Every other month I drive 800km with my Opel Corsa-e, it takes me 10-12 hours and 4 charging stops.
This is 2 hours more than what my friends and relatives manage with their ICE car.
And since I have a child, I've been doing it in 2 days. Allows me to spend half a day packing, spend the other half in the car on the way to a hotel, and the next day I can be with the family for lunch. Kid is also not sitting tied to the seat a full day this way.
But I admit it is getting a bit much, and since I can't charge at home, I'm not getting the financial advantage either, so it's lots of travel time + hotel, and all the gain I get is that I love my car and don't want to switch back :D
Driving 950km with an e-up: I totally believe you that it's fine, but I'm sure I would be eyeing for a slight upgrade.
10% mora range isn't worth double the car price, probably. My personal benchmark is a 200km stretch on my way where I cannot reliably charge, and my current car is about the cheapest fully electric, that can do that. Even if I'm driving 90km/h behind trucks in the winter.
But good in you, nevertheless!
Ice car drivers love to make us feel miserable for the extra time and inconvenience, but it's a package deal, and overall the inconvenience is relatively easy to mitigate by smart planning, thinking outside the box.
Yes, my thoughts exactly. I hate implementing N forms with user state session and navigation, when one big form one the client can hold the state for me, and visual trickery can achieve the same.
Whenever I go debug unnecessary state machines, or have to refactor them (to compress the number if steps), I scratch my head half the time, trying to follow the string of thought that my predecessor felt so smart about.
On one hand I agree. It makes me sad but I'm skeptical they are going to make it.
On the other hand, electric cars seem to be relatively "easy" to build. Sure, Fisker went bankrupt, but Rivian seems to do sort of fine. Xiaomi even managed to build a car, and I actually saw one of them by chance charging next to me today.
Seems to me like a lot more newcomers succeed in getting cars built, than was and is the case with ICE cars.
Best part for me is it's model agnostic. I liked Claude Code, it worked better for me than VSCode Copilot Agent, but Claude was too expensive, so I rarely used it, and the price/friction felt bad when I did.
sst/opencode I can use with my existing Copilot subscription, and select Claude Sonnet 4 freely. I never hit the limit before, and all friction is gone! If Google ever builds a better model, I can switch the same day, and keep my workflows, configs, etc.
Also, with Claude COde I always felt a little mistrust, since theoretically they benefit from providing a more expensive service. opencode doesn't have this misaligned incentive.
According to https://models.dev/?search=sonnet+4 the copilot version of sonnet 4 is constrained on output tokens - still seems like the cheapest combo though. Ill give it a whirl
I still log on from time to time, about once a month, because my family uploads pics in a group after family events, and fb is the only place eveyone is on.
Everytime I open FB, and scroll a little, I feel like an outsider looking into a crazy circus of clown people. I don't get why others don't see what I see.
"I just graduated" - someone whose sibling I met 15 years ago, but whose name I wouldn't recognize without a picture attached
"So proud of my daughter" - a mother who attended a piano concert, couldn't wait to even get home before posting on fb, and will tell her family at dinner how many of her adult friends commented on it, whom none if her family care about.
<vacation selfie> - middle school classmate, or former colleague, who posts swiss climbing and bali surfing images every week, as if they had no life no work just money to burn.
"<long story>, so anyway, that's where I found this purse, please share and repost. You have to prove ownership by reciting the washing machine instructions on the label." - individual who has nothing happening in their life, so they make a blockbuster adventure out of someone's misfortune, rather than handing the purse to the reception in the restaurant where they found it.
Oh, and I always see ten new invitations from people, who would never contact me individually, to events those people know I would never attend, for the nth time despite me never having reacting before.l
Most of your examples are just people sharing things about their lives. If you don't know them or care about those things, isn't that on you to remove them from your Facebook, or just... ignore them? Where's the crazy clown circus exactly?
i thought you were gonna say something about boomers sharing the most detatched from reality posts about politics you've ever seen in your lifetime, but instead you appear to just be anti-social
My Facebook is mostly baby pictures and updates of my large extended family. I enjoy seeing my cousin's husband's dad post proudly that his son got a promotion. Why wouldn't you?
Once I caught an old acquaintance of mine recycling their Swiss holiday photos on Instagram a year or two after the fact.
Basically, 2-3 classmates of mine shaped 90% of my view on what a normal family vacation is supposed to look like. Whereas actually, half my class didn't leave the country in any given year, especially if they had renovations or car repairs going on. I later learnt some of the parents were financing even the bus and cinema ticket for one of the girls on a one-afternoon class trip.
I was thinking there will probably be nothing from my home country (HU) since it's a small country, and iPhones aren't as popular anyway. People are comparatively price sensitive.
And then in the 5th video that got recommended to me, the language seemed familiar, and sure enough, it's hungarian. IMG 0397, with 18 views.
Oh what the... I hesitate to use the word "sense" here, but it does make sense if operating the "dog windows" requires a cloud connection, as stated. So all of "California Mode"?
IKEA regularly shuffles around it's layout. They won't let you learn shortcuts and exploit experience.
I learnt this the hard way several times in my local IKEA, but I also read an article about how this is absolutely strategic in their thinking. Unfortunately I couldn't find it to back me up.
This is true. A lot of shortcut doors are very non descript too and they look like doors into some back room or warehouse you’re not supposed to enter. They do mark them on the store maps though. “You don’t have to be rich, just smart” indeed.
Every other month I drive 800km with my Opel Corsa-e, it takes me 10-12 hours and 4 charging stops.
This is 2 hours more than what my friends and relatives manage with their ICE car.
And since I have a child, I've been doing it in 2 days. Allows me to spend half a day packing, spend the other half in the car on the way to a hotel, and the next day I can be with the family for lunch. Kid is also not sitting tied to the seat a full day this way.
But I admit it is getting a bit much, and since I can't charge at home, I'm not getting the financial advantage either, so it's lots of travel time + hotel, and all the gain I get is that I love my car and don't want to switch back :D
Driving 950km with an e-up: I totally believe you that it's fine, but I'm sure I would be eyeing for a slight upgrade.
10% mora range isn't worth double the car price, probably. My personal benchmark is a 200km stretch on my way where I cannot reliably charge, and my current car is about the cheapest fully electric, that can do that. Even if I'm driving 90km/h behind trucks in the winter.
But good in you, nevertheless!
Ice car drivers love to make us feel miserable for the extra time and inconvenience, but it's a package deal, and overall the inconvenience is relatively easy to mitigate by smart planning, thinking outside the box.
And now I want an e-up for my wife :D