Not sure if you realize how long ago that was. Meta was not a thing. IG was barely a thing. They were a shadow of the monolith they’ve become.

Its easy to say in hindsight.

Without them, you don’t find out about parties, trips, events, etc.

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I don’t understand what that has to do with anything?

As I said before, that’s a PHEV. It’s probably insufficient because the engine serves as a heater for those kinds of situations. I’ve driven an EV with a resistive heater (Bolt) in 14 degree weather and it was more than sufficient.

Where did he say he was being censored?

Well…soon there will be no fact-checkers. How will they take down critical content then?

I don’t speak for the world, facts do. You are not a “silent majority”. You are an extreme minority.

SimpleX gets a lot of things right. In particular:

• no public identifiers
• ability to chat anonymously
• not dependent on centralized servers
• multiple user profiles

My main concern for them is that they are backed by several investors (some VCs) with no concrete public plan as to how to pay them back.

Of course they will. They only company that has actually ever refused, to my knowledge, is lavabit, and that’s because they shut down their operations entirely when the gov demanded encryption keys due to Snowden.

The fact that such an enormous portion of users and groups are on the matrix.org server is a huge problem.

These are 2 distinctly different groups of people.

They both output plenty of heat, even in the coldest of climates.

I know the resistive heater in my Volt can’t compare to the heat put out by the ICE.

the ICE generates an insane amount of excess waste heat as a byproduct, so you have a virtually unlimited supply. The Volt is a PHEV so resistive heating was probably not considered super important.

If the heat pump can put out more heat for less energy

There’s no if about it, it is ~300% more efficient.

That might be the second biggest issue (next to range)

They are the same issue. Less energy used for heating = more range.

Lots of people consider only their commute

No they don’t.

The frequency of 200+ mile trips is vastly overestimated by anti-EV people

The frequency is irrelevant. Again, if you want to go on a single trip, literally ever, in the entire time you ever own that vehicle, it needs to be able to make that trip, and it needs to be able to do it in a reasonable amount of time.

A half-dead 2011 Leaf would still cover my 40-mile round trip.

If you only ever drive back and forth to work, then I feel really really sorry for you, but you are an extreme minority in that sense.

Not sure what your point is. I never said anything to the contrary.

No, people reading scholastic documents and drawing the wrong conclusions is how we got into this mess.

Yes that was my point.

The fact checkers were not incompetent, they weren’t involved at all.

I’m glad that works out for you.

Most people aren’t road tripping in their electric vehicle every day.

They can’t road trip ever if the vehicle doesn’t have sufficient range. I don’t understand how you can even be in this conversation when you don’t understand basic principles like this.

If you don’t understand how temperature affects battery chemistry, capacity, and charging

I understand how it affects all of these. It doesn’t cause any of it to “not charge properly”. EVs are used in the coldest places in the world with no major charging problems.