The block button is a useful tool. You only have to see the troll once and they are gone forever!

TBF i never worked on a Y

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I liked the way they looked when they first came out, but now the other manufacturers have copied many of the same ideas while Telsa’s own styling has sort of stagnated.

I used to work on them (along with other cars) professionally.

Saw half a dozen Teslas get stuck in the parking lot during my two years there, usually picking someone up. The cars would just shut down and refuse to move. Sometimes they had to be towed.

The plastic trim and underbody panels are poorly made and poorly fitted. You will often notice edges cut off of them so they almost fit in place, but often the one on the underside of the back trunk will have a ripple to it.

The metal body panels are also bad. Uneven spacing between panels is common. Often a quarter panel will have a small gap (as it should) on one side of the car, but on the other side the panels are actually touching. Other times the gap will be uneven along a single seam.

Nearly everything on the car is held together by single-use plastic push-pins, or metal self-tapping screws into plastic and metal panels. If you are really lucky you will get a metal screw into a nylon backing. Where Toyota or Subaru would use a reusable screw or fastener, Tesla alway uses something cheaper and disposable.

We also commonly came across loose fittings on connectors on various wiring harnesses, which we could sometimes fix by just jamming the wire into the hole. Not really something we ever saw on other manufacturers.

I lived in Fremont for a few years, the site of one of their factories. My friends who worked there had so many stories of problems being noticed on the line, and being told to just move it along.

Maybe they do unusually bad work in Fremont, and the Teslas made elsewhere are better. I’ve mainly seen these issues on Models S, X, and 3, i left that job before the Cybertruck was available

Separate from all that, i personally think the touchpad display seems unsafe. All functions of the car to be performed or modified by the driver should be possible without looking. A touchpad requires you to look at it, whereas physical buttons can be felt before being pressed.

Consumer Reports gave the X and S 30/100 in reliability, among the lowest scores they gave in that category.

At the end of the day, they are terrible cars. Teslas have the highest rate of of malfunction and low mileage service of any manufacturer in the US by far.

They are beating Ford at their own game!

Nice to see accessibility on the list! From what i understand, things are rough right now for screen reader users on Plasma/Wayland.

Supposedly Windows is actually the gold standard here, and GNOME currently has the best experience on Linux

I like Evolution too

These AI-generated thumbnails are awful

Windows doesn’t run every game i want. I couldn’t get the first Command and Conquer to be playable at all. I have had the same experience many times with older strategy and simulation games: they just don’t work very well on modern Windows.

By contrast, so far Linux does play every game i want. My entire library going back decades works just fine with Wine or Proton. It’s easy once you get used to using a translation layer.

I don’t play Apex, League, or Fortnite, so that’s probably why i dont feel like i’m missing anything on Linux.

Is it? I still get regular updates. Yes there are a few, i use Morph

https://www.ubuntu-touch.io/

Thanks for the elaboration. I’m not familiar with how Signal works.

Less than some. The US gov has a history of forcing US-based corporations to disclose private data regardless of their policies or the law.

I can’t give you a good alternative though. I’m sure the same thing happens in many countries

It’s a messaging app, it’s useless if there is nobody to message. I dont have any friends using signal yet.

Also it doesnt work on my phone (Ubuntu touch). There used to be a community app but it’s not currently working.

I sincerely wish them success, but it’s hard to have faith that a US-based company will actually protect your privacy. Not that Telegram does either. I dont know what information they do even collect.

I couldnt find a working Ubuntu touch app last i tried to use it

Nothing new here. E2E is only available in one on one chats and is disabled by default. Dont use Telegram if privacy is your main concern.

At least it has an open-source client. Very few messaging platforms can say that, and fewer have a decent UX.

It’s not perfect, but it’s got a good combination of features and multi-platform availability. None of the other messaging apps support all of my devices except Matrix, and Matrix doesn’t have stickers

Edit: Signal doesn’t support all my devices but maybe someday! The network effect is also big. None of my family and friends are on Signal, but most have Telegram. A few have Matrix.

Also Signal is a US-based company.

Edit 2: Matrix does have stickers, i guess I’m switching

With mushrooms i often rely on other citizen scientists rather than the ID robot. There are some very friendly and active mycologists who can be a big help figuring out an ID or telling you what to photograph next time to get better data

Thanks! I will check this one out too

iNaturalist

i upload photos i take of plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, fungi, and bugs. The observations (photos + location + annotation) are uploaded to a public database accessible to researchers and universities.

I’ve been involved in multiple species range expansions, and i’ve documented both endangered and invasive species. Pretty fun!

The Android app is very good. The iOS app is good for uploads, but lacks a lot of browsing features like search filters and phylogenetic trees. If you are on iOS i suggest using it in a browser except for observation uploads

You can also upload audio recordings for bird and bug sounds. It’s amazing what you can learn about your local ecosystem!

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