Stillhart

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[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I've always been partial to "wintermute". Not many people will get that reference these days.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guess my point is that you don't really DO anything. You don't have to fire up an app and log in and shit. The charger talks to the car when you plug it in and it just goes. Not sure what your hang-up is with apps (no judgement here, but clearly there is one) but in this case it's pretty seamless and a lot more convenient than some other custom payment apps.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago (18 children)

I've only ever used Superchargers (I have a PHEV, but there's no need to charge that away from home). The Supercharger just talks directly to the car and handles it through your Tesla account/app. Once most cars are using the NACS connector in a year or two, I assume this will be how it works for them too.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Oh, cool then. Thanks, I don't use Xwitter so I would have never seen that. lol

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

At first I was like "oh that's dope, they're sending it to all owners, not just providing them for new cars purchased after the announcement." Then I realized they kept saying "eligible owners" and nowhere does it specify what eligible means. So I will reserve judgement for now.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

There's "not caring about" them and there's "making it so people who could play before now can't". You're purposely shrinking your active user base while simultaneously shutting out a growing segment of the market. In the name of a feature that's arguably not even effective at its goal.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 33 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I have an idea to help more people play our games! Let's put a kernel-level anti-cheat on them so nobody who uses linux can play them anymore! Oh wait...

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

I'm curious why this article is framed like Ford is doing someone a favor rather than Ecolab making a large purchase from Ford. Ecolab should be getting credit for shifting to electric. Not Ford getting credit for... selling stuff to people... you know, that thing is does every day.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My issue with the Volt is just that is was really crappy to be inside. It was a terrible Chevy interior combined with lack of space due to them trying to fit batteries into a platform that wasn't designed for it.

Yes, it was great on paper. But when it came time to test drive one I was really turned off.

Chevy should indeed bring back a PHEV option because they're just the most sensible choice for the most people until the charging infrastructure gets better. But the Volt kinda sucked so they should do something better like the Bolt.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

That's how every PHEV works...

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know if you noticed this but some really big companies with high stock valuations are only existing because investors poured tons of capital into them to subsidize the service.

Exactly, they PAID MONEY to make it work. No they don't make the money back and depend on outside capital, but they are still paying their employees (not enough) and suppliers, etc.

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