Just got off work today and as I walking towards my truck I saw a bunch of crud on top of and the back of my truck. “What the hell is that?” Upon closer inspection I realized it was bread crumbs. I’m pretty sure somebody was trying to lure birds to shit on my truck.

In my experience in the last couple of months, most people love my truck, but if the internet has taught me anything is that there really are haters out there and I just ran into my first one. Luckily birds hadn’t had time to find the crumbs yet and they all blew off by the time I got home, but that could have been bad.

I can’t believe somebody took the time to do that, unfortunately I had sentry off because it drains so much battery and 99% of time it’s just somebody staring or taking a picture, but I think I’ll start leaving it on again.

https://archive.is/wip/62Weg

https://www.reddit.com/user/Stew_Pedaso

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    18 days ago

    The asshole literally had to go out of his way to find bread to do that. People have way too much time and hate. Its unreal.

    sometimes the most weird and out of touch reddit replies are the subtle ones

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    I saw one of these things in the wild this week. A good tenth of regular cars in town have rotted-out wheel wells due to road salt, so it’ll be funny to look for them next spring.

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      >buy $100k emotional support truck to get back at childhood bullies

      >soggy biscuit luddites attack truck

      >can’t take it to a car wash without destroying it and voiding the warranty

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    From their comments:

    I cant charge at home so if I use sentry I have to charge every two days instead of every three days. It was just a combination of laziness and complacency, I work 60-70 hours a week so not spending 40 minutes charging was appealing but you’re right, its better to be prepared, especially with such a big investment.

    Investment?

    This is my first new vehicle, I usually buy 20+ y/o cars that only last me 4-5 years. This is the first time it’s going to be me to put that first 100-200k miles on it, so I do consider it to be an investment. Maybe not as good as the S&P, but it gets me to work on time.

    Right, but an investment is an asset you acquire with the intention of making money… is the value of the truck going up?

    In your opinion, to me, the money I’m saving on fuel, maintenance, repairs, and the rule of cool, I’m sitting pretty flat.


    Unfortunately, there will always be haters, trolls, or nay-sayers or whatever we wanna call them. Douchebags, dumpster monkeys, or negative nellies.

    The dangerous ones act out, and even follow-thru with their distorted reality or sick fantasies.

    The human population is no different, we all sit on the spectrum and bell curve.

    Live the life you want, Love the ones you’re with.

    Namaste

    PS: by the way, how much battery life does sentry mode drain? Might be worthwhile to enable it in ‘hostile environments?’

    PSS: I’d consider keeping a cyber-baseball bat in the truck or frunk for those exceptional moments of self-defense.

    It drains about 7% a day.

    It shouldn’t need near that

    I agree, I feel like sentry mode is trying to mine crypto or something. Why is it trail cameras can run off batteries for days but sentry mode straight up uses kwh’s a day to use basically the same technology recording to a usb ssd drive?

    It’s because the cameras are connected to a computer with high end GPUs. This is not a cheap trail cam, it’s a dedicated computer system with advanced image processing abilities and mobile network connectivity.

    [From what I’ve seen recently, the real-time monitoring is limited to one hour per day because it’s uploading an obscene amount of data. Like 60gb I think?]

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      Imagine taking it camping with the shitty tent. The battery drains itself by morning to capture bad photos of wildlife. You’re stranded but luckily you bought some super expensive generator that can get you to 10% if you breathe diesel fumes in the great outdoors for a few hours while sentry mode takes pictures of you being sad for Tesla employees to laugh at. Finally you get it charged, plot out the 100 miles to the nearest refueling point on your giant tablet computer, and it gets stuck trying to drive up a small hill exiting the campsite.

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    Kind of amazing how many bad things happen to these vehicles the “one time” they don’t put on sentry mode, not just OP, but in the comments too. Amazing how this car can keep a perfect record of strangers fucking with them, but any time a stranger does, this system just so happens to be off or not working!

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      I fucking love the one where a beepboop apartheid truck owner went into a climbing gym and came out to find that someone had spit precisely in the middle of all four windows. One of the comments was asking if sentry mode captured it and the owner reported that it had glitched out and recorded nothing.

      Even when you let it drain 7% of your battery to upload tens of gigabytes of data per day on your home connection and have to refuel 30% more often, who knows if that system will work. Unlimited bread on Teslas.

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    I can’t believe somebody took the time to do that

    I don’t think throwing breadcrumbs at a car takes any serious amount of time

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      I threw an egg on a Tesla (not a cybertruck) once because they were blocking my parking spot by just… sitting in the alley right in front of and fully blocking the parking behind my building. No blinkers no nothing. I guess they didn’t want to find parking for any of the nearby stores so they chose to block my entire alley instead.

      I was bringing back groceries. The 4th trip all the way around my building with my groceries was when I had the eggs. I threw one at it. It cost me literally zero time because I was already walking by it wasting time taking grocery trips all the way around my building.

      This is what I imagine happened here too. I didn’t go out of my way to egg a Tesla it was just in my fucking way illegally parked and I happened to have eggs in my hands.

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        I agree entirely because the shittiest car drivers, and I assume all Cybertruck owners are that, are nigh-solipsistic in their approach to life.