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. 😅

TIL of the STF. Cool idea.

Oh?

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

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!

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.

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

That sounds cool! Thank you so much!

Thank you, kind poster!

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

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

That sounds suicidal

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.