Honestly, I don’t hate this right off the bat. If anything, it’s better for this technology to become more broadly accessible to people for real uses (asking questions, learning things) than spewing out garbage that gets posted to the internet.

Making it accessible to people without requiring payment or creating an account isn’t a bad thing, either. I do wonder if the free 15 minutes is per call or cumulative per caller.

Internet Archive Duplicati (FOSS backup software)

• various other small open source projects

Wow, that is certainly a take.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas stunt compilations and mod videos

Unless you’re in a city like Phoenix where the entire city is a grid and your house is built on that grid with square corners for the walls. No matter where you put a bed in my house, if it’s against a wall it will be pointing exactly in one of the cardinal directions.

Your immune system probably built up a larger tolerance to the bacteria in raw milk after consuming it for years.

These changes only affect the Fleet API. TeslaFi is fine for now.

Most of those “recalls” are just software updates. One of the major ones in the news within the last year literally just made the size of the parking brake icon a few pixels bigger. Thats it. But the media makes it sound like every Tesla owner is spending every other weekend in the shop for endless recalls. To my knowledge, Tesla has had very few mechanical recalls that have required owners to have their cars brought in for service. The most memorable one I can think of was where the rear seat bolts were not torqued properly from the factory and it only affected a few thousand cars.

Ah yes, Vivendi games. The same publisher that tried to put Valve out of business for having the audacity to want money for Counter-Strike. I’m shocked.

Okay? You can spend your day getting worked up over the mere sight of a Tesla, but I’m not sure how that affects anyone else but you.

Other manufacturers can use Tesla chargers now, and many times those are the best options on long road trips. This doesn’t really change anything. I can also choose to charge my Tesla at non-Tesla chargers and accomplish the same goal.

what?? They just scanned my drivers license when I went. Was there an option not to use it? That would probably make me walk out and rent from somewhere else.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but servers cost money. Developers cost money. Bandwidth costs money. If you want to run a reasonably successful social media company, you need money.

Bundling domain registration (already a thing) with custom usernames (already a thing) and taking a profit from that transaction is not enshittification. Enshittification would be if they took away the ability to link your own domain and required everyone to buy domains through Bluesky. This would just be giving less savvy users the ability to link a domain to their username without having to learn DNS.

Like it or not, the average person still sees Lemmy as a mostly homogenous platform. If they see “lemmy is full of tankies”, it’s not a good look. They don’t know how defederation works.

From what I can gather, they aren’t selling the ability to link custom domains as your user handle. They are acting as a domain registrar to allow users to buy domains and link them to their handle in one step, then likely skimming some profits off the top. Imagine they sell a “custom username with domain” for $20 per year, they pay the wholesale fee (around $9 for a .com) and pocket the rest. That seems perfectly reasonable to me.

To be brutally honest, mastodon isn’t appealing to average people. Picking a server and client is too complicated, it’s mostly full of FOSS and Linux nerds, and the lack of a good discovery algorithm prevents them from finding content they are interested in.

Unfortunately, average people don’t care about federation. They get confused when they click a link from a different mastodon instance and it’s not the same website. Why aren’t they logged in anymore? They don’t know. Website must be broken. They don’t know or care about the differences between instances and clients and protocols. It’s just an app that they download and don’t see any of their friends or content they care about, so they stop using it.

Is Bluesky prone to enshittification? I don’t know much about the AT protocol, but it seems like it works relatively similar to ActivityPub. Is it open source?

The rear door release is not meant to be used in an emergency, it would be impossible to child lock the door. The front doors have very prominent handles and the rear passengers can climb over.

There is an extremely prominent manual release handle on the door in Teslas. The vehicle manual has all this information. I don’t know how or why other Tesla owners don’t know about this.

Why do people assume the tech companies are going to be running the plants? They are just paying a utility provider to run the plants and sell the energy to them at wholesale prices. They’re not handing out dosimetry to CS graduates and telling them to go wrench on the reactor like it’s a new social media app.