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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • So, normally, you want a random sample in polls,

    With 100k size, and no evidence this was deliberately tilted, this is definitely huge.
    Unfortunately your link doesn’t show the poll that I can see. So I don’t know the specifics.
    But if it’s among mobile users, there is no reason they should be particularly biased one way or the other.

    If this is reasonably accurate, we can expect Tesla market share to decline further. AFAIK it was about 4% in January in Germany.
    There are lots of reasons to not buy a Tesla, and now fear of vandalism may keep people away who don’t really care about the politics. Which could explain the high number that state they won’t buy a Tesla. Most of them are probably not even in the market for a car though. So it’s not just a Tesla they won’t buy.



  • No Tesla is finished at a minimum to a degree where they will end up as a niche car maker at best.
    This would have happened even without Musk being unpopular, because the truth is Tesla doesn’t make very good cars, and their development cycle sucks hard. 5 years to develop a new model, where others typically use 3, and China only 1-2 years. The competition is already overtaking Tesla. Musk just made sales drop faster.
    Tesla has lost about 50% of their sales globally YoY as of February. That alone is a cause for near certain bankruptcy.
    Other car makers like for instance Nissan are claimed to be in trouble for losing just 5% sales!!


  • File transfer progress bars generally aren’t worth shit, I have no idea how this is still a problem. It dates back to the early 90’s, and it’s still not done properly.
    Almost everything to do with file transfer report it to be finished before it actually is, because it doesn’t consider write back cache. So it’s only the reading part that is finished, not the writing part. Meaning the transfer isn’t actually finished. Never never never trust it is my motto. Personally I’d rather not have the dysfunctional progress bar, if I could have an actually accurate completion notification.

    PS: I just switched back to KDE/Plasma after many years. Overall I’m pretty pleased, but also a bit puzzled about a lot of the simplifications.
    like inability to disable caps lock, and the inability to change double click speed for the mouse. So now I need a startup command for the caps lock, and I needed to edit an ini file for the mouse for such simple things, that used to be accessible through settings???
    But they finally added the ability to use numpad for hotkeys, which I found out, and was what made me switch back to KDE. Now I only miss the ability to use the scroll wheel on hotkeys too. To finally have similar functionality like I had 10-15 years ago with Compiz. 😜