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  • Yes, I ended up selling and buying a hybrid. Super happy with the hybrid.

    • Basically instant “recharge” speed.

    • Longer range.

    • More vehicle options.

    • Don’t have to worry about heat or cold draining my fuel.

    • Can leave the car stationary for long periods of time without the fuel draining.

    • More fueling stations.

    • More reliable fueling stations (chargers may be broken.)

    • Less software bullshit. (Tesla)

    • Less possibly breaking updates. (Tesla) No joke. My car’s software literally crashed on the freeway once and I was essentially driving blind because all the screens went blank.

    I drive a lot and for long distances. Switching to hybrid made trips shorter by an hour.

    And I still got to keep fancy drive assist features. It’s like 80% of autopilot, if not more.

    Oh! And big one! Even though an electric car may say something like 500km range! That’s NOT the usable range! You’re not going to be driving the car to 0km. You’re not even supposed to charge to 100% most of the time! So most of the time you’ll charge to 80%, that’s 400km in the battery. But, you probably wanna play it safe, so you’ll want to recharge with 50km to 100km left in the battery. Leaving you with about 300km of usable range.

    Then the heat, cold, and time will slowly drain your 300km…

    Meanwhile, my hybrid has about 700km of usable range, regardless of time and weather.


  • jg1i@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule of owning
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    1 month ago

    OK. I know I’m about to get blown the fuck up but… You will own nothing and be happy. But. Like. Unironically.

    I really don’t think most people want to manage thousands of music files on their computer. Or hundreds of movie files. Or thousands of picture files. Or hundreds of video game files.

    There are definitely options for doing this, but people who go this route are usually tech elite nerds. Not your parents or grandparents. Not normies.

    (I self-host Navidrome, Jellyfin, Immich, etc.)




  • It’s all right otherwise. Not phenomenal, but not crap. The specs you can get with other laptops. The hardware feel isn’t as good as a Dell XPS or an X1 Carbon. The expansion card stuff is kinda cool, but other laptops have ports too. I’ve never swapped out the cards.

    The main reason I bought this laptop is repairability. If that’s not your main priority, then I probably wouldn’t recommend this laptop.

    If you want to use this laptop with Linux and not spend time fixing hardware compatibility issues, then I definitely would not recommend this laptop. Definitely get a Dell XPS for a Linux laptop that Just Works.


  • Agreed! Not saying it’s not a software issue. Of course the software is broken. Of course I wish it was updated.

    But, Framework seeing the landscape and picking hardware with known issues is a bad choice. They could offer lower DPI and eliminate entire pages of workarounds and half fixes.

    Yes, high DPI should work, but it doesn’t everywhere. That’s just the reality, I wish it wasn’t.





  • I use Gboard. I really want to like the FUTO keyboard, but it unfortunately sucks for typing. Not sure what magic secret sauce Gboard has, but with the FUTO keyboard I basically mistype almost every word. Maybe Gboard has some tap target corrections or something? I’ve tried pushing through with the FUTO keyboard for about a month, but I think I’m ready to uninstall it. )`:





  • The problem with dumb phones is that the entire world pushes people towards smartphones. For a lot of adults, it’s really hard to move to a dumb phone.

    Have a security system for your house? Need an app. Router? App. Bank? App. Payments? App. Doctor appointment check in? App. Texting? WhatsApp. Fucking menus? App. Refrigerator? Believe it or not, also App.

    My bank is so shitty that sometimes the website doesn’t work, but their mobile app does.

    You can’t always opt out of using an app. I tried setting up my new ISP’s router last week and it required an app. No other way to do it.

    Currently, I’m thinking something like the Jelly Star might be the best compromise. Has maps and other tools, but the tiny screen prevents them from trapping you.



  • Even now they’re already leveraging their OS-level control. The Android Authority guys said in their report, “the Rabbit R1’s launcher app is intended to be preinstalled in the firmware and be granted several privileged, system-level permissions — only some of which we were able to grant”. I don’t work at Rabbit, so I don’t know exactly what modifications they’ve done to their AOSP fork, but they’re doing something.

    If I had to guess, I’d say they’ve messed with the power management of AOSP and probably the process scheduling somehow? I say this because the Rabbit R1 is hands down the fastest way to access an assistant that I’ve used. I have a ChatGPT shortcut on my homescreen of my Pixel 8 phone and the ChatGPT app is constantly killed in the background, so often times I go to access the assistant but I have to wait for an app to load. The R1 is instant.

    And that’s without counting the time it takes to face or fingerprint unlock the phone, then tap an icon.

    No, I would have not paid $200 if Rabbit was an app. I have ChatGPT and Perplexity on my phone, I don’t like the experience compared to the R1. I paid $200 for the end to end Rabbit experience.

    Btw, I get that some people don’t mind unlocking their phone, tapping an icon, waiting for it to load, asking a question, then getting an answer. That’s fine. If you’re happy with that experience, then the Rabbit R1 is not for you.


  • jg1i@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldRabbit R1 is Just an Android App
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    7 months ago

    there’s nothing the rabbit device does that couldn’t be done via an app

    Currently, the Rabbit does 2 things for me that can’t be an app on my phone.

    1. It’s not my phone. I value this enough to pay for it. I spend more time than I would like on my phone. I’m happy when I can use another single purpose device to help me stay focused.

    2. The push to talk hardware button has been more pleasant for me to use than the ChatGPT shortcut on my Pixel phone.

    In the end, the ChatGPT + Perplexity in a box fills a space in my life that I can’t find anywhere else—given my criteria.

    I understand your criteria is different and you value different things. That’s ok. It just means this device isn’t for you.