I get nervous and get battery anxiety any time my phone isn't at 100% charge. So it's always either sitting on a charger, or plugged in to a portable battery charger if I'm not at my desk or sleeping.

You asked “how often are people transferring data via the cable port?” and for me the answer is “as least once per week, often once per day.” It’s the easiest way to transfer pictures and videos you take onto backup drives to clear up space for more pictures and videos.

As far as data transfer goes, when you’re transferring 100 GB or 200 GB of photos and videos to a backup drive, the speed of your wired connect is paramount unless you don’t mind sitting around for days while it does its thing.

Constantly charge via the charging port. You can’t really use your phone while it’s on a wireless charger, so any time you’re charging from a battery brick (like when you’re walking around your home or office, or walking around outside) or from your car (assuming you don’t have a wireless charger in your car, and I’ve…

Facial recognition doesn’t work when you’re wearing a mask. Many of us wear masks all the time now that we’re in the middle of a pandemic, including when we’re outdoors or in our homes. Why do people have a difficult time grasping this?

Wait wait wait wait wait. The Model 3 doesn’t come with blind spot monitoring?

The Eco Sport and Trax were killed after the 2022 model year. There will be a new Trax for the 2024 model year, but there is no 2023 Trax. The Malibu now has a starting price of $25,000 plus destination.

The suspension on S550's is great. Might be hard to find one under $20k with a Coyote I suppose. 

There’s no replacement for displacement.

The average age of cars on the road is not going to continue to be 12 years. Things are going to change slowly, and then all at once.

Interest rates seem to me to be the real problem. I would love to turn my Mustang into a weekend cruiser and buy something more efficient as a daily driver, but who in the world wants to pay 8% or 9% on a car loan?

The refining capacity issue is why it’s going to be economically infeasible to own an ICE car anywhere in the United States by 2040 at the latest. Petroleum companies can see the writing on the wall and know that demand for gasoline is only going to go down from here; there will be no new gasoline refining capacity,…

Perhaps uniquely among all states, the overwhelming majority of poor people in New Jersey live within walking distance of mass transit.

Good.

I vote NP solely because I have a 4 year old who’s going to be starting kindergarten in the fall, and dropping her off in a purple 1985 Cadillac Coupe deVille would be a very confusing cool dad flex.

Frameless windows. They’re designed to lower about a half inch when you start to open the door, and then raise a half inch after you close the door, in order to ensure a proper seal. Which is great... except when the temperature is below freezing, and the windows can’t go down because they’re iced shut, and so you…

There’s no need to put trackers in people’s cars; cars already have license plates and plenty of states have RFID chips embedded in those license plates (NY uses this system for bridge and tunnel tolls if you don’t have an EZ Pass). Just set up RFID readers every mile on highways and streets; no worries.

I’m going to buck the trend here: as somebody who street parked in Brooklyn for almost 20 years, I know the struggle of looking for a parking spot and not being able to find one because your car is too long. A Honda Fit is a great choice, but I’m going to argue it’s not the best choice. Compare the specs on these two…

The Big 3 collectively have no vehicles starting under $20k for the 2023 model year, and only three vehicles starting under $25k: the Chevy Trailblazer, Ford Maverick, and Jeep Renegade. 

My question is, can you use this with non-VR games? I would like to be able to play games in bed without waking my wife up while she’s on the other side of the bed, and using this strictly as a display that only I can see would make it worthwhile for me.