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What is a product you would never recommend?
  • We’ve used the Amazon firestick before and it worked well. Currently we use the google chromecast/tv dongle for both ours tvs.

    Nice thing about the google one is that it makes any Google movie/tv show purchases available, and Amazon movie purchases are still available through the Amazon video app.

    But they’re pretty comparable. Depends mostly on what ecosystem you’re in or would prefer to be in.

  • What is a product you would never recommend?
  • Roku anything

    I have a tv from them and one day the PBS kids app just stopped working. I contacted customer support and they just told me it was the app developer’s fault, nothing to be done. Waited months thinking it would eventually resolve but never did.

    And recently where they:

    1. Blocked people from using their tvs until they accepted a new agreement and
    2. Filed for a patent that defines how they can start overlaying ads on top of other connected devices over hdmi

    Glad I shut off wifi to my tv years ago and plugged in a separate smart tv hdmi dongle. And not getting anywhere near anything that says Roku on the packaging again.

  • Truth
  • Not sure what phone os you use but some of what you’re describing is built into iOS’s “drive” focus. And it can automatically turn on when your phone connects to your car’s Bluetooth. I’ve been using it for years now.

  • Is Natural Gas a Fossil Fuel Trap or a Bridge to Clean Energy?
  • I can’t read that article without being logged in but, based on your username, I’m guessing it says it’s a fuel trap?

    I will say, this video from Climate Town was pretty eye opening for me on the topic of natural gas today: https://youtu.be/K2oL4SFwkkw?si=TYax0lIF3CZsPPjx

  • Electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles were found to be approximately twice as likely, on average, to collide with a pedestrian than internal combustion engine vehicles
  • More pedestrians are injured in Great Britain by petrol and diesel cars than by electric cars, but compared with petrol and diesel cars, electric cars pose a greater risk to pedestrians and the risk is greater in urban environments.

    I don’t understand this statement. More pedestrians are injured by gas cars but electric cars are more dangerous?

    One plausible explanation for our results is that background ambient noise levels differ between urban and rural areas, causing electric vehicles to be less audible to pedestrians in urban areas. Such differences may impact on safety because pedestrians usually hear traffic approaching and take care to avoid any collision, which is more difficult if they do not hear electric vehicles.

    This makes some sense. My car is just a hybrid but plenty of times I’ve had people just slowly walking in front of me in a parking lot. They can’t easily hear my car at that lower speed as far as I can tell. And full electric would be even quieter.

    It’s interesting though. No easy solution is immediately coming to me, other than pedestrians getting more and more used to cars not making any sound.

  • Kia EV3 revealed as sub-£30k electric SUV with 373-mile range | Autocar
  • I’m in the same boat, specifically looking at Toyota. I love my current Prius and plan to have my next car be full electric. It’d be an easy choice if Toyota had an affordable offering.

    Which, I havent kept up with current all electric vehicles but it looks like Toyota has something now? Don’t know much about this bZ4X though. I’ll have to do a bit more research.

  • What's a small, silly thing you and your partner like to do?
  • When our kid was younger I heard him say “Dad, I love you” from the car backseat.

    I said “I love you too buddy”

    Then my kid said “NO Dad, three buses!”

    So now I get 🚌🚌🚌 from my wife every so often

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