*the advertisers want

I would love a local Alexa clone.

Ja. Ist er aber nicht. Man will da kein Geld ausgeben und daher macht man nicht den ÖPNV besser, sondern das Auto schlechter, dass ist billiger. Dabei gibt es meiner Meinung nach durchaus Gründe für Autos. Wenn ich mit meinen drei Kindern in den Wald fahre fahre, dann kann ich öfters nicht so gut planen, wann eines sich verletzt oder müde wird. Ich brauche Kinderwagen und Ersatzklamotten etc. Da ist ein Auto schon sehr viel besser als ein Bus, selbst wenn der öfters fahren würde. Erwachsene in der Stadt dagegen brauchen sicher eher selten eins...

That is not the Regicide I know. I meant this one: https://www.regicidegame.com/how-to-play/

Und warum liegt da Stroh?

I use Tibber with a device that send my hourly power usage to them. That way I pay by the hour and the price goes down to about 10 cents on Sunday afternoon almost every week. I use that to charge of course. During the week and in the evenings I do pay around 25cent.

I'm from germany, not the US, but I got one and it works. We use it for everything local: get groceries, bring the kids to sports and friends etc. We charge it once per week, on the weekend when we need the big car to transport everyone at once (3 kids) and the electricity is cheap (10c/KWh). It has a nice interior and good features for that class and it's cheap to lease (110€/month). But I suppose it's not made for the distances in the US.

Das soll mit Android Auto funktionieren, aber er zeigt es mir nicht als Option im Auto an. Unbekannte Quellen sind aktiviert, aber es ist nicht da... Hat jemand eine Idee?

I always wait for a game where you manage a remote Starbase and the main part is to put together Spaceships out of parts made by yourself or salvaged from fights. So you repair and build them out of a limited amount of parts and assign them to your pilots, give them patrols or mining missions etc.

Stars of Akarios, if they're both into space games...

I got 3 kids and we got two cars. One big for everyone and luggage and a small electric one. We don't use public transport much due to:

• a lot of time lost (busses go every 30mins but only to the small city centre/train station). So to go shopping is 5 mins vs 30 mins one way. To go to work: 45 mins vs 2 hours).
• if one kid is sick, it's hard enough to get them to the doctor in the car, now try that in busses.
• I need to transport a lot of food for 5 people. And then there's also garden waste which I could not transport with busses
• get the kids to their games on the weekend. No chance to go there by busses in a sensible amount of time. We try to do car sharing with his mates though.

We do try to also replace the big gasoline car with an electric one in the next 1-2 years, but I don't think using more public transport is viable. To the local city centre (to get an ice or bakeries) we do walk most of the time.

A colleague of mine replaced the internal store format of pickle with Json iirc. It was like 10x faster. Not exactly sure how you do that, but I can check if you want to go that way.