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Our Leaf has about 130KM range, we almost never have to charge when out and about. I think I've done it two or three times in the I think 2 years we've had it.

What I'm waiting for is for some 1000KM range car to become available. There are some in production but only fancy cars. Then when they become used cars I can pick up one that can still do 800 or 900 KM on a charge. For $20k I hope (I know I'm dreaming). With battery technology the way it is, I bet EVs lose value faster than other cars (as you can get more range as technology improves).

$30k is still far more than I've ever spent on a car, not only will I have to save up I'll also have to get the courage to spend it 😆.

We never have any issues, why do we keep all these IT people around? Let's get rid of them.

I have their number blocked. I've done a couple of trials with them, but only ever the first couple with the biggest discount, then cancel.

Yeah I know what you mean! I remember the first time we spent $10k on a car, and that felt like a lot. It was a much nicer car than the 1995 corona we had before then (this was in maybe 2016 or 2017). We actually kept that Corona for a while after that too, we only had one car up to that point.

I would like to buy a nice EV (we have a leaf, but I mean a $60k or even $80k car), but like you I have trouble with spending that much on a car. That's more than our deposit when we bought our first house (how times have changed).

My current plan is to wait for a few years and reassess. But our Ford Kuga has been expensive to maintain so getting rid of it earlier may pay off (probably not to the tune of $60k though 😅).

In fairness, I come from a country where before you can even buy a car you need to bid for a Certificate of Entitlement (COE) to own a particular class of car. The COE frequently costs more than the car you’re buying. And it also has to be renewed every 10 years. But they have an amazing public transport system. So I guess cheap is relative.

Interesting! Cheap is definitely relative.

I’m aware of this, but it would only really matter for maybe 10% of trips. It’s lame, but my actual dream right now would be a late model Kia Carnival. Way too expensive and they really are huge cars to drive around.

You could save up for it! It's what we make the kids do when they want something, but it works for adults too!

As someone who borrowed a Toyota Highlander for a few months, my dream is for a car that fits in carparks 😆

Haha guess I’m fancy, almost every car I’ve bought has been under 100K km’s, but the never were very expensive. Benefit of the cheap imported cars here.

I think what I consider "cheap" has changed a lot over my life. I never spent more than a couple of grand on a car until we had kids.

The wife doesn’t really mind not having a 7 seater, but the reason I’m considering it, is it makes it so much easier when family visits a couple times a year.

A quick look online, you're talking about $200 to hire an 8 seater van/car thing like that for a day. Unless you're picking up from Auckland Airport then the exact same thing is double the price 🤷

If you need it twice a year, that's $400 a year. Just having a big 7 seater will probably cost you that much extra fuel before you even talk about the price of the car.

Of course you could also just put up with taking two cars, which also means twice the boot space. A 7 seater typically doesn't have much boot space when the 6th and 7th seats are up.

Maybe I need to revise my stance then, I’m so used to always looking for smaller cars with lower KM’s, but the asking prices for some of these high mileage SUVs is crazy to me, some are close to new car non 7 seater prices.

Yeah the cost of a 7 seater SUVs can be a killer.

I never owned a car with less than 100k KMs on the clock until recently. And really that was just about getting a safer car when we had kids. So I guess I see 100K-200K as a "normal" range. Under 100K is for fancy people 😋

The other frustration is trying to figure out what models and engines are good and which are duds, so much conflicting information on basically every model I look up.

Haha yes, all cars are going to have some failures and so it's hard to use anecdotal evidence to decide if it's a bad model or random chance. If you buy from a dealer you at least have some level of protection from the CGA, but you'll also pay more for that.

Is it feasible to not buy a giant 7 seater SUV, and instead just hire one when needed? That's going to depend on how close you are to a place that has them for hire and how often you expect to need it, but I think you'll find it's cheaper financially. Not just because big SUVs are super expensive, but also because they suck fuel like crazy. Unless it's a hybrid then the fuel costs are much higher than a smaller car., and you'll be paying that regardless of whether you are using seats 6 and 7.

Depends on the budget probably..

Over or near to 200k KMs would probably worry me a bit, but personally I wouldn't think twice about one in the 100-150k KM range so long as it's otherwise good.

I personally would prioritise getting newer safety features over worrying about the KMs, so long as the car is generally in good shape.

Yes. But why? I wasn't able to find anything confirming the chain of events that led from an auction at over $2000 with the registration company refusing to cancel it, to Hexbear suddenly having their domain back and everything back to normal.

Good luck!

It's really not clear that's what happened. A direct question and there's no real answer: https://hexbear.net/post/4470506

In the original thread about it there were people joking that the domain renewal didn't get paid after DOGE cut funding.

But it's just suspicious enough that if I were a user I'd not share any personal info and connect via a VPN...

It might need some special setup? Here's a guide to setting up from a couple of years ago (hopefully not too far out of date): https://appelman.se/matrix-on-cloudflare

I haven't done it myself (using Matrix.Org like a pleb) so can't give any advice.

It seems to exist for me. I didn't try to join but it seems to exist:

Interestingly it seems to be a room about ActivityPub not Lemmy. I'd probably join that room and then ask there. The lead devs are definitely active on Matrix so that's where I'd head if I wanted to contribute.

There's a guide to new contributors. It has a link to a Matrix chat where communication happens.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/01-overview.html

A couple of versions back there were some changes to images. The current set up we have is to proxy all images and save none. Previously thumbnails were stored forever and other images were loaded direct from source (e.g. if someone on Lemmy.world uploaded a meme, everyone one looking at it on every instance would always load the image from lemmy.world). Proxying is optional in Lemmy but I've enabled it. There is still some tweaking to do because certain sites don't work well (from memory I think Imgur and Youtube are two big ones).

The proxy is currently configued to store images for 3 days after they were last accessed. So if no one on lemmy.nz looks at a particular meme for three days then the cached image is deleted. The image is re-loaded on demand, so if you go to look at something from a month ago and no one else has looked at it recently, then the lemmy.nz server will re-download it and then proxy it to you. If you browse All with order set to New you'll see this in action, as the brand new posts take a little while for the images to be downloaded and provided to you.

Posts from before we turned on proxying don't use the proxying, they just have the thumbnails stored in full resolution and kept indefinitely. I did previously use a tool for deleting old thumbnails which also helped.

Long story short, it's been a struggle to keep the hard drive use that small 😆

It's everything your instance is aware of, yes.

I don't see why metal songs wouldn't be allowed, and I think technically this year is allowed too. I think this can be in the running.

Ok thanks, I'll give that a go 🙂

While the user bases of Piefed and Mbin are smaller, they should be included as they federate with Lemmy and interact with our communities.

The same is true of Mastodon but that's a lot harder to count since most Mastodon users are not interacting with Lemmy (since it's a different style of platform - microblog vs link sharing).

I mean, I kinda feel that's the least they could do.