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Pope Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho XII.

“I call it beautiful, clean lead. I told my people, never use the word lead unless you put beautiful clean before it.”

It’s in obvious that you have never flown Ryanair. They make it very clear at every point of the journey that they have zero regard for their customers and crew. It’s an antagonistic relationship from beginning to end.

This is coming from the CEO who pitched “vertical seating” after all.

I think I was just added to JFK Jr.'s Signal group-chat.

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And that sample size is pretty small. I wouldn’t count on the US losing a war.

With a reasonably powerful induction stove there’s no real difference between time 2. and 3.

Tesla understood the “computer on wheels” approach to vehicle engineering far before most, if not all, traditional manufacturers. Their EV route planner in combination with their Supercharger network is still mostly unbeaten and was long its biggest selling point. The software is far from perfect, but it’s mostly polished, mature and has been a focus from the beginning.

All your criticism is perfectly valid, though. But most of them aren’t owed to lack of software quality but merely bad management decisions. I’d even argue that the autopilot is doing well with the limited sensors its been given - a restriction its unlikely to overcome with software alone, regardless of Elon’s lies.

I would never buy a Tesla, but most manufacturers struggle more when it comes to delivering software people actually want to use.

Software was probably one of the last areas where Tesla still had a small edge over the competition.

The competition has caught up when it comes to range and Teslas were never really competitive when it comes to quality or price.

Of course. But on the other hand: Who else would?

It’s not like Bob from Des Moines is going to find $100 billion behind the sofa cushions to buy it. There aren’t that many companies with much higher valuations.

The only thing that surprised me about the idiotic numbers was that they weren’t overwritten by even dumber ones in sharpie.

To be fair, this isn’t quite the worst thing the US has done in those 248 years.

I’m able to see any news that would be relevant as quickly as any other social media,

That’s not what I use Reddit for and that’s sadly the only Reddit (and other social media) thing today, that Lemmy mimics successfully.

I’m using Reddit mostly for the niche and special interest communities. For specific tech advice and troubleshooting. For all the stuff that once used to be home on newsgroups and bulletin boards and can now only be found in subreddits and, even worse, Discord communities.

And a lot of these smaller tech communities were super motivated to move to Lemmy, but Lemmy’s complete inability to surface anything but the most popular posts in the most popular communities (there’s still no equivalent for multireddits and there was no weighted popularity until 0.19) rapidly killed and suffocated virtually all of them.

That’s the reason why you can type “obscure technical problem Reddit” into Google and almost always get a relevant answer, while that will likely never be the case for Lemmy.

I can discuss things in communities that feel welcoming to me as a queer socialist that I could hardly find on Reddit.

I’m not saying Lemmy doesn’t have good communities, it certainly does, but once you go beyond news, politics and memes there’s neither enough content nor enough users to keep anything else alive.

Lemmy is very much a viable alternative

Oh, how I wish that were true. Alas, stats keep showing that Lemmy is not continuing to grow, on the contrary. There is close to zero activity in anything but the most main stream communities and Lemmy is only now making very, very slow and tentative steps to actually surface more niche communities after effectively burying and suffocating them in every release up to and including the current stable.

Yeah, until the printer engineers took over from the sewing machine engineers in around 2020. Even Brother is evil now, rolling out firmware updates that render third party toner useless or do even more evil shenanigans via firmware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131

I don’t think there’s a good brand left these days, Brother was the last bastion of “not shitty” and now they, too, were enshittified.

Sadly, they are also evil now. Latest firmware (~2020) outright blocks third party cartridges or, even more evil, accepts them and then secretly and intentionally, prints like crap:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131

Everything until ~2019 is awesome, though. Just disable firmware updates.

Here too, just don’t update your firmware (and turn off auto-updates). Brother went evil around 2020, too.