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  • JordanZ@lemmy.worldtoElectric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Yes, Electric Cars Are Good in Winter, and I Drove in the Arctic to Prove It
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    18 hours ago

    Yeah that kind of stuff is covered in the second half. The first half and the title seem to allude that people just think EVs drive worse than their ICE counter parts somehow in cold weather.

    various YouTube videos, and Reddit and Quora threads — often featuring inaccurate or misleading information — all essentially telling potential EV owners that if they want to drive in colder months, they’re better off buying a gas-powered car.

    When I told a friend of mine I was going to the Arctic to drive EVs, their response was: “Do they even work in the cold?”

  • JordanZ@lemmy.worldtoElectric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Yes, Electric Cars Are Good in Winter, and I Drove in the Arctic to Prove It
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    1 day ago

    Most people don’t do this for some reason but you really should be removing snow from your hood and roof already. I’m not sure what Michigans laws are but in my state if a chunk of snow/ice flies off my car into somebody else’s vehicle while driving and causes an accident or damage (cracked windshield, whatever) then that’s my fault and can be cited and my insurance will have to cover the other drivers damage.

    It’s pretty common to see the big contraptions out here to pull crap off the top of semi trucks/trailers for this very reason.

  • JordanZ@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGNEnglish
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    5 days ago

    For all Steam’s faults…they host games forever it seems. A game I use to play was pulled from the storefront but stayed in your library(assuming you had it prior) because the publisher shut it all down back in 2017. I can still download and launch the game but the servers were gone so you couldn’t really play. Apparently pretty recently people found a way to get bootleg servers up so players were appearing as online again.

    I’ll agree it’s still a point of failure if Steam just up and disappears but I’ve never had a game actually disappear from my library yet. Unlike basically every digital copy platform for movies (digital copy codes from physical copies). Just because you ‘own’ a digital movie doesn’t mean it won’t just vanish one day. iTunes will generally give you a couple bucks if you bring it to their attention that it’s gone but other platforms basically tell you to pound sand.

    We basically have the exe issue with PC games on disc. I’ve got a few of those but most have been community patched so you just copy the cd contents, copy a file or two on top and launch the game for a modern os. Obviously some security risk here if those patched files are malicious.