My EV sits in the driveway and soaks up excess production from my PV setup.
My main problem is it’s never really empty enough.
If I’m on the road, a high voltage DC charger gets me from 10% to 50% in about 10 minutes. Barely enough time for a coffee and a leak, then it’s another 2 hours of driving. Rinse, repeat.
Sure, you can’t barrel down the Autobahn for 10 hours straight without stopping but who wants that?
Aside from budget and time overruns it looks like they overshot the target of “futuristic” and landed in the middle of dystopian…
Sounds quite similar to Markov chains which made me think of this story:
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-automated-curse-generator
Still gets a snort out of me every time Markov chains are mentioned.
Depending on your level of caffeine tolerance/dependency actual coffee might be even better.
Alternatively: Decaf.
IF you already have an email domain you control.
Calling “acquiring and setting up an email domain and configuring the mail server for wildcards” “basically no extra effort” is a bit disingenuous compared to “solve a captcha for a Gmail account”
Yeah, inductive charging is basically a must.
Especially because it eliminates the guesswork if the watch is correctly seated to charge
Oh, they’re putting a lot of thought into it I’m sure.
That thought being “Money, Money, Money, Profit, Profit” of course.
No actual technical solution here, but it smells slightly of XY-Problems.
From what you described it seems the main issues are
Maybe you could look into solutions like setting a custom ringtone for important callers or having the phone announce caller names so your mother can decide if she wants to make the effort to get her phone.
I’m speculating a bit here but I can imagine that getting up and answering the phone is exhausting for your mother. Also if her mindset is " a ringing phone means it’s important" that could make it even more stressful.
Maybe you could find a way to let her silence all calls except caregivers and ICE contacts. (On Android DND exceptions could work for that)
That way she doesn’t feel pressured to answer the phone every time it rings and stays reachable.
If it’s actually just the physical issue of reaching the phone in time, does she have a convenient way to carry the phone indoors like a lanyard?
Hope some of this helps you
No idea, but it was my parent’s box for loose tea leaves…
Not the only one.
Threema is decent, too. Crypto is comparable, and allows signups without email or phone number. It’s a paid app, though, but anonymous purchase options are available.
For anything I don’t control, like door locks at work, I’m with you.
For a device controlled by me, the tradeoff for convenience is so much better.
If it’s properly implemented, extracting biometric features is hard, so stolen fingerprints are less of a concern.
It allows me to use a long password, which in android also serves as an encryption key for the filesystem, while allowing me to unlock my phone without entering that password every time.
There should be an external hard drive full of portable game installs in some drawer that fits the time period.
Should easily kill a week.
That’s a legitimate concern, but this can be easily mitigated by routing “guest” traffic into a VPN.
Guests might encounter more captchas than usual but better than no internet.
Currently:
Soon to be added:
That feature is right on the border between real neat tech and deeply unsettling.
“Hey, my phone uses its last few electrons to turn into a bluetooth beacon to stay findable” sounds like sci-fi “reserve power emergency mode”
“I can’t turn off the locator chip in a device that holds half my life and memories” is just dystopian.
I’m wondering if there would be a way to keep it useful while minimizing impact for people who stay off the grid. A hardware switch would probably be a good start but they won’t fly with current all-touch designs.
Ah, you “work” in “marketing”?
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They occupy a strange niche full of contradictions.
Entering the code on the device itself should increase security as opposed to entering it on a compromised computer.
But plugging it into a compromised computer means the data is compromised anyway.
Their security is way harder to audit than a software solution like PGP. The actual “encryption” varies from actual decent setups to “entering the code connects the data pins with no actual encryption on the storage chip”
Not having to instal/use software to use them means they are suitable for non-technical users which in turn means more support calls for “I forgot the pin, it wiped itself, can you restore my data”
They are kind of useful to check the “data is transported on encrypted media” box for compliance reasons without having to manage something bigger.
They should not be worried, they should be educated.
If you worry a new user enough they’ll go back to Windows or Apple because there’s less scary warnings there.
We need to make the transition as pain free as possible. Learning about the joys of kernel compilation and SELinux can come later.
The first step is "Hey, this is as usable as Windows, without stupid ads in the start menu.