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

Give Steam/Valve enough power and it’ll do the same.

Valve has tons of power. Like, a lot. They seem to (for the most part) wield it responsibly. They’re certainly not perfect but time and time again, given the choice, they choose to do the right thing. Look no further than the Steam Deck.

Imagine how easy it would have been to ship it with Windows. But they went through the pain-staking and expensive process of creating Proton and making everything work super smoothly on a completely open-source OS, and even funding the developers of said OS. Sure, they needed something to distance themselves from Microsoft but imagine how easy it would be for them to lock down the OS so that you could never leave Steam or install any competing stores or make any modifications. Or they could even create their own OS/ecosystem like XBOX and PS do.

Imagine how easy it would have been to be like every other OEM and glue it together and solder everything to the mobo and make it completely unrepairable/unupgradeable. Instead they gave it a removable back and updated it to use torx screws and partnered with iFixIt to ensure longevity out of respect for their consumers.

Imagine how easy it would be to just ignore Denuvo and EULAs and 3rd party accounts, but they force publishers to list them.

They also have an excellent track record for customer support.

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.

Installing an OS is so easy even I can do it, and it only takes about a half an hour on a modern machine.

As a bonus you can pick and choose whatever cases and other components, and get the most performance for your money.

Not trying to tell you what to do, but if you haven’t tried you should give it a go. Bazzite is really awesome and I use it on my living room PC. Only thing it’s missing is HDMI-CEC to turn on automatically and the sleep/resume function and the power up with controller.

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.

Nah, there are lots of devices that have them already, notably the Legion Go.

The average commute is 52 miles. Most EVs sold in the US have a range of 250 miles or more.

No one cares about “average commute” when buying an electric car and considering the offered range. They’re thinking about long trips.

So a resistive heater eating 10% of your range is way less of an issue than your battery not charging properly in cold weather.

Who said anything about batteries “not charging properly”? What does that even mean?

heat pumps should be available, but they aren’t going to save you if cold weather kills your battery.

We’re not talking about killing batteries, we’re talking about electric range. Heat pumps extend your electric range and 20 miles can absolutely be the difference between making it to the next charger or not.

the logical thing to do is whatever gets the most people on the site the fastest, not do something that instantly alienates a massive amount of people

Not true. Facebook knows no one is leaving (at least not in any significant numbers). So what makes them money is showing ads. What allows them to show more ads is people staying on the site longer. What keeps people on the site longer is “engagement”. The easiest way to keep people “engaged” is to sow discord.

Just think about it, are you more inclined to comment on an image of a cute puppy, or a post where someone is spreading disinformation?

Honestly its probably for the best. When people started investigating the “Fact checkers”, it was discovered that they didn’t know anything about the checks that were attributed to them.

Why would they be on Zuck’s payroll if they weren’t going to help him?