🏳️‍⚧️ vegetarian with interest in linux, self-hosting, and public transit.

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  • What are you smoking that 32gb of RAM is 09? 32gb is more than enough for most users in 2025, hell 16gb is still quite enough for most use cases.

    Most mac users I’ve known either use the touchpad or MX Master, very few use the magic mouse. And build quality is much better than the equivalent plastic garbage from HP or Dell.


  • june (she/her)@lemmy.mltoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldElectric Cars
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    1 day ago

    While those are great improvements over fossil fuel based cars, they also exasperate existing issues.

    Almost all of these EVs are in the SUV category. These vehicles take up more space on the road and parking lots. This results in less capacity for our road systems causing traffic engineers to incorrectly add more and more lanes to roads. Additionally combined with parking minimums, more and more land is developed into parking lots, which in term increases pollution and increases the heat island effect.

    The increased weight and instant torque both causes increased tire dust (as another commenter mentioned) as well as accelerated wear to the roads. The high power figures results in inattentive selfish drivers being able to reach high speeds quickly adding risk for pedestrians.

    I understand that the SUV craze existed before EVs were popular however as EVs are normalized it’ll only further enforce people buying oversized dangerous sub-4s 0-60 bricks.