We’ve found the AirTags work just as well as LTE/4G GPS trackers —- with no-ongoing costs, better battery life (we get 6-9 months on the AirTags, 4-6 weeks on the GPS trackers), and AirTags are 1/5 the cost of an LTE tracker.

This product would work well for us.

Whatever local provider my Tesla connects to doesn't have great reception. The onboard streaming music often cuts in and out.

(If anyone from Apple is reading this, would be great to be able to schedule DND on a eSIM line.)

I forget the reasoning, but I remember it being described to me as both necessary and a reasonably common construct.

Just a couple weeks ago I was driving on the motorway around 4am, no other traffic for miles, and the forward collision alert sounded and the car slammed on the brakes for ~quarter of a second and then released as if nothing had happened and we merrily resumed our journey. Having the brakes slam on at a smidge over 100 km/h gave me a sore shoulder and quite the rush of adrenaline, quite the rush at 4am!

So yes. The radar does have a mind of its own.

ObjC is very simple (often confused with archaic), but also wildly complex. Once you wrap your head around the ObjC way of doing things, everything makes sense, is very consistent, and you could develop very effectively.

And, don’t forget to release your alloc’d objects (or use an auto release memory pool). There was no automatic memory management then!

My diesel has also done just over 340,000km and it’s pretty shot. Hard to start on cold mornings and I’ve had to sort out some leaky injectors and seized joints on the driveshaft. There’s another couple of hundred thousand kilometres left at best.

The EV is coming up to 100,000km and it stills drives just as spritely as the day I got it. The battery is showing 100% state of health and I’m convinced it’ll happily do a million kilometres or more.

The kicker for me was borrowing a friend’s EV for the day. The driving experience was so completely different to my cars it was mind-boggling. The only other time I’ve felt the same way was picking up the first iPhone.

We bought an EV a couple years after that (6 months ago, now) the first couple of weeks we struggled with range anxiety and suffered from inconvenience. Now we’re completely in love and wouldn’t ever buy another ICE. (Except maybe another old Saab…)

We calculated our estimated petrol savings and put down a deposit large enough such that our weekly finance payment and estimated charging cost combined would be ~75% of what we’re spending each week on petrol.

Now that petrol prices have skyrocketed, the finance cost of the car + charging cost is less than half of what we were spending in petrol.

So far we’re very happy. Our total running costs for our petrol car was around 28c per km, our total running costs for our EV are around 4c per km. (Total running costs = absolutely everything attributable to the vehicle: fuel/charging, servicing, insurance, tyres, wiper blades, …)

These batteries have a regular form factor, with an added micro USB (and USB C on some larger battery sizes) port for recharging. They work really well for us and charge quickly (and conveniently — everything has a USB socket nowadays).

The price may seem expensive, but after 10 or so charge cycles they should have paid for themselves. I expect these batteries will be good for many hundreds of charge cycles.

I don’t understand the insistence that we must regularly clean our computers, it seems daft. Maybe vacuum your house/office once in a while. The computer breathes the same air as you.