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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • I’m not completely sure why

    I think it’s marketing

    5000 mAh is much a bigger number than 19 Wh and marketing loves huge numbers

    Kinda like BMW did with the i3.

    In 2013 Tesla was selling a model with a 60 kWh battery so BMW had the genius idea to install a 20 kWh battery BUT refer to it as “60 Ah” battery.

    Tesla introduced the 90 kWh battery? BMW responds with a 94 Ah battery (28 kWh)

    Newest Tesla has 100 kWh battery now? BMW has 120 Ah battery (38 kWh)

    “See? Higher number!”, says the marketing

    And in order to have a comparable range number they had to implement heavy weight reduction techniques like using carbon fiber for the body, negating any cost saving from the smaller battery AND giving the owner a total loss after small collisions as it shatters instead of bending






  • Corps like facebook have entire departments filled with assholes trying to be maliciously compliant with your laws.

    Like “as the law required, we opened WhatsApp to third party apps”.

    Then you go to watch this third party app, and it’s birdchat, never heard before, with only 200 global downloads, with more devs than actual users, launched like one week earlier. And if WhatsApp users want to chat with those dozens of birdchat users, they need to opt-in in a hidden toggle buried in the settings. And when they toggle the opt-in they need to confirm thrice on some scary “are you sure?” dialogs. I don’t think that a single message will be exchanged between the platforms in the whole 2026

    So for your anti ads laws, they will argue “this is not advertising, is simply suggesting a feature or product…”