I agree the lack of liquid cooling on Leaves is problematic - I see their batteries die much sooner, often under 10 years. But it’s fine if you don’t live in a hot climate.

They also replaced the batteries on every 2017-2020 Bolt between roughly 2022-24 with warranties until 2032. So by buying a used one now, you get a car with a battery that’s only 2-4 years old, not 6-9 years old. That alone makes them worth it.

It’s a known phenomenon called revenge bedtime procrastination

The first two generations of the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Bolt are the closest to what you’re describing.

And Cloudflare protection on it as well, that surprised me

PHEVs accomplish exactly this. It’s good to hear that people are actually mostly charging their PHEVs according to this recent Toyota study.

You need a lot of money for incentives. The bigger factor is large scale adoption among the corporate apps that others use (their privacy policies notwithstanding), which I realistically see never happening for Graphene, sadly. Sideloading is a decent alternative, I just don’t know how long it’ll be around for.

They waddle or swim! They used to drive until the Heard and McDonald Islands got tariffed :/

Have you considered getting a large external battery? My 2015 T450s on Fedora still gets 6-10h battery life with 97Wh between the two batteries. Mostly stock with a repasted CPU 6 years ago (probably needs to be done again) and an M.2 2242 as the boot drive, with a 2.5" SSD as the D: drive.

(WT)F (do) you mean

One question: how long is the typical vehicle trip in northern Canadian settlements? I know a lot of northern cities lack road connections to other places, so the range being impacted may not have a huge impact if trips are measured in single or double digits of km increase of triple digits.

Isn’t there a Foreign Earned Income Exemption (FEIE) up to $130k that many US expats qualify for? Specifically:

A U.S. citizen or a U.S. resident alien who is physically present in a foreign country or countries for at least 330 full days during any period of 12 consecutive months.

I was recently moving a friend’s newer Corolla out of the driveway, and while I could shift it into reverse, I could not get it back into drive. It took a moment to realize this was because I hadn’t fastened the seatbelt. Normally this is something I always do, even as a passenger, but opted not to since this was only to move cars around on the driveway.

As for warnings, I wonder if too many warnings are causing drivers to ignore them altogether. A week ago I saw someone in a new Civic back straight into another car while parallel parking. This is a car that sold a decade after backup cameras became mandatory, so it’s not like there wasn’t adequate technology present.

Looks like Japan. Any GeoGuessrs know where?

I bought a OnePlus for this reason, since it was one of the only physical dual SIM options available here in the North American market

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¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ That’s what the book uses for J

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From the book:

A is for Aisle

B is for Bdellium

C is for Czar

D is for Djibouti

E is for Ewe

F is not for Photo, phlegm, phooey, or phone

G is for Gnocchi

H is for Heir

I is not for Eye

J is for Jai Alai

K is for Knight

L is not for Elle

M is Mnemonic

N is not for Knot

O is for Ouija

P is for Pterodactyl

Q is for Quinoa

R is not for Are

S is for Seas

T is for Tsunami

U is not for You

V is for Five

W is Wren

X is for Xylophone

Y is not for Why

Z is for Zhivago

The Owl House: it deals with a teenage girl who gets stuck in a world of magic, and explores being an outcast, found family, LGBTQ+ relationships, bullying, and underdogs who save the day. Devastated that Season 3 didn’t get to get fleshed out, but the creators did the best with the constraints the network placed on them. Super wholesome, 10/10 no notes.

Honourable shout out to Gravity Falls as well!

Less wholesome but still great:

Carmen Sandiego (2019): it is centred around an antihero who escapes the clutches of a criminal empire and uses their teachings to take them down. It involves geography, sensitivity of cultural norms and how they differ, found family, and drawing the distinction between intent and action to determine when it’s justifiable to do things that are viewed negatively but for the right reasons. Lots of flawed characters, but nonetheless rather unique in that sense.

So it is not just “so stupid design” that “we don’t even feel devices are 10x faster than 15 years ago”, but deliberate design to use the hardware capabilities for the sake of other people’s computers.

To my limited understanding, better use of hardware requires both some level of standardization of hardware and better optimized software, with lower level programming languages if possible. Vibe coded Electron apps are never going to be as well optimized as something made to run a particular chipset. But how do we accomplish that when most programming is being done on high level programming languages? It seems that the industry has prioritized human readable code and improved UX over hardware efficiency, which at a surface level isn’t the worst trade-off.

I ultimately agree with this vision, and it’s a serious problem I’ve contemplated as well. That said, what’s the right balance between more efficient, repairable hardware and accessible, more readable code?