The hell is wrong with this country. Shoplifting is not violent crime. If they flee put out an arrest warrant and they'll turn up later, in a lot more trouble.

Cops are well aware standing in front of a car gives them a free pass killing someone who attempts to escape. It's totally unnecessary pointless murder.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

As someone who still drives a Tesla vehicle I bought years ago, well before Musk totally went off the rails, can he please just leave?

Hmm, so far I think I still liked Reddit's algorithm better. Somehow it always managed to combine top posts from huge communities (news, videos, etc) with small niche interest communities on the same timeline. Hot on Lemmy feels almost like a random selection of posts to me. What people post here is good, but the way it's selected and sorted doesn't feel quite as meaningful to me.

The whole instance has become increasingly strange. I don't interact with it at all anymore.

This rapscallion would be suspended for sure

Yeah, and I think we can all agree that was a very bad thing.

Trump was caught attempting to blackmail a foreign leader for political gain, with dramatic geopolitical implications. Hunter Biden's minor misdeeds are a total nothingburger in comparison. I agree with the other comment, this smells of desperation.

A few more:

• Linus Torvalds
• Mark Ruffalo
• Stephen Fry
• Mozilla

In the 5 years I've owned my Model 3 it's never needed any service. Only new tires. They are not even remotely as bad of a car as clickbait sites make them out to be. Yeah yeah Teslas aren't perfect, but no car is. Be realistic.

It being associated with Musk and his crazy rants is annoying though. Almost annoying enough to trade it in, but I don't particularly want to spend a bunch of money and getting rid of an almost like-new working car.

For context: The UK and US did not ban German classical music during WW1 and WW2, and works by Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Brahms etc were performed and broadcast on radio.

Unsurprisingly the Nazis did censor a lot of music. Don't be like the Nazis is the lesson, I guess.

Something I realized on Mastodon years ago (well before the Twitter/X thing) is it quickly doesn't matter so much to me how many active users a platform has. A platform is good enough if there's some activity, and I like being there. Lemmy was already something I checked when I saw only a handful of new posts a day.

Anyway, that's just my perspective. I'm not too concerned about downtrends of active users.

Phew. Finally. I was getting worried.

Once upon a time, it seemed like being an advocate for their constituents and a competent administrator of the country as a whole got politicians reelected. Maybe I have rose-tinted history glasses tho..

Tesla's lofty stock price is to some extent based on hype, and Musk being credited (far too much imo) for the company's success. If he did leave the stock price would come down to something more sensible, which at least short-term would make shareholders unhappy. But yeah leaving him in charge after what he did to Twitter must also be causing sleepless nights.

I never fully understood this Reuters range investigation. I have had a Tesla Model 3 for many years now, and it tells me I can go, say, 290 miles on a full charge. When I plan a long road trip, it figures out I need to stop at a charger after about 275 miles so I have a few percent left. So I drive the 275 miles, get to the charger with roughly that amount of % charge left, charge my car and keep on going. If I really only had 150 miles of range, there's no way I would've ever reached that charger. I've done trips like this many times now. In my experience the advertised range is more or less realistic, and this is easily provable with any car.

Is it a quality control issue? Are people being confused by the massive effect temperatures have on EV range? It doesn't seem like the major conspiracy it's made out to be. Mishandled though, probably.

The federation issues seem to have been fixed by https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4330

According to the article they had to derate their ranges by 3-5% or so. Cory is talking about the range being less than half of the estimated one. I think we would’ve seen thousands of stranded Teslas around here if that were really the case. So I remain doubtful.

FWIW I suspect most of these "omg why is my range suddenly gone!" complaints with Tesla to be exactly the same as with all other EVs: Very low temperatures, or towing. You'll find plenty of people complaining about every model and make of EV because consumers expected to have the advertised range even though they're towing a trailer or are driving through a freezing mountain pass. Unfortunately EVs just don't handle this very well.

Ayaneo has a pretty good track record making portable gaming devices, mostly running Windows. I'm guessing "subscriptions" here is a mistranslation for pre-orders.

Yeah and let's not forget this was simple shoplifting. A crime, sure, but not nearly one serious enough to start shooting at a fleeing suspect. Just let her go and issue a warrant.

Amon Amarth wrote a song telling the tale

The iconic and tastefully restrained design of the Blade Runner handgun https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/(Blade_Runner)_-_LAPD_2019_Blaster

I did forget about that momentarily 🤦‍♂️. It was an injustice.

Primus sucks!

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves
But when the taxman come to the door
Lord, the house lookin' like a rummage sale, yeah

Late 90s PC gaming. Even the simple in-game chat systems back in the days in games such as Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and many others helped people meet, socialize, and form communities.

The open steppe, a fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.

A crucial difference between XMPP and ActivityPub is, I think, this:

A messaging protocol or platform like Email or XMPP or Signal is only useful if the people you want to converse with are on it. There's no other reason to use it. This means you probably need to have some of the people you know personally on it before you want to use it.

However the two main types of ActivityPub apps are microblogging and link sharing. I don't necessarily need to know anyone on Fedi to enjoy using these platforms. So the likelihood for these platforms to thrive and survive, and the resilience against them being killed by a single large actor defederating or shutting down is much higher.

There's a pretty good reasoning for this in the article:

"an independent third-party committee had found evidence of tampering with safety tests on as many as 64 vehicle models, including those sold under the Toyota brand."

Yeah if I could buy a similar car with the same features at the same price from a manufacturer like Toyota, the choice for better build quality is obvious. However up until basically this year that has not been the case. My only real complaint with my M3 is the terrible paint they use. But I can live with it.

Here's a mostly forgotten one: Phantom 2040 for SNES

Not truly a metroidvania, but an interesting platformer shooter with branching paths and many different endings.

I grew up with Keen to Counter-Strike 1.6 roughly so I am familiar, and nostalgic, but I haven't played everything of course.

The Tex Murphy series is a really good one. I've never played any of those games. Thanks for the suggestion.

The Resident Evil 2: Remake no-hit attempt was my favorite run of the event. Carcy brought mad energy and mad skills.

All the other runs mentioned here were great too

Now just get rid of "0th Anniversary Edition" ... :)

I'd like to play some classic (like DOS / Win95-WinXP) games. What are some hidden gems?

At least in the US the charging network has been a huge differentiator. I've heard from a few people doing road-trips in non-Teslas and having trouble with the multitude of charging networks. Superchargers can get busy but I've never had a problem with them or gotten stranded. Hopefully NACS will improve this situation for all brands.

Probably Rust in Peace

I think at this point Russia can basically do whatever it wants in international waters. NATO isn’t going to go to war with Russia unless it has to. Damaging or even sinking a cargo ship would be another escalation but I’m not sure what possible retaliatory measures remain. All the sanctions are already in place.

White Tiger Field (Byakkoya) by Susumu Hirasawa

You're probably on Firefox with DNS over HTTPS enabled. The folks who run archive.today intentionally block Cloudflare's DNS for some reason...