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USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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I would truly not be surprised that this would be an attempt to take over there ev truck market, but manufacturers should have been paying attention. There's a huge market for small ass trucks, no one is catering to it

While I'm sure they'll try to enshittify, the downside to that plan is that they need to make sure no one takes their place and they need to have something people want that they can enshittify. The benefit of simplicity is that it makes it simpler for another manufacturer to pick up the slack.

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USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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Those are midsized. I would say Hyundai is the only one with the Santa Cruz, and that's not really a truck.

Edit: I stand corrected, I had assumed the maverick was rwd/awd, not fwd/awd. I'm going to amend my statement and say the maverick is also not really a truck. I consider having the drive wheels under the payload to be an important aspect of a truck. Not that it really matters in the grand scheme of things.

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While this is true in theory, in practice it rarely shows up. If these trucks do deliver a good, simple experience at $25K, others would not be able to just copy it and catch up. It would be easier for any of the big guys to just buy the company.

I agree, but without the complications of a combustion engine, it makes it a lot easier. You can buy ev conversion kits for around $15k, so there's also an "I'll make my own, with blackjack, and hookers" option.

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Trump may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug

Stat reporter Lizzy Lawrence replied, saying, “I asked you, the FDA, and HHS multiple times yesterday whether this application was for the President. No one answered my question directly.” Desai then seemed to confirm that no one had answered the question, calling it an “idiotic question.”

I'm gonna have to agree with Desai here. It's a stupid fucking question. As much as I hate the guy, the only link is a 79 year old. This is national enquirer level of reporting.

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Getting started with NextCloud?

Nextcloud has worked wonderfully for pretty much everything except for the office suite, which almost never works, I've heard AIO runs it fine. I've just had more useful luck with collabora on my phone and libreoffice on desktop that I'm not willing to fuss about to try and get it to work for the fifth time just for it to break again.

As for installation, I went the nextcloudpi route on a normal PC and haven't really had any issues that weren't my own fault. The biggest struggle I had was figuring out what packages I needed to install on a minimal Debian install before I could successfully run the installer.

I did spin up a nextcloudpi lxc container on proxmox since I'm expecting to containerize it in the future and it just started up perfectly along with the normal office suite issues.

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Tested: Microsoft just debloated Windows 11 Search without Bing, and it's crazy fast

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I put an ssd in a laptop from 2003, it boots to desktop on antix just as fast as my T14 running opensuse.

When this laptop was running XP spinning rust, it took 5 minutes to get to desktop, 10 minutes to do anything useful. SSDs have made that possible, pretty much nothing to do with anything else.

My dad had a C64 that I'd play around with, and I can confirm, it booted in seconds. Loading a program was a different matter.

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"Name not given" applies to every person alive, and "only one person" also applies to everyone alive. Therefore the only link to Trump is "79-year old", and I suppose "obese", but the nature of the treatment and approval says to me that it rules him out instead of includes him.

As far as investigating abusing his office for personal gain, this is like saying Dahmer is murderer because he stepped on a bug. Maybe investigate the bodies instead.