Well yeah, they’re about as Swedish now as Chrysler is American. Maybe a tiny bit more.
Still, they produce a lot of cars in Sweden, are traded on the Swedish stock market and are headquarered in Göteborg.
Honestly, I think they’re doing better now than they were under Ford, but obviously they’ll never match the quality of Volvo’s old RWD bricks.
There are several programs that can check for disk info (S.M.A.R.T), so I’ll lay out some options for you
CrystalDiskInfo is free to use on Windows
For MacOS (where realistically you’d be doing this for an external drive as I believe they don’t show you much or anything at all on modern internal drives) you can get a free trial of DriveDX. There are probably other programs you can use for free, but if you only need to do it once, just get that because it does a really good job of letting you know what’s up. Just visualizes things in an easily newbie-understandable way.
I can barely see how they were so popular up to now anyway. I, too, thought they were cool like 10 years ago, when they were the only real electric car (Leaf and I-Miev don’t count and we didn’t get the Bolt or Volt here, only Opel Ampera and Ampera-E, which are ultra rare). Then a couple of years later, I realized some things, in this order: 1) Tesla interiors are THE BLANDEST THING EVER, 2) Elon Musk’s been seeming increasingly weird starting with the cave diving incident, 3) Tesla quality control is absolute shite
Tesla changed the world by proving you CAN have good range and performance in an EV, but now they’re way past their prime. The Germans, Swedes, Koreans and now I believe EVEN THE CHINESE make better EVs. I have no experience with non-Tesla American EVs to comment on those, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they surpass Tesla in overall quality of vehicle in a few years too.
I’m not sure. Some people say that because they’re in Italy which is part of the N eyes, they’re not trustworthy.
Then there’s the fact that they haven’t been audited independently. The admin says it’s because audits are security theater not real proof of privacy, so he’d rather not give some 3rd party root access to the servers.
AirVPN doesn’t.
I mean, Intel did it first and I do believe AMD and Qualcomm also followed suit.
Look, I don’t disagree with you. YouTube has many flaws and they’ve rapidly enshittified to increase monetization. But YouTube is a far more complex* operation than your ISP. It took a decade to start making a profit on YouTube.
The amount of hardware behind it is insane. The amount of work behind it is insane. A lot of that work is performed by really expensive software engineers in the US and Europe.
It was never sustainable from the get-go. Not with a single pre-watch ad and no premium tier, anyway. They HAD to add more ads and a premium ad-free tier. Where I disagree with them is the amount of ads and the cost of the premium tier.
*The big cloud providers (including Google) have grown so big, they don’t use ISPs in the traditional sense to connect their data centers. They run their own subsea cables between continents to improve connectivity. Whether or not you like the companies, they put a LOT of work into keeping you on their platforms. Of course this is for Google Cloud customers, but YouTube basically IS a Google Cloud customer. Just an in-house one.
I’m not sure what Services means there though. It could very well include subscriptions rather than the actual servicing of their cars? Or maybe both?