The usual Dacia is indeed from Romania, but Spring is their first EV and it’s basically some unknown Chinese car rebranded with Dacia’s body kit. The whole EV technology is Chinese, though. New one will be (supposedly) based on new Renault Twingo platform.

As for the tax: yes, there’s just that small registration fee specific to cars, but there’s also usual 21% VAT like on everything.

And that “upgrade” path? It is definitely not Denmark thing alone as we have it here too. Prices I listed are for the bare bones trims. Classic move is like this: Want something useful like parking cam? Pay up. And because manufacturers are pricks, it’s only available as a package with some other crap you don’t need nor want but still have to pay for…

Škoda revealed Epiq recently, which is I believe ID.Polo cousin. And it’s not cheap by far, for it’s size and specs. Basic trim starts at over $30k and that means things like gray color only, no parking cam, no keyless doors, no V2L, no heated seats, no wireless charger, etc. And also just basic 3 year warranty. Want better specs? You’re at price of Tesla Y… (Don’t want to bring its idiot owner here, just comparing cars offers.)

And my personal gripe of car industry: I absolutely hate every car review magazine/site/channel where they present new cars like “this new model costs just XY”, then proceed to show you nice car and at the very end they tell you it’s not the XY price base trim. It actually costs over twice as much, due to better trim, bigger battery and all the fancy options. Yeah, thank you and f*ck you with a cactus.

It’s Czech Republic and no, there are probably not any cheaper EVs here. I’m not counting Dacia Spring ($16,5k pre-tax) as it’s Chinese car in disguise and it’s just too small and weak I’d hardly consider it a proper car anyway. Some other “cheap” non-Chinese choices are Hyundai Inster for $21,5k, Fiat Grande Panda for $22k or Renault 5 for $26,5k, all prices pre-tax.

Overall it’s just so expensive here. A lot of people are skeptic about the tech both for being expensive and also because everyone thinks they probably need to drive 800 km every day and charging is too slow… I’d buy EV a long ago if it wasn’t so price prohibitive.

EDIT: Just for comparison, average monthly wage is ~$2300 and median is ~$2100 (before taxation).

Well, our eastern block post-communist shithole has the cheapest e-C3 for roughly $22k pre-tax. It’s insane.

So by that logic you don’t have to pay tax for electric consumption, right? Right? Damn USA became such a cesspool…

Maybe the dog alerted Google and demanded his embarrassing photo removed?

Most modern cars (in EU at least) has reversing white lights very, VERY dim, just to tick the box “has white backing lights”. My car (kia) barely lights road one meter behind the car, it’s really terrible in this regard and I honestly understand OP as I recently moved and reversing to my parking place is always like a lottery when it’s dark and rainy. As a workaround I put solar led lights along the driveway as a runway lights so I can see at least something.

You might laugh, but milk used to really sell in actual bags where I live…

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If only I knew! I’d squeeze them myself…

Drama

But you know, those “creators” on instagram do this shit for money. There’s no money on PixelFed.

But hey, they’ve got shopping cart in their store after like 5 years or…? Laughable.

And there are also people that prefer Epic game store for some reason. All five of them.

But looking at it from Steam’s side: why should they list a game, promote it through their recommendation algorithms, forums, friend lists, reviews, workshop, etc. when the developers can use it just as free advertisement and sell it in their store for half the price? What is in it for me? Servers and traffic are not free after all, quite the opposite thanks to today’s AI craziness.

But is there an alternative where I can take my games where I want? Sure, there is GOG, but if they decided to shut down their servers right now I’d be screwed the same. I don’t have storage space to regularly back up installers just for sure… So technically it’s possible but in reality it mostly isn’t.

Heroic games launcher can work with GOG library too. It’s not as polished and easy to use as Steam, but it works, most of the time.

Best vaporware ever!

We have all the servers at work using Debian. It’s rock solid. I use Tumbleweed on home PC and CachyOS on laptop as I do some gaming and having fresh packages might help this. Both works for me.

I would add: Don’t do phone calls with loudspeaker on

For me it’s either almost all of them or pretty much none, depending on point of view.

I consider myself being quite a gamer, maybe a little old school one, but gamer nonetheless. I grew up with DOS classics like Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Civilization, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Quest for Glory, Heroes of Might & Magic, Ishar, Betrayal at Krondor, TES: Arena, etc. Supply was very limited so I played those plenty times. I did read game magazines at that time, drooling over pictures of games I could never get, kept informed about new releases… And I do keep quite specific taste and quirks to this day.

I do like RPG, even though they are very time consuming and there’s not that much free time. I keep hoarding them and telling myself I’ll play them later. Same goes for my other preferred genre: turn based strategies. I like me some slow paced turn based combat and exploration, but man, that time investment is brutal. My third preferred genre is FPS, either this new/old “boomer shooter” phenomenon or some good story driven game (like e.g. Half Life). Last, but not least, is something I’d call “casual games” which might include everything from Slay the Spire, Inscryption to Golf with your friends or Megabonk. Those are games I like and play (or just dream about playing) and the rest is… just what you ask.

• FIFA and other sports? I don’t like it. I might get why there are people playing it, but buying actual rooster each year for full price? No way.
• Souls like? Not for me. I want to relax, not feel like I have to work hard non-stop to not die. There’s enough of that in real life. I still get why some people might like the challenge, but not me.
• RTS? I know it’s pretty much dead genre, but I never liked it. I don’t have that fast reflexes and fast tactical decision making, so I prefer TBS where I can plan my actions in peace. Enough stress IRL, no need to add it in game…
• Competitive online games? Same as above. Too fast, too stressful, to gain what?
• Plenty of others, don’t want to put wall of text.

I do understand people are different and have different taste and that’s alright. This is just my personal take. That’s why I said it’s either all or none. If I’d be strict and focus just on my personal prefs, most games would fall into “why do people play them?” But when I look from the broader side, people play games they like, so its alright.

But man… there’s one exception, that’s despicable no matter the point of view. Grinding&gambling addict games -those should be banned worldwide for humanity’s sake.

Telling their mom, obviously.