Well, the reality of things is that the Internal Combustion Engine is a mature technology. The metallurgy, tribology, thermal stresses, etc. have all been figured out to the point where any engine no matter how bad can easily last a hundred thousand miles or more. Talking about regular engines, not specialty self-destructing engines that seem to arise occasionally. To discuss those, you’d need to get into failure modes and root causes, and important distinctions must be made for engineering design vs production (quality control) failures.

Now, the problem with bad manufacturers is often not the engine itself—those usually survive with oil changes—it’s the rest of the car. The engine can go bad by faulty electronic controls (which can arguably be considered part of the engine); for example, a bad electronic throttle can cause damage downstream; bad fuel injectors (which can also be considered part of the engine) can create uneven thermal loads that end up in more problems and ultimately engine failure. However, the metal, the motor itself and the moving parts weren’t necessarily defective.

Anyway, to answer your question: I don’t know, they all suck, but stick with Toyota. It’s a race to the bottom and they’ve purposefully been losing for years.

Confirmed troll

You can’t “use meta anonymously”

Hello friend. You have a leak. Someone near you may be running an Alexa or something like that; perhaps you have a gf or mom who carelessly uses technology. Other people’s phones will spy on you and link it to your profile. However, most likely, you have a forgotten device that is feeding information. Perhaps you used Tinder, which gave it access to your location. Maybe you have to use Microsoft devices for your job.

Notwithstanding this, privacy profile fingerprinting is a thing. No one is running the exact same configuration that you are. This is why Mullvad tries to pass all their users as a single generic one with their browser. Even if this is successful, there is no anonymity possible once enough data points are collected; as for YouTube, it is pretty easy to determine which user is watching a certain combination of videos/creators. There aren’t that many people who browse in English, watch John Johnson’s cooking show for 10 minutes then switch to Jack Jackson’s car repair advice and click on the exact same corner of the screen. There could be a hundred of these but how many have the same internet connection speed? How many have the exact same mouse pointer movement speed (yes, they can see what part of the screen you’re hovering and capture your clicks and movement, and it’s all standard)?

The only way to deal with natural monopolies like YouTube and Reddit is to steal their content. Which you can’t do yourself unless you are very wealthy and have the protection of an adversarial government that does not consider this stealing.

Yes, but not in the imprecise terms you’ll find tossed around in mainstream sources of information.

Key Lemmy-grade terms:

1. Surveillance Capitalism —> Technofeudalism
2. Personalized pricing
3. Bureaucratic Friction & sludge (customer service best practice)
4. Administrative Burden (government, business adm & customer service)
5. LexisNexis Risk Solutions, RealPage
6. Rent-seeking behavior; economic rent
7. Whiteness theory

What’s the right place? (there isn’t)