move over to china (that wasn't already there anyway) but it may worth a second check.

    For some people the property is enough to immediately disqualify the company.

    Polar seems to even offer to repair or replace the battery on some models. I suspect that won't be cheap, but it shows they may not conceive their devices as disposable trash. Maybe.