BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 15 hours ago:
Taxi companies don’t keep specific vehicles for 20 years, they wear out long before then. Keeping them maintained to pass inspection at that point would be a costly nightmare.
The first Tesla only came out 17 years ago, and it was a 2-door sports car… so yea it’s not really surprising you wouldn’t see 15 year old Teslas regularly. They do exist though. The Model S has only been out for 13 years, and there are definitely still first run Model S vehicles driving around. There are 8 from that original year for sale on Autotrader.com right now, all in running condition.
There are only 2 Prius C from 2012, and 2 more Prius V from the same year. Those were the first years of each of those models as well, just like the Tesla.
I think Teslas are shit though. They’re designer brand electric cars, poor quality, and they make zero financial sense at all compared to full EV models from the likes of Hyundai, Kia, or VW.
Also, like I said in an other comment, Taxis are not driven the same way that a regular person drives their car. Hybrids are absolutely perfect for the Taxi driving use case. They make almost no sense when used once a day to go to work, and then hit the grocery store and gym on the way home.
- Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech? 1 day ago:
You mean Comprehension?
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 1 day ago:
Cabs don’t drive like you do. Neither based on distance driven, nor the constant stop and go driving that optimizes hybrid use case.
Full electric is better for a lot of taxi locations, which is why a lot of Cab companies are now starting to switch their fleets over.
Even Uber ditched it’s Uber Green branding for Uber Electric.
Every single Waymo on the road is fully electric at this point after they phased out their hybrid units a couple years ago.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 1 day ago:
And then it will become more expensive to maintain than the gas version the year after, and worth less at resale because of a degraded battery or some shit.
Also, brakes are not a primary cost in ownership of a vehicle.
Math is fun, but you need to do a total cost of ownership calculation, not a cost to date calculation.
Full electric is simply better math.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 2 days ago:
If you’ve only had it three years, the expensive maintenance part hasn’t started yet, it’s probably still under warranty.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 2 days ago:
A) Your car is not an EV. It’s a Hybrid.
B) All hybrid cars were/are bad investments.
You take a car, make it more complicated by adding an entire second power and drive system, and then expect it to not cost a fortune to maintain later?
Fucking stupidity.
- Comment on Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand 5 days ago:
Welcome to the Matrix.
- Comment on [NSQ Friday] Are sunchips really from the sun? 5 days ago:
The molecules are also mostly created through the use of energy from our sun.
- Comment on Noob RAM speed question 1 week ago:
Part of that is going to depend on what exactly you’re doing with the computer, and how fast the other components are.
If you’re just browsing the internet and want to be able to have more than 5 tabs open before your computer starts stuttering, the extra ram will be far more important than the speed.
If you’re playing games, and your CPU and GPU are really good compared to your ram already, the bottleneck from the ram speed dropping may slow things down rather than speed them up.
- Comment on The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived 1 week ago:
It won’t matter in the slightest.
- Comment on What types of cleaning products do you *really* need to clean the bathroom? 2 weeks ago:
Each thing gets washed once, with the appropriate chemical if needed.
Generally for the toilet bowl, something with bleach.
For surfaces like the toilet and sink, especially in a bathroom, I usually swap between using just some vinegar and Fantastic all purpose cleaner. Vinegar is fine most weeks, Fantastic once in a while to get some of the stuff Vinegar may not have got properly with those extra chemicals that it has but I could easily go months without needing it.
I use water and a microfiber cloth for the mirrors and the faucet, a drop of dish soap if there’s something on it (like dried toothpaste spittle). This also works for walls most of the time if you wipe those, but I don’t wipe my walls very regularly, maybe once a year.
Hot water is fine for the tile floor too, maybe it gets something stronger a couple times a year.
You don’t need a lot unless someone in the household is sick with something that could be transmitted through a bathroom. Then hit it with harsher chemicals.
One thing to note may be that in certain warmer climates, there are other considerations for mold and bacterial growth that I do not have to worry about where I live (in a cooler climate)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s a fucking struggle right now, and It’s not supposed to be like this.
You shouldn’t have to work a full time job, and take care of the house, and take care of the kids. Neither should the wife/partner.
The fact that it requires two working parents at this point to afford life is the problem. There’s enough to go around even if just one parent was participating in the economy, if it was distributed more fairly.
The pendulum has swung too far on capitalism, and it’s sucking the vast majority of people dry just to feed itself. There’s a reason why birthrates have jumped off a cliff.
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 2 weeks ago:
That ain’t going to work out for them.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 4 weeks ago:
That’s neat.
Why does that article contain no references more recent than 1806 though. Is it called something else these days? It seems like there should be more modern information on the practice.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Based on your question, and your other comments, it sounds like the only way you’re getting laid is by paying for it.
- Comment on Generative AI is a societal disaster 4 weeks ago:
On one hand, you’re right.
On the other hand, you’re missing the point.
Jobs aren’t the the goal of life. People need to remember that. Our current system of distributing resources is broken if we don’t have enough jobs, but we could change the system rather than forcing everyone to work when it’s not needed.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 5 weeks ago:
That does not apply to humans who are capable of intentionally avoiding certain breeding problems, and also who have medical knowledge that can apply even if it does happen.
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 5 weeks ago:
Hockey, started in my late thirties, couldn’t even stop at the time.
Great exercise
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
In terms of time investments, working out may be one possible consideration.
- Comment on How do Ghostwriters work? Does the person the book is about say to the writer I will give you 2 or 20 percent of the sales or is it a 50 50 split? 5 weeks ago:
It’s definitely not 50/50, there would be a negotiated amount (Fixed or percentage) less than that. The ghostwriter may be employed by the publisher and just receive a salary too.
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 5 weeks ago:
Never again?
China unfortunately. I enjoyed the country the last time, but I see no future where I go back in my lifetime. It’s not safe for me.
Not till they clean up their act a lot more?
The US, I live right next to it, I’m the right colour and gender to not get harassed, but I’m not crossing that border anytime soon.
- Comment on [META] Is it ok to ask for advice here? 1 month ago:
That question is fine here in my opinion.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 month ago:
He’s not forcing you into a subscription model, he wants you to either allow ads or go to a subscription model.
You don’t need to pay 8 Euro a month, you just need to allow the ads.
It’s not broken to prevent ad blockers, we all got used to a system that wasn’t sustainable, and now we’re seeing what is actually required for sites and apps to survive.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 month ago:
“For essay writing task”
I’m not using it to write essays. I’ve been programming far beyond my normal capabilities.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 month ago:
My daily use of said tool disagrees with your assertion.
- Comment on Why does information want to be free 1 month ago:
Gases expand to fill their containers due to the random, high-speed motion of their individual particles and the minimal intermolecular forces between them.
The translation for humans is that humans like to move around and talk, and there’s not a lot stopping them from doing it.
- Comment on Why does information want to be free 1 month ago:
It’s the same reason that liquids and gasses expand to fill their container
- Comment on Should 21-23-year-olds be allowed to date older people? 1 month ago:
The age of majority (or various ages) are somewhat arbitrary, but it has to be drawn somewhere because it’s used to allow a whole bunch of activities rather than just for relationships.
There’s a significant difference between “you must be this age to be considered old enough to make your own choices on a variety of things” and “here’s a specific range of people who you are not allowed to have sexual intercourse with”
- Comment on Electric vehicle sales grew 25% worldwide but just 6% in North America 2 months ago:
… What?
Did you forget your /s tag