Arcturus

Nice pick. I went from my dying LG V60 to the S23 Plus. It was inevitable…

Because it’s not enough.
She wasn’t enough.
She doesn’t fit the box perfectly.
And she was too popular to ignore.

She was always keeping a moderate tone, always leaning towards supporting China and the Chinese state as well. I thought she’d skip around the censors because of it.

There is an app on Testflight and Play Store at the moment.

But you won’t be able to login yet, besides the test Kbin api server.

EcoTank is Epson, and Canon also has a similar MegaTank line. Unfortunately Brother has no tank-based printer (that I’m aware of).

I will also add, the new Brother laser toners, can be a bit iffy with their chip. They’re not as easy to refill (or use aftermarket toners) as the used to be, not impossible, but it’s not as easy. Nothing wrong with Brother tho, when it works, it works well, and reliably. It’s not like HP, where the cheaper printers require a ink subscription service (and in my experience, tend to break more easily).

If you want a simple colour printer and scanner, go for a Canon Megatank or Epson Ecotank. If you’re only printing black and white, a Brother laser printer is good, just a touch more expensive than other equivalents. The OEM toner isn’t cheap, in theory tho, they can last much longer without needing to print. The ink tank printers have far cheaper ink. Only downside is that it requires printing once a week to ensure that nothing clogs up. That said, these tank printers are smaller and lighter than Brother Colour AIO’s.

That is substantial… That’s with an injet printer, or a ink tank printer? Converted mine roughly runs at £0.18 per ml.

Working fine for me. Galaxy S23+, latest Firefox release.

Well, the website is a bit of a distraction. The car sells well in Europe and China respectively, not just the US. Much like how SpaceX has largely been a success globally as well.

In a perfect world, BEV would go alongside hydrogen and biofuels, but the latter both aren’t at the level of efficiency and affordability BEV’s have

But yes, companies do like the idea of biofuels, including legacy auto manufacturers. It means they really don’t have to spend all that much on development costs. Why would they spend money on an entirely new platform, when they already dumped decades of investment on an existing one?

This is all really why China is about to take that EV manufacturing crown from the world. They never really did well manufacturing ICE vehicles. They made the bet on BEV against the reluctance of western manufacturers, and Japan, they were just too overconfident with hydrogen development.

It’s also quite inefficient for your engine. From the biofuels I’ve seen, performance and efficiency are negatively affected. It also has an increased toll on the wear and tear of the engine. You’re pretty much better off just sticking with petrol/diesel, unless you want to go full BEV.

Power companies can manage load. The power provider I’m with manages my charging. All I have to do is pick a time when I want it to be ready (the power company not only gives the half rate night pricing, it also pays me to do this). There’s a lot of excess energy at night, off-peak. Millions of vehicles smart charging will balance the load.

The issue is, when millions want/need to charge at peak. Which, I haven’t really seen yet (having owned an EV for 4 years now). Mainly because, it’s more expensive to do so. What I have seen is the grid being overloaded because of students doing all the heating, laundry, dishwashing and showering when power companies offer a “free hour of power” and they all choose the same hour according to student scheduling (they prefer timeslots between 1600 to 2200)… But I haven’t seen the grid go down because of EV’s, we mainly pick the later timeslots (2300 to 0700).

It’s been many years now. It’s even claimed the loss of Toyota royalty and the CEO. They found out it wasn’t working very well for them and now they’re in a rush overcompensating.

Their lack of BEV investment in New Zealand for example, has ensured that now all their cars are ineligible for subsidies. They’d push Hydrogen if they could, but like other countries, we only have one hydrogen station.

I have been using them for a few days now. The card was free, and shipped quickly. Support has been a mixed bag, fastest way to get it was in-app (connecting with a rep at peak times can take ~5 mins, with replies being within a min each). But in-app support can’t do everything, so sometimes you have to rely on email (which is very slow). They also apparently have a forum. There is no phone support like Wise does. If you can get around all that, bank transfers move much more quickly compared to Wise, and they gave me cashback (but only up to £5 worth). I didn’t encounter any issues personally when I was using it, (besides the one time support stopped working, but that was just because I had not updated the app), but I know others who have. Technologically superior to NZ bank apps, but that shouldn’t be a surprise.

I used to be with MAS, but have since switched to AA. Mainly because it’s cheaper bundled with AA Motor Insurance and AA Membership. But when we had it, MAS was also great, even better coverage than AA, but just a touch bit more expensive.