I’ve driven as far as NE Florida to Birmingham and Fla to Maryland in my Tesla. On a long trip, I basically have to take 30 or 40 minutes to charge after 3 or 4 hours of driving. This is fine with me. 98% of my driving is when I’ve charged at home.

With an EV, I’m also trading for a vehicle with: 1/10 the number of moving parts, basically zero maintenance besides tires, no noise, no emissions, and no gas to buy. EVs are not at all perfect but they are way smarter than ICE vehicles right now.

I suspect Tesla is rejecting charging your car because it’ll take away a spot for faster charging cars…and it’ll take that spot away for longer.

I really wish speech recognition was rolled into the OS. I use futo and there’s a sometimes long delay getting it going.

Want to drown In a maze of dark patterns, privacy notices and terms & conditions? Just apply for an apartment.

System web view is the stripped down browser/HTML viewer that other apps use to display a web page. I think android lets you replace it but not sure

Liability lawyers

On an unrelated note, how to I get Lemmy to block anything that comes from a particular news organization?

Waiting for the medical examiner report I would think. Imagine a blow to the head, alcohol, murder, medical conditions, there are lots of causes

I steamed some mahogany about 20 years ago so I don’t remember much except: keep the wood off the bottom of the steam chamber, water will collect there. I tried thicker, but it didn’t work until my piece was only about 1/2 thick.

Letting plaid into a bank account seems nuts

Yes please

Can we just ban the Sputnik propaganda?

Trump: “Sure, I’ll ask him for ya”

Paywalled

I can almost make out the orange hair

They wake up too

I bought a t1000e “tracker” hoping that I could use it to track my bike if it got stolen. Well despite it being called a tracker and having a mode called “tracker” it doesn’t really work as a tracker. It turns out it’s really more of an external radio for my cellphone. It gets me onto kind of a city wide chat channel. Nice but not what I was after.

The really frustrating part is that I think the network and the devices can support a decent tracker …but it’ll take the right combination of dozens of confusing settings. I gave up after about two months of trying various combinations. I even went to a meshtastic club meeting but everyone there agreed that my tracker would not really… track. Sigh.

Just one guy’s opinion and with just a singular goal. If you’re into Ham radio or like the idea of low power radio chirping communicating across great distances… then jump right in.

He asks this question entry month

Sync. But I’m an old guy with habits that are hard to change

I have yet to find the right combination of settings to make my T1000e into an actual tracker. Please let me & the world know if you do. Instead what it seems to be is a small auxiliary radio for my phone, one which doesn’t transmit well.