Sunday, 29th December, 2024

Well I certainly ordered some books…20 ebooks and physical ones! Just went through wife’s goodreads wishlist and top 2024 lists of various categories.

As I was driving home I thought about macOS, Mac minis and should I get one. But why?

I had to charge the car twice on the way home as it was nearly empty when I left. I was offered to charge it at their house but there was nowhere to park near enough to the house and not sure the cable would’ve reached. Plus it only would’ve charged at 2kW and even all night wouldn’t have filled up the battery.

Mainstream EV charging is nowhere near ready. Maybe if you have a tesla and visit a supercharger centre but otherwise it’s not great. There are so many vendors and it’s not clear what works with what. I have several apps and they claim chargers are part of their network but then the first one didn’t work. It could be connectivity or who knows what. Luckily there was no-one else there so I moved up to another one and used a different network. I had to start it twice - and “pay” twice before it worked. Okay fine, it’s nice to charge at 40 kW. Next stop there was no price advantage to using the network, and when it didn’t work again, I just used my credit card. Got to the “now charging your car stage” and then there was “an error” and to “try again”. Trying again didn’t fix it. Is it the car? is it the charger? This time they were all full though, and I started looking on the map for nearby ones, but most were either slow chargers, or occupied. Luckily someone else just left and so I moved over to them and got it going.

What a snore.

I occasionally remember I have stats computed at build time for this site. I looked at my longest post and I can’t decide if thinking the same things 2.5 years later is good or bad. On the one hand, there’s continuous improvements which are never ending, but on the other hand, continuous improvement also requires some improvements, not going in huge annual circles.

Of course, I’m just going to reinforce the circle and not do anything about it.