It’s one of those things that sounds cool and fun, then you realize it’s mostly just paper work and reading logs.

Dude, a brand new Hyundai Ioniq 5 starts at $42k. The used Mercedes doesn’t cost -$8. Also, if you’re in a country that uses Euros, that explains a lot. Your part costs are much cheaper for those German cars than ours are. If I lived in Europe my opinion would likely be different on German cars. Here in the US, if you used Lexus as an example, it would be a much easier argument for you to make.

I’m not even trying to say that a new car is more financially sound. That’s a silly stance to take. But a 10 year old car just isn’t going to have the same safety standards and tech of a new car.

You can also buy an EV for a dramatically lower price by buying it just a couple of years old. Their initial depreciation is massive. You can get a 3 year old Mustang Mach E for less than $30k and have Blue Cruise. That will have far fewer maintenance worries than a 10+ year old Mercedes. Even brand new, they can be bought for less than $50k. I don’t think your $50k price difference is accurate. I personally wouldn’t touch an old German with a ten foot poll.

I can believe that. My job has me travel, so I’ve rented a lot of different vehicles. Some are definitely more intuitive than others. I don’t think I’ve had a Subaru though.

2025 Hyundai EV is going to require FAR less maintenance than an old Mercedes. I’ve owned a fairly young VW and immediately dumped it when the manufacturer recertified warranty ran out. Every little repair on those German cars are ridiculously expensive.

Or like you said, get an EV and sell it before the battery warranty is out. It’s not like you’re actually going to be able to affect an entire industry by holding out on buying new lol

Yeah, that’s kind of my point. Historically, boycotts just don’t work unless the overall sentiment was already shifting. Like Tesla right now. They were already losing sales because of their tired designs and were already offering deep incentives. Elon just accelerated the downfall by going full Nazi.

What features do you need that, say, a 2015 model can’t have?

assist, and adaptive cruise control come to mind.

A new EV versus a new ICE, yeah fair enough

Well, buying a new car is what I’m interested in. I want something reliable, not something with 10 years of wear and tear on it. Hell, a big draw of EVs is their dramatically simpler maintenance plan. If I’m in the market for an EV, a 10 year old ICE just isn’t a good alternative.

Especially if you can get your hands on something like a 1.0l with a giant turbo strapped to the side. They’re pretty common in Europe, I don’t know about America.

I really wish… I got back into motorcycles this year, so I have a 250cc engine to move me around now.

So, I’m supposed to drive an older, less safe car without the features I want? I’m supposed to keep using an ICE? No thanks.

Sure, but that’s kind of every car manufacturer right now. If you let that limit your choice, you won’t be buying anything. Depending on where you live, maybe that’s better.

You’re welcome?

How could they be butt hurt from you not understanding Lemmy and federation?

Therefore, someone above you gets to control that still.

There is nothing stopping you from running your own Lemmy instance and choosing to federate with whomever you choose.

Lemmy even did the same thing Reddit is doing now

Which Lemmy instance? If you don’t like it, just join a different one.

This is all the beauty of not only federation, but also open source.

Turns out, those are sort of the same thing. You are given the power to shape your feed how you want it instead of how some corporation wants it.

It absolutely could exist. It’s just likely that a lot of servers would defederate them. That’s kind of the beauty of federation.

Nah, he’ll get foreign investors to help him and be further owned by foreign governments like he did for X.

Location has been super annoying for me in Fedora. Neither the weather nor the timezone automatically update for me. And I travel every week for work.

As a human, you don’t. You just task switch and end up doing both tasks poorly.

I have a bigger fear of what happens to Linux when Torvalds retires. He took a break a while back, and it was an absolute shit show of a power struggle.

Weird how that works…

I’m pretty sure Mozilla encourages use of the flatpak. Flatpak FF is definitely the way to go.

I love how much the community has embraced Atomic. Bazzite is making a huge splash.