I’m not sure they can spin their way out of this one. The number of new car manufacturers that are spinning up in the last ten years compared to the fifty before it is mind blowing.

I see Tesla getting swallowed whole in a very competitive market in the next twenty years. Their early mover advantage is all but erased.

Edit: and the European manufacturers are catching up fast. I heard the new Renault is a super little car. There will always be some bias to buying European in Europe (as I’m sure is the case with other places, but Tesla had genuine caché for a while). That God awful cyber tank thing will never sell well here.

European view: I always thought I’d love a Tesla when I make the move to electric.

Would never, ever buy one now and it’s purely because of mister half a trillion election purchasing oligarch.

My dad used to say that all you really need when traveling is your passport, tickets and cash and that’s true enough IMO.

It’s brave though. At a minimum I always take clean t-shirt, undies and socks. It has paid off more than once.

How goes it?

Good luck with it. Retro game corps does a decent overview of his setup which would probably help someone starting out. Pretty fascinating watch actually.

SBU doing a superb job offing senior folks inside Russia. Hats off to them.

The latest android versions on quite a few phones allow you to stop charging at 80%.

On my phone it’s: settings->battery->charging limit.

It may be different on your phone so maybe just search for “80” in the settings menu.

Yeah spot on. Deleting.

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100% fair and I do generally follow that rule with my phone and mostly enable the “stop charging at 80%” feature but I’ve noticed two downsides to it:

1. It occasionally needs a full charge / discharge cycle or it loses true 80%
2. If I do it overnight I find the phone unusually warm in the morning which is quite disconcerting so I mostly manually manage it these days (OnePlus Nord 2T 5G). I’m hoping they fix that in the future.

I’m a bit more carefree with the headphones partly because it’s harder to tell and partly because it’s a much, much easier battery replacement.

Having travelled a lot, I feel I was born into what I consider a great country just as it was starting to pull itself out of poverty. Pure chance.

I got a good education and college was essentially free.

I have a lot of kids and work really hard at being a good dad so I am surrounded by love. I am very lucky that I am married twenty years (some better than others) to someone who still loves me and who I still love. Some days that love is all that keeps me going because fuck me I am exhausted haha.

I feel uncomfortable typing all that out but it’s a good exercise in thankfulness so thank you.

I started it on a futon too and did eventually get used to it but would not want to go back so I totally feel you.

Not sure what your budget / bed size is but IKEA have a range of different priced, decent quality pocket spring mattresses with good warranties. My friend ended up returning his after nearly 3 years (iirc) and they honoured it after inspecting and agreeing that the springs at the very edge on one side were faulty.

I strongly agree with the other comment on not taking second hand ones because of the risk of bed bugs.

They’ve been delivering bucket loads of cash for oil and there was a recent deal for $4 billion USD for radar kit.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/india-russia-all-set-for-usd-4-billion-deal-for-advanced-radar-system-2646849-2024-12-09

I read it as “European imports from China face lower duties”.

Interesting as Trump has said he will continue arms deliveries in that case. No way even Trump could expect Ukraine to give up even more land than is currently occupied at the negotiating table. It would be a “terrible deal”.

Very first thought I had.

That’s some battery. How long do you get between charges?

Coincidentally I just ran a speed test as you were typing. 42Mbps. Perfectly happy with what I’m getting. It’s more than enough for when I’m out and about.

Ireland. €10 / around $11 USD a month for unlimited everything.

Limited to a 4G data connection. 15 a month if I want to move to 5G but I haven’t had any real need for the extra speed since I’m mostly using WiFi.

Edit: just ran a speed test there. 42Mbps on the mobile connection.

Z is painted on much of the Russian war kit. It’s their equivalent of a swastika.