SJ_Zero @ SJ_Zero @lemmy.fbxl.net

I run the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Social, FBXL Lemmy, FBXL

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Exactly that sort of thing.

Seems crazy, but most people don't need a giant expensive car, and many people could get a vehicle if that wasn't the only real choice out there.

A few different things including what you're talking about.

Tesla would be one of the smallest car companies if you actually went by the fundamentals of the company though, and instead it has a market cap so high it covers the entire world's car industry combined.

I have a completely different stance on EVs.

Part of the "EV Problem" is that they're trying to solve the problem of ICE vehicles as they exist today using electric cars. This is because everything is set up for big ICE cars. The problem to be solved in that case is trying to replicate 100 years of ICE technology including highly efficient long distance travel whose range can be recovered in a few minutes at a fueling station. Since it's not possible to reasonably solve that problem with current technology, oligarchs can collect billions of dollars of money trying to build the holy grail of ICE replacement EVs.

The vision I have for EVs is completely different, and possible with current technology, and would improve the quality of life for a lot more people, and would be better for the environment in the long run.

A friend of mine is a Chinese national, he grew up in China. When he was in high school, they had these 3 wheeled electric vehicles people would drive around. They even had enough room that some people would go into business as a local taxi service, picking people up and taking them wherever they wanted to go. Eventually the existence of these vehicles embarrassed the local government so they cracked down on them.

Those vehicles are available online today, and a fully enclosed version is available for a few thousand dollars, no additional tech required.

So my vision is promoting and opening the regulatory field for small, low speed (60km/h or less), weatherproof EVs with a relatively low range (100km or so) that you can buy for less than $10k (a battery powered heater would be good for regions with particularly bad weather). In my view, something with an easily removable battery would be ideal, since on cold days you could bring the battery inside with you instead of trying to deal with cold weather and chargers in spots without power cords.

Since it'd be slower and lighter, I expect we'd be able to reduce the regulations about drivers as well, and the insurance requirements. A low cost to buy, low cost to own, low cost and difficulty to operate personal vehicle that uses significantly less material would improve the lives of many people who presently don't have personal transportation for much of the year.

To accomplish it, you don't need subsidies, just deregulate so it's easy to manufacture, easy to sell, easy to buy, easy to own, easy to use.

Compare that with giving billions of dollars collected from regular Joes to a billionaire so he can make impractical luxury cars for the 1%.

In the fable of the and and the grasshopper the grasshopper needed food stored up more than ever when the winter came, but the time to be preparing for winter was the spring, summer, and fall when you plant, tend, and harvest. By the time winter comes it's too late.

The best time for someone with a variable rate mortgage to refinance as fixed rate would have been 2020. You didn't need a fixed rate back then because variable rate was in some cases less than 1%, but you need one now because mortgages are around 7%. If you refinance now it won't help.

The time to unionize was when labor had power by being in demand. 2020 would have been a good time, but maybe even the mid 2010s.

I checked before posting, and yes, many European nations do have youth unemployment in the 20% range.

Which makes sense. Companies still need people, but if it's more expensive to get low-end workers you just won't hire entry level workers unless they've proven themselves beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Don't many European countries have like 20% youth unemployment?

No offense, but it seems like a really dumb idea to unionize in the middle of mass industry layoffs.

Maybe you would do it when things are going good, but if everyone around you is getting laid off and you unionize, it almost seems self-evident who's going to get laid off next.

Is it illegal? Probably. Are they going to get away with it? Probably.

Everyone should remember that big tech companies aren't your friend.

The one thing you can't say about Kanye West is that he's not entertaining. Every edgelord I know was having a field day with it.

I've got jerboa, but typically I just use a web browser since the mobile experience is really good for most fediverse platforms, and when they're not it's an opportunity to improve them -- lotide had a terrible experience on mobile until I improved it on my site which then the dev used to create a whole new theme that worked way better on mobile.

Before I settled on Lemmy and lotide, I tried out aether:

https://getaether.net/

Like a Bittorrent client you need to expose porch to the outside world because you end up helping to host the network.

Ultimately I preferred a website I could host and visit from anywhere I could get internet to software I needed to run (and set up networking for) anywhere I wanted to use it, but it was a nice system otherwise.

The quote doesn't show him admitting it, but rather says his biographer said it.

Thunderf00t made many videos about the Hyperloop and while you do need to keep thinking for yourself while watching them because he makes mistakes or interjects conjecture or personal opinion as fact at times, he still does a good job of showing how absurd Hyperloop is on its face.

The so-called "fall of Elon Musk" should be a reminder to everyone so just think for yourselves. I know the TV ended up painting this guy is the second coming of Christ, but you don't become a multi multibillionaire several times over by just being a good guy. There's an old saying, you can become a millionaire through honesty, integrity, and hard work, but you can't become a billionaire.

Also everyone needs to keep in mind that most of his billions came out of your pocket. His companies are based off of massive government subsidies including the hyperloop, and one of the reasons why Tesla's stock price is so high is just because of government policies that have led to a massive stock market bubble at the expense of the common man. And there's just so much money sloshing around due to excessive government debt and massive central bank money printing it had to go somewhere, and it ended up going into stocks and other assets making those people rich while inflation adjusted wages have stagnated for decades.

My YouTube premium downloads are on my sd card, which works out nicely.

I listen to certain YouTube videos to get to sleep and have for years and years. Wireless ear buds just aren't in the cards for something like that.

Contract stipulation was all coding had to be done in a domino mask.

"haha jughead you sure love hamburgers!"

Actually, I lied.

How much more black can this get? None. None more black.

Imaging software is a godsend for that sort of thing. I ended up using BartPE for something like that, and it worked great -- it has a free imaging program on it. You only need a removable drive large enough for all your files since it'll compress everything.

Peertube is a federated video platform. That means that like lemmy or mastodon, there's a huge number of different instances. My instance for example, is following 103 other instances, and is followed by 73 other instances. Each instance is hosted by different people, and each have different rules.

Because of the wide variety of instances, it's truly distributed and so all kinds of things are hosted there, from cat videos to porn and other stuff you typically can't host on other platforms such as covid conspiracy theory videos.

One peertube channel that is similar to what you're talking about is minetest videos: minetestvideos@share.tube It's consistently trending on my feed (but different sites will have different feeds based on what they are or are not federated to).

I think your best bet is to see what's out there, because there's a lot of content but it's sort of like old youtube.

If I were to become a youtuber today, I'd diversify. You can create a youtube channel and mirror it on peertube, for example. I think that some other alt-tech sites like rumble and bitchute have similar features as well, so you could set up a workflow where you post a video and have it show up on a number of different platforms.

The reason peertube is better than youtube is the same reason lemmy is better than reddit and mastodon is better than twitter; It's libre, distributed, and generally not algorithmically driven.

Oh, one other neat thing: If you ever have a peertube video just blow up and become super popular, peertube uses torrent style technology so video watchers automatically share pieces of the video with one another. Just a little neat thing that helps scale a video site whereas it's generally tough once you start getting popular.

I have a feeling you'd end up with a bunch of big drives with small volumes on them if it did work.

Warning you, I've had issues with RAID combining SSD and HDD. Basically I was on an older dell server and I wanted to do mirroring and the bios straight up refused to do it because it didn't want to mix ssds and hdds.