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That's a good question, and I have no idea why I (or autocorrect) used FOB vs fob. My mistake. Honda calls it the SMART key, always capitalized, in the owner's manual, and I have no idea why they do that.

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You beat me to asking the same question. The Goldwing FOB seems to have a much longer sensing range than I'd expect, based on the illuminated white ring on the ignition knob showing when it can "see" the FOB. The FOB needs to be very close to the 'bike to unlock and start it, but the hack, if it applies, could be from a much longer distance. Using the FOB for the steering lock and ignition makes it seem that a U-lock is also required. I pity the poor fool who tries to actually carry a Goldwing away. It's made of spent uranium.

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It's certainly true that Tesla superchargers are for Tesla products only. But the Tesla wall charger for homes can be used with a J1722 adapter for most other EVs. The charger even has an internal switch to put it into J1772 mode. I use my Tesla wall charger at home with a "JDapter" for a Taycan and it handshakes fine with the car and works as expected. That same adapter, not surprisingly, also works with Tesla destination chargers but, again, not with superchargers.

My local Electrify America charging station is at the back of a Sheetz. It works great -- 270kW charging makes it a 20-30 minute exercise depending on weather and number of other users -- but Sheetz does not fit my personal definition of a "customer oasis". At least the local one doesn't. When I had a Tesla, the superchargers I used were sometimes next to gas stations, too, but more often in shopping malls with stores and restaurants.Spending time at a Sheetz is the opposite of an oasis for me: what's with the garish red/yellow theme of Sheetz, Eagle,and Buc-ees?

In my teens (sometime in the Stone Age) a favorite game with friends was to ask "what you you prefer?" questions and debate the answers. One of them was "if you had to choose one, would you rather be blind or deaf?" My answer was "deaf" because I thought that I could continue to be self-sufficient and do things that I liked, e.g. riding a motorcycle or driving a car. As I get (much) older, I'm not so sure. My love of music has grown over the decades to the point that it's more important to me than sight. I wonder how many others would make that choice.

Do you have a link to the battery problem cause and workaround please? I'm on the various Taycan forums and haven't seen one. There's a rumor that the software update currently being rolled out addresses the issue, but my dealer doesn't know, because it's not in the update release notes. I'm having the update done tomorrow. It includes a separate software update for the mobile charger that comes with the car. The problem was first reported just over a year ago, hence my comment. I'm a Porsche fan and really like the Taycan, but IMHO Porsche is behind the leading edge on in-car software, especially with updates. My Taycan was at the dealer for two days for the last update, needing several tries, they need it for two days for this upcoming update, and OTA map updates for my GT3RS were down for six months, with Porsche Support asking me to wait a little longer a few times while they sorted out their servers. I'm not trying to be inflammatory and believe that Porsche is one of the finest auto brands for quality and service. But they need to be called out when they fail to resolve an issue, even if it affects only some owners.

Some Porsche Taycans have a similar problem: under certain circumstances, the 12V battery discharges and it's a royal pain to get the car up and running. The Taycan forums seem to indicate that it's a relatively infrequent problem, but it defies root cause analysis. Porsche hasn't solved the problem in over a year. There's a very large software update rolling out now which may include a fix, but it's not explicitly listed as one of the enhancements. A neighbor's Nissan Leaf has also suffered a 12V battery discharge for no apparent reason. The 12V battery is a relic but seems to survive in EVs, including Teslas.

Hah! I had a CDP101 too; it was good for its time. Your 70s LPs likely have much better longevity and sound quality than your early CDs, whether played through the CDP101 or something newer. Those old CDs were mastered with sometimes questionable ADCs and/or skill, and quite a few of them suffer from long-term substrate rot. I've assembled a large CD collection by buying wholesale EBay lots, throwing or giving away the countless Christmas compilations and other dross, and ripping the rest to FLAC with AccurateRip and CUETools repairs when necessary. It ends up costing about $2 per CD I actually want to keep. A lot of the 80s CDs sound pretty bad. They started to get uniformly better in the 90s.

I worked at Sun 1986-1994, including at Sun Labs 1991-1993. Java's path to greatness was somewhat twisty, as such things often are. Bill Joy wanted to create a new, "safe" language, which he called C++--. This coincided with his move to Aspen CO where he set up the "Smallworks" in a downtown office. Bill comes up with an industry-changing idea every decade or so (which is pretty impressive) and this was his for the 90s. The early target was set-top boxes for interactive TV. It took about a decade to realize the people don't want to interact with their TVs ("you see Jennifer Aniston wearing a sweater and you point at it to buy one") and that $2,000 set-top boxes required to run Java in the early 90s cost about 50 times as much as cable operators were willing to pay. Sun kinda stumbled into the internet and Kim Polese's ideas resulted in the project becoming a language for the web. James Gosling's and his teammates' genius created one of the lasting technologies of the tech world.