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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I didn't even read the article that information is right in the title LOL

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

As somebody that works on a lot of Chryslers I can tell you I 100% despise theirb"security gateway" nonsense. Scanner has to be connected to vehicle and connected to wifi. You need a monthly subscription to access the security gateway otherwise it locks you out of the vehicle you can't clear codes nevermind run bidirectional functions or program modules. If everybody had their own nonsense gateway like this, no shops would be able to stay in business everybody would have to go to their respective dealers. How many subscriptions can you expect a shop to hold? It's pretty ridiculous. It also means if ur off roading in a wrangler and a fluke puts the PCM in limp mode, your not getting out of limp mode in the woods as you don't in have wifi connection to security gateway. Undoing terminals doesn't reset these issues anymore. Yes I have seen it happen where new JL wranglers have to lug out of the woods in limp mode over a fluke thing that just needed a computer reset. Yea ill stick to my 87 YJ when I go wheeling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm just making commentary bud. Multiple times in the city I've seen people nearly get hit by busses because they cross the street nose deep in their phone without looking up. Some people can't come unglued for 10 seconds to look both ways before crossing a busy roadway in a bus plaza, it's kind of crazy!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Smart phones are just pocket computers. Up to you how their used, good evil neutral it's all at ur fingertips.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That will never work, nobody has discipline anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Lol Alabama family trees are more like telephone poles

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Some one? I'm sure there will be more than one lol. And unfortunately probably not who we want it to be.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Curious to see how unglued this country gets after pissing on Trump's parade, I have a feeling we're in for quite a treat

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

You can do anything once, twice if your quick!

[–] [email protected] 125 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is the sort of adoption we need to bring Linux into the mainstream

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yea but we both know you wont, because your just as credible. It's a fact that it you average ev has twice the carbon footprint of a ice car, and takes 3 years roughly to offset its carbon emissions assuming 15k miles driven a year. At 10 years, carbon footprint of an ice car is roughly double that of the ev, but from 10 years on your subject to battery failure and now need to dispose of a big nasty battery pack and replace it. It will take a few decades to see what the true footprint of evs are, and there is no published studies with the long term effects because we haven't gotten there yet. This is the closest thing I found upon a brief search, so fesrlst yer eyes on a graph. Keep in mind that's based off a Nissan leaf and fiat 500, you could choose a more economical car with smaller footprint and a larger footprint ev to skew results in my favor, or compare the leaf to a truck or whatever ur average American drives and steer the conversation towards evs but I think it's a reasonable apple to apples comparison. This whole conversation has been speculation and I thank you for ur engagement 👍 https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/electric-vehicles-contribute-fewer-emissions-than-gasoline-powered-cars-over-their-lifetimes/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Alright here's more effort than you could be bothered with- drilling oil out of the ground involved a drill that goes deep into the ground. Their not all that big. Have you seen a lithium mine before? Massive hole in the earth miles wide and quite deep, a hole in the earth that will be visible for centuries. A big open wound on the planet that cannot heal itself. I know this is a tough comparison because oil is more of a consumable, and lithium for batteries sure it's technically a consumable but with a much longer life than say a 50 gal drum of oil. I'm not taking into account refining for either material, or the waste involved with disposing of batteries or emissions of cars burning gas. It's an apples to oranges comparison and hard to say which is worse at the end of the day. What is a fact, however, is that producing an electric car is more harmful to the environment than producing an ice car. And keeping an old ice car alive is better for the environment than producing any new car. Both lithium mining and oil drilling quite frankly awful for the environment. So do you have the gusto to help me understand and produce a productive conversation or are u happy to just troll? It is an incredibly complex issue to account for the exact environmental impact of either, but an issue that intrigues me and I think an important conversation to have.

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