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Price is the only reason that I've seen that I respect. They are more expensive. If you can afford one I recommend switching, if you can't then I understand.

No charging at home is doable, but it wouldn't be easy, so I also respect that one - but I recommend something like a plugin hybrid for when you can.

For 80% of Americans who have at least 2 cars and a garage though, there's no reason not to have one of them be an EV. You have a place to charge at home so you never need gas, and yes it's more expensive but if you have a garage and can afford more than one car, then maybe hold on for the extra 10k to get an EV.

People talk about EVs like they do long haul 12 hour road trips every week and that it's just "imposssssible" to have an EV. Like, it's not nearly as bad as people make it sound, and then even then if it is terrible just keep an ICE vehicle around for them. Apparently I'm a weird one with 99% of my trips being commuting, going to the grocery store, random errands, and short 20ish mile drives.

And it shows that they haven't evolved at all past it.

And that's exactly what I recommend for people who can only have one car, it's not as great as a full EV, but it'll get you over the hump

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 16 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

My favorite reason, they want someone that looks like them. Heard that when I said I'd consider adopting, the other person was like "but don't you want someone who looks like you?!"

Uh, no, my cat looks nothing like me but I still somehow mustered empathy for it. I don't understand why people feel like they would love an adopted kid less, and it makes them horrible people.

This is pretty clearly a bot account with censorship code in there.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This is valid, the charging infrastructure was getting much better than stalled ironically because people said "the charging infrastructure isn't good enough". If a trip is long enough sometimes we just rent a car

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

A prime example of the argument propaganda has pushed.

How do I know? Because I've seen this argument literally hundreds of times and it's so easily bunked.

How often do you actually make that drive? Is it every month or more? I highly highly doubt that you're driving that far that frequently.

If it's that rare? Rent a car. It'll be less than buying gas.

Or, if you have a two car household have one EV and one ice. Take the ice on long trips and then 99% of the trips you take near home it's ev.

Good old Tibor. What do you mean he was promoted?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 1 day ago (22 children)

Having a charger at home is honestly so freaking nice. I just don't think about gas or gas stations or anything. I will never go back to ICE vehicles after this one

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I just realized that he showed up twice! I've seen both gags a hundred times and never put together that he was the same guy!

Turns out it was never them being worried about the power usage at all...

 

JeffTek, a small creator made "What Happened To Linus Tech Tips" last week, going over some of the public issues of the channel and it's falling out. (Main link on this thread, also here ) IMO very fair, straight to the facts, a bit of his own opinion in there, but he defended Linus on multiple steps too.

Linus catches wind and goes to R_ddit, putting the guy on blast for "rehashing things from the past". Not wrong... but weird for the CEO to do this directly in a Reddit thread.

JeffTek now responds to the comments in his latest video.

 

Unique ask, but I hope some folks here will help me out a bit. I'm talking with a youtube creator who focuses on waste in society, and they are interested in doing a youtube video on Windows 11 and the planned obsolence around ending Windows 10, and requiring the TPM.

Part of this that I'm pushing is the "Don't throw it out, install Linux". While I can describe a good amount, does anyone have any good resources that you recommend that I can forward on about what Linux is, and why someone may want to look into it? This would be for someone who is non technical - think an average Macbook user.

Appreciate any links or youtube videos or anything you may have stored away for this teaching Linux!

 

Currently I have random docs/how-tos for my network stored in a forgejo repo, just a bunch of READMEs. I'd like to somehow make that a bit more official, I like writing it in markdown/git and having source control, but was wondering if anyone has a good wiki tool they like that can consume that and make it more hostable? Thanks!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38959141

lovin the minneapolis sound

playlist link:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6F3sCPmocAQDMNRNg7TZZb

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52920216

 

My phone is definitely showing it's age, about 5 years old now, battery doesn't last more than 7ish hours. I've done research and if possible, I think I'd like to get the Fairphone. Does anyone have experience with it in the US? I know I'd have to import it, but using local carriers how well does it work?

 

A bit dumbfounded and just had to express it.

I had a 7 hour flight a couple of days ago and it had free wifi on the flight. Neat, I get to message people on the plane. However, I feel that for that long you still bring a book, or puzzles, or in my case I brought my Deck and played games for the duration of the flight.

The guy next to me though watched TikTok for the entire flight. 7 hours of constant stream of algorithm content to his face. I kind of understand why it's so addicting, it just keeps coming and coming with no end. I was just astonished with how he could keep going for 7 hours. An hour fine, it's a lot but we've all lost ourselves for an hour. 7 hours of constant feed though.

Idk, people come here to Lemmy and the Fediverse and say there isn't enough content. Well if 7 hours of content like that is expected it's too freaking much. If anything I feel I'm much healthier with social media now. Maybe they're angry because it feels more like a withdrawal.

No real point to this post beyond that. Just a very interesting thing to witness.

 

Dave & I don't always agree, but this was a good video. Admitting Windows coddles it's users too much, showing why Windows lost it's hardcore audience, and what it would take to win any of us back. (Not that that's likely, but what it would take)

 

Coming up on the 20th Anniversary of the release, more relevant each year unfortunately.

Available to rent on Youtube and Amazon Prime

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