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  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    25 days ago

    Fuck Elon. Fuck Tesla.

    I was their target demographic and Elon made sure that I never even consider their trash. I went BMW instead.

    • takeda@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      This is why Elonia is asking trump to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Other car manufacturers started biting into Tesla market share this year.

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      25 days ago

      BMW lobbies against non-car based infrastructure and car industry regulation here in Germany. Biggest shareholder is the Quandt family, who are descendant from literal Nazis, and now use part of their billions to fund the conservatives (at least they aren’t giving it to the far-right. Yet.)

      So yeah, fuck Elon, but fuck BMW too.

      • JokklMaster@lemmy.world
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        25 days ago

        Yeah fine me a car company that’s not like that. Living in the US it’s a necessity to have a car so just gonna nix that argument. I bought a Toyota to get ultimate reliability (yes Honda is basically equal) but I’m sure they both have done equally terrible shit. And when I’m not in grad school I want to go back to a BMW because they are great cars to drive. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism so just try to enjoy your life where you can.

        • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          25 days ago

          On the one hand, sure. On the other hand, if you’re saying you bought from brand A, not B, specifically because the big boss of B is a shithead, I feel like it’s valid to point out the ways the big boss of A is shit too.

          Since everyone is shit, I dunno, buy used, I guess.

          • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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            25 days ago

            “Theres no ethical consumption under capitalism, so what do you expect me to drive a used car like a PEASANT? If i cant consume 100% ethically ill just consume however i want, and i want a fancy german treat car so just shut up okay”

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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      25 days ago

      never owned a BMW, or a Tesla for that matter, but I’ve heard they’re just as bad when it comes to being money hungry

      • kamenLady.@lemmy.world
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        25 days ago

        A friend bought a new BMW. Everything is controlled with an app. There’s also an interface in the car itself, obviously, but the app has more functions.

        Things like seat heating, air conditioner, enhanced cruise control and all the fancy things are only available if you subscribe to one of the three offerings.

        I just glanced over the app, so i don’t remember the names, but it went like the usual: basic, premium, platinum.

        Prices were in the range of 200, 400, 700 euros a fucking month.

    • Mossheart@lemmy.ca
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      24 days ago

      How is it driving without turn signals? Granted, given they put them as buttons on the friggin steering wheel in the new Teslas, maybe not much different?

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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        24 days ago

        I am sad to say that the old joke is becoming obsolete. These new cars are smart. If you try to change lanes without a turn signal, the car beeps loudly to tell you that you have drifted. Our company also has a Sprinter van that will actually pull you back into your lane. Sad times.

        • Mossheart@lemmy.ca
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          21 days ago

          Turn signals aren’t for you, they’re for other drivers. I can’t hear the other car yelling at their driver, I just see them decide to cut into my lane with no warning or signal.

      • piecat@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        If you’re on a boat… fair enough.

        Otherwise, look into WISPs… Wireless Internet Service Providers. Great for rural areas, the infrastructure is point-to-point radios, so it’s super easy to go large distances without the cost of fiber or copper cables.

        Best part is, if you have any neighbors that are interested, they’ll often give you a discount if you let them put a sector antenna on your barn/silo. Or they can also erect a short tower if you let them too.

        If there aren’t any in your immediate area, reach out to ones nearby. They’re always looking to expand.

  • kalleboo@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Another reminder to developers to not bother with public APIs, just screen-scrape or reverse-engineer the official app private API.

      • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
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        24 days ago

        This. It’s a recipe for disaster. I think enough (tech-related) companies have shown now, that they first want to lock you in, and then if they got you, want to bleed you out…

    • auzy@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      Then you’re at risk of getting sued for cracking the encryption or the API breaking constantly

      The real reminder is don’t integrate with devices which you can’t trust

      • auzy@lemmy.world
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        24 days ago

        Yeah guys. Downvote me. This is literally part of my day job.

        In our industry we call not using an official API a dumpster fire API. Because more than once it has completely broken eventually, and there are a few manufacturers warned will break in the upcoming future

  • Rookeh@startrek.website
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    25 days ago

    Something to note: Tesla has two vehicle APIs, the Fleet API for commercial accounts and the Owner API for individuals. This change currently only impacts the Fleet API.

    If you are an individual owner who accesses your vehicle data from the Owner API (usually via a self hosted tool like TeslaMate), this does not affect you. Yet.

  • _number8_@lemmy.world
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    API pricing is such a shitty obnoxious dogshit practice that is now of course becoming standard because of course it is. internet barely costs money come the fuck on make a quality product

    It used to be a respected standard for developers and hosts to be somewhat open and friendly to 3rd party devs, because ultimately they’re customers and they’re helping recruit and retain customers, they should be treated with respect. just because it’s innovative and disruptive to invent the machine gun doesn’t mean it’s good

    • smitty825@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      The internet (ie bandwidth) is cheap, but running servers, providing documentation and tech support all costs a decent amount of money.

      However, treating an API as a profit center is a joke. These are literally companies developing software that makes the experience of owning a Tesla better. Making things unaffordable for those companies is putting short term profits over long term success of your product

      • Gingernate@programming.dev
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        25 days ago

        But 90k is nothing to Tesla, it’s just a paywall to keep the third party devs put while being able to claim to be open

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      25 days ago

      I have the slightest bit of sympathy. So many companies got their shit scraped and fed into AI models. They lost out. They’re afraid it will happen again.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    23 days ago

    So musk pulled a Reddit spez?

    Not surprising as musk is a scammer who got incredibly lucky, always has been.

    Fuck spez and fuck musk

  • flames5123@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    There goes TeslaFi… fuck. I use that all the time to see my global map and keep track of my stats (like power usage on long drives), and auto enabling of certain features at certain times, like heat/ac after work.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zip
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    I’m surprised devs didn’t see the writing on the wall after Twitter all but murdered its API