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Axios took a 1,500 mile road trip along the East Coast of America.

What we found: You can make a long road trip without fear of getting stranded, as long as you plan ahead.

• That means juggling route-planning apps and billing accounts with various charging companies, which can get confusing.

This is what makes Tesla's infrastructure pretty compelling, it should all just work. Having to juggle apps and accounts depending on the charger is very different to optionally using a loyalty card when paying for petrol.

I'm not an EV owner, but to reduce friction, being able to pre-pay for a certain amount of energy (I'm thinking of a similar situation to using an Oyster card on the tube in London) or paying at the end of a charge with a tap of your phone or bank car would be the no brainer here.

EV adoption isn't going to slow because of the friction but I would have thought he friction isn't going to make it any faster.

Posted 14th Feb 2023 @ 13:33

Posted 10th Feb 2023 @ 08:33

I recently wrote about RSS feeds, I find them really useful and following related accounts on Twitter is a back up for me. I was an avid Google Reader user until it's demise and now really enjoy using Feedly.

Feedly in particular does a very good job of putting the content front and centre. You can pay for more features if you need them, but it's free tier is pretty powerful.

If you're not already, follow your favourite sites and creators RSS feeds.

Posted 9th Feb 2023 @ 12:56

Gruber:

That ARPU extrapolates to about $45/year. Would you pay, say, $50/year to get an ad-free experience on Facebook's products? A year or two ago I'd have said yes, just for Instagram. (My Instagram use has decreased significantly since then.) I realize they're not going to offer that, but “average revenue per user” is an interesting metric.

So for all of that invasion of privacy, whining about App Tracking Transparency and the terrible algorithmic and ad-driven experience on Instagram all for ~$45 a user per year.

Given their drive and investment on their ad-driven model I genuinely thought it would be hundreds of dollars. It does equate to $90billion for Meta (Facebook), but who needs to be generating that level of revenue anyway? And all this after a round of layoffs.

Sometimes, Big Tech is just awful.

Posted 3rd Feb 2023 @ 08:59

Certainly distinct buttons are easier to use than a touch screen. Both cars in ours household have rows of buttons that don't have any gaps between them so you still have to look over to see what you're pressing. One car even has some individual buttons that are flush against the surface.

Those buttons are still a lot easier to use than touch screens, touch surfaces and other weird and wonderful inputs that manufacturers continue to come up with.

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Posted 14th Jan 2023 @ 14:00

We had one of these carrom boards in our family and played it all the time when we all got together. Tempted to get one when my kids are older.

Posted 10th Jan 2023 @ 16:00

Certainly achieved that goal way better than I did. I'm always in awe of the drawings shared and the process of bringing them to life. Watching the videos takes me back to my DT classes at school, which were probably my favourite lessons of all.

Posted 9th Jan 2023 @ 16:29

I think this game looks brilliant, but I can't believe it is just over 500MB in size. It reminds me of the LEGO Builder's Journey game in Apple Arcade and that game is 1.2GB in size.

I just don't understand how we've got to a point where these things are so big.

Price: £1.79

Posted 5th Jan 2023 @ 16:20