Orion sorta lets you use Firefox addons. I use the built in adblocker it has tho.

That’s true, but California itself also has a load of conservative small towns in the desert. The system for the senate is fucked tho

I mean yeah, but look how many of those towns there are

I visited the US (small town in NY) in 2022 and every other lawn had a bunch of small Trump flags. Not even a presidential election year.

I fully believe a large share of the country voted for him at this point. Doesn’t mean that he’s absolved of fuckery in swing states

Depression is a chemical dysbalance in your brain. If you were able to just go start doing stuff to alleviate it, it probably wasn’t depression.

Yea but it’s cold and dark, do you really want to?

Yeah, you go to work or school and it’s dark out. You go home and it’s dark out. Home office and work at unconventional hours is the only real way to see any natural light.

Earlier in my school years, we had to use Microsoft Office products. Then later on we were expected to use Google Drive, as they wanted to teach us what we can use without paying Microsoft.

At one point it was also mandatory to have a blog because the teacher was big on Web 2.0, and they of course pushed blogspot (Google). I think I went with managed wordpress instead, but may remember wrong.

Kinda has tbh, we got fat

I’m saying that BYD is only cheap compared to its most expensive competitors and those brands aren’t even operating in the same league.

Compare BYD prices to normal euro car prices and BYD is the same or more expensive. Hell even the popular GWM ORA 03 seems hella expensive for such a tiny car. Dacia will sell you an EV so cheap the Chinese aren’t even competing with it. You need to pay 10k more to get a Chinese EV (which admittedly has more power and bigger battery).

Point me to a BYD vehicle that’s cheap and its DIRECT competitor that costs significantly more.

They’re pretty expensive if you consider the fact that the Germans know how to make a car, and the Chinese only know how to make a powertrain and infotainment. And they still cost about as much as the Germans for similar segment vehicles, so really you’re even getting less for your money.

Yea I don’t want my desktop to be more lockesld-down lol

But they’re not cheap after the tariffs. Yes, cheaper than German luxury cars, but not cheaper than comparable cars.

Kein problem!

Yes, they’re cheap because the competition is higher end vehicles. BYD’s own high end models are expensive too. They don’t sell the Han here because you could get EQE or i5 for that amount.

I would say so, yes.

ZF and Bosch put together make like 90% of any given German car too. Mercedes being the only one with their own transmissions. Even Porsche’s PDK is built by ZF.

And you’ll find both ZF and Bosch stuff on American cars too.

80% is often considered standard for battery warranty. If a Mac goes under 80% in fewer than 1000 cycles, the service toolkit considers it a failure - back when I had access to pirated Apple Service Toolkit anyway. The old version for pre 2015 laptops.

I imagine it’s similar with cars. They can’t promise you retain 100% health for 8 years so they probably have some set percentage. Maybe it’s also 80%?

Hmm

In October 2024, the EU increased tariffs on Chinese-built EVs, including 17% on those made by BYD and 35.3% for SAIC, on top of its standard car import duty.

Also my friend in the middle east was excited for the BYD Dolphin (I think) for its price and it was… Nearly twice as much here when I looked it up?

BYDs seem cheap because they make budget EVs. Mercedes, Audi, etc, do not.

Also quite true. They no longer need to use the threat of violence because of the implication