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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My dirty dirty secret: I get lunch at a McDonald’s near the office where I work once or twice a week. Double quarter pounder with cheese.

I love that and I’m not ashamed to say that. 😅

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

TIL of the STF. Cool idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I’ve signed up for that at my local library. Thank you! It’s the kind of thing that I may be looking for!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As you and others have suggested I’ve signed up for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/2245998

Seems a rather popular title: my library has a waitlist of 22 weeks. 😅

I’ve also signed up for Legends and Lattes! That sounds so silly and fun!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Will certainly do! I’ve already signed up at my local library: I’m on the waiting list for the first installment of the saga.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh wow, that’s certainly intriguing. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That sounds cool! Thank you so much!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, kind poster!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Thank you Mastema! That seems exactly what I was looking for.

(Great moniker though! One of my workstations is called “Mastema” 😅)

 

Hello,

I’ve been trying to keep my anxiety and negativity in check and have been looking for short novels that lean toward positive feelings. Something like “Star Trek The Next Generation”: inspiring, encouraging; even though there are difficulties we learn, adapt and make mistakes. But at the end we’ll make it and we’ll get out of it better than we got into it. 😅

Possibly sci-fi or scientific, or adventure (eg the Hornblower saga)

(Sorry couldn’t find a better way to describe it 😅)

Thank you for any suggestion!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I’ll probably be on the market for a new car in the next few months… and clearly EVs are on my radar as I live in an area with an high penetration of this sort of vehicles.

However, other than prioritizing low-maintenance, environment impact and fun, I do really care a lot about serviceability.

While it’s true my current car require oil/filter changes, random maintenance and all, I can do pretty much all those things by myself (unless complex stuff comes along, ofc). In the 12 years I owned my car I only had to rely on an expert mechanic once to replace the pinion (some dumbass hit me while backing up); that was relatively cheap as the mechanic had access to parts and the vehicle is very repairable.

I get that more EVs => more ecosystem => more expertise and so on and so forth. But until you have the freedom to take your Tesla/Hyunday/WV/etc to a random mechanic that can use after market parts and service the car the same way the manufacturer does , I think I’ll have a bit of a hard time. As of now this sort of “mechanics” are a niche and in case of need your only choice is the manufacturer network.

TL;DR love EVs, clearly the future; but self-reparability/maintenance are still not there.

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