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 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?

It defintely is a huge issue, considering resistive heaters use 3x as much energy. Most EVs have a “low range” and anything you can do increase it without adding more batteries and weight and cost, especially in winter, is a huge advantage.

It uses the same amount of energy to create cold as it does to create heat.

Pretty sure they meant EVs

If you’re looking for ethical hardware manufacturers, there are none. Just do a clean install when you get it, like every other computer.

I would assume licensing SteamOS legally prevents them from doing something like that, but who knows.

Why would they want to do that? Like, if I’m Lenovo, I’m genuinely excited about this, and want people to buy it. They can pocket the difference on the Windows license while selling more units because the product is more attractive. They have no reason to actively encourage people to stick with Windows, unless MS is paying them to?

It really just seems like an experiment for them. I hope people buy them…

Lenovo is trying to add value for the people who want to stick to Windows

Why would they do that?

In May, the true experiment will begin when gamers can pick between a $499.99 SteamOS version with 16GB / 512GB, a $599.99 Windows version with 16GB / 1TB

Is there any logical reason for the Windows version to have more storage? What is that about?

You forgot Ultra

You left out the part about Honey charging sellers to hide coupons.

It’s more expensive in remote areas and areas without competition.

Lemmy may be free to access, but certainly not free to host. Am I paying for it personally? No, but someone is.

“Someone” is paying to host every website. The point is it’s free to you.

Exactly my point.