There are reasonable limits. Let’s say his car takes 30 minutes. Is 31 minutes total connection time acceptable? I think everyone would say yes. How about 35 minutes? 45? An hour?

Where people draw the line is going to vary. I agree with the premise that you shouldn’t have to wait by your car to charge, whether it’s 30 minutes or 2 hours. That is wasted time, and drastically reduces the attraction of having an EV. For myself, having to wait an extra 15 minutes isn’t too bad, and extra half hour or more is probably too much. I think context also really matters. If I’m parking at a station in a garage where most of the users are there for work, I expect to be there for at least 2 hours, possibly 4 (and would pick a charger I could use most of the time). At a mall, where people are in and out, if I was going to be there much more than 30 minutes I would probably plan to be back at my car to move it when it was charged. Especially since most of the chargers I’ve seen bill based on connection time and not electricity used.

Time for a joke.

And economist and an accountant were taking a walk when they noticed a frog. The accountant says to the economist, “I’ll give you $100 if you eat that frog.” The economist thinks for a moment, then agrees. A little later they come across another frog, and the economist says, “I’ll give you $100 to eat that frog.” The accountant thinks about it for a second and also agrees. As they continue walking, the accountant says, “So I got to see you eat a frog for $100, and by eating a frog myself, I got my money back, so I understand why I did it. But you had already eaten a frog and had $100, so why did you do it?” The economist replies, “Ah, but this way it’s twice as good for the economy!”

And many of those activities include consumption. If you’re doing more than casual hiking, you probably aren’t using second-hand shoes from the thrift store.

While all of thos could be true, downloading on your PC should be possible to queue multiple games, and doesn’t require you to leave your steam deck turned on. Go for that nostalgic overnight download vibe.

I don’t hate them because they’re women, I hate them for what they eat! Which they do because they’re female. 🤔

I’d say harming mosquitoes (females only, that feed on blood) is better than vegan!

I have a 2017 Leaf. It absolutely has its drawbacks compared to most modern cars, but it did exist 6 years ago.

The Deep? That you?

Maybe it would be less happy without the pain!

I know someone who would beg to differ. Of course, he didn’t need lawn darts for his exciting revelation, so the ban didn’t affect him.

How many are people who have been gaming their whole lives and just never stopped?

Mine is always in sleep mode, but I always have it plugged in with the charge limit at 80%. It may not be ideal, but it’s always ready. If I’m going to away from home for a few hours, it’s still fine. If I was traveling like the OP, I’d turn it off.

That’s pretty funny. It’s been legally mandated that bootloaders be unlockable in my country, which I’ve done before.

Claiming that someone stole what you stole is a little hypocritical. Not having a Pebble, and having discovered them just after they were shut down by Google, I’m glad Rebble did what they did. But claiming ownership seems a little over the top. Having an archive of apps available via a third-party site sounds like a win for both parties, except for the financial side. Certainly, not paying anything would be a benefit for RePebble, and not having an option to charge anything would be a loss for Rebble, but it sounds like an unmitigated win for Pebble and RePebble users.

RePebble seems to be very committed to going FOSS, up to releasing some or all of their code as GPL3, which is hard to argue around. I’ll be revisiting this saga in 6 months or so when I’m in the market for a smart watch.

Let’s just say I might have been inspired.

I still have all my digits! I can count to 20 without resorting to binary!

Freudian typo there! Yes, I heard of this one before, but that seems to be a one in a million accident. One should always be familiar with the holes they’re going to stick appendages in if they want to keep them. I’ve known more than one person who lost fingers clearing grass clippings from a running mower. 🤷‍♂️

…but a vacuum?

You can mostly disable them. Delete your Samsung account, don’t agree to their terms of service besides the most basic one or two that is required. No defense of Samsung, just what I did to deny them as much as I could of my information until I replace this phone and never buy Samsung again.

I’m a pretty big fan of using fuck, but holy fuck, that was a lot. I wonder why you feel that passionately about it?

I deleted my Samsung account when an update about 6 months ago came along that basically wanted ALL your personal data so you could use AI for photo search, etc. Then I found out about all the other minor things they insist you have an account to use. So, yeah, Fuck Samsung! Now I need to find a phone I can live with to replace it when it stops working.