Catfriend was actively openly looking for a replacement for ages and couldn’t find one. No one was stepping up. When she eventually found someone, suddenly everyone wants to have a say. What was she supposed to do, put her life and mental health on hold until the community that wasn’t helping maintain the project, vetted the replacement she found? I don’t know how people can’t see that their expectations are out of whack here. As I said before, if any one of the people who are whipping up the storm had stepped up to takeover, there’d somewhat of point to this, but that’s not happening. It’s just pitchforks for the sake of pitchforks.

Let’s look at the timeline.

Developer was maintaining app, didn’t wanna do it any more and suggested everyone use the most popular fork.

The maintainer of said most popular fork, after a while, didn’t wanna do it any more and after asking for maintainers for a while, found one on her own and handed him the project.

Entitled AF users, who aren’t looking to maintain the project, don’t like the cut of the new maintainers jib and thus kick up a fuss.

At this point, there’s zero new forks available on F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid, proving it’s not about anything other than kicking up a fuss.

Anyone that is so outraged, put your time and effort where your mouth is. Stop with the brigading and actually maintain and publish a fork.

Personally, I trust nutomic and catfiend and if I trusted catfiend to maintain the app, I will trust their vouch for the new maintainer too.

Projects change hands all the time. If someone wants to use a fork, do that. The entitlement here is fucking wild.

As Marques points out though, the car isn’t doing anything new or revolutionary, it’s just bringing a bunch of things that are already available together and doing them well.

Just feels hostile to me.

Pushed already https://lazysoci.al/post/38569105

I can only go off of the information that makes it to us, but apparently yes. Even Formula E are designed with different aerodynamics to Formula 1.

Traditional handles reduce range. Though I expect to see some evolution of door handle design in the coming years.

The American government subsidises American car manufacturers too though, no?

I hear you, but if these cars undercut and outperform Teslas at the same time, the prices should drop across the board for everyone. Cleaner roads are a win for everyone.

If the EU fumbles this…

I think at the time, they had to prove to the world that EVs weren’t a cheaper alternative but a luxurious upgrade. Now that they’ve established prestige, the prices should drop, well if governments do their jobs properly.

So I started looking into this and while FE is catching up, the smaller design that’s made for tight turns and rapid acceleration means it can’t beat F1 is a straight race, but it will Beat F1 on a race that includes turns. In a city for example, F1 can’t compete.

Would be cool if they provided some boiler plate text

Let’s be honest, F1 is antiquated now. It’s living off of nostalgia. It doesn’t even really innovate any more. Certainly not things that couldn’t be applied in FE. I get that fans want to hear engines roar, but I think they’ll quickly get used to hearing engines whirl. Big Oil can’t stave off the electric revolution for too much longer.

But now you’ve made me think of it, perhaps F2 will be hybrids and and F3 full ICE

I can’t wait until Formula E replaces Formula 1. We’re years away, but it’s exciting to dream about.

Thank you!

@[email protected] I wanted to x-post this to slrpnk but I’m having a brain freeze and can’t think of where 🫠

A Welsh instant messenger?

Just went to give this a go, but I’m not in the US, so it won’t even show the option. 🤬