Ah they probably buried that shit somewhere deep down in their TOU or something…
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The "Things that annoy me" thread
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While it wouldn't surprise me, I think they're making more profit from the EV charging than the fuel. Who's to say they can't do both though?
Driveways aren't common everywhere and It's basically impossible to get a charger for use on the streets, very few places are installing them and running cables across the pavement is a risk I was no longer willing to take. My case is a bit special because it was about 50 metres to run power to the car and the garage is around the corner with no power. It's no different 3 years later.
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Unfortunately I get why it’s not growing quicker (I work for another big oil company in EV charging) : there isn’t any money in it. The cost of installing & maintaining an ac charger versus the profit (slow charge speed means low kwh and / or people hogging the chargers) is just very difficult to make a profit.
It depends on the country though, in BE and NL it does seem to work, mostly because we install them near shopping centres or big parking lots (1000+ spots) where people do spend a couple of hours…
On street is a nightmare though, either it’s never used at all or it’s constantly being occupied by a couple of residents
It depends on the country though, in BE and NL it does seem to work, mostly because we install them near shopping centres or big parking lots (1000+ spots) where people do spend a couple of hours…
On street is a nightmare though, either it’s never used at all or it’s constantly being occupied by a couple of residents
Yup same here, that’s why we don’t do onstreet anymore, unless it’s heavily subsidized. HPC and chargers in cooperation with good partners (supermarkets, malls, that kind of thing) as well as direct contracting for customers seem the way to go - although the AC part of that whole cake is so insanely competitive now that actually making money in that space doesn’t seem to be a thing, really (mostly cross selling going on, at least for us).
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If slow charging was fairly ubiquitous and mostly free there would be more of a market for fast charging. You cant have first class till there is someone to look down upon. Until then I feel like they should be tied to a subsidizer that pays for charging and in exchange you are captive to their sales pitch.
The whole „free juice with your purchase of X“ thing died a long time ago, at least over here… charging is just too expensive for that to be viable.
That’s one of the issues with AC charging: people don’t understand that the infrastructure involved necessitates the kWh price to be higher than at home - and then they complain. At least people no longer expect it to be free, which very much used to be a thing until a few years ago (why would it be? Where does that elevation come from?).
Speaking of: I’m currently sipping juice off our holiday home from schuko, at a lovely 6 A / 1.4 kW (or 1.2… the voltage goes everywhere here). I have until Friday morning anyway… I’m not in a rush
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We live between Boulder and Denver which has a robust free network. Not tied to purchase rather a nebulous tie to commerce in the area or government connected (courts, parks ect.) then there is development connected open use free.
You could just use free network with some inconvenience but it's possible. There are a few locations I prioritize because of free charging.
I think if you have a base ie slow free charging you make event charging premium and able to charge as such
The network for charging at high speed for a road trip is poorly managed/marketed. The fault of the car manufacturer and the charge networks. Expectation and the lack of information leads people to think the worst. Set the expectations and the price. Yeah you spend 100 bucks but that 20 minutes is in opulence or unique roadside art ect.
I'm sure they will do it haphazardly or focused on marketing value but id lay out a few routes where you have guaranteed charging and sights. Market them like the old Michelin guide.
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Recently the girlfriend and I went to a open air museum near Newcastle called Beamish. The conceit it is made up of buildings that have been salvaged from elsewhere and there are various areas representing different periods of history in northern England from the 1820s to the 1950s all interlinked by old trams/busses.
Excellent place. Really well done. There are staff in period dress who are knowledgeable and can chat with you about various aspects of the era, environment etc.
The only detraction was the people. It was busy, fair enough, a weekend during the school holidays is always going to be busy. The uncontrolled children and uninterested parents fucked me off though. We're planning on returning midweek in autumn some time. See if we can avoid the worst of the great British public...
Like you don't have to come here, it's not an obligation. If you're going to wander about gormlessly trying to find phone signal while your fat kids shovel endless food into their mouths and complain they're bored don't fucking turn up in the first place. Also, if you're going to bring your cockapoo maybe don't stand in a queue for the sweet shop for 40 mins in the sun while it slowly dies in the heat.
Also I'm not going to press for a dress code but nobody wants to see a pre-teen girl in bottoms that say "juicy" across the arse. Well, I'm sure some people do, but probably not the folks you want around your kids.
Do we need some sort of intelligence test before procreation/pet ownership now that we've pounded natural selection into the dirt? Like a quiz with basic information on how to keep another being alive? Or yourself alive.
Perhaps we need a new law that if you hand a child a tablet during a meal at a restaurant so they can play games with the volume cranked to 11 we load your entire family into a catapult and fire you into the ocean?
Maybe I am just the old man who yells at clouds now.
Recently the girlfriend and I went to a open air museum near Newcastle called Beamish. The conceit it is made up of buildings that have been salvaged from elsewhere and there are various areas representing different periods of history in northern England from the 1820s to the 1950s all interlinked by old trams/busses.
Excellent place. Really well done. There are staff in period dress who are knowledgeable and can chat with you about various aspects of the era, environment etc.
The only detraction was the people. It was busy, fair enough, a weekend during the school holidays is always going to be busy. The uncontrolled children and uninterested parents fucked me off though. We're planning on returning midweek in autumn some time. See if we can avoid the worst of the great British public...
Like you don't have to come here, it's not an obligation. If you're going to wander about gormlessly trying to find phone signal while your fat kids shovel endless food into their mouths and complain they're bored don't fucking turn up in the first place. Also, if you're going to bring your cockapoo maybe don't stand in a queue for the sweet shop for 40 mins in the sun while it slowly dies in the heat.
Also I'm not going to press for a dress code but nobody wants to see a pre-teen girl in bottoms that say "juicy" across the arse. Well, I'm sure some people do, but probably not the folks you want around your kids.
Do we need some sort of intelligence test before procreation/pet ownership now that we've pounded natural selection into the dirt? Like a quiz with basic information on how to keep another being alive? Or yourself alive.
Perhaps we need a new law that if you hand a child a tablet during a meal at a restaurant so they can play games with the volume cranked to 11 we load your entire family into a catapult and fire you into the ocean?
Maybe I am just the old man who yells at clouds now.
Yep.
Buses here have air-conditioning, which is nice when it's 37ºC.
On the other hand, people love to open the windows, ignoring the stickers that say "Air-conditioning. Keep windows closed".
Yep.
Buses here have air-conditioning, which is nice when it's 37ºC.
On the other hand, people love to open the windows, ignoring the stickers that say "Air-conditioning. Keep windows closed".
Compare this to my part of Germany (Cologne) where lots of vehicles do not have A/C and it’s not uncommon for people to close the tiny windows in that kind of heat “because there’s a draft”.
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I get the same on our trains, which are built in Belgium and I'm not that far above average height for the UK. The replacements we're getting soon are build in Japan so I don't think they're going to be much better.
Oh so much this. I have to control my urges to shout at people whenever I see therm opening the windows in an air-conditioned tram, despite the AC working just fine. Although when it comes to our buses, rarely do they have working AC. They all have AC units, but only few of them work.Yep.
Buses here have air-conditioning, which is nice when it's 37ºC.
On the other hand, people love to open the windows, ignoring the stickers that say "Air-conditioning. Keep windows closed".
When I'm on the topic of buses, I've talked about this before, but the bus situation in Zagreb is really getting out of hand. There's not enough buses to cover all the bus lines completely, so it's very common for a bus not to appear. There's a serious problem with bus drivers, too, there's simply not enough of them.
One cannot rely on public transportation in this city anymore. Once upon a time, that was possible, but it's no more. Oh, and some 60 used buses were supposed to come here long ago, only one arrived, and even that one is not active yet.
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We recently got a new company to operate the bus lines here because it's a free market and the town had to go with the lowest bidder. I'm guessing that the lowest bidder had experts that found every loophole they could get away with, and as a result, buses are now usually missing bumper corners and the like and they're never washed in winter. It also feels like the only requirement to become a bus driver for them is a driving license and half a working eye.
The old operator, which was a direct descendent of the merger of the small companies that popped up back when motorized transport first was invented, had just built a new depot with state of the art washing facilities and a garage to fix the inevitable fender benders. Buses were always clean and in a good state of repair. Their services were obviously priced to match so they lost the competition.
The old operator, which was a direct descendent of the merger of the small companies that popped up back when motorized transport first was invented, had just built a new depot with state of the art washing facilities and a garage to fix the inevitable fender benders. Buses were always clean and in a good state of repair. Their services were obviously priced to match so they lost the competition.
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Who the f codes such a bullshit website? In late August/early September I'll cycle from Hamburg to Stralsund, I'm planning on returning by train. Now, when I check prices and availability one direct connection is shown, regardless of checking it just for me alone or if I include a ticket for a bicycle. When I check it including a ticket for a bicycle the Deutsche Bahn website just states "we can't display price informations". Another page on the Deutsche Bahn website states it might be because that connection might be operated by a different operator, but that train is operated by Deutsche Bahn. Of course there could be other reasons, but that's the only example given why you would get the connection, but not the price information.
Through trial and error I found out that apparently the bicycle spots are fully booked from Rostock since the website shows me prices when I enter Stralsund to Rostock, but not when I enter Stralsund to Bad Kleinen which is the next stop of that train.
There's no point in showing that connection at all, but no, they decided it would be useful to show the connection, but without price information...
Through trial and error I found out that apparently the bicycle spots are fully booked from Rostock since the website shows me prices when I enter Stralsund to Rostock, but not when I enter Stralsund to Bad Kleinen which is the next stop of that train.
There's no point in showing that connection at all, but no, they decided it would be useful to show the connection, but without price information...
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How so many twins talk over each other. When one interrupts, they just both keep talking. I've known 3 sets of twins like this personally, and just came across a pair doing it on a TV show. And I'm not even counting the ones that are doing it on purpose as an attempt at a charming affectation.
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Had a couple of junior dragster racers in the race control tower last night collecting the money their dad and grandpa won. I noticed they kept finishing each other's sentences, or even just saying the same thing in stereo, it was weird.
I have a bloody "smart" i.e. connected oven. Which doesn't make any sense, but can be nice to pre-heat the pizza steel when we're out and about. BUT, despite this, the clock of the thing seems to run off the grid frequency and is thus always fast. It does not do an automatic, regular sync to a time server - this has to be triggered through their garbage app manually. Ugh. Such a simple thing. So annoying.
(no I can't trigger the bloody NTP sync through their API via home assistant automation either, FFS garbage crap!)
edit: similarly annoying, my dishwasher has a feature that it can automatically tilt the door open to let steam vent in order to help with drying. only it completely ignores the setting to actually to do and never opens the door. it only sometimes bugs out and refused to shut the door, i.e. it'll throw it back open after you put something in. again, the garbage home connect API also doesn't have anything for this... otherwise I'd just send the damn thing the command to tilt the bloody door from home assistant every time the program finishes. BUT NO.
(no I can't trigger the bloody NTP sync through their API via home assistant automation either, FFS garbage crap!)
edit: similarly annoying, my dishwasher has a feature that it can automatically tilt the door open to let steam vent in order to help with drying. only it completely ignores the setting to actually to do and never opens the door. it only sometimes bugs out and refused to shut the door, i.e. it'll throw it back open after you put something in. again, the garbage home connect API also doesn't have anything for this... otherwise I'd just send the damn thing the command to tilt the bloody door from home assistant every time the program finishes. BUT NO.
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ohh I guess I have the same useless connected oven! The point of it is so you can warm it up when you're not home, but my wife has all notifications turned on, so when I'm at home and turn it on, she gets a notification "the oven is warmed up", which is annoying but managable. The thing is that the times when these things are sent out seem completely random. Sometimes we get a ping at 3 am saying the oven is warm but that message dates back like 8 hours. It's mindboggling how Samsung, who should know this, cause cellphones, can fuck this up.
Also, when it's warm it doesn't just do 3 beeps, there's a whole theme song lasts a couple of seconds that plays 5 times in a row (!!!!) and you can't interrupt it. Just... WHY?
Also, when it's warm it doesn't just do 3 beeps, there's a whole theme song lasts a couple of seconds that plays 5 times in a row (!!!!) and you can't interrupt it. Just... WHY?
Haha, mine's actually Bosch and only bings once when warmed up - and I can turn the volume down quite a lot
That part is actually quite good. Also I have all the bloody app notifications turned off. Also, I can't pre-heat the oven from home assistant either, I can only select a general program, but not like, set a target temperature? so that's useless. the HA integration is a bit weird tbh, maybe because it has to cover so many different BSH appliances that the dev just gave up at some point. so maybe it's just not quite finished (it can actually send all those config keys, but they're not exposed to HA as buttons or switches, so maybe I need to rig something up through code ughbsdigzubsduihfgbsd). If I could trigger the time sync and remote start (+ temp) from home assistant, I'd ditch the bloody useless app that goes with the oven and dishwasher entirely...