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  • Perez

    Mexican fans will pay to see a Mexican driver in a possibly race winning car.

    Once Perez is gone there will be a huge drop in the popularity of F1 in Mexico. It’s part of why RBR still hasn’t dropped him. The marketing advantage of him in Mexico and Latin America is such a huge sales driver that they don’t want to give that up.

  • Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs
  • Nah, I just enjoy cars and (legal) racing.

    I’m never going to be interested in an EV. They’re boring, soulless creations that don’t interest me as an enthusiast. They’re great commuter vehicles, but that’s where their use ends. ICE is always going to be preferred by car people.

  • Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs
  • I don’t have a place to charge at home, nor a way to run a cord from my apartment to a car, so charging becomes a 20-30 minute ordeal instead of a 3 minute tank of gas on my way to work.

  • Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs
  • I regularly do 400+ mile trips in a day or two ( I’m a photographer ) and need to be able to quickly have range available in non major metro areas.

    Since I live in an apartment overnight charging isn’t an option. So I’d still have to go places to charge, which takes significantly longer than stopping for gas.

    Driving experince is subjective, but instant power with no real hp/torque curves makes driving really boring. There’s no response from the car, it’s just an On/Off toggle. There’s no real fun to driving it.

    Yes the sound is a major part. I’ve got a very nice, valved exhaust system on my new car that adds a ton to how much fun the car is. Hearing the engine, how it responds and how the power is applied is a major part of the fun of driving.

    If all you want is a car to get from point A to point B, an EV is completely fine, but as someone who genuinely enjoys cars and driving, EVs are boring and will 100% get you laughed out of most car shows.

  • Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs
  • At least for me the reasons are

    1. Lack of interest
    2. They're ridiculously Ugly
    3. Range (I’ve driven 1500 miles in the last 3 weeks)
    4. Driving Experience is worse (opinion, but still something I stand by)
    5. Charging
    6. Price

    When I was looking at new cars an EV wasn’t even an option. I wanted a 2 door performance coupe and there isn’t anything even close to that in EVs, let alone on the used market. A 2014 Audi was a better choice in almost every metric beyond gas prices.

  • Meta To Use Public Photos and Posts To Train AI: Here's How US, UK And Europe Users Can Opt Out
  • I have no issue with privacy, my issue is they’re using my creations and content to train the very thing they want to replace me with.

    I don’t care if it’s a big tech company or some small independent developer, I don’t want my work used to create and train Ai models.

  • New York Times warns freelancers of GitHub repo data breach
  • Yes it is. You can be a pedantic a-hole all you want, but “hacking” includes phishing, social engineering and pretty much any other form of access control circumvention to the general public.

    Edit:

    Also from the article itself

    A 'readme' file in the archive states that the threat actor used an exposed GitHub token to access the company's repositories and steal the data.

    Exposed GitHub token is very likely someone messed up and either exposed a token or was victim to an attack that could pull the token. Those are not uncommon and have happened to a lot of companies.

  • More parents are taking on debt to pay for Disney vacations as prices soar
    1. Traveling with children to foreign countries is a lot harder than with adults
    2. Entirely honestly some people have little to no desire to leave the US. I don’t think you could pay me to spend a week in east Asia, that’s just not my idea of fun.
    3. Disney is huge. There’s days worth of things to do, multiple parks and experiences directly marketed for kids (be that good or bad). You don’t even have to stay in the Disney ecosystem with places like legoland, universal studios and a bunch of other theme parks.
  • Stay Informed
  • I gave up on doing this after a few weeks of multiple restarts per day. Until Linux can do everything Windows can (Adobe Products, Anti-Cheats, etc) I’m just stuck to windows 100% of the time.

  • Le Mans 24
  • Unfortunately I pay for neither of those, and TBH I’m not going to pay the astronomical prices for one race. Also Max doesn’t work on my home WiFi ever since I installed PiHole.

  • Biden administration sets 50 miles per gallon fuel economy standard for 2031
  • Yes, but they’d miss out on the long term revenue, which is what everyone is chasing nowadays. There’s be no investors.

    Tbh as a car enthusiast there’s been a few advances I’ve been interested in, but nothing really game changing in the affordable range.

  • Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team & Lewis Hamilton To Part Ways
    www.mercedesamgf1.com Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team and Lewis Hamilton to part ways - Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team

    Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team and Lewis Hamilton will part ways at the end of the 2024 season. Lewis has activated a release option in the contract so this season will be his last driving for the team

    Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team and Lewis Hamilton to part ways - Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team
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    Mclaren Livery Reveal
    www.mclaren.com McLaren Racing unveils new livery for 2024

    The team’s 2024 livery incorporates the fan-favourite elements of papaya and anthracite with a touch of chrome

    McLaren Racing unveils new livery for 2024
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    Photography @lemmy.world BURN @lemmy.world
    Rallycross makes for some amazing pictures

    This weekend I got the chance to shoot my first rallycross event. Despite literal inches of rain, it was some of the most fun I’ve had with a camera.

    Nikon Z6, Z 24-70 2.8 S

    70mm f7.1 1/1000s ISO 1000

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)BU
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