That’s it. I almost only charge at home. Never at work, never at the shops. I can imagine people who can’t charge at home will want work carpark charging

On my Christmas/new year holiday I drove 1200km away, 600km a day two days there two back.

The charge stops were three a day, each 10 or 15 minutes, though we could generally have skipped the one after lunch since the time to order, get, and eat lunch meant getting a full charge, and the car has something like 400km range on the highway, though only 350 on the freeway/motorway.

One thing I found on that drive is that the charging network is mostly in the small towns (I guess that’s because they can get competition between neighbouring towns to get the best deal on land leasing) and the chargers are always either near the town centre, or next to a park. One is behind the roadhouse restaurant near the motorway services - behind the staff parking, general parking is in front of the restaurant

On the night between the two halves of the trip each way we stayed in a motel, and they give EV drivers a parking spot with a power point 10A x 240V so I could get about 80% full over night, which is enough for the next day’s first drive. Calling them out since they’re good: Goldfields motor inn, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Where I have driven the chargers are always in the furthest corner of the carpark

You don’t seem to be like me.

There’s a song 6.66 (1/100th of the number of the beast)

But nothing for 6.6.6

It was called aluminum for a long time universally. Everyone else changed to aluminium when it was discovered to be an element and was renamed to meet the naming scheme of the time

America kept the old word. I’m half surprised America doesn’t call gold aurium

If you can’t be arsed proof reading

The good thing about vim or Emacs is that when you know the shortcuts they are so much faster to use than mouse and menu editors (though Emacs has a menu, and supports mouse, which smooths the learning curve)

So “vim can run it” by letting you open a terminal? Emacs has telnet built in, let alone Eliza

Vim can’t automatically handle other key maps? I’m sure it worked as designed in my dvorak system

:w to write, not :, (Dvorak has comma where qwerty has w)

I get it if the keyboard doesn’t use the letters we use, but that person could type in Lemmy with all the normal letters

Why would you have closed Emacs? You can do everything in Emacs

I like the word, it fits well with biased which is approximately opposite

My least favourite new word is ‘doom scrolling’ which is now used to mean “scrolling internet feeds mindlessly” where it originally meant “constantly refreshing the internet feed in the hope the result of the American presidential election will change”

I’d be happy if it was used in another doomy context

I haven’t had luck with auto login, as soon as it’s logged in it wants a password to unlock its keyring

I wish installers let you set low local security mode. We don’t all need strong security, some of us are just playing games

Framework sell laptops with Linux

I have a 286 running DOS 6 for when I’m feeling especially nostalgic

You can, but it takes a little effort

Or a GNU operating system with a Linux kernel and KDE desktop environment

But that’s a mouthful

But you still need to get at the audio settings to tell it that it should use your microphone for a microphone, not the USB camera

There was a TCP/IP bug that shared it’s exploit on versions of windows from windows for workgroups 3.11 (which you ran from the DOS prompt by typing ‘win’) through to windows 7 (which was the new hotness at the time)

That’s a bug conserved from the very first Microsoft implementation of TCP/IP through to the state of the art at the time

People were surprised at the time that it wasn’t a windows NT bug

GIMP will be great once it no longer needs to dodge patents

Audio players work great now MP3 is out of patent (before that MP3 was really only available if you were willing to ignore the patent)

It depends on your industry. I’m in an agile development team, working in AWS in Java. I’m not a dev, so my work is in spreadsheets, word processor documents, web utilities like Azure Dev Ops

All that is platform independent, though we have to work on the organisation’s computers, so we work in the office on windows PCs or from home on whatever, remoted into a windows machine or VM

The devs work in VMs which are variously windows or GNU/Linux depending on what the person’s previous project was.