Notices by Technology Connections (techconnectify@mas.to), page 4

You might be a fan of the liquid crystals, or maybe you like that new OLED stuff.

But my favorite display technology has got to be high voltage neon dot matrix

I have never seen something so useful since then, and my new Hyundai Ioniq 5 has nowhere near as useful information, let alone laid out so nicely.

In the example I showed here, a few days ago I drove the car 70 highway miles in extreme cold and wet roads. Range was abysmally bad, and so it's predicted range after being recharged was pretty poop.

Now, though, it is immediately trending way up because conditions are better and it's correcting. Here's after ~18 miles of driving

I feel like not enough praise gets given to the Chevy Bolt's range estimator.

Notice how to the left of the battery gauge there's a green line extending all the way up to the max number? That is an instantaneous trend line, and it is incredibly helpful!

When you're driving fast and it's cold, it trends down to help you know you need to slow down or change the climate control to attain the predicted range. When things get better, the line moves up.

The UI team nailed this back in 2017

Regrettably, one of the irritating phenomena of my Twitter experience still happens here.

Let's see, how can I put this delicately...

Just because the words aren't in the tweet/toot doesn't mean I'm not aware of whatever it is you think you need to tell me, and it's pretty irritating when you assume I must be missing something obvious.

My Christmas gift to the world is this new video
https://youtu.be/tg--L9TKL0I

Reading through some of the comments on the computer critical program reading video has been pretty illuminating for me, honestly.

It's amazing how strange passionate arguments can seem when you don't have a dog in the hunt.

I must remember that

A fun power infrastructure misconception is the phrase "a transformer blew" - by and large this doesn't happen!

In fact, a fuse blew - and the fuses used to protect high voltage equipment (like transformers) have explosive charges to ensure they open without arcing.

So, you may have heard something go "boom" when your power was knocked out, but in fact it was a fuse sacrificing itself to save the transformer!

Y'know, I'm still not completely sold on the viability of this quasi-platform but having attained over 10% of my Twitter following in just a few weeks sure does point to a shift.