Soggytoast

@Soggytoast@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would anyone wish for Tesla to fail? Unfathomable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  16amp 240 is quite acceptable for overnight charging

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day one and done⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I think about getting pizza hut, then I remember it costs 36$ for 2 pizzas, so I just go to the store for two 6$ pizzas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice picture. Really wild to think that search advertisements (only Bing?) is only 2% under Xbox/gaming related, considering they own so many studios now. Also surprising that the gaming segment is so small

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You did it. The crazy son of a bitch, you did it.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most things live on land, about 2% of Earth’s biomass is in the oceans.

  There are a lot of trees, fungus, and cows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My cousin wanted a Roku TV as a wedding gift. I said no. Got Sony instead. I like to think he’s thankful for that with all the shit Roku has been doing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should be illegal really, jail time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 11 offers nothing better than Windows 10, but there’s a few key things that don’t work as good/bugged on win11 for me. Should have not updated I think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government bonds anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government bonds anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still waiting on my 2021, and 2022 refunds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have had my bolt, with new battery, for nearly 3 years. On interstate driving in summer I’m not sure I’d go beyond 180 miles, pretty sure 200 miles I’d be in turtle mode at least. Currently in winter I’m probably limited to about 160 tops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much everything you said was said about passenger cars 15 years ago. Can’t fix every problem right away. as much as 85% of trucking is under 200 miles (by freight tonnage). This defeatist mentality of ‘it won’t work for this application, or this application, it’ll never change’ will always fail as technology and engineering improves.

  The Tesla semi proved that fully loaded 450+ mi trucking is not only possible but better in every way, Pepsi is eager to incorporate them and Walmart too. Here’s the trick, Walmart and other companies doesn’t give a shit about charge times as long as it’s manageable, if it ends up saving even a dollar per freight delivery, they will switch. If it never improved and legit took 4 hours per 200 miles, companies will set up relay trucking. Trucking itself will change if technology can’t. It’s always about money, charge times only bother the driver

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True I did not count cost of electricity, because it’s extremely hard to guess. Some places are .04$/kwh, some are .45/kwh, some are free. What if you had free charging at work? Or apartment, or had solar, it could be completely free.

  Of course there’s going to be a market for ev battery repair, and they’ll work on Teslas the most/exclusively not because they’re bad, but because they’re the only significant ev so far. They’ve sold millions, when the next highest has 200k. Shit can break on anything at any time from any manufacturer.

  All Toyotas for years have had 3yr/36,000mi, 5yr/60,000mi powertrain warranty.

  Nimh is junk, it is guaranteed to die due to age. It cycles really well but the chemistry inside literally dries out and stops working, 8-10 years. That’s probably where a lot of the FUD about lithium batteries come from, lithium batteries degrade slowly. You can check this old blog that gives stats for 10 year higher mileage Teslas, looking at 18% to the high end but usually 8-12%. And those are the early batteries where Tesla was probably cutting as much cost as possible, today’s batteries are a bit better.

  And Toyota absolutely does put junk into their cars, they put weak engines, weak hybrid motors, bottom tier infotainment, minimum legal warranty. They’ve been riding their 1980-2000 reliability reputation hard. Not saying they’re unreliable, but that reputation is the only thing that sells their cars.

  Range does decrease in winter for evs, but it does for gasoline cars too, they don’t show the mpg difference on the window sticker either. Tesla has really good thermal management so it generally Loses about 15%, not your 40% claim

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The charger is just a few solenoids very simple device, and they don’t get switched with current flowing. So probably last forever, for wall mounted hard wired ones at least.

  True I did not count cost of electricity, because it’s extremely hard to guess. Some places are .04$/kwh, some are .45/kwh, some are free.

  What if you had free charging at work? Or apartment, or had solar, it could be completely free

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s just do some checking here to counter your argument

  All evs sold in America have 8year/100,000mi warranty on battery, also these are ev top of the line batteries, not the junk that goes into most toys that burn out in a few years, these are good for 300,000mi+ before the 80% capacity

  But for your cost of ownership argument, if you drove a Prius for 400,000mi as claimed, at a likely/optimistic mpg of 50mpg, that’s 8,000 gallons of fuel, which over the last decade has probably averaged at least close to 3$/g, depending of course. That’s 24,000$. Just in fuel. Now you have say 40$ oil changes every 6,000 miles, that’s another 2,600$, you did a nicad battery replacement because Toyota was totally fine putting that junk in there, another 1,500$

  Totalled up to 28,100$. But that 10,000$ battery is too expensive huh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The money saving is the bait on the hook, but once you change there is no return. It’s just so much better in every way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy used? I don’t understand the argument that they need to be cheaper as new, when you wouldn’t have bought new before but now you will for electric? I’ve had my bolt since COVID started and it’s been great. Don’t buy leaf tho

  Can buy used for 13-17k depending, ~200mi interstate range

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can spend hours doing VR, prefer standing but some games are sitting. High paced jumping/spinning/flipping games. Elite dangerous, Sorento (sp), robo recall, windlands. No issue of sickness at any point, even with fps drops and frame hangs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But my WiFi is just fine!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work for spectrum. I’d say around 60% of people legit do not know the difference between wifi and Internet. No wifi means no Internet, to them. Makes some trouble shooting harder