Here’s a study about battery health. Bottom line is, charging from 0% to 100% gives you 500 life cycles until it’s at 70% health. Charging from 20% to 70% gives you 6.000 life cycles. That’s is a huge difference and you should keep that in mind.

I don’t know how low temperatures affect battery health. But ask around, aren’t EVs super popular in Finland?

Nearly all cars I tried had SOH over 90%. The car I bought is from 2021 and has 94,9% battery health. Buy a 25€ OBD2-dongle and read it when you test-drive it. If the owner cared just a little, battery health is not a problem. Don’t let fossil disinformation scare you.

I don’t know anything about the situation in the US, but you get great second hand EVs for around 12.000€ here in Germany. Combustion is cheaper to buy but gets more expensive over time. It has over 250 moving parts, EVs have like 7.

Mince alors! If been to France multiple times, went to Burgundy last, and je parle in petit peu francais as well. You went full Braiding Sweetgrass and I really envy you! We moved to the county in west Germany and it’s all conservatives here. Not that they are actually conserving anything, though.

I was like you for many years. From Windows to Mint and never changed. Now I got a second hand laptop from a couple of years ago and put ublue Aurora on it. I REALLY like the experience!

DogDogStarp!

I went straight to uBlue Aurora and I’m very happy with this distro.

I never distro-hopped. Went from Windows straight to Mint. I gave Aurora a try a couple of month ago and it’s such a great distro, I’ll keep it.

I used this some time ago on a raspberry pi to steam games from my desktop to my couch and TV. It worked great. Now, I run it in my laptop and plug it to the TV from time to time. Still a great setup.

Is this AI? I can’t tell. I kinda like it and I really hope it’s not.

I tried OSS Document Scanner a year ago but never really used it. It has way more features but I didn’t need any of them. With FairScan, you just take pictures, give them a name and save them either as a single PDF or a couple PNGs. Repeat if necessary.

Does it detect the four corners and adjusts the angle to make it flat 2D?

Haha, thanks. I didn’t know this existed! I already use Syncthing, so that’s no problem. And I like that FairScan rotates my picture and adjusts it’s angle. If the Paperless Uploader-app does this as well, I might use it. Taking a look right now!

I took my Very Important Documents!!-folder to a neighbour with a decent scanner. It’s not that much, we scanned for an hour or two. Older, less important stuff stays in binders I most likely will never touch. If I do have to look at something from there, I snap a quick FairScan before I put it back. So it’s not about perfection, I just try to make my live easier from now on. :)

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I used to install low latency kernel as well. Last time I just installed vanilla Mint. Audio was bad. Then I figured out I have to add myself to the audio group and voilà, works perfectly. No more kernel-hopping for me.

Synching is incredibly useful, my list of synced folders keeps getting longer, my list of added devices keeps growing. I pray the never drop android support!

I again want to recommend DietPi. Installing software like NextCloud from it is as easy as choosing it from a menu and hitting enter.

Don’t forget the Napster-version of a Madonna-track, where after some time she stopped singing and started scolding the listener: “What the fuck do you think you are doing, stealing my music?!” or something like that. It was pretty wild in the Old Net.

I was a huge Windows-fanboy for +20 years. Then I slowly started getting familiar with Linux Mint. Since a couple of years we have no more Windows in our house.
I used to fix computer problems for people a lot, for fun. Last week, I booted a Windows 11 laptop to help a friend and I was put off by EVERYTHING. The nagging popups, ads, the dubious ad-riddled webpages I have to visit to download apps. It’s all crazy evil. And still people bullshit-bingo me that “Linux is so complicated, you need to learn so much” while constantly fighting off predatory shit from soulless corporations. They don’t even know what using a computer that works for you means anymore.