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  • ObitoCanada@lemmy.caAll for this.
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    9 hours ago

    Don’t get me wrong I’m all for it but by this logic we can also include South America (French Guyana), central America (Caribbeans) all Pacific Islands (French Polynesia), Africa (too many to list), Indian subcontinent (la reunion) and Oceania (nouvelle Caledonie).

    I look forward to Hawaii joining the EU :D









  • Mine isn’t as fancy as the Audi (just turns them off when it detects a vehicle ahead or when there’s enough ambient street light). The fact it’s off when there’s street lights invites me to think it would always be off when crossing a bike (as bikes would tend to mostly be in areas with street lights).

    It does work with motorbikes for sure, I don’t think I was in the “bike in dark area” scenario yet, but here bikes are obligated to have lights on them so I’m pretty sure it would detect it just the same as a motorbike. Same with pedestrians if they’re wearing high-viz (which they should in dark areas, if not a dark area, they’re off anyway).







  • ObitoShowerthoughts@lemmy.worldTesla owner
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    4 days ago

    I can share my experience if you’d like, I’m also EU based, I’m assuming like you if you’re looking at Peugeot (they don’t sell in the US).

    I come from a long lineage of buying shitty old second hand cars and driving them until they die or aren’t worth fixing to pass the yearly check. Eventually when I had a decent job and my wife moved here and couldn’t drive manual cars, we got a Lexus hybrid, 4 years old car we still have today. I love Toyota/Lexus but when I started my business I wanted more space to move my equipment.

    Started with a 20 years old Renault Kangoo, that was actually fine but none of the electric stuff worked (windows, dashboard, etc…).

    I knew I was gonna replace it at least for safety reasons, and already wanted to go electric but my wife wasn’t convinced, so I got one more gas car (ford focus wagon) and the engine was so shit it couldn’t handle a slight hill climb with us in the car…

    I decided I was done with gas cars and we actually debated getting a brand new car. During this search, it was clear Tesla was a slightly better deal on paper than the competition when buying new. Basically for the price of base models in other brands you get all the options with Tesla model Y…

    But I really didn’t want to get Tesla for all the moral reasons, + there’s a lot of hidden costs with them especially insurance, additional safety equipment required by said insurance and the big costs for repairs in case of even minor fender benders…

    Realised going brand new was just not for us, we’re just not that wealthy and it would’ve ended up costing us more than the house monthly, not to mention going into debt for it.

    So I took a long hard look at my requirements and realized 95% of the time I don’t need the extra space, so I found a used Peugeot 208 electric which I was able to swap my ford for and basically didn’t pay anything additional when all said and done.

    I LOVE it, it’s well built, I got the GT with all options, and the size is actually perfect for navigating European roads, I can park anywhere, go anywhere, no more worrying about no emission zones, etc etc.

    The battery range is not the best on the market by a large margin but it’s honestly totally usable, for daily use you always leave the house with a full battery and make it home easily, and fast charge is very fast for highway trips but you do have to stop more often. The space inside is way more than you’d expect, I just have to use my old trusted Tetris skills once I’m a while, and when it’s not enough for the big projects with more requirements, I rent a van for the day…

    Now don’t get me wrong stellantis is pretty shit too but at least less visibly than Tesla, and their app/connected services are useless, but I still love my little 208. It’ll certainly become the 2nd car some day though once we replace the Lexus for another full electric with more range/space.

    I would worry about the 2008 though since it’s the same battery in a heavier vehicle and range is already something I have to think about in the 208.

    I worry a lot less about getting a “cheaper” electric brand too, because the mechanics of it are so much simpler with fewer points of failure, whereas I basically only trust Toyota’s engines anymore on the gas front.


  • ObitoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldone-upping
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    4 days ago

    I still have parts of my business doing luxury real estate photo and videography. They ALL have the same shit. They all have the same heavy black anodised metal door leading into the living room, the qooker tap, the green egg BBQ (that they probably never use) and the Sonos/B&O sound system. They all have the same “art” or close enough, same cars, etc etc. They’re definitely going through a checklist of “this thing is expensive and popular among my peers, I shall have it at any cost!”.




  • Does it actually replace notion? From reading the page it sounds more like just collaborative docs a-la gdocs rather than a collaborative database, right? With notion I can use or build templates, have databases with relationships to each other, etc. Can it do that kind of stuff too? Notion does fail me regularly due to the business model, I basically never need any paid functions until I start inviting collaborators and then you quickly hit paywalls. I’d love to replace it with something open source, my use case is small to medium scale preproduction/project management for short films, commercials etc.

    I also see this is self hosted, never did that before and not sure what it entails but I’m willing to learn!