lastingwin

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Charm: We make the command line glamorous(charm.sh)
1 points by lastingwin 3y ago|0 comments
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by lastingwin 3y ago
Hobbling the battery with software has nothing to do with safety and definitely is not federally-protected.
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by lastingwin 3y ago
> But if you don't want that to happen, you can just pay for the full-priced version. I would never buy hardware from a company that locks the capacity down with software, so a Tesla (nor BMW) is not the car for me. > But if y
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by lastingwin 3y ago
> am somehow being ripped off by not using 100% of available capacity? If you paid for capacity that you don't need then yeah, I'd say you at the very least made a bad purchase.
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by lastingwin 3y ago
If I paid for it and it's in my possession, I own it and will do what I like with it including rooting the software. If that's not possible I won't buy it. In any case I'll always advocate to others not to give money to
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by lastingwin 3y ago
It's bad because someone is restricting the capabilities of hardware that you own and trying to extract fees to "unlock" it.
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by lastingwin 3y ago
That is also beyond ridiculous and bad for the consumer. I feel like this is even worse though because it also includes environmental damage due to decreased efficiency and excess waste from the unneeded battery capacity (one of the most to
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by lastingwin 3y ago
It's bad for all consumers, even if you don't buy a Tesla. It encourages other manufactures to software lock hardware you own. Soon there won't be any alternatives, I choose to object now.
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by lastingwin 3y ago
> It's worth a reminder that batteries are heavy. They're the heaviest collective part of an electric car, and reducing the usable energy density of a pack by 27% and not the vehicle's weight would be a questionable move—
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by lastingwin 3y ago
> A well fed rebel without a cause with a government aided financial safety net. There's no safety net in the US and we have the homelessness to prove it. What you're seeing is the right wing roots of the US being used to pro
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by lastingwin 3y ago
I think it's safe to say that we should disregard any substack/medium posts, especially when it comes to AI.