For anyone who cares, Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and can be easily censored.
Mastodon cannot be censored in the same way, thus no long-term enshittification. If you’re going to switch away from Twitter, give Mastodon a try. It uses the same tech/protocol as Lemmy, Piefed, Loops, Pixelfed, m/kbin, etc.
Your response is equivalent to “all lives matter” and says one of two things:
Which is it?
Fair point, and I did already switch my main desktop to Linux. That said, its still a positive signal for valve and others that there IS money to be made in the Linux ecosystem. Granted, likely not much, but we can change that if we put our money where our mouth is (those of us who can).
I’m not even a hug Valve fan, but happy to support them for all the work they’ve done to bring Linux gaming to the masses. I can play most my games without issue on Debian, happy to keep throwing money at them and kick windows to the curb.
Basically this.
Any browser that leverages Google’s Chromium project is enabling Google to continue to drive the web. Alternative browsers, first and foremost, must not be built using Chromium.
Nowhere in that article does it state or even hint that ICE vehicles pollute less or are more efficient than EV’s or even PHEV’s. If I missed something, feel free to link directly to the line/paragraph, by selecting the text and clicking “Copy link to highlight”: Example:
I keep hearing this and the opposite
Any sources I can read?
100% valid points. If someone wants to continue the math, I’d love to see how they compare!
11 grand a year is crazy numbers.
And apparently crazy accurate!
If you adjust the $11k based on the cost of living index, my estimate falls in line with your 6,500/year for Texas. The index in California is 149.9 vs Texas at 92.1, which is ~61.44% less:
($11,000 original estimate) * (0.6144 % difference) = $6,700 per year in gas.
If we adjust the price of electricity using the cost of living index it also drops down to ~$1,320/year to drive an EV. Even adjusting for Texas you’re still down ~$4,700 year over year. In 5 years of driving a comparable EV, you’d have saved over 20k.
And maintenance on an ICE is super cheap if you just change the fucking oil.
100% agree. Its cheap, but not free, unless your time has no value.
Doing some rough math, with current gas prices (~$5.90 in CA), 35k miles per year, assuming only highway miles at ~18mpg, and including the cost of regular maintenance (excluding tires which EVs need too); on the low-end, assuming you’re driving the 4.2L, you’re spending ~$11,000 (±$2,000) every year.
An EV, by comparison, assuming an off-peak rate of $0.25/kWh (I pay ~$0.11, but after all the BS line items, it’s closer to a 22 cents), and a 4 mile/kWh efficiency; you’d be paying ~$2,150 total per year.
You could theoretically save ~$8,000 (± $2,000) per year driving an electric. Sure, the cost of an engine is ~$3.5k, but that’s in addition to the $11,000 you’re already paying every year. Compared to an EV, in just 3 years you’d save enough money to cover the price of a $20k battery (if we assume worst-case pricing), which are generally expected to last 15-20 years. Even if we cut that in half, you’re still saving more with an EV in the long-run.
GRANTED there are other issues/concerns with driving an EV, like charge rate, planning trips (infra. still needs to catch up), people who don’t have a place to charge at home, etc.
may or may not fit the bill, but check out https://reticulum.network/.
Description from their page:
The vision of Reticulum is to allow anyone to operate their own sovereign communication networks, and to make it cheap and easy to cover vast areas with a myriad of independent, interconnectable and autonomous networks.
I’ve been trying it out and it feels a lot like the early web and there’s a few cool projects building on top of the reticulum network:
If anyone happens to try it out, shoot me a message at 4187fa0d2254b521d243c42448e81206!
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What a coincidence! Its currently my wallpaper.
a steal if you consider tomorrow’s prices
best practice states security through obscurity is not to be relied upon, but compare ssh logs after one year on the default port vs a non-standard port and you’ll immediately see why you want to use a non-standard https port for non-professional services. it cuts 99.9% of the noise/attempts.
I’ve been gaming on Debian (granted, with the backports kernel). What am I missing? Everything works and I’ve had zero issues.
it’s basically twitter.
I will say, the cool thing about it is the interoperability between ActivityPub platforms. For example, from my mastodon account, since I’m subscribed to some hashtags I’m interested in, I occasionally see posts from Lemmy/Piefed (reddit-like), Pixelfed (Instagram-like), Loops (Tiktok-like), etc. I can comment and like without having to create accounts on the other platforms. It’s definitely more aligned with what the open web should look like, although could use some UX and discoverability improvements, as I’m not entirely sure how some stuff works, but it’s been interesting to try it out.