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  • Sad story. Died at 28 from drugs after living on the streets. From Wikipedia: “During the evening of June 8, 2021, Skye told friends and coworkers that “the FBI and the Mafia were after her [and] she was going to go become a Hells Angel biker”. Everyone she called refused her a place to stay, so she walked from the San Fernando Valley to Los Angeles’ Skid Row. In the early hours of June 9, Skye asked to nap in a stranger’s recreational vehicle; she was seen smoking something before lying on the man’s couch. A short time later she was discovered deceased there,[2] at 652 Moulton Avenue.[14]”







  • Frostbeard@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldobnoxious virus
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    8 days ago

    I had one guy in the late 90s at my HS who made a program that copied itself onto every directory on the computer at startup. It was a .com file and if you ran it it would use the PC speakers to play a tone increasing in volume and pitch until it was unbearable. You had to do a hard boot to end it.

    I also remember the Form virus that made the PC speakers make a sound each time you pressed a key. Can’t remember if it did anything else.




  • Frostbeard@lemmy.worldtoCyberstuck@lemmy.ca"Do I have a lemon?"
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    16 days ago

    Thats a fair point. It seems to be badly designed, engineeres and made, all at the same time.

    My point was that it’s not uncommon for some of these electric cars that were rushed to be pretty bad. (Not because they are electric, but the rush to get models to the market.) The Toyota Bz4x was recalled (and sales stopped) because the wheels fell of.


  • Frostbeard@lemmy.worldtoCyberstuck@lemmy.ca"Do I have a lemon?"
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    16 days ago

    TBF. My neighbour bought an I.D.4 in summer 2021 and I never even saw it as he constantly has an I.D.3 as a loaner from the dealer. After a year of constant repairs he cancelled the purchase and got a new Skoda Octavia estate (ice) as he needed something bigger for his three kids. In 2023 he got a Tesla model 3, as the financing was pretty amazing.

    The ID4 had so many early errors that it was absolutely dogshit, but now most of the kinks has been worked out and it’s a decent car.

    The cybertruck can probably become a decent (if insanely stupid car) once they work out the kinks. Tesla is still a brand with leprosy though