Even torrents take time away from something else I could download that's better -- like all the movies made before it all went to shit.
Naturally the solution is to erase the past by memory-holing old content so people will not have anything for comparison to make the current content look bad.
In the case of the DEF it absolutely reduces the lifespan of the engine. A truck engine that could last 500K miles lasts 200K max.
Factor a second or third engine (whole new truck) and the energy and pollution to produce it and DEF looks not as great.
Vehicles and engines that last 25 years are easy to build yet they are rare outside of commerical and military.
The whole argument is disengenuous and proceeds from an unstated a priori desire by government to restrict movement of citizens and markets, rather than as a real requirement for a real benefit.
Commercial fleet and military engines do not 'last' 25 years. They have a consistent maintenance schedule to fix and replace common wear parts. You have to think of it much more like the Ship of Theseus and not the same vehicle.
My last two vehicles lasted over 250k each, well, one is still going, I just don't own it any more. I feel the engine on the Toyota thats still running may last forever. It's replacing other parts outside the drive train that made it not worth it. Consumers are much more into toss and replace than full rebuild maintenance schedules.
I am not sure why you so casually dismissed this complaint without doing a quick search.
The whole reason why DEF is used[0] is because it reduces nitrous oxides, which are thought to be a pollutant.
Whether they actually are an effective greenhouse gas or not is probably a completely different thing we could argue about, but what is undisputed is the mechanism of action in the hot catalytic converter during engine operation, since it's the entire point of using the DEF in the first place.
In the catalytic converter, the urea thermally decomposes[0] to form Ammonia and Isocyanic acid[1], which is "a colourless, volatile and poisonous substance, with a boiling point of 23.5 °C".
23.5C is 74.3F. So, basically at room temperature the isocyanic acid becomes vapor. On a hot day, it vaporizes quickly and all that isocyanic acid has to go somewhere.
This is nasty stuff[2].
Anyway, the EPA probably figures that poisoning someone who's operating a diesel serves you right in order to reduce nitrous oxides. I've operated other diesels that are pre-DEF and never got sick like that.
There is no reason you should be exposed to volatile compounds from a normal parked rental truck. I would have asked for another truck or avoided U-Haul altogether.
Agreed. It was actually another national moving truck rental brand (not U-haul, I was just using it as a generic descriptor). I don't know why I'm not mentioning it since it seems like there's only a few national brands, but it's not their fault they have to use DEF and the truck was really great otherwise.
Over the years some of my clients got trapped into being Twilio customers through acquisitions.
Without exception every engagement with this company has been a disaster. I have gone to great lengths to get all my clients away from toxic Twilio because I view dealing with them as an unacceptable risk due to incompetence.
Maybe they should focus on retaining the COMPETENT staff whoever they are beause they really seem to have a problem supporting their own products and services.
Like I really want to deal with torrenting, Plex servers, etc. Been there done that. I travel a lot and don’t want to deal with downloading media ahead of time.
I also stopped pirating music the day iTunes was introduced
You do know that iTunes just sells MP4s, right? They work in VLC. You can replicate your iTunes library to a NAS trivially and have it Just Work (now, the iTunes client isn't very smart about network drives, so you're better off having a local library that's backed up to said NAS, but that's not the issue at hand).
Haven't a lot of torrent sites gotten in trouble or implemented rules to mitigate against their sites providing content before the official release since they come out so fast and not always from official sources?
I've never heard of issues of having to wait any significant amount of time from an official release on the streaming companies.
Yea I've never seen a wait period after the official release either. This guy must be confused.
Torrenting is great but TBH I'm not going to waste my time setting up Sonarr/Radarr and maintaining tracker accounts to torrent stuff that I can watch through services I already have access to.
New gear usually needs time to marinate before it gets some hacking freedom.
New media is best ignored -- if you are always waiting with baited breath for 'the next new thing (TM)' they already have you and you will pay happily.
I personally ignore all new content and the odd time I want to see what's new there is more than enough waiting for me to download...
I'm not consuming every new song or film as they are released or even within a year of release because that is a waste of your attention and it's controlling you like a dog begging for treats.
The intention of the comment was -- if you just can't wait.. then pay your master. Seems you made your choice.
If I try to reverse engineer the requirements for IPv6 and 5G it really seems like they are just key pillars of a world surveillance apparatus. Certainly IPv6 is completely unnecessary for most cases -- but if you criticize it you will get the hysterical tell tale vax or 'climate' treatment -- you are a bad person for stealing the last IPv4 from children or something!
And in related news the value of old cars has never been higher.
Government Motors can keep their junk cars and bundled spying service.
“By including this plan as standard equipment on the vehicle, it helps to provide a more seamless onboarding experience and more customer value,” GM spokeswoman Kelly Cusinato told Automotive News in an email.
What nauseating corporate speak. I'll translate:
"We are forcing this grabage on our customers so we can drive up the price and remove their ability to opt out of our tracking and spying service," -- which is primed to be used to track driver movements and 'carbon' use (Lol!) and rat back to the nanny state. Just like every electric car.
Even torrents take time away from something else I could download that's better -- like all the movies made before it all went to shit.
Naturally the solution is to erase the past by memory-holing old content so people will not have anything for comparison to make the current content look bad.