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  • I suppose XMPP’s 27 years of development is embarrassing as well?

    With the limited time I have spent with XMPP it seems to work much better.

    Or are you just shitposting without any concrete arguments for what you’re saying?

    Thought it was pretty clear. Matrix sucks. I don’t have “concrete arguments”, just experience. Messages and images that fail to load, encryption failure, devices being marked as unverified randomly so I can’t chat with anyone, messages missing entirely from the feed, device verification failures, I mean the list goes on. On top of all that, it’s slow as hell. It’s a joke.















  • My commentary was not specifically on Tesla but on EV trucks in general.

    In practice, no way will anything made by a grifter last the demands of real world trucking

    They sell a million cars a year. Whatever you think of them, they’re good at selling vehicles.

    Industrial trucks that use gravity to generate electrical power already rule mining and logging.

    Huh?

    Have you seen the prices of public charging?

    Only every day.

    in UK, it’s more expensive than petrol.

    only when made by a real truck company, and likely with cheaper sodium batteries that work in very cold weather.

    You don’t seem to realize that there’s a whole world and market that exists outside of wherever you live in the UK.






  • I work on these diesel trucks. Whatever they’re charging, it’s worth it. Since the gov demanded new emissions regulations in ~2008 it has become prohibitively more expensive to maintain these vehicles. Probably 70% of the work that I do has to do with the emissions equipment. You can have a perfectly functioning vehicle but if the emissions system has a problem, or even thinks it has a problem, which it often does, it will derate the vehicle and it has to be grounded, towed away and repaired.

    Now imagine you cut your fuel expenses in half (probably more in mountainous regions) and your maintenance and downtime budget by ~70%? Yeah that’s very attractive.

    There’s also a safety aspect. If you live in mountainous regions you’ll see runaway vehicle ramps. Just short uphill roads filled with gravel and other substances meant to slow, like they have on the side of race tracks. That’s because the brakes can actually overheat on long descents and stop working, which is obviously a huge and terrifying problem. EVs not only solve that problem with Regen but also turn all that heat back into energy.