Taxi companies don’t keep specific vehicles for 20 years, they wear out long before then. Keeping them maintained to pass inspection at that point would be a costly nightmare.

The first Tesla only came out 17 years ago, and it was a 2-door sports car… so yea it’s not really surprising you wouldn’t see 15 year old Teslas regularly. They do exist though. The Model S has only been out for 13 years, and there are definitely still first run Model S vehicles driving around. There are 8 from that original year for sale on Autotrader.com right now, all in running condition.

There are only 2 Prius C from 2012, and 2 more Prius V from the same year. Those were the first years of each of those models as well, just like the Tesla.

I think Teslas are shit though. They’re designer brand electric cars, poor quality, and they make zero financial sense at all compared to full EV models from the likes of Hyundai, Kia, or VW.

Also, like I said in an other comment, Taxis are not driven the same way that a regular person drives their car. Hybrids are absolutely perfect for the Taxi driving use case. They make almost no sense when used once a day to go to work, and then hit the grocery store and gym on the way home.

You mean Comprehension?

Cabs don’t drive like you do. Neither based on distance driven, nor the constant stop and go driving that optimizes hybrid use case.

Full electric is better for a lot of taxi locations, which is why a lot of Cab companies are now starting to switch their fleets over.

Even Uber ditched it’s Uber Green branding for Uber Electric.

Every single Waymo on the road is fully electric at this point after they phased out their hybrid units a couple years ago.

And then it will become more expensive to maintain than the gas version the year after, and worth less at resale because of a degraded battery or some shit.

Also, brakes are not a primary cost in ownership of a vehicle.

Math is fun, but you need to do a total cost of ownership calculation, not a cost to date calculation.

Full electric is simply better math.

If you’ve only had it three years, the expensive maintenance part hasn’t started yet, it’s probably still under warranty.

A) Your car is not an EV. It’s a Hybrid.

B) All hybrid cars were/are bad investments.

You take a car, make it more complicated by adding an entire second power and drive system, and then expect it to not cost a fortune to maintain later?

Fucking stupidity.

Money…

Welcome to the Matrix.

No country can last forever, renewal is just as important for governments as forest fires are to restoring the balance in nature.

Is it painful? Yes.

Is it necessary eventually? Also yes.

No.

But there’s plenty of historical precedent for countries splintering.

The molecules are also mostly created through the use of energy from our sun.

That’s not all of it.

Part of that is going to depend on what exactly you’re doing with the computer, and how fast the other components are.

If you’re just browsing the internet and want to be able to have more than 5 tabs open before your computer starts stuttering, the extra ram will be far more important than the speed.

If you’re playing games, and your CPU and GPU are really good compared to your ram already, the bottleneck from the ram speed dropping may slow things down rather than speed them up.

It won’t matter in the slightest.

Each thing gets washed once, with the appropriate chemical if needed.

Generally for the toilet bowl, something with bleach.

For surfaces like the toilet and sink, especially in a bathroom, I usually swap between using just some vinegar and Fantastic all purpose cleaner. Vinegar is fine most weeks, Fantastic once in a while to get some of the stuff Vinegar may not have got properly with those extra chemicals that it has but I could easily go months without needing it.

I use water and a microfiber cloth for the mirrors and the faucet, a drop of dish soap if there’s something on it (like dried toothpaste spittle). This also works for walls most of the time if you wipe those, but I don’t wipe my walls very regularly, maybe once a year.

Hot water is fine for the tile floor too, maybe it gets something stronger a couple times a year.

You don’t need a lot unless someone in the household is sick with something that could be transmitted through a bathroom. Then hit it with harsher chemicals.

One thing to note may be that in certain warmer climates, there are other considerations for mold and bacterial growth that I do not have to worry about where I live (in a cooler climate)

It’s a fucking struggle right now, and It’s not supposed to be like this.

You shouldn’t have to work a full time job, and take care of the house, and take care of the kids. Neither should the wife/partner.

The fact that it requires two working parents at this point to afford life is the problem. There’s enough to go around even if just one parent was participating in the economy, if it was distributed more fairly.

The pendulum has swung too far on capitalism, and it’s sucking the vast majority of people dry just to feed itself. There’s a reason why birthrates have jumped off a cliff.

So there’s an answer, and then there’s a problem.

The easy answer is that Home Assistant has Voice Assistants now, and you can use Ollama, Whisper, and Piper to do that all locally.

The problem is that it really only talks to Home Assistant, there’s no ability to have it search the web, or make a phone call, or really anything else outside of Home Assistant without significant addon stuffs.

It also requires a reasonably significant amount of RAM on your computer to run the VM for Home Assistant while supporting Whisper and Piper and Ollama.

Agent voice response

It’s even mostly open source.

They’re now using that word to mean… What exactly?

He’s going to mess up and try to nuke bikiki bottom isn’t he?

Poor patrick.