For anyone who cares, Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and can be easily censored.
Mastodon cannot be censored in the same way, thus no long-term enshittification. If you’re going to switch away from Twitter, give Mastodon a try. It uses the same tech/protocol as Lemmy, Piefed, Loops, Pixelfed, m/kbin, etc.
Basically this.
Any browser that leverages Google’s Chromium project is enabling Google to continue to drive the web. Alternative browsers, first and foremost, must not be built using Chromium.
Nowhere in that article does it state or even hint that ICE vehicles pollute less or are more efficient than EV’s or even PHEV’s. If I missed something, feel free to link directly to the line/paragraph, by selecting the text and clicking “Copy link to highlight”: Example:
I keep hearing this and the opposite
Any sources I can read?
100% valid points. If someone wants to continue the math, I’d love to see how they compare!
11 grand a year is crazy numbers.
And apparently crazy accurate!
If you adjust the $11k based on the cost of living index, my estimate falls in line with your 6,500/year for Texas. The index in California is 149.9 vs Texas at 92.1, which is ~61.44% less:
($11,000 original estimate) * (0.6144 % difference) = $6,700 per year in gas.
If we adjust the price of electricity using the cost of living index it also drops down to ~$1,320/year to drive an EV. Even adjusting for Texas you’re still down ~$4,700 year over year. In 5 years of driving a comparable EV, you’d have saved over 20k.
And maintenance on an ICE is super cheap if you just change the fucking oil.
100% agree. Its cheap, but not free, unless your time has no value.
Doing some rough math, with current gas prices (~$5.90 in CA), 35k miles per year, assuming only highway miles at ~18mpg, and including the cost of regular maintenance (excluding tires which EVs need too); on the low-end, assuming you’re driving the 4.2L, you’re spending ~$11,000 (±$2,000) every year.
An EV, by comparison, assuming an off-peak rate of $0.25/kWh (I pay ~$0.11, but after all the BS line items, it’s closer to a 22 cents), and a 4 mile/kWh efficiency; you’d be paying ~$2,150 total per year.
You could theoretically save ~$8,000 (± $2,000) per year driving an electric. Sure, the cost of an engine is ~$3.5k, but that’s in addition to the $11,000 you’re already paying every year. Compared to an EV, in just 3 years you’d save enough money to cover the price of a $20k battery (if we assume worst-case pricing), which are generally expected to last 15-20 years. Even if we cut that in half, you’re still saving more with an EV in the long-run.
GRANTED there are other issues/concerns with driving an EV, like charge rate, planning trips (infra. still needs to catch up), people who don’t have a place to charge at home, etc.
may or may not fit the bill, but check out https://reticulum.network/.
Description from their page:
The vision of Reticulum is to allow anyone to operate their own sovereign communication networks, and to make it cheap and easy to cover vast areas with a myriad of independent, interconnectable and autonomous networks.
I’ve been trying it out and it feels a lot like the early web and there’s a few cool projects building on top of the reticulum network:
If anyone happens to try it out, shoot me a message at 4187fa0d2254b521d243c42448e81206!
best practice states security through obscurity is not to be relied upon, but compare ssh logs after one year on the default port vs a non-standard port and you’ll immediately see why you want to use a non-standard https port for non-professional services. it cuts 99.9% of the noise/attempts.
Their old version with the ‘random’ option is the best way to find random, small, niche sites.
so many better Google alternatives out there:
Any we client including Matrix webclient is incredibly vulnerable to the server just injecting JS
That doesn’t preclude fediverse clients from enabling E2EE. A web-client isn’t a requirement.
Like there is no point of E2E encryption in Twitter, Musk can read your messages if you open them on any device he can execute arbitrary code on.
Agreed, nobody should trust twitter, but I would trust most mastodon clients to send encrypted messages, if/when implemented correctly. Does it guarantee that messages will never be read? No, but it does an extra layer that wasn’t there before.
that argument doesn’t hold. you’re letting perfect be the enemy of good-and if you truly believe that, then you wouldn’t be recommending Matrix which has web clients, see https://app.element.io/
why? because it would be cool if only intended recipients are able to view sent messages.
Check out CryptPad.org, it’s:
Only downsides so far is that the UX is a bit slow when first loading documents and there are no mobile apps.
EDIT: Forgot to add the important par, they recently added support for OnlyOffice in the browser, which to me, was a pretty big deal.
Bought a 20 TB external for ~$270 a few months ago. It’s now $400:
Can I coin the term imagineomics?
I left lemmy because of the nutomic, yogthos, and dessalines. horrible people who have too much influence/control on all things lemmy and will ban/silence you for anything. check out [email protected]
If these features interest you, that’s great! But you’re not the average user. Congrats tho. Librewolf may be perfect for you.
it’s basically twitter.
I will say, the cool thing about it is the interoperability between ActivityPub platforms. For example, from my mastodon account, since I’m subscribed to some hashtags I’m interested in, I occasionally see posts from Lemmy/Piefed (reddit-like), Pixelfed (Instagram-like), Loops (Tiktok-like), etc. I can comment and like without having to create accounts on the other platforms. It’s definitely more aligned with what the open web should look like, although could use some UX and discoverability improvements, as I’m not entirely sure how some stuff works, but it’s been interesting to try it out.