Note that “rather undermines” does not mean “completely negates”. In any case…

30% less range for 60% less cost always makes economic sense.

Be sure to let everyone know when this new mix sells for 60% less than the current mix.

Ethanol does not prematurely dissolve seals and hoses on any car made in the last 30 years,

As far as I can tell, it’s closer to 25 years. Be sure to let everyone with an older car know when you plan to buy them an upgrade.

I get that Americans can’t do simple math,

Lots of assumption and rudeness in your comment. Please learn to be better. Goodbye.

The concern for most people is not the range of a gas tank. It’s about the fact that they’ll have to fill the tank more often, which means paying more often to travel the same distance, which rather undermines the claim of lowering the cost.

The price per mile matters more than the price per gallon.

And then there’s the additional cost of repairs when the ethanol prematurely dissolves your car’s seals and hoses.

Are you getting user tags from a third-party Lemmy app? I don’t see that feature in the web interface.

The TSA shouldn’t have been formed in the first place. It’s expensive, invasive security theater.

Isn’t Tucker Carlson one of the prominent media personalities that spent years influencing voters to support the political faction that put Trump in power?

Does he expect sympathy now?

Nobody has claimed otherwise.

But he’s unlikely to get much sympathy from people who notice that what he does for work shouldn’t be allowed, let alone paid out of their pockets.

If he wants taxpayer money, perhaps he should consider a line of work that’s beneficial to taxpayers.

In other words, these tariffs are effectively a tax on Americans, raising money for whatever Trump wants. Do I have that right?

Before legislation is passed, it is often drafted by people outside of Congress, and outside of the White House. Corporate lobbyists, for example.

I hope America recognises that the stakes are too high to be dismissive of this. Even if it goes nowhere the first time, or the tenth, becoming complacent would be a huge mistake.

My gaming groups use Matrix, mainly for its stronger ecosystem and better long-term outlook. Despite developing slowly and not yet doing everything we want, Matrix is consistently improving and growing to serve more and more use cases. We’re willing to tolerate some inconveniences for now, in exchange for having the contact networks we build today continue to grow for decades to come. We use Mumble for voice chat, because it’s great, but might switch to MatrixRTC when Element Call leaves beta and becomes available in more Matrix clients.

I recently wrote up a few tips for Discord users considering Matrix.

If chat for a small gaming group was all I needed, I might choose XMPP. It’s arguably easier to administer than Matrix once you learn about all the XEPs required for comparable features (ease of admin is relevant to me because I self-host) and I would be able to guide a small group through client choices and setup. But I have found XMPP’s ecosystem to be a poor fit for large and diverse contact networks.

You yourself said that the issues I had were only fixed a few months ago.

No, I said I haven’t seen a single one of those errors in more than a few months. I haven’t been tracking the timeline, but I’m pretty sure the fixes were being put in place closer to a year ago.

I think it’s a little unreasonable to expect me to regularly re-try every other platform before relating my past experiences with it

When we choose to publish old experiences instead of gathering updated information first, it’s important to also state when those experiences were, so readers can take it into account. Things are constantly changing in this field. (Mostly for the better, I think.)

In any case, thanks for clarifying, and thanks in advance for adjusting your spiel now that you’ve been made aware that your information was out of date.

One thing that’s wormed its way onto the to do list that haunts the back of my mind, is I’d like to see if I could abuse the matrix or XMPP protocols to get some of the nicer discord-like features lime invite links

I think I’ve seen invite links being proposed for Matrix, but I don’t remember the status of that idea, and can’t find a relevant MSC at the moment.

This bot looks like it could be helpful for now:

https://github.com/dfuchss/matrix-joinlink

https://www2.matrix.org/blog/2024/05/24/this-week-in-matrix-2024-05-24/#matrixjoinlink

I found it to be slow at times, but more annoyingly,

Slow at what, exactly? If you mean slow at delivering messages, it suggests that you were using the world’s largest public server, which sometimes gets overloaded enough to be slow. In that case, your criticism is not of Matrix, but of a particular server. To compare apples to apples, you would have to either pick a different server or compare the largest one with a similarly loaded XMPP server.

it would very consistently not un-encrypt messages both for me and the people I was talking to,

When was that? Which clients were in use? This is relevant because unable-to-decrypt errors were fairly common until roughly mid-to-late last year. They put a lot of work into finding and addressing the causes, and I haven’t seen a single one in more than a few months. I suspect the experience you’re describing here is either out of date, or you’re using clients that haven’t applied the fixes yet.

I also notice from your recent Lemmy posts that you are evangelizing Movim pretty hard lately. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but praising XMPP without mentioning its drawbacks, while spreading outdated and vague criticism of other options, is a somewhat misleading way to do it… and a disservice to the community.

I have deployed LiveLit for my homeserver

Do you mean LiveKit?

an always on chat channel.

I guess you must mean an always on voice channel. Thanks for clarifying.

(For what it’s worth, my groups are using Mumble for that purpose, alongside Matrix, at least until MatrixRTC brings its voice features up to speed.)

offer true jump in /jump out game chat.

What does this mean?

I remember looking at US train ticket prices once, and finding that they cost nearly as much as plane tickets for the same journey. Is that still true?

Hah… wow. I understand the sentiment, but I think I would have taken it to a local e-waste recycling drop.

I hope the smashing was cathartic.

For the curious:

Eufy is based in China, has already had at least one scandal for lying about data exfiltration, and (when I investigated last year) could remotely update their products with new behavior at any time. I do not recommend them where privacy is desired.

Ergo saying “it’s aSsAuLt” is missing the point and hysterical, preaching to the choir.

You’re projecting a lot of tone and intent that doesn’t exist in my comment, nor in my view of the issue, and you’re doing it with a hefty dose of snark. That’s unnecessary, unhelpful, and unkind.

In future, you might consider multiple ways that other people’s comments could be interpreted, rather than leaping to assumptions that give you an excuse to criticise them and control the conversation.

Be well. Goodbye.