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- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 11 months ago:
What car do you drive where charging stops are that long? My average Supercharging session in my base Model 3 is 9 minutes. That’s barely enough time to go pee and walk my dog.
I strongly prefer road-tripping my EV because the natural breaks mean I arrive more refreshed and less sore.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 11 months ago:
They are genuinely more reliable. Having more stalls does help for when there’s issues, but they have 99.96% uptime across the entire network. I’ve had to move stalls once in my almost 3 years of ownership.
They also have their own service people that travel to chargers to fix them, where Electrify America hires local electrical contractors that may not be experts on DC Fast Charging equipment.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 11 months ago:
You’re not unlucky, in the U.S. any charger that isn’t made by Tesla is unreliable. It’s been getting worse over time, and the only real hope is that every manufacturer is switching to Tesla’s charge port (now called NACS) and getting access to their Superchargers.
I had a non-Tesla EV and eventually got a Tesla because I need to road trip regularly and can’t handle chargers being down.
- Comment on Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying 1 year ago:
I switched to Android a few months ago and expected to want to switch away from Apple Music, but their Android app is excellent. Plus they have lossless quality.
- Comment on Toyota nears mass production of solid-state batteries 1 year ago:
Do you use Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)? They block it because they remove some trackable information from requests.
- Comment on World EV Sales Now Equal 18% Of World Auto Sales 1 year ago:
Good thing the Volt has a really well-designed battery that you’ll basically never need to replace. The management system babies those cells.
There’s a reason people love crashed volts for DIY battery storage and EV conversions.
- Comment on World EV Sales Now Equal 18% Of World Auto Sales 1 year ago:
They really don’t. It’s not like after 10 years your battery just explodes and stops working. They lose a little bit of capacity and work just fine.
I have a 5 year old EV with barely any battery degredation. That I bought used!
- Comment on Another 62 ‘Girls Do Porn’ Victims Sue Pornhub for $600 Million 1 year ago:
that’s… nearly as weird?
- Comment on Any good alternatives to Home Assistant? 1 year ago:
I set up a new HA install a couple months ago and didn’t write any YAML. It was kind of nice? The UI tools have come a long way and it discovered all my devices which had never happened before.
The thread you shared is worrying though, it’s the complete opposite of the spirit of FOSS. I should probably reconsider paying for their subscription at a minimum.
- Comment on As some carmakers run from Apple CarPlay, Porsche embraces it 1 year ago:
Their software is actually good though, unlike anything GM has produced so far.
- Comment on As some carmakers run from Apple CarPlay, Porsche embraces it 1 year ago:
There have been CarPlay compatible cars on the market for 8 years now and they work fine with newer iPhones. Hell, Apple still supports the iPod USB protocol for even older cars on new iPhones.
It’s not much of a concern, in my opinion. And I drive a car with no CarPlay and only built-in infotainment lol
- Comment on Every really nice pen I have ever owned was because it somehow fell into my possession. I use them randomly sometimes as a special treat for myself. 1 year ago:
Yeah, digital task management or note taking has never worked well for me. It’s best if I write things down, then fill out Jira or whatever
- Comment on Indian iPhone plant found 'highly hazardous' to worker health 1 year ago:
The Time Article they’re referencing is worth a read. Excellent reporting, and there’s no excuses for Apple and Foxconn here.
- Comment on Tesla misses estimates for quarterly deliveries; shares fall 1 year ago:
Just like when you buy a new cell phone and it comes with free service for life, right?
Oh. You mean things with ongoing costs cost money? How sad.
- Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech 1 year ago:
This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever read and if you can’t see the miles of difference between a women-only job fair and lynching black people I don’t know what to tell you.
- Comment on Tesla misses estimates for quarterly deliveries; shares fall 1 year ago:
It’s $99/year. If you can afford a Tesla you can afford that. The software in the car is damn good.
- Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech 1 year ago:
I’ll do us both the favor, actually.
- Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech 1 year ago:
It’s not an event for “all marginalized people” or “anyone who experiences discrimination” are you capable of reading
- Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech 1 year ago:
Of course you don’t feel like you’re in community with every man, you’re not a fucking marginalized gender! Some of us have to have solidarity to survive.
This is the whole point of the fucking event in the first place! Y’all have to insert yourselves into literally everything don’t you? Unbelievably childish.
- Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech 1 year ago:
Right, like the ones with vaginas are cool and the ones with penises aren’t?
- Comment on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog 1 year ago:
I’ve not come anywhere near the 1500/mo on my duo plan, but not having to think about it at all is nice. Kagi is soooo good.
- Comment on Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says 1 year ago:
My partner and I are on the duo plan with 1500 searches and haven’t hit our limit. I’ve honestly been surprised how little we search?
You may be too, Kagi is very good. I haven’t regretted paying for it at all.
- Comment on The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center 1 year ago:
Nope, just the CEO of the company that has regularly overridden the decisions of his engineers, driving anyone with any actual experience away.
Autonomous vehicles built by hundreds of first-year software engineering graduates seems like a good idea though.
- Comment on Greener Alternative To Lithium-ion Battery 1 year ago:
right, and they’re actually pretty bad at remembering facts, that’s why we have entire institutions dedicated to maintain accurate reference material!
why do people throw all of this out the window for advice from a dumb program I’ll never understand
- Comment on question for Trans M to F people. When fall comes, do you suddenly gain the Pumpkin Spice Latte bloodlust in September? 1 year ago:
I have never liked anything pumpkin, before or after transitioning. everyone is shocked by this.
- Comment on Cruise robotaxi finds itself stuck in wet concrete in San Francisco 1 year ago:
They don’t do amazingly well. Cruise literally ran into the back of a bus. The car has five LiDAR sensors, twenty-one radars, and twelve cameras and can’t see a bus?
They’re constantly stopping in the middle of the streets and struggling with scenarios regular drivers don’t have an issue with. First Responders hate them because they’re constantly in the way with no way to disable them.
They have to route around left turns because they’re too hard (and have caused a couple collisions), so it takes an incredible amount of time to get anywhere compared to literally any other method of transport. Not to mention that they’re testing them in cities that actually have decent transit! Just get on a bus!!
Anyone working on AVs in the US has a long way to go, I haven’t followed international companies as closely. Blame Elon all you want, not a single company has actually managed to make a safe and useful product.
I know a lot of people (myself included!) want this technology to exist and be useful, but we may need to start thinking about what we do if it isn’t achievable. Allowing public development of these is a nuisance.
- Comment on Cruise robotaxi finds itself stuck in wet concrete in San Francisco 1 year ago:
The whole point is being better than a human and they’re demonstrably not.
- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 1 year ago:
Are you sure it isn’t satire? I prefer to believe it is.
- Comment on More fun with TPU 1 year ago:
This is one of the first things I printed in TPU too! The squish is so good.
- Comment on New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times 1 year ago:
You mean the feature that every single EV has?