knight_alva

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[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I respect your opinion. I don’t feel the same.

[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Valid. I just lack general faith in the practice of voting with your wallet. My default assumption is that it takes an unreasonable amount of persistence and coordination, and that the majority of people either don’t know or don’t care about whatever issue is being considered.

[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Remember when apple started getting dinged for programming their batteries to fail artificially and making them unnecessarily hard to replace just to force more people to upgrade?

Mark my words. That trick is coming soon to a Tesla near you.

[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Renting forever sounds like a nightmare. They already took housing from me. I don’t want to keep losing things.

[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I’m the sort of person who enjoys doing things myself when it comes to my car. It isn’t just a tinkering hobby to me. My car is a huge source for feelings of safety and control. Theoretically, I could tear down and rebuild almost everything on my car with a socket wrench set. Obviously it’s more complicated than that and as other people have mentioned there are some modern combustion cars that are massively complicated just to stop people like myself from getting into them. EVs on the other hand are way easier to lock down because the whole power train is basically a black box connected to a battery and operated by an app. Sure the breaks and wheels are the same but nearly everything else is either black boxed (motor and controls) or gone completely (transmission and drive train)which makes the car as a whole less fixable / modable. This makes me feel less safe having to rely on one.

[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yes, exactly! We are just going to see more of this as time passes and I hate it. Idk what I can to about it other than buy cars that do less of this. Not that my one purchase every other decade really matters.

[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago (28 children)

The difference between wall-e and eve makes me think of cars. How old and even some modern combustion cars are built well and engineered to be highly modular and user serviceable. EVs are highly proprietary. They rely on closed systems that can’t practically be serviced without special equipment.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m NOT a fan of fossil fuels at all. I just don’t like how cars have been slowly morphing into proprietary unreliable cellphone-like commodities, or how the push towards EVs seems to be accelerating that trend.

[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Complete control over time. I can stop, start, speed up, slow down, skip forward, skip back, and rewind.

[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That’s the “pilot light”

It’s apparently named after someone from the Bible. See, that guy is dead now. When that light comes on it means you will be dead soon too if you don’t get away from the car.

I have been told that furnaces, boilers, and certain grills also have these lights, but that doesn’t really make sense to me.

[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is if you’re in Florida.

[–] knight_alva@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I’m a fan of Alaskan Duck Farts but these look cool too.

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