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I don't see it being viable for me as my car sits in front of my house most of the time (love the walkable neighbourhood) and then suddenly makes a 700 km trip once a month, and I can't charge it at home, and the charging options are ass at my destination, and there's exactly one fast charger on the route. The constant fast charging would also hammer my battery like crazy, and I total roughly 25,000 km in a year. To top it all off, the station wagon / practical sedan / large hatchback EV offering is very slim, and I really hated the "sitting on a skateboard" feel of the IONIQ 6, it made my legs ache.

But I'm a perfect storm. For someone who does not go far often and can charge at home (that happens to be the vast majority of people who need a car), EVs are basically perfect. Just rent a car or take a plane the few times you need to go out of range from a charger, or just plan for charging.

What I want for myself is a plug-in hybrid, but they're kinda rare, expensive, make little sense for most people and aren't really available in a sedan / wagon form factor.

I love EVs, I like driving them, and I think they would go great with a general reduction of total vehicles on the road (i.e. more effective public transit), more right to repair and less telemetry.

Addendum - My case sounds like it would be perfect for using car sharing like Communauto, but they're really expensive for my use case, and tracking one down has been such a complete pain in the past that the extra cost of maintaining my own vehicle was worth it for the ability to be able to up and leave for work at a moment's notice wherever I'm needed. I remember having to travel an hour into town to get to my Communauto rental, just to discover it's in limp mode, it's trashed, etc. They're much better nowadays, but my pandemic then-new-car is now mostly paid off.

VEVO can eat a dick

fish flavoured

Wait they send you a physical letter?

Great read, thanks for posting!

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

What's your point?

And possibly other stuff, too.

Ehhh don't test me

People hate to hear it, but renting is transactional. People provide rental units as an investment, not for funnies.

There's no magic formula where one can pay less for rent than the monthly fee the landlord pays the bank, city and government for the place.

The alternative is people stop investing in rental units, we get fewer regular people renting out spaces and more large corporations who will do the bare legal minimum to keep the place livable while keeping the rent as high as possible.

The core of the issue is unsustainably high real estate costs, which not only balloons the cost of purchasing a property, but also balloons property taxes as they are based on the estimated value of the property, not the amount paid for it. This means landlords pay higher taxes for the same property year over year, even if the mortgage stays the same.

I've been thinking about something similar for use with cloud storage so it can be used to sync tools to the cloud without requiring a specific backend.

Basically, a .config directory at the root of your cloud storage to hold SQLite DBs of your applications whose configs you want to back up to the cloud.

I've been looking at K3s deployed on FCOS, but I have no clue how I'm supposed to use Terraform to deploy FCOS.

My understanding is that FCOS is supposed to be ephemeral and re-deployed every so often, which would imply the use of a hypervisor like Proxmox on the host, but Proxmox does not play well with Terraform.

I also considered OpenStack, but it's way over my head. I have a very simple single-node Kubernetes setup to deploy using GitOps, and nothing seems to fit the bill.

Gig economy companies are legal Teflon, they do everything they can to deflect liability by claiming to not be an employer.

While this country is lacking in privacy protection laws, it’s probably not completely a bad thing. Look anywhere stringent privacy protections have been put in place and you’ll see a ton of collateral damage.

Bruh what.

Because it's an OSK, not a touch screen keyboard.

Hopefully someone spends some time developing a proper touch keyboard on GNOME.

It's not a competition, and insulting developers who donate their time to open-source is counterproductive.

Use whatever you wish.

The piss stain colour palette confirms it.

Oui, entre autres.

Sanctions contre la compagnie aussi, voir si leurs actions contraindraient à certaines lois.

Both, it's a dual-purpose item!

Where my bitchat

In case of armed road rage, remember that your car is a weapon. It's self-defense if a gun is drawn on you.