Recently visited Venice, and it was an excellent place.

From my observations, there is not really a place for big business there; no big roads, hardly any trains, essentially no commercial transport besides small boats. In a place as such, goliaths like Amazon are likely out-competed by local businesses.

I completely agree. The OP ignores the fact that Chromebooks run on Linux, and are essentially a gateway to it. There's even official support for sideloading any Linux distro of choice.

You don't need to have a dev environment in order to be considered "tech literate".

Just as a single example, an issue I've seen is that kids may not even understand what a file system is or how it works, because they're used to apps like Facebook or Google Drive which abstract away from the concept of a hard-drive, a User folder, file extensions, etc. Then they grow up putting photos on instagram, writing essays on Microsoft Word, and to them it's some unexplained internet magic. They never had first-hand experience with creating and modifying files on a local file system, and so they lack the understanding of what's going on behind the scenes.

Thanks. Since moving from Reddit to Lemmy, I've become way more aware of what I'm clicking on. I'm pretty sure the amp project links are just for mobile phones n stuff, but it's good to be aware

Not to mention that Chromebooks are Linux (so can be modded for basically anything), but these days have official native support for sideloading any Linux distro you please. All it takes is a flashed USB drive and one button click, then you're totally unrestricted and out of ChromeOS.

If any kid wanted to, they could do that far easier than I could when I was in school. If they become adults, buy a Chromebook, and choose to do nothing with it other than watch YouTube, then it has absolutely nothing to do with the technology that was provided to them during school.

I know Blue Horizon or whatever it's called has had minor success with rockets. What's stopping Honda from out-competing them? Could it be a funding problem? (I know Blue Horizon has a lot of Amazon funding)

The legality really depends on the jurisdiction. Where I live, it is 100% the business responsibility to ensure this doesn't happen, and if it does, there are big fines for the business, the customer is not at fault.

Plenty of things the business could do to reduce this, such as making people park up after ordering (a very popular option where I live), increasing prices to reduce their demand, having a digital queue system, removing the drive-through altogether, etc.

Part of the problem with city planners is that much of their job is just alleviating car traffic. And if they were successful at doing (like making good public transport and walkable cities) they would have far less work, and be put out of a job.

That being said, I think they would realistically just start working on other city issues, but I think that's the mindset that keeps them building this kind of stuff.

I bet there's also a factor of that things are already going in this direction, and there's already more demand for driving, and it's far more difficult to go against the grain.

Yes, it was a 2013 Chromebook and even back then they had these features

The Windows computers I used in school were locked down too, no terminal access or even basic settings. Google wants them to grow up and buy their own Chromebooks, and my point is that it is accessible then.

I am glad that I can play the game, but I do wish they had held off for a year or two and made a big splash instead of being pressured by their publisher to rush it out.

They want to be the city sim for the next 10 years, and I believe it will be excellent, however they are not the best city sim for now.

Wishful thinking, but the fines are far greater than any business would be willing to pay as a bribe