Frostbeard
@Frostbeard@lemmy.world
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 3 days ago:
Read that Tesla pushes December in Norway for padding end of year numbers, resulting in a stagnant January. I think that concutive stagnant months is what would indicate how sick we are with Musk
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 5 weeks ago:
IG Farben, Krupp, Thyssen, Boss, Porsche and the mist goes on and on and on. Fuck I suspect that even my own grandfather “had stripes” (slang for collaboration with Nazis without yourself being proclaimed nazi) and he even fought them during the invasion of Norway.
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 5 weeks ago:
None of these companies would touch Trump with a 10 foot pole in the situation wasn’t so dire. But he is the next president, and he is known to respond to stuff like this. Bend knee, kiss his ass and carry a huge wad of cash. This is just the cost of doing business, and even if a vocal minority cries out most people still buy iPhones, Teslas and shop at Amazon and Wal-Mart.
- Comment on I believe him on a factual level, but not on an emotional level. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think there much else. Some viking history perhaps. Over 400 years under Danish tyranny followed by 80 years by Swedish rule sort of made sure nothing happened from 1200 to 1900
- Comment on I believe him on a factual level, but not on an emotional level. 5 weeks ago:
The made up spelling might be the Norwegian, or me fucking up as I also speak/read English and german. Flemish boggles the mind for me since I can read it with context, but it’s incomprehensible when spoken.
- Comment on I believe him on a factual level, but not on an emotional level. 5 weeks ago:
Am I the only non Belgian to enjoy Belgium? Decent cities like Brügge, Ghent, Antwerpen, Leuven and Brussels. Trappist Beer, Kriek, Moules frites. Excellent comics like Spirou, Tintin and Thorgal. And as a Norwegian I can relate to a football team full of stars that don’t win shit. (Norway can never even qualify dor anything)
It shows that I have only ever been in Flandern, but guess there are stuff in Vallonia to.
- Comment on turned them into their final form! 2 months ago:
In Norway they are sold as fast food and are called rollerburger
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 3 months ago:
I stopped using Opera the second it wasn’t Norwegian. I use Librewolf on desktop, Waterfox on mobile and Vivaldi as the “clean” browser when something k. Waterfox/Librewolf fucks up an important webpage I have to use
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 4 months ago:
Ofc they have the power to do so. John Deere did just that with stolen machines (incidentally underlining that you actually rent their machines) My point is that you buy the iphone hardware, and the use is not a service. And the possibility of bricking it at Apples, Samsung or Huawei whim is for me dystopian. Access to software, storefronts and internet pages is slightly different in my opinion.
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 4 months ago:
While I understand your idea, thats a level of censorship in the hands of a private company that is so cyber punk dystopian that it makes William Gibson cry.
Imagine your phone will start playing the Chinese anthem before it sends your dickpicks to your mother
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 4 months ago:
Any tips for a newbee where to start looking for learning to root a TV?
- Comment on Telegram To Disclose Phones, IP Addresses At Authorities' Requests. 4 months ago:
I only use Telegram for my Warhammer 40k group…Authorities seizing that will get them years of mindless chatter about the Emperor, memes and battle reports. Fuck they will pay us to leave Telegram
- Comment on Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement 5 months ago:
What the fuck does the world bank need to advertise for?
- Comment on If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials. 6 months ago:
Bill Bryson in “made in America” reference this I think
- Comment on Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads 8 months ago:
There is a windows software for Netflix? I have been using my browser on all platforms tbh
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 11 months ago:
The tax will just be the cost of doing business. But surely “tHe MarKeT” will correct this by finding cheaper non carbon transport sell a cheaper product.
Personally I support tax of fossile and subsidization of alternatives. Worked like a charm to electrify Norways car park.
The cons are however that increased demand for electricity means building wind, hydro, solar power, with a huge cost to local environent both in most land and the diesel used by construction euipment
- Comment on Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool 1 year ago:
It might be it’s because of Teslas business model. They protract the cases, and gamle on it not going to mediation. (Customer gives up) and that the US head office is required to evaluate the case, rather than the local or national dealer. In either case I don’t want shite US late stage capitalist business practices in Norway so Tesla can fuck right off.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ 1 year ago:
What three games are perfect?
- Comment on Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool 1 year ago:
No it was in Norway. Tesla sold 21303 new cars in Norway in 2022. Total new car sales for Norway in 2022 was 174329. Tesla Model Y is the most sold new car in Norway and Tesla is the largest brand. Totally electric cars is 79.3% of all new cars (Norway has pretty generous tax incentives on electric cars making even high end Teslas pretty cheap)
83 out of 168 cases that ended up in “consumer court” (that is they have not been resolved without mediation) was Tesla. These cases are mostly not cosmetic but more serious issues that has not been resolved.
- Comment on Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool 1 year ago:
Perhaps for chapter consumer products, but starting a car company that produces normal mass produced cars is not really done overnight. And Tesla produces the most shite cars of all of them only really disrupting by cutting out customer service at this point.
- Comment on Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool 1 year ago:
I have a Mazda6 estate 2.2 diesel and pretty happy with it. Compared to other cars in the same class it’s no worse regarding reliability as far as I could research