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Well, that's stretching the meaning of the term quite a bit as it originally refers to a business dynamic of modern rent seeking online platforms (that others have called neo-feudalism). But yeah, a lot of stuff many people took for granted is getting more and more shitty these days.

I am pretty sure the existing mautrix-whatsapp bridge also uses the WhatsApp Web API, so there would be no difference.

Since it is Google Docs, the data is already on Google servers. But yeah, it doesn't exactly instill confidence into the confidentiality of documents on Google Docs.

This is one aspect of what is commonly called "toxic masculinity". It negatively affects the men that hold these harmful believes a lot.

Afaik the VW Vans from that generation were never certified for much load and had pretty bad breaks.

Yes, Germany pushed though an "synthetic fuel" exception, but that will be a niche product compared to electric cars.

The main "problem" is that European car manufacturers think small and efficient EVs are not profitable enough, thus they are neglecting that market or even cancelling their existing offers. This of course has a lot of knock-down effects, and with foreign luxury brands also being slowly pushed out of the Chinese market, there is really not much left these European companies can do to keep up their high profit margins (which directly relate to C-suite compensation, hence the big focus on that at the top).

True, but that most utilities are refusing to pass on the low costs of electricity during certain times on the day / year is making it double disadvantageous for households. If regulators can fix that, I think a lot more people will consider installing batteries in their home for other reasons than just maximum efficiency.

Those older cars are actually not bad for electrification as they had weak engines back in the day and thus are relatively lightweight. I just hope they also add good modern breaks as those need to be sized according to the extra battery weight. Although regenerative breaking of course also helps.

Arg, this is so silly. Car batteries were never going to be a huge market, and if at all we need cheaper and smaller EVs, which of course also require only smaller batteries with likely a lower profit margin.

Yet there is a huge, largely untapped market of stationary batteries. Both at utility scale to stabilise grids that are mostly fed by renewables, and at household scale. Every home with solar pannels should also have a sufficiently sized battery pack. It's a real added benefit, especially if utility companies would finally offer electricity prices based on demand over the day to private end users.

Then I am at a total loss. You seem to be the only one affected, or at least the only one that told us so far and it is a reasonably popular server.

We do use the new image proxy feature on Lemmy, which still has some bugs to iron out, but that has also been running a few weeks now, without anyone having major issue like you seem to have.

They should, yes. But modern panels have bypass diodes that somewhat mitigate partial shading.