stop buying tesla, stop supporting spacex, and stop buying starlink
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2024
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And stop using Xitter.
SpaceX will be the only game in town once the new administration eviscerates nasa
^^ this. In America the only vote that really matters is the one you do with your wallet.
But what launch provider should I use then?
Boeing? No, I don't think so.
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I would have no other alternative for internet access unfortunately
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.
Thanks I'll look into that, never heard of it. I'm on an island
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Fuck Elon. Fuck Tesla.
I was their target demographic and Elon made sure that I never even consider their trash. I went BMW instead.
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.
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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.
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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
There is no such thing as a benevolent corporation. Don't feed the fascists. Don't give your money to Elon.
EDIT: Autocorrect derp
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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.
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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.
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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
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
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
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just because it’s innovative and disruptive to invent the machine gun doesn’t mean it’s good
That's a great Maxim.
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Similar vibes than Reddit api pricing
Reddit got the idea from Elon's twitter API fees. This is Elon being consistent(ly terrible).
When Twitter (and Reddit) pulled this off, I was just mildly pissed. Can't do interesting things with my data, oh no.
...Image that, except it's an expensive luxury car you're no longer allowed to do interesting things with.
Another reminder to developers to not bother with public APIs, just screen-scrape or reverse-engineer the official app private API.
Really the lesson is, don't run a business that 100% depends on another company.
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...
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Its Tesla; y'all should be dumping that shit anyway.
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
It's only going to get worse year over year as we move towards a dystopian corporation ran future.
The U.S. leading the pack on testing how much a rich person can get away with while directly interfering with a d profiting from the government, which is funded by the people.
It's just another grift, but this time in the open, corporate sponsored politicians being elected as presidents is going to become the norm. The only thing it takes is money to influence an undereducated populace.
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I'm surprised devs didn't see the writing on the wall after Twitter all but murdered its API
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Greed twists all minds.
There's no laws against profiteering?
Tesla is an American company, in Texas, at that.
It wouldn't matter if there were.
One more reason I’m glad I bought a car with CarPlay / Android Auto support.
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