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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too many products are easier to throw away than fix—consumers deserve a 'right to repair'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, your #2 reason doesn’t seem to stand up to reality.

  I don’t know where you are, but where I am (UK) you can go on any high street (in most towns there will be an area where most shops are, think strip mall in the US) and you will find at least a couple shops that fix and sell electronics - primarily smartphones, but also vacuum cleaners, TVs, computers, games consoles.

  Pretty much all of them are locally-run and are, I assume, profitable in spite of every electronics manufacturer trying to run them out of business.

  I say I assume because they wouldn’t be everywhere if they weren’t.

  I’ve had phones fixed by them, they offer warranties, reasonable prices, only had an issue once and it was put right after a tiny bit of back and forth.

  I think by “we can’t afford it” you mean “capitalism hasn’t yet found a way to centralise the profits and run the small business owners out of business”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hydrogen locomotive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh you mean debatable because it’s one of the cleanest, cheapest, and safest sources of electricity we have?

  Which allows France a degree of energy independence which has helped it not suffer the same amount of pain other countries have now that they’re having to kick the cheap Russian gas addiction?

  And through huge cross-border interconnects it allows France to sell electricity to neighbouring countries at a huge profit?

  Nuclear is not always the answer, but as France has shown, as long as you invest in reliable infrastructure and don’t put it in earthquake/tsunami-prone areas, it can be a huge positive for your country.

  And you don’t have to rely on antagonistic petrostates for to power your homes with gas, or on strip-mining huge swathes of land by equally-antagonistic China for rare-earth metals for your wind turbines/solar panels/battery storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume that you’re talking about the Dacia Spring which got 1 star (though the Renault Zoe got 0 stars recently and a few others did too in the past).

  So whilst you’re not wrong that these cars currently hold the lowest ratings of cars tested with the new post-2020 procedure, I’m sure a lot of older cars would fare far worse.

  And it’s fundamentally flawed to subject a tiny 970kg EV city car to the same tests as a 2-3 ton towering SUV. Besides the vastly different use cases, bigger and heavier vehicles will have an inherent advantage in most of the tests - hint none of them are adjusted for the weight of the vehicle.

  I’m not saying this is somehow wrong, they’re simulating crashing into an average car or a stationary immovable object, just we’re automatically discounting small vehicles which have a genuinely valid reason to exist.

  The new NCAP ratings only makes sense if we’re saying affordable, small, light cars don’t need to exist. Like everything automotive nowadays, it’s designed to gently nudge us towards big lumbering swollen hatchbacks as the holy grail of the car industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah I see, now that you’ve been proven wrong you’re pretending you asked a different question.

  You admit that Tesla advertises a “Full Self-Driving Capability” feature, which is basically what the person you said “source or stfu” to.

  Whether or not the feature was used in this instance is not what we’re discussing here.

  We can have this discussion if you’re feeling like you’re up for it in good-faith, I think both are true that people are overall terrible at the activity of driving so more driver aids are overall better, but also current driver aids are very limited and drivers are not necessarily great at understanding and working within those limits.

  They’re not the only ones, but Tesla is really the worst offender at overstating their cars’ capabilities and setting people up for failure - like in this case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I live you can right now go to Tesla’s website and buy a car with “Full Self-Driving Capability” with a small print that includes the disclaimer that it doesn’t make the vehicle autonomous, for whatever that’s worth…