I don't think that user was personally complaining, more pointing out that LW might be facing it's first crisis of resources. Good sys-ops people don't come cheap, and bad one often can do far more harm than help.
It's tricky trying to handle something like this when LW is foundationally not an enterprise or anything close to a business.
Wikipedia isn't a social platform. I suspect that their text growth was log(n) or something of the like. The only new text are things that are literally new or updates.
Lemmy has no cap there. The amount of new text will grow in some proportion to the user base. The more users and more instances, the more text. To say nothing of duplication from cross posting when you get wonky cuts in the federation connections.
None of this is free and it's going to be a problem if Lemmy grows.
Google is trying to add code to it's chromium software that would functionally allow for DRM between you and a website. It would be a huge blow to your ability to control ads and what software runs on your PC when you connect to a site.
I have for about a decade. I use my phone as my backup map when I am flying. It has to work, every time, without fail. I've never owned an android that could hold a candle to an iPhone for software stability.
I live in Colorado, but your point is mostly valid. If you don't have a home charging solution then an EV starts looking a lot more questionable.
My commute is about 60 miles. The car reports I will burn a bit over 50% battery going there and back again when at full charge, and after the full round trip it's generally only off by about 1-2% from its topped off estimate. So for my own real world experience? It's generally accurate for it's range estimation and when it's off I generally know why (Driving 85 mph on low traffic days does not help me at ALL).
But still, if your business has you traveling that much then yeah, an EV doesn't make much sense.
This is a very fair concern with a lot of people switching to EV. I'm lucky enough to be a homeowner with a garage, but if you don't have a good charging solution either at work or home? EV isn't right for you today.
One of the best parts of them is that I've had to stop to charge in route twice in 4 years of ownership.
Curious, what in the world are you doing that regularly has to on the road for that duration of time?
I've owned an EV for about 4 years now. The number of times I've been forced to stop at a charging station is twice in that time period. A stop at a gas station is easily 5-10 minutes, something I cannot do at home. The amount of time I've personally saved in traveling is huge. Days of time at a pump I never had to spend.
But, I'm only on the road about 2-3 hours a day for my commute. I'm not spending 4-5 hours a day driving very often.
Yet you feel the need to tell them how they should act?
If they wish to participate, it's their right to attempt to join. I just think it's wonderful that the pagents clear policy of hate is backfiring so publicly.
Bots just repost comments that were popular in the past and get huge amounts of karma, then delete said post before anyone catches on and starts and downvote wave.
You can make a federated link by going !canvas@toast.ooo rather than posting the link, makes it much easier for users to join from LW!