Yeah I guess depends where you are trying to go, I was imagining like camping out in Utah or Arizona sometimes even gas stations are rare

It might just be easier to rent a car for the trip, I can’t imagine having to add or remove batteries or how good shared batteries would be if they are constantly installed and removed, and if you go to places that dont have charging infrastructure renting a gas car would probably be the way to go

What I learned during my research when shopping evs is they seem to outlast ice cars, the batteries dont degrade like people thought they would and keep the majority of their range. Now that I have one I’d probably trust buying a used ev over an ice car, also I already got used to the power so I don’t think I’d ever get an ice car willingly

I think the early Chevy bolts were like the perfect entry ev car. They had a recall on the batteries so they had to be bought back and had new batteries installed and were selling for like $12-15k as basically new with more range than before with the bigger packs. Plus being early evs they were tactile for everything

The 2027 version that just came out is going into the whole subscription stuff too so I think its going to be hard to find a cheap little ev made in the us without that garbage going forward which really sucks and I hope my bolt lives forever

But yeah like you mentioned if you can’t charge reliably at home or work then makes no sense to get an ev

I got my ev with the idea that it will be just for commuting during the week, then we’d switch to my wife’s gas car for the weekend trips, since we live in a small city with a few cities being about an hour or so apart that’s what we thought would happen.

As I got used to driving the ev we started to just use it all the time as the range is good enough for that, and if I need to top off before the commute to work I can plug it in to any regular wall socket to get a few miles over night to make it to work and get the free charging

Hey at least the profit margin benefited from a few lay offs and market speculation over this

Yeah I share the house with the in laws so dont have complete control.

My mother in law wanted turf installed in the front after we installed a fence to keep anyone from parking on the yard (father in law) but it was way too expensive for the nice stuff,so father in law came in quick and had some guys install a lawn for cheap. He was excited for a lawn since the start, on move in day he got two lawn mowers even though it was all dirt.

At least I was able to get a big barrel and water pump so showed them how to use laundry water to water the lawn so we haven’t actually had to use the sprinklers at all so far. I’ve been wanting to find something that I could sprinkle seeds around to get it to be more California summer resistant. At least the kids really like it, and the dogs go nuts when we hangout in the front with them because they can run along side anyone that walks by sniffing their butts

I guess its easier for kids to play on plastic than cactuses

Yeah most of the kids grew up and can’t afford to move out so they just stay with their parents and get a car for themselves where I live

That’s pretty good

Don’t they just spit out the long password when you press them, I’d figure it would be easy to just plug it into your phone and copy the output if you had physical access

I always thought it said something about a baby on the table until just the other day I mentioned it to my wife and she was like uh no it says something about keys and my mind was blown, my life is a lie

I got as far as them using their hyperspace to launch a small ship and destroy the bigger ship, like why don’t they just make a ton of dummy ships and blow everything up that way, would have taken out the death star so easily.

It was cool to see but right after that’s all I could think about, like why even bother building a death star, just hyper launch things all over the place

Plus Darth Maul is awesome

If you don’t need the bed the full time you might think about a different ev with a trailer, either way towing reduces your range a ton from what I was reading with the ford lightning, which is why they are adding a gas generator to the newer models to charge as you go. Depending how much you carry in the bed and the weight

Oh I just learned that digikam can do audio so I think that solves what I need, will need to test further, and has import options hidden on the side tab that lets it auto create directories based on file extension and date

Do you use kdenlive to get your files off your SD card to your machine or is it more for after you already have you files there? I’ve used kdenlive for just video editing before but didn’t see any sort of importing tool that sorts files into directories like by date or anything like that

Long term is not important

And we add a tectonic plate on top for good measure

I don’t think that little generator cares if anything is drawing power, it will just output what it outputs full time

So the condom just blocks their airflow so they die?