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@Miraz I love reading all your EV updates and impressions! An interesting bit of trivia (maybe, depending on how you’re wired, I guess 😊) is that most car manufacturers protect us end users from over- and undercharging our batteries. There’s a difference between nominal and usable battery capacity.

In your case, for the MG4 Essence 64, the battery has a nominal capacity of 64 kWh and a usable capacity of 62.1 kWh. So even if you charge it to “100%”, you haven’t really fully charged the battery. The percentage you see on your car’s dashboard tells how much of the usable capacity you have available.

Also, batteries come in different chemistries. So it’s worth reading the chapter about the high-voltage battery pack in your car’s owner’s manual to get specific recommendations for your battery. Especially if you plan not to use the car for a while.

@vincent hehe, there’s still time to change your original reply and have me look like an idiot, quoting stuff that’s not there. 😅 I would have loved not to have delved so deeply into the intricacies of GDPR, but a significant portion of my clients has historically comprised government agencies, municipalities, and the like, and they (or rather, their lawyers) are very nervous and care a lot about the regulations. (Which is a good thing!)

So, it was more or less unavoidable; I had to learn waaaaay more about GDPR than I would have otherwise to be able to do a good job.

@fschuttkowski I don’t know of a single entry point, but there are quite a few resources out there. First, Micro.blog is hosted Hugo with many bells and whistles and extra features sprinkled on top. So Hugo resources, like the docs, are good references to have at hand. And, of course, the official Micro.blog Help Documents. There’s also the community project, How to customise Micro.Blog, with plenty of resources and links.

And if you have a Micro.blog-specific theming question, a few of us plug-in and theme developers hang around over at the Help center forum and try to help each other when we get stuck. 😊

@vincent @fschuttkowski First the obligatory disclaimer, IANAL. 😅 Now, regarding:

> You don’t need a GDPR notice if you’re not a business.

It depends. There are exemptions for natural persons when it comes to processing personal data as part of a purely private activity, like adding contact information to your address book.

But that exemption may not apply if you decide to publish your address book to a large audience on, for example, your blog.

Source: The purposes and scope of GDPR.

So, to be on the safe side, you should talk to a lawyer. Or, you know, just not post personal data like names, addresses, or photographs of identifiable (and alive) EU citizens on your blog. 😊 If there’s no personal data, GDPR does not apply.

Another thing that may impact you, as a German, is the Impressumspflicht. Here’s an overview on the IndieWeb wiki.

@bjhess Yep, and you don’t need a subscription. I just buy the books with either cash or Libro.fm credits, depending on the price.

@news Yay! 🙌 Will it be possible for those of us who write in more than one language to override this on a per-post and per-page basis in the future? That would be fantastic. 😊

@Miraz Congrats on the new car! If the charging infrastructure in New Zealand is similar to that here in Sweden, three apps are probably just the beginning. 😊

@matthiasott I don’t know if it shows, but you have at least one subscriber via RSS as well. 🙋 Can’t wait for the first issue!

@bryan Dang, I had no idea they were running a controversial Mastodon instance. I’ve been using the Nitter service. Thanks for the heads-up! I’ve gone ahead and updated my post with, hopefully, a better example.

@timapple Most podcast players support downloading episodes for offline listening. So as long as the RSS feed contains all episodes, that’s probably the easiest way.

I tried with iCatcher! on my iPhone just now. I didn’t download hundreds of episodes, but the app makes that easy (you can choose how many to fetch). The files end up in On My iPhone > iCatcher! > Podcast Name. From there, you could move the directory to iCloud or share it via AirDrop or whatever.

The workflow will differ depending on which app you use.

@manton I listened during my walk today. The show turned out great! I’m hoping some listeners swing by here to explore this cozy corner of the web.

@val Personal information is often used in targeted scams and blackmail scenarios. It’s a lot easier to pretend to be your doctor, for example, if I know about your health conditions.

In the same vein, the more you know about a person, the easier it gets to impersonate them. So identity theft is another risk.

After data laundering, your DNA data is gold to your insurance company. They can adjust your premium based on how healthy you are, how long you could potentially live, how inclined you are to take risks, etc.

And it’s not hard to imagine what a group of violent antisemites can do with a list of Ashkenazi Jews.

@alpower Oh, gosh, that photo brought back a flood of memories! 🤯 I used to play that game when I was a kid, too. Thanks for sharing.

@ningkantida Go for it! Just like @Miraz, I love seeing a diverse timeline and follow quite a few people writing in languages I don’t know. To make sense of their posts, I use Safari’s built-in translation feature. My own posts are occasionally in Swedish.

What shows up on your timeline is controlled by the feeds on this page. By default, your main feed that contains all posts is set up there, but you can change that to whatever feed or feeds you want. Your blog provides feeds for every category, so you could have categories for English and Thai and add only the English category feed to your timeline. But, again, please don’t do that. I want to see your Thai writing here. 😊

@maique I’m unsure if it’s going to play in theaters here in Sweden as well. I bought (or, rather, licensed) it from the U.S. Apple TV Store. But the dark web is thrilling as well! 🦹

@manton To get the theme to build locally, we had to remove the empty config.json file from the repo. Could it be that that file is still around on the build server?

@pimoore You have a couple of pull requests waiting now that make use of the new Micro.blog Hugo partial, with the added bonus of making Tufte and Hitchens compatible with Hugo 0.117. I’ve tested these changes locally, and they look good to me, but do test for yourself before merging and bumping the version number. I could have missed something. 😅

@odd No, unfortunately not; Micro.blog can only clone and fetch updates from GitHub. You have to push code changes from your local machine (or any other way GitHub accepts, like in-browser editing).

@Gaby Yeah, I think something is up in the Micro.blog-end of things. It is now possible to install the theme from source, however. So, as a workaround, until it gets fixed, you can go here to create a plug-in and make sure to clone this URL: https://github.com/heymikehaynes/theme-outpost. Name the plug-in Temporary Outpost or something similar so that you can easily identify and remove it when the official version is working again. @mikehaynes @manton

@mikehaynes Installing the theme from source works for me now. 🎉 You probably just have to bump the version number and wait for Micro.blog to detect the change.

@mikehaynes I cloned your theme on my local machine, and while using Hugo 0.91 for building, I encountered the following error: unmarshal failed: unexpected end of JSON input. However, by removing the empty config.json file, the error message disappeared, and the theme appeared to build without any issues. @Gaby @manton

@rom Battery replacement. But I haven’t done the actual repair yet; I’m still waiting for the battery kit and tools.

@ChrisJWilson Yeah, I get that the lack of autosave and findability can be a showstopper. It sounds like a third-party writing environment is the right thing in your case.

@ChrisJWilson This might be a stupid question, so I’m sorry in advance if that’s the case. 😅 But if you’re afraid of losing what is written in a window, couldn’t you save the post as a draft and close the window? That way, you know your draft is safely stored on Micro.blog’s servers, with the added benefit that you can continue writing on another device.

@DaveyCraney About gestures on the watch, if you want a taste of what the double tap feature will be like, you can play around with AssistiveTouch.

@sim0ne Aww, thanks. 🥰 I do love having plants and flowers around the house, but I can’t really take any credit for keeping them alive and thriving. Sanna is the one with green fingers in our household. Funny thing about the pilea, here in Sweden we call them elefantöra (elephant ear). 🐘 And yes, those are sweat peas, and there definitely was lots of vanilla ice cream.

@bjoreman 👏 Imponerande! Jag brukar klappa mig själv på axeln om jag får ut avsnittet en–två dagar efter inspelning. 😅

@rom I agree with you. Using WebKit for in-app browsing makes a lot of sense as the default. But I wouldn’t mind an “I’m an adult, let me do what I want” mode, similar to the “allow applications downloaded from…” setting on macOS.

I feel like that’s how computers and tools should be: safe and secure out of the box without restricting those who want to unlock the full potential of their devices.

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