drapermache

Tribalism, to own the libs.

I'd like to know as well. I'd love to join a good community or older techies.

This happened in North Carolina and another place, but now republicans are starting to run as democrats and then either switching or just enforcing republican policies with a “D” next to their name. Spineless weasels.

They could just have checkpoints on the exit roads on the state. There are a lot of things Texas republicans are doing with police, namely allowing them to be border patrol agents with authority to deport people. This, along with precedent being pushed that police can find probable cause after the fact that you’re arrested, police can just arrest first because they saw a women “who looked pregnant.” I foresee women becoming second class citizens really soon in red states, and its really troubling.

And somehow it’ll be the “woke mind virus’s” fault. There will be no self reflection at all.

Hello there,! The questions you’ve asked are super generic that would honestly depend on the brand (holding up with kids, control button layouts, etc). Just like ICE cars, what you pay is what you get. The higher you pay the better the materials and build quality (except maybe tesla). I’m sure you could find some bloggers that have a family and use their EV. Maybe I can help add my short experience to help you decide.

A little background:

• I just bought my EV, a 2023 Chevy Bolt, three weeks ago, so I’m brand new to the EV scene
• I live in Texas where its currently 101 degrees Fahrenheit, so my range is limited due to the heat drawing the battery a lot.
• I have a family of 4 (7 and 3 years old kids), with both kids needing car seats for their age group. Car seat installation was super easy even though my car is TINY.
• Our car was meant to be a second car just for going around town. We have a 2019 Toyota Sienna for long trips or for trips that need space for whatever reason.
• My mother bought a Tesla model Y about 1.5 years ago, so I had some exposure, but I live around 12 hours away so it was just getting to see it during the holiday visits. I did get get to take it on a road trip with my dad and brother as a get together which was fun.

I’ve found that the bolt is an amazing second car for driving around town. It really saves us from taking out the van just for short runs. My kids are on the shorter side (I’m 5’8” and my wife is 4’11” so they ddon’t have a chance), but they seem to have enough room for travel. I will say that the base model bolt doesn’t have decent cup holders, they’re built into the doors, but they really suck. They don’t have any chargers in the back either so for tablets they would need to use their battery.

The climate controls are okay, but they did take a page from tesla’s book and made them controlled from the screen. It isn’t as bad though because there are physical buttons for the speed of the fans and the temperature.

I find that the smaller size helped save a ton of room in our already small garage, which was really needed. I had a 05 honda accord and it would barely fit in the garage with the shelves we had in there and with the van. This isn’t the case with the bolt.

I also like that my car qualifies for the US tax credit. I checked with my liabilities and it looks like I’ll probably be able to utilize all 7500 which I’ll use to pay down the car. You can do similar things with other EV’s that don’t qualify if you use the leasing loophole (if you look at the EV subreddit you’ll find it).

Additionally, GM payed for a new outlet to be installed in my garage for me to have a level 2 charger. I just ordered my actually charger unit so it’ll be nice to use that instead of the trickle charger.

All in all, I think that maybe as a primary vehicle it might prove to be difficult if you drive a lot of miles in a day, or if you want to road trip in it. I hope this helps.

Couldn’t you wait until Mitch Mconnell died until you released this? I’d rather not him be in the senate forever.

This is what I like about Lemmy and the fediverse; Its not like some rich company or person could really take over Lemmy and then pull a twitter or a reddit. The only way I could see things going south is if corporations start buying popular instances and then creating terrible policies and/or mine all of the data collected in the Lemmy instance, but with Lemmy you could just move to another instance.

Right now I feel like were in the same position when Linux started out - really cool in concept but with no clear way to monetize which causes doubts for its future. It wasn't until RedHat really popularized the support for enterprises model that Linux really solidified its future; they found a way to monetize open source projects. Lemmy itself is very young and will need to have its RedHat moment, otherwise its doomed to fail -- donations are nice but are never enough.

As a side note to this - I find it funny that companies are super eager to replace people at the bottom with AI when in my mind it would be easier to replace a CEO with AI to ingest company data and make cost-cutting decisions, or to be able to look at the market and determine what a company should be doing in order to compete. CEO positions are the most expensive for a company so eliminating it with a machine would save investors TONS of money. It would never need meetings, just take in input of whats going on in the company and externally in its competing market.

It will never happen in my opinion. America’s is completely controlled by oil, and Texas is the heart of the American oil industry. Having a bullet train would undermine their profit margins.

Then there are NIMBYs who would tie up projects on a city level.

It seems like the current Texas government is more concerned about identity politics than actual progress.

I think its a little rough around the edges, but thats to be expected given that its less than a year old. The big hit for me is the mobile app which just isn’t that good. This will come with time. I’d rather have an half-baked implementation thats showing promise over what Reddit is doing. I like decentralized social media because you can pick and choose what communities you interact with. If lemmy.world decides to go full enshitification (although I can’t figure out how they would monetize), you can just pack up and going to another community.

This honestly reminds me of when I was growing up in the early 00s, I was part of several different community forums that I loved dearly. There were other groups I looked into, but some were just toxic and unappealing, so I left after a while. I feel like Lemmy gives us the same freedom. I really hope to meet some awesome people here. Right now it’s just big enough to still allow meaningful dialogue and create cool relations. I felt like Reddit was too big for its own good even with niche subreddits; it didn’t feel like posting was worth it as it would get buried or just get a low effort response.

I can’t wait for other social media platforms to do the same thing. Social media companies are so stagnant they just copy what other companies do without thinking if it’s a good idea or not.