Unfortunately the website doesn't show the edit menu, but where most alternatives are lacking is the extensive tools for manipulating text that Notepad++ has. When you need to wrangle some text, like say you copied a table out of a PDF and need to bash it into the shape of a set of C macros, it's very good. Does Geany have that?

The other really nice thing about Notepad++ is that you never lose anything. If you create a new document it saves it internally, even before you save it to a specific file. If you make some edits to a file they are cached on disk. It's saved me a few times when a computer has failed to resume from hibernation, or a dodgy Intel GPU driver has crashed.

It's also doable as a DIY job. Some cars are easier than others, but for example a Leaf can be done on your driveway if needed (it's easier with a lift). You can even do cell replacement in Leaf batteries yourself. There are companies that make brand new replacement battery packs too, but the issue is always the shipping cost due to their size and weight. That should improve over time.

There is also Nio that do battery swaps. Just roll up to the station, the car parks itself and 4 minutes later your have a fresh battery swapped in at 90% SoC. It's actually faster than pumping fossil fuels into an ICE vehicle, and you don't even have to get out of the car or pull out your credit card.

No, that's not how it works.

Norway is a good source of data for your use case. Very cold for much of the year, months of sub zero temperatures, partly in the Arctic Circle. Large country too, plenty of long distance travel to be done.

You would typically be looking at over 90% capacity left at 5 years. It depends on how the manufacturer measures it, e.g. Kia and Hyundai state the usable capacity so often are still at 100% after 5 years because any degradation was within the extra "buffer" they give you and doesn't have any effect on usable range.

Also you will never have to wait an hour to charge. Even a decade back that was unrealistic, but these days it's more like 15-20 minutes maximum and some cars are under 4 minutes now. Older used EVs like those aforementioned Kia and Hyundai ones might be half an hour as they charge more slowly, but also keep in mind this will be after 4-5 hours of driving so you will need that time for a comfort break anyway.

I've been accused of being an LLM a few times already. It's often when people see a certain phrase used that they associate with AI.

Resolve only officially supports a couple of Linux distros, but there are ways to make it work on others, e.g. https://github.com/zelikos/dav...

Beyond that some codecs are missing for opening and exporting to some common video formats. Again, you can work around it.

I use Resolve myself and it's good once you learn how to use it a little.

Directory Opus. It mostly replaces Windows Explorer with an unrivalled file manager interface. There is nothing like it on Linux, and nothing else really like it anywhere.

I've been using it since it was an Amiga app.

AI has really helped people switch to Linux. Instead of dismissive or outright rude responses to Linux questions from the "community", people can ask an LLM and get an actually helpful answer that is applicable to the current version of their distro.

This was mentioned at the wrap-up for the most recent Linus Tech Tips Linux Challenge. One guy said that if he googled some issue and the first few results were Reddit, he just asked an LLM instead and it usually fixed his problem with minimal hassle.

Although I'm not a beginner I've found this to be true with Raspberry Pi OS too. As an example, try googling for how to do something that should be extremely simple in C: control some GPIOs. There are at least three different APIs, and all but one are deprecated, and most of the forum/blog posts are out of date. The RPi forum responses are often deeply unhelpful too.

Yeah always consider the source. And then consider the fact you get the same answer from literally countless other sources...

It's starting to become common knowledge that EV life hasn't been tied to the battery in a decade. There's just people who refuse to accept the data. We've been talking about Teslas doing over 450,000miles over 7 years ago here's an article from 2019 https://insideevs.com/reviews/...

We're also living in a world where EV manufacturers warranty their battery for 8-10 years (the average car is scrapped around 15 years) or 100-150k miles depending on manufacturer (in the USA the average car is scrapped at 156k miles). So you're looking at cars where the manufacturer warranty covers the battery pack for virtually it's entire average useful life.

And this is the manufacturer telling you they'll replace it for free, what do you think about that as the source?

Not quite. Beyond the 10 year timeframe another factor comes into play: Battery shelf-life. It will start to degrade over time, even if you rarely drive it. The battery chemistry may get you to 500k+ miles of driving, but the chemistry won't last for 30 years.

That's not to discount your point. I fully expect EVs to easily last a decade+, but the battery will have a finite life unused so it won't top a unused well maintained ICE vehicle. But that said replacement batteries are a thing. The question will be, how much will it cost in 10 years to replace the battery and is a replacement available, or do you instead buy a 5 year old car...

ICE vehicles in the beater range definitely have a far lower price floor for a working vehicle. I still remember buying my first car for $350. I sold my last ICE vehicle for 450EUR (19 years old). You're just not likely to see that kind of really low bar on an EV. Shit I can barely get a second hand E-bike for that.

Yes it's great. Clueless people think EVs don't work which makes the second hand market excellent if you're looking to buy a used car.

The reality is Lithium battery degradation follows a very non-linear curve. Cars will degrade quickly from 100% to around 90-80% and then stay there for virtually the rest of their life, and 80% of range is still more than enough on any current vehicle, even for the road trip fans, except for maybe those weirdos who pee into plastic bottles while driving so they don't need to stop.

I'm genuinely happy to see posts like yours. There are too many people out there that point to problems with the Leaf and use that as a reason to decide EVs just aren't suitable.

I offer an example from my Polestar 2 (2024 model):
- I left the Worley Office in The Hague with 47% charge to go to Brussels airport (170ish km) the car estimated before I left I would get there with 4% battery remaining. I got there with 6% and that boost was due to hitting some traffic (EVs do well with traffic).
- I have driven home and not bothered to stop to charge when my car has estimated I'd arrive with 1% battery, and I've gotten there with 1% battery (a real: "Range anxiety? Hold my beer!" moment).

Some cars have truly exceptional estimations and Polestar's blew me away when I first started really pushing its limits, but it varies widely. The Audi e-Tron is rubbish in its estimates. So is the Mustang-e. The Opel Corsa does a pretty good job as well. Not driven a recent model Bolt, so don't know those.

Then you haven't been paying attention.

The problem is we haven't had data for a long time. You only need to go back a decade to find several year old early Leafs demonstrate poor battery performance. Yes around that time Teslas were starting to show people and the industry that batteries do last a long time, but that was initially an outlier in an industry that notoriously had no fucking idea what it was doing.

Cars universally having proper battery management really are post 2015 thing, and you need to add 5 years for data gathering, and THEN we can talk about perception changes. Yeah even today there are many people who believe EVs are battery life limited because only 5 years ago they would have been able to find data backing up that belief.

One of the problems is cars in general. People view them as a slow moving technological turtle. In reality the EV space is a technical marvel where even today the battery design deviates greatly from that of only a few years ago with wildly different approaches to how the manage battery packs. As such their perceptions are based on ideas that are usually well outdated (fun fact: ask someone what is more fuel efficient, leaving a petrol car in gear or putting it in neutral when coasting down hill, I bet they'll give you an answer from the 80s (put in neutral) rather than the answer which has been correct for every car manufactured in the past 20 years.)

Add to that general incompetence. (Fun fact: The 2023 Opel Corsa *STILL* didn't have 12V battery management systems in place. And right until mid-2025 Teslas *STILL* suffered dramatic vampire drain on their primary pack. And even to this day many cars including the Mustang *STILL* doesn't pre-condition the battery pack in cold weather with cabin preheat leading to shitty range). We're in a world of people who have no fucking idea what we're doing.

There is nothing linear about battery degradation. No lithium based battery degradation over time is linear. No data to date has shown linear degradation, not for consumer electronics, not for the car industry.

If you're finding examples of linear degradation online I would instantly discount them unless they are reproducing a graph from a peer reviewed scientific paper, and even then I'd read the paper to find out the context that the article has missed.

Typical lithium degradation over time is a drop to 90-80% over a early life, holding steady at this point for virtually all of the remaining life, a slow drop to 65% and then a sharp drop to complete failure. Which is also why you'll find virtually every second hand car have a 80-90% battery life unless they are very new.

Can you provide an example of this in the car industry for batteries? I can only find sensible advice on improving longevity. In fact to go through the GP's example using a Polestar 2:

1) You get a warning on your dashboard if you set the charge above 90% and you have to acknowledge it.
2) You get a warning on your dashboard if you navigate to a destination where the charge is expected to be below 20% on arrival, and a suggestion of charging stations.
3) The car doesn't rapid DC charge over 80%, and Polestar recommends L2 charging on their website.
4) For this point they had no opinion on narrow vs wide.
5) See item 1.

Also add 6) Polestar recommend engaging the climate control on hot or cold days prior to driving from your phone as this preconditions the battery back, improves longevity, and also in winter improves range (far beyond the energy that it took to warm up the pack an cabin).

I really haven't seen any marketing problems in the auto industry around this.

Nitpick: No cars on the market rapid charge above 80%. That's also why they quote 20-80% figures for the speed of fast charging.

I wonder how much this is engineering and marketing function. A percent indicator is something that an engineer decides to show you. It could very well be that they prioritised battery life over total distance and as a result 100% may be the 90% of the competition, leaving range on the table for longevity while reducing complexity for the user and potential for someone to inadvertently degrade their battery. But since you're complaining about it it may not be a decision which resonated with users and end result maybe it was a marketing push to add the adjustment back in user's hands. I wonder if anyone has done a teardown to see if 100% was actually 100% or not.

Certainly the phone industry hasn't done this for a long time. No phones actually fully charge their battery when they show 100% because people left them plugged in and at 100% for a long time resulting in bulging batteries and short lifespans.