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Especially true as increasingly fewer of us have homes or even rentals with the space needed to house the types of tools to make things even if they are owned

You know, I had a similar conversation with someone but regarding houses

My big issue with old furniture is the quantities of people I see bring some nice old piece home only to end up with termites or other pests, evrn after they treated the thing, and then they are forced to spend way more than just the cost of the old piece to remove those pests from their home… thats if they catch it in time anyways. If they get to the structure you’re looking at thousands in pest removal and repairs

One of my neighbors who worked in pest control at the time would go on about stuff like that being one of the big factors keeping him in the trade

Everything comes with its own caveat. New stuff isn’t built the same as things used to be, old stuff is very old now, usually hardly servicable without substantial effort and diligence

There’s a good 20 year gap on the market of quality consumer goods and todays types of products so getting quality stuff is also just getting darned hard as they break down and are disposed of. Soon it won’t just be the products. It will be the tools and skills to make them too

Idk when your competition is $2,000 mdf with 10 hinges to fit into a 6"×35" box even your finger painting first try has the potential to be a treasured family piece if it can hold up a turkey and table cloth these days

Last time I diy’d it was triple the cost

I got tools to do other things with after the fact, developed a personal connection with the things I made. The second version didn’t break and was substantially under the original projected costs, but the total was over triple

However, if you want things made to last instead of things to ship these days, the tools and materials of say a decent dining table can easily be under the cost of the product

$500 in lumber, $1,500 for a table saw, $700 for a helical thickness reducer, $700 for a helical planer, $300 for a biscuit joiner, and ~$500 in varius clamps, glues, screws, and materials puts the project at the ~$4,000 mark, which is the starting point for many decent good dining tables (without shipping/delivery)

I can’t really speak for today, because I know things are way different than they were before when I got out of retail

But I can tell you what worked for me and maybe you can apply something from it to your own situation

Save up enough money and buy your own tools, for me that was a $200 in 2013 computer. Sounds cheap today but it was a very tough purchase to make at the time without help and with bills to pay. Learn something that can be applied elsewhere using ‘free’ resources (r/piracy, FMHY, and your local Library would be the equivalent today). For me that was learning to use Linux, CAD and other modeling software in ways traditionally educated people at the time did not leverage them, and that edge got my foot in the door

Oh, and before you get your hopes up on the regular sleep schedule bit, I spent the past +decade swapping between nights and days every single week after getting out of retail. Now there’s also a baby in the picture and we won’t afford child care so sleep is a pipe dream. Maybe 2-4 hours a day if I’m lucky. Been that way for over a year now

Retrospectively my schedule then of 4-10:30 on week days so I could go to school and 5am-2pm weekends to get enough hours to pay the bills was amazing. Pay sucked though. So did them playing with my hours to keep me part time without full time benefits.

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The mirror in the picture is showing a round mirror in the reflection, the mirror in the meme is rectangular so its not the meme girl or mirror being portayed, but something out of sight of the lensbox

Oh, come now… You really telling me you think they or any other multi-billion dollar corp won’t frontload the costs and pocket the difference?

Or ‘ease’ the price increase in over a few quarters so that its not met with as harsh of backlash?

https://vger.to/lemmy.world/comment/23048406

I think its likely the codex price hike, not Ai

Most of their servers are processing and multiencoding with h264/h265, and even if people are moving away from that for av1 they have such a massive platform that they still have to utilize it even when most have moved on

Ill rerespond to this to a link to exactly what im talking about if I remember

Awd/4x4 is an integral option for those of us who need it. Its not a gimmick, its not a nice to have. Its an it better have one or the other, or its not an option

It’s the difference between getting up your drive in bad weather and parking at the end of a 3 mile long dirt road drive and walking home from there, in the dark at the end of a long day, through woodlands in which wild animals are not infrequent visitors, and presumably on top of all of that in markedly bad weather events

A truck, and especially an EV that must be plugged in to charge so you can drive the +70 miles to the nearest town if needed after driving that far to get home doesn’t live up to its name or need if it doesn’t get you to home or from 999/1,000 times you needed it to

Not talking about towing

Talking about a bedspace only, 1-2 man crew setup

A Bobcat ZS4000 Stand-On Mower 48″ is a 64" long mower for example, so it should juuuust fit in there, but to be safe I mentioned smaller, though personally if I were to do something like this I’d want a greenworks electric, costs half as much as the truck

For sure, you’d see a range drop, but it shouldn’t be anywhere near as severe as pulling a trailer

A small standon, a ramp to get it on and off the truck, a rack with a trimmer, edger, hedger, blower, pruner, mini chainsaw, maybe a delta powerbank or gas generator to recharge the tools as you drive about or they’re in standby

I’d expect a drop in range about 25-30% with that but not as severe as a pull behind trailer

~130-150 miles of range is doable if you plan the route and cluster clients, which any Semi-competent business owner who could afford a fleet of these would be capable of doing or paying someone to manage the routes

Slate is a good niche, its range is fine for the purpose its supposed to fill

Imagine a fleet of them for a lawncare business paired with a 30-42" standup electric mower rig

Cost of operations would be dittly squat, could be further buffered with solar and replacememt parts dirt cheap. Roi would be extremely quick and then it’d be pure profits

People are already doing that with used Teslas pulling trailers (yeah its funny to see, but the people doing it have shown their numbers and its pretty nuts)

Whats not fine about the Slate is no awd version. On an EV it’s a minimal endeavor to make that work so there’s really no excuse

Having experienced awd I will never personally own another vehicle without it if I have a choice. Especially a truck. My driving conditions are way too harsh to not have it

Nah, we’ve seen what happens with patents. from medical, to agriculture, to automotive to software. The system isn’t working even slightly as originally intended in almost all scenarios and should be dismantled

And those servers are what process your Twitchs, your YouTubes, your Netflixs and etc services

Here’s why it does matter

Most server hardware thats out there right now doesn’t support av1 encoding, so all of those, literally tens of thousands of them in thousands of spread out data centers have to be replaced with brand new +$1,500 a pop cards that do support it before they can use it

Surpass Tesla in software?

Most of us want less software not more

That’s why everyone is so hyped about Slate. Less of this garbage is a paid feature these days.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Toyota-bZ4X-EV-recall-over-fears-tires-may-fall-off-affects-2-700-units.631463.0.html

That one?

Nah I’d even drive a paintless dumpstertruck over that thanks

Volvo, Rivian, Kia, Chevy, Ford, plenty of ev options that aren’t negligently dangerous like Toyota’s EVs or Teslas

You really are asking too much here

We need to get math, geography, literature, history, writing, personal finance, and driving training working again first

Want to know what my drivers ed consisted of?

Not cars, no

A signature of consent and having me/my class to view unredacted images and video of a girl who some of the people in that room personally knew from that very highschool who didn’t wear a seatbelt screaming with her face having been peeled off having passed through the windshield, and similar gory aftermath images

Thats the educational bar of competence we’re competing with here at least nearly two decades ago. You think it’s gotten better or worse since then?

Go look up what happens to wannabe prospectors operating without license, at least in the USoA

Heck even the videos of gold/gem/geode prospectors I’ve watched make odd offhand comments about sicking police on tresspassers