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It’s because it was an actually good electric car

Now you have said that twice.

And that was the point of my original argument. That it was not a good car.

I don’t need to repeat myself for anyone with any reading comprehension and the ability to recall that information.

For you please refer and read carefully, perhaps multiple times, what i wrote.

I’ll even modify it for you to eliminate your issue…

The quality control is the worse compared to any other car company. Even the cheapest cars have better fit and finish than the most Teslas.

And the quality was shit then too. By most accounts even worse than now.

So your point was?

The real reason was that it’s actually a good car

No it’s not. The quality control is the worse compared to any other car company. Even the cheapest chinese EVs have better fit and finish than the most Teslas.

I don’t say that as a fan of China. Fuck China for so many reasons and thier cars are not great but they are of better quality than Tesla.

I say this as someone who has driven every Tesla model and some models multiple iterations. I have also driven BYD, Xping, Xiomi, Aion, and Zeeker.

What I say is anecdotal but it comes from actual experience. Tesla is shit and musk is diarrhea.

I use 3-2-1 backup strategy.

In the past I used google drive as a cloud backup. Periodic checks showed that the files stored on google did not have matching hashes. The files were changed somehow. Furthermore, the hashes changed from one month to the next.

I redownloaded the files and they were corrupted. Pictures had the wrong colors, videos had sections missing.

I kept the files on the drive and retested monthly. (I had paid for the year) They degraded every month.

I don’t know how or why but google drive is not worth it, even at a free level. They will corrupt your data.

I have not tried onedrive because, in my mind, microsoft is even lower than google on quality.

My point is… Linux with multiple offsite backups. Buddy backups recommend over trusting any corp.

You can self host a copy a stack exchange and many other sites offline using kiwix. https://kiwix.org/

You can browse the availabe sites for self hosting at https://browse.library.kiwix.org/

What is recommended for a TV box?

I have tried google/android TV but the ads are everywhere and I don’t trust google not to track everything.

I have tried a raspberry pi running Kodi but it’s not very good for anything except jellyfin. I still want to view streaming services on occasion.

My next attempt will be an apple TV but i don’t trust apple and despise their walled garden.

I would like something FOSS and optimized for TV viewing. I thought about using a linux OS and using the browser for streaming, but it does not look good from the sofa and requires a keyboard mouse.

So what do you recommend?