Electric car charging prices

[b0redom]

Currently parked on the (shared with my neighbour) drive outside my house. I could run a long extension cable, but given they're quite old, it would be a trip hazard for them. It also specifically says, "Do not use an extension cable to charge" everywhere I've read online. I guess I could...

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Yeah I plan on swapping to Octopus, but I need to work out if I can make the numbers work in the short/medium term until I can get something at home....

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Appreciate this is general so I'm expecting the usual torrent of abuse, but this doesn't really fit anywhere else.

Considering getting an electric car and I'm looking for an app/website that lists the cost of charging at local access points, I'll get around to putting in a domestic one...

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I know Mint is an Ubuntu derivative, but it might be worth trying on Ubuntu. At the very least, the larger installed user base might have hit the problem before.

[b0redom]

I have exactly the same - prefabricated office at the bottom of the garden. If you can run a network cable, I heartily recommend it, you can then put a mesh wifi access point inside your shed with wired backhaul. I use Netgear Orbis. My devices roam seamlessly now, (I had multiple access points previously)...

[b0redom]

Unless you're an expert or a glutton for punishment, you're better off sticking with Ubuntu/Fedora rather than some of the more niche distros - especially with laptops. That being said, Mint is, IIRC pretty standard Ubuntu with non-FOSS codecs installed, hence your better experience.

If...

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Bluetooth in general, or specific devices? Ubuntu has been pretty decent for ages tbh, unless you're using a (cheap) laptop with an unsupported bluetooth chipset.

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Not necessarily. it might be one of those stupid permie roles that only last x months, where holidays, sick pay etc are part of the 'package' on offer. Generally they pay around the same as a permie, but are only very short term (covering maternity or whatever), you're hired directly with no umbrella,...

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Not seen this before. I wonder if it's the windows client 'restarting' the file transfer. TBH though, knowingly overwriting a file is bad practice operationally. If you think you might need it, make a backup, if you don't remove it as soon as it's done. Either of those are trivial using cron.

[b0redom]

I've also got one of these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-Char.../dp/B09PFRGBGR

Which will do 2 laptops at full speed at the same time, or multiple tablets/phones/laptops at a slightly slower rate.

[b0redom]

You'll probably need a high power one tbh. Lower power ones may work, but are likely to be slower and/or not provide enough power to run the laptop whilst charging.

I'd probably stick to a well known manufacturer like Anker or UGreen, 100w is going to be plenty.

Something like...