Overall heavy losses for the Russians, and 2 aircraft and 1 helicopter, and allegedly one of the special equipment was an S400 missile system, which is a very expensive multi vehicle piece of equipment, that can also act as command center for 8 divisions. These are not easy for Russia to replace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-400_missile_system
Yes and in 2019 Musk's claims went even further, when he claimed it was stupid to buy anything but Tesla, because next year (2020) You would be able to make money on it as a RoboTaxi. As I recall it was $200,000.- you should be able to make on a Tesla per year!!! Why he sold them then is a bit strange?
He also claimed that instead of losing value, a Tesla would increase as much as five times in value in a year, because FSD was worth that much.
How this man hasn't been jailed for fraud years ago is beyond me, I could understand if USA was a corrupt country for the rich...
oh... Never mind.
No it was not, we have testimony from employees that FSD wasn't even close to what Musk claimed. And it can't even do it today.
Just because you can flip a switch that says FSD doesn't mean it works.
That's like saying a car with cruise control can self drive. Although FSD is more sophisticated, it still can't.
The Tesla cannot self drive by any reasonable meaning of the term.
Tesla also calls it assisted self driving now. And that's obviously not because it works now, which even now 8 years later it doesn't.
Musk also said more safely than a human being. I've seen videos with FSD creating numerous dangerous situations on a single trip, that required quick intervention to avoid collisions. Driving in narrow roads it would suddenly turn into opposite traffic (potentially lethal), not minding right of way in crosses (also potentially lethal), and even turning straight towards parked cars, when the lane it was in was unobstructed!!
Another video I saw, it crossed at a very clear red light!! That's a very potentially lethal situation.
There is no way it can be reasonably argued that Tesla has working full self driving.
it completes 90% of the trips
You know 90% isn't even close to being half finished. The next 9% are probably more difficult, and the last percent the most difficult. There's a reason the hard parts are finished last.
I don’t see anyone claiming they have “working full self driving”
The whole thread is about Musk claiming in 2019 that Tesla has FSD working NOW, that could drive the car from a parking lot on the other side of the country (USA) and pick you up in a parking lot where you are. AND that it could drive more safely than a human being.
I am not interested in the slightest whether it's 50% or 90% there now, the fact is the claim was made first in 2016, that Tesla would have it ready NEXT YEAR, and in 2019 he claimed it was ready NOW! And it's STILL not ready!!
So what is it about Musks claims being false you don't understand?
I don’t see anyone claiming they have “working full self driving”.
That's decidedly false, because you yourself wrote:
Yes with Starlink which the military threatened they might nationalize if Musk sabotaged Ukraine access again.
I honestly don't think Musk's value as a military contractor is very high, and probably (hopefully) not enough to protect him from criminal liability.
Oh boy you are tiresome, I wrote the thread, not the post.
But still the context of "the coming year" Musk claimed Tesla had that NOW in 2019, and it would
be made available to consumers in the coming year being 2020. It's from the exact same presentation.
Nothing you quote contradicts anything I wrote. It's just different parts of the same thing, which of course requires background knowledge you evidently don't have.
Mercedes Calls their version of fully autonomous driving: Drive Pilot but you show a comparison to a way more basic Driving Assistant, which is nowhere close!
This comparison shows that Tesla FSD in reality is merely a drive assist.
My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones,...
It's like we can't have good phones. If you want Headphone Jack, SD card, Message LED, and synthetic back, you can't get a phone with good camera, GPU and water resistance at the same time.
Why are phone makers so hostile to their own users?
The glass back is supposedly there to give a premium feel to the phone. But because it’s fragile, people have to use a cover, but with the cover, the premium feel of a glass back is gone anyways?
How is glass back not a design flaw?
Another thing is that now they make "vegan leather" as the new "premium feel", which of course won't break like glass, but it still doesn't have nearly the durability of a decent synthetic/plastic back, which IMO feels great to hold and makes the phone lighter and despite being better it's cheaper.
With the glass you get extra weight, and with a cover, you get extra bulk and weight on top of that.
It's drives me nuts how insane this design decision to use glass is! Vegan Leather isn't that much better, I had the LG G4 with leather back, and it got pretty ugly after a couple of years. But at least that could be easily changed/swapped by the user. And according to every source I can find, vegan leather has lower durability than real leather.
Metal often being Aluminum is also great for cooling, and my phone doesn't even have wireless charging! It's kind of a "budget" flagship, so some corners were cut. Now one of the corners is a bit smashed too. 😜
Yes I really liked my Motorola phone, but I wanted a better camera, and now Motorola uses those IMO shitty curved screens except on a few cheaper models.
My Moto held brilliantly without being ruggedized and without a case. And that's despite it is big 6.8" screen and relatively heavy with 220 grams.
I'd say it's absolutely a flaw, to chose a material that is way way worse and yet more expensive.
As I write in my post, with a case, there is zero advantage to the glass back, and you don't get any premium feel from it.
That's a bullshit Google result, because my phone doesn't have wireless charging, and glass backs were used before wireless charging even existed.
Also you can easily have either synthetic like plastic or vegan leather. And my Phone is made with Gorilla glass, and it cracked anyways with a drop of 30cm!
So nothing in that explanation holds water.
Yes I suspect so, question is then why the fuck were reviewers so much after the Samsung Galaxy S2 way back in 2011 for having a better polymer back in every way? All tests showed the Galaxy was way more sturdy in drop tests than iPhone, but reviewers scolded it for felling less premium!!!
Already back then it was obvious that using glass was a very bad design choice IMO.
Doesn't change the fact that glass back is a design flaw. Yes obviously I should have used a case with this stupid phone, but I didn't have to with any of my previous phones, 14 years with smartphones with full glass fronts. most of which I've had for about 3 years. But they all had plastic/polymer/leather backs. None of them ever broke, because I'm generally careful. If I drop them, it's from my pants pocket while sitting down, so it's a low drop, just like it was in this case. Except the phone broke its back because it was made of glass. I have small scratches on my old Motorola for being dropped at the exact same angle, a phone that cost a fourth of my current phone!!!
No I didn't fall for it, it was absolutely on the negative list, and I've avoided glass backs on all my previous phones, but this time I couldn't, without making heavy compromises in other areas.
Except for the Vegan leather, which is almost guaranteed to become ugly within a year. So I bet on the glass as the lesser of 2 evils.
Good for you for calling them out on their bullshit.
Thanks, I've actually done that since 2011.
Just remember, if you fell for this one, you might fall for another marketing gimmick unless you pay more attention.
I didn't fall for it, it was the least bad option I thought, because otherwise I'd have to compromise on other things.
I was pretty happy with mine too, great value. But mine was with flat screen/front glass, I'm a bit reluctant about the curved screens. That's something we used to curse like the plague on old tube televisions. To bring that shit back is almost as insane as glass back IMO.
OK I had to look it up, that phone also has a glass back. That's impressive, I wish I had been as lucky.
My phone should have better glass than that one, but it broke from little more than looking at it wrong.
IDK, tests showed that Apple phones broke way easier, so I blame reviewers for disregarding that fact when they reviewed phones with both great feel and looks for appearing or feeling cheap.
The only feeling cheap as I see it, was often lower weight. People associate weight with quality, but reviewers really should know better.
If you’ve got a glass phone without a case or insurance then you kinda running this risk.
Yes I know, but I've never had any problems at all, I've never dropped the phone out of my hands, so I considered the risk to be very low. I must admit I'm shocked the phone cracked from such a minor drop.
Once it’s getting towards the end I purposely wreck the phone off a wall and get brand new
That's fraud.
Edit PS.
Note this is the only time I've dropped this phone. When I mention it happens, it's maybe a couple of times in a year, I've never really dropped my phone while holding it, it's always slipped out of my pocket, it's happened when I drive, I think it's first time ever it happened on the terace.
Wow way to misrepresent what I wrote. No I don't "regularly" drop my phone, But it happens, and when it does it has ALWAYS been from a sitting position sliding out of my pants pocket, making the drop only about 30-45 cm. Most drop tests are done at 1m, and since the damage is exponential to the height, a drop of 30 cm maybe 3 or 4 times in the lifespan of the phone shouldn't be a problem.
Read again, I write I've never dropped it out of my hands, meaning I've never dropped it more than about the 30 cm, because it's always from my pocket while sitting down.
Always may sound like it something that happens frequently, but it's not, it's maybe 1 or 2 times per year, but over many years with smartphones, a trend still appear.
Yes, usually plastic backs have texture, that actually make them quite comfortable to hold IMO. Also the texture can be made so it looks very cool.
Also plastic backs aren't usually just cheap plastics, they are high quality synthetic materials.
Plastic backs are also both thinner and lighter. Which all in all makes it the way superior material even over aluminium.
Very good specs for the price all around, but admittedly there are many other good phones. But for me there is always some minor detail I don't like.
One Plus has opposing button that causes miss clicks.
Flat screen, many phones have curved screen that makes them less suitable as readers IMO, and can also cause input mistakes.
Some dont have IP68 or an IP rating at all.
Some don't have good software support, this has 5 years.
I might have sprung the extra dough for the Samsung S24 Ultra, except for the unpleasant sharp corners, and I'm not that enthusiastic about Samsung products in general anymore.
The biggest drawback with Xiaomi used to be the OS, but the new HyperOS is way better than MIUI. Although it looks the same, it somehow has a better feel to it, and they've gotten rid of a lot of crap-ware.
Now the biggest drawback IMO is that it's made in China. Which considering recent political developments I will do more to avoid in the future.
I forget that most people aren’t hardcore privacy nuts
I used to use Android AOSP without Google apps for that reason, I am still observant on privacy, but I don't see why a one plus should be any better than Xiaomi, or why a random ROM with possible unknown interference should be safer/better regarding privacy.
so the incentive structure leading to bad behaviour seems less clear to me
Yes that's true, and problems with it are very rare AFAIK. We know Google is the #1 bad actor already, which is why I avoid a lot of the Google stuff, like search and Chrome.
Companies are generally bad actors to make money, while some claim Chinese phones have political motivated problems.
Considering the current political climate, with China being steadily more confrontational, I will absolutely look more for a phone that is NOT made in China next time.
But for me there was no good alternative to the Xiaomi 13T pro back in January.
Vegan leather is not as durable as a normal plastic made for covers. It's generally made of Mycelium (mylo) the specific Xiaomi vegan leather is made in part of apple peel.
The term Vegan leather is reserved for "sustainable" materials, which means it can be made of reused plastic. But that's still not as strong as the high end plastic materials that was originally used for premium phones.
If I knew for sure the vegan option for the phone was made of high quality PU, I would have chosen that.
Modern phone cameras are crazy good even on cheaper phones. This is totally insane compared to old analog gear, both regarding cost and capabilities.
I've had a midrange phone with a 0.8" main sensor for a while now, and I'm still regularly in awe of the capability and quality of the pictures it takes.
It's insane how much better digital cameras have gotten the past decade, and they are still improving.
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