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Cake day: December 21st, 2023

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  • Nobody’s even buying EVs right now, so this won’t really affect Tesla that much at all. Dealers are stuck with a bunch of new inventory that no one wants, because once the COVID bubble burst, everyone realized how overpriced and underequipped they are. I took a ride in that SUV “Mustang” once and was blown away by how Spartan the interior is. Same goes for the Jaguar I-Pace. Even my 350Z, made in the era when Nissan was cutting corners to save money, has a nicer interior than some modern EVs. Yet dealers are expecting people to fork over $60k+ for these bare-bones cars.

    To matters worse, you have morons going onto TikTok because they didn’t do their homework before buying, didn’t have a charger installed in their house, and then go crying about things like charging times and range because they have to spend several hours every day sitting at a public charger after work. They just thought that they could plug their car into a 120v wall outlet and it would be able to charge the car enough. And then other morons watch those videos and eat that shit up.



  • The early 2010s was peak BIOS design. When I built a new PC in 2022 to replace my 2014 4th gen i5 machine, I was amazed to discover that the BIOS interface in my brand new, $500 AM5 motherboard was actually worse than the one in my old $120 board.

    The old one ran at my display’s native resolution (1080p at the time), had a contemporary interface, and cool stats showing on the left and right sides of the screen. Meanwhile the BIOS in my modern PC runs at 1024x768, is mostly text-based, and so many settings are just buried several menus deep. IDK if this is an AMD problem or an AM5 problem (not a motherboard manufacturer problem cause they’re both Gigabyte boards), but it was a shock to the system for sure to see how badly the tech has regressed.