We have a Nissan Leaf (30kWh) which has been great. No regrets.

The things you worry about before buying (range, battery life) are absolute non-issues. For optimal battery longevity you don’t want to use a fast charger very often, so just charge it at home which is generally more convenient anyway. You can make exceptions occasionally when you need to.

We use it for city driving, for which the range is more than adequate and we mostly only charge it every few days. We haven’t yet attempted to take it on a proper road trip; so far we just borrow a friend’s hybrid if we need to do that, basically to avoid having to think about charging.

TERM is the default (15). 9 is KILL

I’ve had a mac for years and still haven’t had any need for an iCloud account. It’s optional

What’s that in football fields?

I’ve recently gotten a couple (absolutely tech illiterate) friends and family to move to Linux. It’s finally there - it’s much easier to use than windows now.

And if you don’t want to keep shelling out for new computers every few years, doubly so - Linux works fine on decade+ old hardware (and you can keep upgrading practically indefinitely to stay within security windows, so you barely ever need to actually buy new hardware)

Me too. And I live in NZ where there’s bloody beaches everywhere. Can’t move for beaches

I had to help my sister keep her 8 year old Mac going or buy a new secondhand (cheap) machine. With the options out there and with the state of Windows, I didn’t even consider it.

She’s ended up with her same 8 year old Mac with Ubuntu 24.04, and I’ve been really impressed with how it’s actually great for non-technical users these days! And works really well on old hardware.

This should give her another few years of life out of the thing without worrying about software support.

Better article: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/29/google_python_flutter_layoffs/

Well yeah. I turned that shit off on day one of getting my phone. It doesn’t even make you faster at typing? What’s the point in having it enabled?

Now when I make typos at least it was me that made the typo

I like to hold the banana upright facing away from me, and then I sneak up behind it and use a really sharp knife to sever the jugular part way through before I rip its head backward, peeling the skin all the way down its spine.

It’s immensely satisfying, especially the crisp clear sound the knife makes as it cuts off the life force

If a democrat loses under this system they will have lost fairly.

Money Heist (but in Spanish, the english dub is awful)

Third time. Such a great show

On MacOS this will do it:

printf 'net.inet.ip.ttl=65\nnet.inet6.ip6.hlim=65\n' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.conf

Can’t personally speak for other OSes at present. Here’s a SO post about Ubuntu: https://askubuntu.com/a/670276

You can also just increase your laptop’s initial TTL by one and then they can’t tell.

On a macbook? You can’t plug a normal keyboard in without a USB hub because there’s no USB-A port

Not just in the past, you still can’t install addons in (any browser) on iOS. brave is basically the only option because it adblocks without addons.

These dudes look like we’ve just walked in on them kissing

These things look beautiful though

I love olives. I didn’t think you could have too many olives.

Once, on my honeymoon, I was at an expensive buffet. I found out just how many olives is too many olives. It was something like 35. More than that many olives is too many olives.

I was using sus as a kid 30 years ago. I’m quite confused by how it’s apparently a gen Z thing