My EV sits in the driveway and soaks up excess production from my PV setup.
My main problem is it’s never really empty enough.
If I’m on the road, a high voltage DC charger gets me from 10% to 50% in about 10 minutes. Barely enough time for a coffee and a leak, then it’s another 2 hours of driving. Rinse, repeat.
Sure, you can’t barrel down the Autobahn for 10 hours straight without stopping but who wants that?
Sounds quite similar to Markov chains which made me think of this story:
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-automated-curse-generator
Still gets a snort out of me every time Markov chains are mentioned.
Depending on your level of caffeine tolerance/dependency actual coffee might be even better.
Alternatively: Decaf.
IF you already have an email domain you control.
Calling “acquiring and setting up an email domain and configuring the mail server for wildcards” “basically no extra effort” is a bit disingenuous compared to “solve a captcha for a Gmail account”
There should be an external hard drive full of portable game installs in some drawer that fits the time period.
Should easily kill a week.
They should not be worried, they should be educated.
If you worry a new user enough they’ll go back to Windows or Apple because there’s less scary warnings there.
We need to make the transition as pain free as possible. Learning about the joys of kernel compilation and SELinux can come later.
The first step is "Hey, this is as usable as Windows, without stupid ads in the start menu.