Definitely curious as well, but so far haven’t gotten around to trying

I used to do that but it would constantly nag until I connected it

That’s what happens when you just click through - you have legally agreed plus agree to binding arbitration for all future disagreements , in a venue of their choice.

Fwiw, I’ve never had a lack of heat from my cars heat pump. It even warms up faster than a gasoline engine would. Most importantly, I can turn it on remotely to get warm before I get in the car. I never had that with a gas engine

Parent survival pack!

Guilty.

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No, it’s been years since I printed anything, and I’m not willing to start now.

• I’m coming up on three years with my current employer and never felt the need to even find a printer
• I was planning to get a laser printer now that I no longer need color for school projects…. But what would I want to print?

No, it doesn’t seem like the survey covered that

They do that at Costco too. Costco has these humongous 15’ wide aisles yet there’s always someone finding a way to block it with their cart while they beg for a treat

I hope that’s just your experience - being relegated to mobile games would be sad. I mean I’m addicted too but I recognize they’re just a time and attention waster.

My older teens are pretty avid gamers as are their friends. One of them started a gaming club at his school! They’re such great kids they sometimes let their Mom or me join a party, and they don’t laugh too hard. But seriously, that’s how they socialize ever since COViD. They’ll spend the entire night in a group chat, listening to music, sometimes teaming up sometimes not, just playing video games and spending time with friends. It works

For my kid who is very athletic, I always phrased it as “don’t destroy your cardio by inhaling any ashes or burning stuff”

But he is so strait laced and so careful with his health that it’s not really an issue.

My other kid is a different story. Luckily he doesn’t like the smell of cigarettes or pot smoke, but I found out his vice when he offered me a gummy. First: cool, second: shit, I was supposed to yell at you

This is why I’m so annoyed at college “police services” and serious crackdowns on protests. WTF, college, this is not what I pay you for. I pay you to be a sandbox where little Johnny can grow and develop and find his voice. Yes, also suffer consequences for his mistakes, but non-serious consequences. Your job is to better prepare him for life, not ruin his life.

My own effing Alma mater glorified building takeovers from the 1960s, talking about the good changes that eventually developed, but then they changed from being a “security” force trying to protect the kids to a “police” force so they can carry guns and arrest kids. Then during the BLM demonstrations they started arresting kids and kicking them out. WTF.

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Or maybe it’s just like everything else: not really dumbing down but oozing like pus out to the extremes. We caught a severe case of idiocy, because we didn’t think we needed to vaccinate for that and scientific progress continues ever faster, but where did mediocre, adequate or common sense go?

Just like so many new gig or service sector jobs paying close to minimum and record pay for tech workers, but where did the middle class go?

Or like politics which seems to be a blood sport now but where are actual undecideds who will find out actual facts and care who they vote for

Don’t minimize those strengths. Init.d scripts are something you can figure out just knowing a bit of shell script, or historical knowledge from before there was an internet. For something I rarely use, why do I need to learn something more complex to do the same thing - I either haven’t been sold on all the new functionality they piled in or do not need it. After all these years crowing about the Unix/linux way being many independent flexible tools that can work together, why do we now have this all-in-one monstrosity that might as well have come directly from Microsoft?

Kind of funny, in a dickish way

… but it would be karmic if it were used to establish intent

It is a success though.

For me personally, I find 10¢ bags cheaper than spending $10 at Amazon or whatever, they’re more compact, and I do reuse them

I can’t physically charge a car at home. … and I (usually) can’t charge at their office.

Certainly this is key. Your car is sitting unused for hours at these locations, so even a relatively slow charge would be convenient. We definitely have work to do deploying these everywhere.

My point is more that every workplace, almost every home already has sufficient electrical service to charge for most car uses. We have the technology and it’s naturally broken down into many smaller less expensive projects. It’s much easier to build this out than to create an entirely new infrastructure around disposable batteries, redefine all cars and then scale out. And the technology already exists. But we still have to do it

Maybe but so far:

• I usually charge overnight at home
• I’ve never waited in line at a supercharger.

The destination chargers at work do get a line but we coordinate over slack so you never have to actually wait.

The trick is to get those home chargers deployed everywhere. This is what actually decided me on the futilebess of swappable batteries. Almost everyone could use a level 1 charger, but even a full level 2 charger is the same as a stove circuit or an air condioner. It’s just not a big deal for most people’s electrical service and level 1 can be anywhere. Look at how difficult it’s been to get these deployed despite them being so much cheaper and simpler than what you’re proposing. How will we possibly spend tens to hundreds of billions and decades to build out swappable battery infrastructure if a few billion in charging circuits to mostly existing service is so difficult?

Who benefits from seappable battery infrastructure? Really it’s mostly the same companies that profit from gasoline infrastructure. I’m convinced many proponents are just these companies wanting to continue business as usual. However with plugins, they don’t need to exist