That’s not really how brand recognition and advertising works. If it was people would have stopped buying 2D HP printers decades ago.

Its really disappointing seeing the 3DP community continue to embrace Bambu after the inevitable closure and self-proclaimed Apple strategy. Disappointing, but not really surprising.

That’s not the problem. These are not age-restricted.

That’s probably an eighth of their marketing budget for these ads. Not a single fuck was given by one of the wealthiest companies in the world.

Even my friend with a tesla had issues.

Not going to discount their experience but I feel like mine should be equally valid. I take 3-4 road trips/year with nary an issue other than 1 or 2 stalls being down or a short wait during the holiday season at a packed charging station, over the last 4+ years.

having to wait 20 minutes for the car to charge when you have kids or whatever is obnoxious.

After 4+ hours of driving, I am more than ready for a short break. I will typically stay stopped for longer than it even takes to charge while I get something to eat.

That’s very cool. Excuse my ignorance but couldn’t Dell and Lenovo just…write their own firmware?

I continue to be astonished that so many giant, mainstream companies like Microsoft are able to get away with staggeringly-poor security practices. And in the case of shit like Recall they just blatantly fucking lied about it.

my friends have told me horror stories of getting to to charging stations and finding them broken, getting stranded.

Its an unfortunate reality. My first BEV was a Chevy Bolt. The unreliability of charging infrastructure caused me a lot of pain when traveling. Got a Tesla in 2021 and that pain evaporated. Charging stations are abundant and work perfectly 99% of the time. The other 1% you just move to a different stall.

Fortunately they are slowly opening this charging network to other OEMs and I think the reliability in general has improved considerably. But it does still require some research when traveling.

If you have a multi-vehicle family it makes a lot of sense to have 1 BEV and 1 PHEV.

I have 3 counter-arguments for this “dirty coal” nonsense:

1. Plugging into a 100% coal-powered connection still produces far fewer greenhouse gases per mile than ICE (and especially diesel).
2. The emissions are created at the power plant, and not pumped into the air directly outside your home where your children might be playing.
3. Electricity can come from pretty much infinite sources from coal to gas, solar, wind, nuclear, etc. etc. but oil only ever comes from 1 place.

Well they must have created a blocking. Mechanism just for me then.

YouTube has made all these apps completely useless by blocking users that aren’t logged in.

Cool, thank you!

When you add a server endpoint in the settings, you’re pointing it at your own existing server (Dawarich, Home Assistant, Traccar or any HTTP endpoint).

Ok please forgive me, I’m unfamiliar with this terminology.

Colota actually has automatic file export (Settings > Export Data > Auto-Export)

Oh, sick, I missed that somehow, thanks.

Sorry for the confusion on my part.

I still don’t see a way to import data? Doesn’t do any good to back it up if I can’t import it back in?

There is no backup server. Users can create and add one if they like.

No I understood the server is self-hosted…?

Colota offers out of the box file export

I see that but this should be an automatic backup process. Plus there’s no way I can see to IMPORT that data somewhere else.

When I use an app like Fitotrack, it automatically makes a backup file periodically and then is automatically backed up to my server with Nextcloud or Syncthing. I don’t need a dedicated server for it.

Colota already uses WiFi for home detection (WiFi pause in geofence zones)

How can it do that when it didn’t ask me for an SSID? And what’s the point of the geofence if it doesn’t even use it anyway? I am cornfuse.

When wifi disconnects or/and motion is recognized the GPS starts again.

How is motion recognized without GPS?

Why a dedicated backup server instead of just backing up to a local file that can then be backed up to a service of choice?

Also for profiles, it would make more sense to use Bluetooth to detect a vehicle or WiFi to detect when you’re home vs. Geofencing or Android Auto or speed. How can it tell when you leave the geofence if the GPS is off?

Advertising doesn’t have to be the way it is.

Unrelated note:

We finally have the technology

We had the technology in like 1998. RSS doesn’t solve this problem because publications stopped offering full articles a long time ago. You still have to open the site to read them.

On another note, the author left out that PC gamer hijacks your browser history to show more articles when you try to back out of the site.

…it is?

Interlocks are for people who have had a DUI

Yes I am actually aware, thanks.

ankle monitors should not be able to be accessed remotely.

Ankle monitors monitor location. Interlock devices monitor intoxication levels, and locally send a signal to the vehicle about whether it’s ok to drive. The difference should be obvious.

Of course I am?