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Samsung appliances have had a bad reputation for more than a decade now. I don’t know how they can still sell appliances - how is it not everyone knows yet? How is it they still haven’t fixed the quality problems?

They need to invite lemmy somehow too. I know no ceo but still plenty of radicals. Not just on .ml though that is the worst.

I find it weird that every part time jobs tries to play off flexible scheduling as a perk. Their schedule isn’t flexible, they decide what shifts they want me to work. It might be better than factory work where you always work exactly the same shift or you must take vacation (or sick leave but they demand a doctor’s note) - but you can plan around that well in advance. Meanwhile every full time job I’ve had wasn’t factory work and so the expectation was "work any 8 hours per day, make sure you show up for the important meetings)

Lifetime for security. Other features (new drivers…) you can pay for, but security is lifetime. You need to escrow enough money to provide this service or prove that nobody is using the OS.

All services required for use of the device are also lifetime - though they may charge a subscription price so long as that price is clear to the customer before the first sale and prices go up by inflation only. After 15 years they can drop the service if it is easy for a “normal user” to switch to a different subscription provider; and all source code required for someone “skilled in the art” to create and maintain their own service provider is publicly released under terms that allow modification and redistribution was released at least 5 years before killing their own service.

You are allowed to drop support for any protocol that is not latest recommended state of the art so long as you maintain what was recommended at time of release. If a newer protocol comes out you need not support it. (Which is to say you can be IPv6 only today, and if the internet switches to IPv12 in the future you don’t have to support that)

The above applies to anything network connected. OS, web browser, Security camera, thermostat…

Compared to walking or riding a horse they are freedom. They cost a lot, but also enable a lot.

i wish we had transit here, but that doesn’t mean cars are not freedom. Even in europe most people drive.

my phev is a minivan which I bought used for 25k. The only ev minivan in the us is 60k (just came out so used not available. Those are the real numbers, the engine prices you quote are irrelavent as I’m not buying an engine I’m buying a camplete vehicle.

nothing to do with the slate, the conversation has drifted. The slate is not available at anyprice today, though it looks like an interesting option in the future.

They did. the reaction/article is clearly misleading the truth. Go read the other side before jumping to conclusions (that is always good advice even more so on the feddiverse where almost every headline chooses to push outrage over any attempt of the truth.

Because in the US BEVs are only just starting to become available. At 3x the price I can’t afford a BEV. I buy used cars in general which means I only have what was sold 3+ years ago as an option. Even PHEV I had one option, but since it had been around for a while it was used (and I didn’t ask to many questions before buying because I suspected someone else would buy it if I did)

I have a todo list that will keep me busy for then next 3000 years, and that is before rebuilding the transmission on my 1999 is added to the list. (note that I assume the medical advances needed for me to live 3000 years are on someone else’s list as I have no clue…) Eventually I have to give up on something so I can do something else.

As an owner of one (PHEV) I’m saving nearly $200/month in fuel. That is much more bigger than maintenance. I hope this lasts as long as the last one but the transmission isn’t known to be good (the “better” transmission on the last one was failing) Only time will tell, but so long as I need to drive I the question is how much I spend in a lifetime and electric has proven it to me.

The comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261163 give the other side of the story and paint a compelling picture that this guy has done unrelated crimes (that he was convicted of) and should be in prison.

In real world use my phev runs 6x less than the previous ice. I had to install a level 2 charger (us) so we could make two trips per day, but it saves a lot of gas. Sure more range would be nice but in the real world phev uses a lot less petro. of course if you never bother charging it (thus a hybrid) you save little but it isn’t hard to make a phev a lot better than a ice. Never as good as a full ev but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

I oppose NIMBY no matter who is there. I only restrict polution if it would leave your property. Freedom only works if is for everyone including those doing things you don’t like.

Most vibration comes from the road not the engine, and the worst is road hazzards. Engines are Carefully balanced and isolated.

Not that it matters, where I like rust from winter road salt is what kills cars. And cars still last a long time if you care for them.

Come on people - I want a EV, but as a used car buyer I’m stuck with the garbage you bought 3-7 years ago.

Not really - keyboards need to be much farther from the screen than that. Laptops are terrible for the same reason. Maybe your body can accept that bad ergonomics, but mine cannot. which is why I carry a separate keyboard for my laptop and phone. (plus mechanical keyboards are much better anyway)

The tow capacity isn’t what stops me from using my sedan to move stuff, it’s the lack of space!

I’m not sure what you are hauling, but I would not be surprised if it is beyond the maximum weight of this thing. It is very limited as a truck even though it has space. Of course there is a difference between a box of feathers and a box of gold (the later implies you are putting more than the capacity in armor on the truck)

The 1992 Hilux has 3x the towing capacity. Other small pickups of the era had even more capacity.

Sounds like a problem with your area that you should fix - before for medical reasons you are unable to drive and thus forced to move.

I want a truck as a truck. I don’t need power windows, leather seats, or other luxury features. I need something I can jump in with muddy shoes, greasy clothes from whatever machine I was working on, and just go. The limited tow capacity (1000lbs - there are compact cars that can do that!).

I prefer driving small cars, there is no way a truck can handle as well as a car, there are too many compromises needed to be a truck. However a truck is often what I need for the real world and this is just another small car on a truck body giving the worst of both worlds.