• takeda@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is not as easy, I mean they’re are some things that makes it easier than ICE, but electronical components also cannot get wet and those big boats run on fossil fuel after all.

    But what’s ridiculous is that rain could damage it (from article doesn’t sound like car was flooded, as that would be understandable).

    Yesterday I saw comment: imagine that the typical home printer was your car. That’s the experience of typical Tesla owner.

    This seems to match the article.

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      1 year ago

      Except most BEVs absolutely can ford shallow rivers. They’re better at it than ICE cars because of the intake issue.

      And the electronics on any vehicle needs to be water proof too. Although I’ve seen an iffroad tesla mod where they actually said that opening holes in the bottom of the ECU waterproofing was essential to allow water to flow out, rather than sealing it up completely like Tesla had done. That was the problem that killed their first motherboard in that project.

      Also note there’s a difference between electronics and electrics. The electric motors dgaf about water, they work flooded or dry. The logic circuits are the really vulnerable part.

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      1 year ago

      Yesterday I saw comment: imagine that the typical home printer was your car. That’s the experience of typical Tesla owner.

      Can you expand? I live in a wealthy liberal area, the cross section of people who want to show their wealth with fancy cars and also want to virtue signal that they care about the environment, so there are a bunch of Teslas around here. I also have a few close friends and family that have them. I’ve heard overwhelmingly good things about the cars from these people. All of the complaints have been minor quibbles.

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        Tesla owners down play it, but basically every study/survey agrees that Tesla has terrible reliability. It’s not just the electric car parts, it’s everything. You can call it minor that door handles stick, or windows break, loss of power steering, leaking moon roofs, touch screens being non-responsive, and more.

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          Those studies usually fail to account for the ease of service with Tesla. You can schedule service from the app and most of the time they will send a mobile technician to you at home or at work or wherever you want to service the vehicle, so people are more likely to schedule appointments for minor issues.

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      Well, what if I never had a problem with a printer? I realize I might be just lucky, but I never got the fuss about broken printers.

      Now if we’re talking 3D printer, yeah, that shit needs constant repair.

      Edit: Holy shit dudes, never expected to get into the negative score for stating objective facts. Get help, pretty please.

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        3D printers have obvious and fixable defects. When they break you can see the broken part, you can diagnose and fix it. Regular printers are just fuck you machines.

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          They didn’t used to be.

          And I suspect the same will happen with 3D printers over time.

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            1 year ago

            I’ve had my brother printer for around 10 years now with no problems. Assuming they are still made the same, I highly recommend them.

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              1 year ago

              Brother as far as I know produces only office printers. Most people that complain about printers talk about those home inkjet printers that they bundle with PCs.

              Kind of side note. 20 years ago I remember buying PC at best buy. It came with Canon (I think) printer. I told them that I didn’t want it, saying that I already had a printer at home going to get lower price. After the sales guy removed it, the price was actually higher. They apparently were paying them to include it.

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                1 year ago

                Pretty sure my brother is a home printer. It’s bulky, for sure, but that’s probably part of the reason why it has lasted so long. But yeah, I get what those people are complaining about. I bought a brother specifically because everyone always complains about crappy printers, so I looked up which one wasn’t crappy and paid the premium to have something I wouldn’t soon need to replace.

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                  1 year ago

                  I think I misunderstood you. And you were just giving comment about brother.

                  Coincidentally my brother printer croaked but I think it might be 10-15 years old, so it served well.