They probably are internally, steam doesn’t want to have to deal with unnecessary missed expectations just because a partner talked about stuff they obviously have no knowledge of.

Less than a day later, and Steam already announced the opposite.

Guess I’m in today’s lucky 10000

That’s a very generous definition of ‘the worst’

Glances at pawb.social

America maybe, but the West is more than just the States

Lasts up to a week… I’d be hesitant to commit to a trip that long myself. Imagine if you had a bad one.

“what motivation would anyone have to do so?”

The same motivation that leads to people developing and hosting it in the first place?

Took me way too long to figure out that was the butt, not the beak.

Personal anecdote, having issues with mine, and the warranty claim is estimated to take a month just to get approved and the part in. Oh it’s your only vehicle? Damn, sucks to be you.

On the other hand, you have major European instances (feddit.org) geoblocking a quarter of the world (Asia) and degrading the fediverse experience for any users there.

BYD support so far has not impressed me favourably. Had an issue with my new car, took it to the workshop, they took apart some stuff and agreed that a part was faulty. However they need to submit a request to HQ for approval, which will take 2 weeks. And THEN they’ll order the part, which will take ANOTHER 2 weeks. 1 month, just for a simple issue. It’s a good thing my car is working, if this was a critical issue I’d be carless for a month due to their bureaucracy.

I suspect they’ve grown way too fast for their support infrastructure to keep up with.

If they had made the change for that reason, sure. But the actual stated cause was some pretty thing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sHy-ji5hDNQ

ICE engines are not particularly noisy, it’s rotors that make the most noise. IDK about the exhaust, but I can only think of thermal sensors and shouldn’t hydrogen be exothermic too?

Environmental friendliness is way down the list of priorities in war, from the perspective of the army.

And HICE engines have higher power density, which makes sense for recon drones, unless the tanks nullify that.

Right, that’s what I mean by the article not mentioning any actual advantages, which makes me think they’re not actually winning the tradeoff game.

You can do it with gasoline too, while using some of it to hightail out of there :)

WDYM about the exhaust, though? I’d imagine the heat trail from combusting either fuel would be about the same.

Ok, so? What’s the benefit as compared to a gasoline hybrid? If a PR piece can’t mention that, I’m inclined to think there isn’t any. In addition to the downside of needing an entire new more complicated supply chain for the fuel.

Very cogent take, enjoy the incoming downvotes.