Oh I see, thank you

I had the same experience (also European), but didn’t know the Americans changed it specifically for bytes

Getting out of the oceans was a mistake

Me too, I tend to avoid it when it’s larger than a few centimeters or when it’s written out; a little drawing/symbol I don’t mind

And an array of microphones. But it’s not like they have a clear view of their surroundings. Wait

Try using a bit of pasta cooking water (“tears of the gods”) with whatever pasta sauce you’re making. In fact it is wise to save a cup/glass of pasta water when you’re draining it to adjust the possible dryness of the pasta later, or you’ll end up using tons of olive oil which won’t work as well.

Heat pump and dual direction charging are awesome though. I don’t imagine they’re using these kei cars between the cities when they can get high speed trains.

Nissan could easily take 5k off but has been hesitant/gradual with EV adoption just like the rest of the Japanese producers.

With a bench power supply (or a similar ghetto version, that is any lion charger plus leads) you can charge single cells even while they’re connected in series. That’s how battery balancing works

I’d start with very low amps and maybe low voltages too to revive them

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The standard bank transfer takes at least a day as you said, but the instant one is regulated to take less than 10 seconds in total (in practice, it feels instant). Apparently introduced in 2017. I’ve had it on my home banking (app too) since then I think, but from my previous bank account they cost a whooping 7€, with my current bank the instant transfers are just as free as the normal ones so I use them all the time. I recently bought a used motorcycle within a morning thanks to this.

Wero itself is likely based on SEPA Instant Payments.

I was comparing them to the services used to send money to other people, but of course as you said the big thing we’re still missing is a unified point of sale payment network in all of the eurozone, maybe Wero will be the one, in that case I’ll be happy to use it, but IMHO we should have a standard public one based on SEPA Instant payments.

Wero is an added step on top, still much better than the competition, but they’re currently a convenient alternative to bank transfers (for people who didn’t discover the instant SEPA ones), and also as you noted unfortunately based on apps that run solely on American platforms. It’s mentioned on their wikipedia page too. I’ll keep an eye on them though, they could still work for me, we’ll see.

I can already send money instantly, for free, through SEPA without a singular private company earning a cut or tracking me.

A bank account is needed, but there are thousands to choose from, and in the EU by law they cannot refuse to open a basic account for a private EU citizen.

Why should we use Wero/Revolut/Venmo/whatever instead? Intercompatibility within just one network means another network effect, that does not look like a long term solution to me. Just like Telegram, though very convenient to use with a nice UI, is no solution to Whatsapp.

Wero seems to be solving the problem of copy-pasting our IBAN. What if any bank app would just recognise a standardised QR code with that data? Who would then subscribe to Wero with a phone number and email and risk getting scammed or blocked for any random reason?

At least most European banks are happy to cut out the American middlemen (Visa and Mastercard) since they’re eating part of the cost, and we already have the infrastructure in place and working, it’s called “instant SEPA bank transfer”, most newer accounts offer it for free. The problem is the lack of political will to accelerate that indipendence and to stop hemorraging money (roughly 0.5% per transaction!)

Then as people learn to use it they’ll hopefully also stop using Paypal (another American company) when sending money to someone, or getting tracked in general every single time they use their debit card.

Nice, good strategy

With all the low wattage usb chargers that all of us probably have at home my strategy is to only buy laptop chargers (so I can travel with just one) so usually minimum of 45W, for me ideally 65W (so 20V 3.25A) just because I have a few old thinkpads with the larger battery. A GAN 65W charger is as compact as an old 20W phone charger, look for example at the Anker Nano II which is the last one I bought.

Good point about the lack of visibility… my usual fear is that every new requirement becomes an excuse to only make expensive and heavy, tall monstrosities, but a camera and screen are very cheap today so those are more than okay I guess, just like seatbelts and airbags.

Thanks good to know

Woah hold on so a backup camera is also a legal requirement? That sounds a bit too much hand-holding for me jeez. (But I’m used to old cars and motorcycles)

Ok looked it up, yup since May 2018! Interesting

Many car “keys” are wireless tokens nowadays (tbf I’m not sure of the security compared to traditional keys, I only heard some brands like Kias were very easy to steal in the last few years).

Mostly we want a million buttons with tactile feedback, I’m with OP! I would also like an EV “econobox”: a sensible shitty boxy lightweight car with a small LiFePo4 battery that charges fast. Spend 100$ more dollars on the charger and cooling goddammit, or make THAT upgradable!

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