Blass Rose

Oh sure, let me just search for the information outside of YouTube with a blatant clickbait title that says NOTHING about what the video is talking about.

Funny thing, that’s how I ended up with my current EV. I was pricing out an EV upgrade (taking an old EV, building it a new battery and adding fast charging), and for the price of just the raw battery components (batteries and BMS, no wire or anything), it was the price of my Bolt… But the bolt was done and cost no effort, and ended up being cheaper because I got a whole car for the price of the battery.

Yeah, I don’t get the same privacy as an old car but like… I actually ended up liking this car a lot.

Basically “put it in your checked bag unless it’s under 3.4oz and in a quart baggie”

It’s funny, I found that switching tabs will immediately make it start playing the video. The idea of losing you entirely is too much, I guess

It’s surprising how they were kinda the first to promise this sort of thing, but they’re SO FAR BEHIND the other companies who got into it. Sure, the other companies don’t claim that they’ll be anything beyond really advanced cruise control, but even then, a lot of them are really close to breaking out of that.

I also love their charger network as a non-rivian owner. Seamless, sleek, fast, no faffing with an app…

But also their app has a route planner for EVs to account for charging stops?! And it lists all chargers, not just their own. I’m actually pleasantly surprised.

EDIT: well I just found out how they managed to roll their own route planner without me hearing anything about it and only seeing people talking about ABRP still: Rivian just bought ABRP, so their app is just calling ABRP in the background with only their specific car’s info. I opened ABRP today for it to tell me that I have to agree to Rivian’s TOS to continue using the app.

Makes me think of many Medicat tools (and others like Macrium Reflect) that boot up a tiny windows installation just to run a single piece of software.

I’m used to Linux being used for that, so it’s funny when it’s Windows.

And didn’t use a single drop of water to do so. This sort of natural language processing was just done on-device, so there was no need for an Internet connection or waiting around for your slow Internet to catch up.

I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of money on EGS… it’s embarrassing because it’s the first time I’ve spent money on a free game. All the games I own on there were free. Which is great, because a few of them I was thinking about getting on sale on steam, but they were the weekly free game on EGS.

So yeah, they got my money, but not for the games…

It’s always interesting when I load up a download, I get seeded at like 20MB/s, but then… There’s nobody to seed to. It’s weird to see a torrent that so many people are seeding, but there’s like no downloads for it nowadays. Usually once it’s no longer popular, seeders disappear, too. Even weirder: it was season 2 of a show (that aired 15 years ago), but season 1 had… One guy. Only online for about 6 hours a day in the middle of the night.

Oh thanks! I always thought it was a riding crop, not a leash!

I legit looked into the cost of buying up land in a city ravaged by fire. For about 1/3 of the cost of the average home there, I would have enough plots of land (with working gas, electric, water, and sewer hookups. Only getting ones with recertified hookups doubled the cost) to strong-arm the local council with ~2 people per plot. Sure, then we’d all need homes and stuff, but we can work on that. So we get all the benefits of a recognized City and address, utilities, and work done before, but at a price that would be very affordable for my part of the country.

I’ve seen so many game jam entries where the code is like this. Delicately balanced and using so many assumptions to just get the thing out the door.

It’s funny when they decide to make a full game out of it and realize that it’s gonna take them 6 months just to undo the tech debt of the original “demo”

That’s funny, here in California we just upped the strictness on our cell phone ban. Now touching it in any way while driving is treated as using it.

I do enjoy messing with AIs and making them do stuff they weren’t supposed to do… In fact, with the same prompt, my phone’s local AI urged me to not stop eating the paella, and just keep eating it until my body adjusts.

I’ll try to repark at a different station. If they’re at full/busted (should’ve known that’s why that one stall was open…) then it is what it is, it becomes a game of how long am I willing to wait for a charger to open up. And suddenly the people who unplug and then sit in their car talking for 15 minutes really piss me off… The last 2 fast charging stations I’ve had an issue with had ALL chargers broken except one. So obviously when I didn’t get the working one, I sat there seething until they moved.

Literally looking at a car I want to buy and the 4 colors are white, black, grey, and blue. Blue is actually just a cold silver. It barely looks blue.

On my current car, I ended up with white because the only one I saw in blue was charging $1k more than the one I got that had a higher trim package. They called me the day after I signed the purchase agreement to say that they decided to lower their asking price to $2k below what I paid. I still think about that…

I just worry about people trashing it by essentially treating it like a hybrid. That battery being constantly at 10% and the engine running non-stop will kill both of them prematurely. And then they’ll blame the damage on it being an EV…

It was a very limited run thing. It was a celebration for them being top-sellers. Only 10k were ever made.

And oddly enough, these celebration pieces tend to increase sales further by amplifying their advertising.

Should really be

November 31st November 32nd November 33rd November 34th December 5th December 25th