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Some of that's cultural momentum right? Like I don't know how many pickles it takes to make a Peck of Pickles despite hours singing about it as a kid. There's not a lot of reason sans-nostalgia to read an analog clock or drive a manual car. (I love my manual, but they're not getting any less niche with EVs on the way.)

And everyone's going to learn something the first time, some time. But it is just nuts that for some people that is apparently after getting a job with a Bachelor's, somehow. So much time, money, and energy was spent in the 90s/00s having computer classes in schools and now so much of it has been cut because the people in charge are so out of touch that watching youtube on a device designed to be easily usable is indistinguishable from "technical skills".

It helps when you don't care if the answers are true, just that you have "answers".

Hackers is a movie without lies and nothing can convince me otherwise.

Good luck!

Very much recommend Dan Olson over Netflix's Flat Earth documentary. Behind the Curve is much more about having a Curb Your Enthusiasm ending and going "look how silly these people are" than any attempt at understanding motivation or background.

Also he makes an amazing shot of a lake demonstrating curvature and explains how / why, including having a separate video about it and how to do so yourself.

Why?

Every vehicle doesn't need to do everything. Otherwise we'd all buy turbocharged Hummers with a trailer for extra fuel. It'd be nice to have some middle ground between a smartcar that confined to surface streets and something you'd take a roadtrip in. A worst-case ~150-200 mile range is enough for a boatload of people to commute 50 miles and not have to worry. If you can plug it in overnight, even on just 120v, charging speed is a negligible concern.

I think a lot of range anxiety is weird. A lot of gas cars from the 80s/90s/00s have ~300/400 mile range per tank, but that's because you don't want to go to a gas station every day. If you could just trickle in gas overnight they could've had much smaller tanks too.

Probably a me problem but kept having problems with that docker on unraid, it's just in the community apps 'store'. The vm seemed to just crash randomly.

I switched over to their B2 storage and just use rclone to an encrypted bucket and it's ~<$5/mo which I'm good with. Biggest cost is if I let it run too often and it spends a bunch of their compute time listing files to see if it needs to update them.

The Puma Gen-E is what I was thinking of, could've sworn it was a 2-door though. Must've confused it with something else.

The little Ford EV hatchback they sell in Europe is a lot more attractive than a Tesla personally. I just wish we could get them in the US, but the CEOs have apparently decided by fiat (hah) that no small cars are desired.

The show Bones had a lot of weirdness, but I did appreciate that they consistently (at least the first few seasons when I was watching) stripped the bones down and even had a bug guy on staff to do it efficiently.

My knowledge doesn't extend much past driving a manual. There are automatics I believe but they're rarer. (And not as much fun!) So far my biggest challenge was getting an oil change because the standard lifts don't go narrow enough. I was able to get it into a place with a pit, it had about an inch to spare between the tires. Turns out it just takes a Toyota oil filter and the other 'consumables' like belts/bulbs are likewise fairly standard.

I'm vaguely hoping something will break so I can use it to slowly become more knowledgeable about cars. In theory it should be a great project vehicle, the only electronics are the lights / A/C / radio. There's a few others around town and I think it's funny they're all vaguely different in what people have done to them. Extra lights, hand painted, etc. They're cheap enough (11k freshly imported, licensed, and delivered to my door) and all metal so that's at least a bit of the draw it seems like.

In WA we can get them licensed for road use you're just not allowed on the highway, which you would be silly to try. Mine gets up to 50 mph fine, have pushed it to ~60 but the engine's basically flat out at that point.

If most of your driving is under ~40 they're perfectly usable. Not super fast on the acceleration but personally think it's fun to have 30 mph be 4th gear. 30-40 mpg in and around town. Have had friends that borrowed it talk about how it's kind of zen to have people blow past you when you're doing the speed limit and then you both sit side-by-side at a stoplight for a while. And the next light and the next.