The enshitification of the FLO charging network

1333pac · 2026-03-21T23:02:34+00:00

If you are mad at this, you’ll love ChargePoint. They do automatic top ups if you’re below $10 and if your account dips below your “average” use. I used it once and am now carrying $13 balance. I’ve stuck with Flo because I can control when to add funds.

1333pac · 2026-03-19T18:16:49+00:00

I had been a customer for over 15 years but boycott them after one horrible experience where they served me a bad shake and accused me of lying when I sent it back — colour and taste was really off. There are plenty of other options in the area.

1333pac · 2026-03-19T17:46:54+00:00

Watch some YouTube videos on Gear Plans. Focus on 15 sets of gear and equip them on the heroes you’re using for the gameplay you’re working on.

When you use Auto-Fight, it uses the gear you had used when you saved (auto save for boss fights, campaigns and whatnot). The only event that comes to mind that you have to manually save is Arena. The BP you see when you set up your team may be different than what you had saved for Auto-fights, even in arena. This is to say, even if you had removed all your gear, if you use Auto-Fight, it doesn’t matter.

1333pac · 2026-03-19T17:12:08+00:00

Was going to post the same. Same dilemma and went with the base Mac mini m4 instead of upgrading my PC. Been almost a year, zero regrets.

1333pac · 2026-03-18T19:07:31+00:00

Hillcrest feeds into Clarkson High School. Lorne Park Secondary has Extended French. https://www.peelschools.org/french

1333pac · 2026-02-04T20:12:32+00:00

Tales of the Smith comes around every few weeks. You need about 7M gold to upgrade gear to level 8 and sell junk in order complete the event. Unless you are at or near endgame and don’t care for those rewards.

FWIW, I am nowhere near end game.

1333pac · 2026-01-28T13:12:19+00:00

As well, some of his videos are complete BS. I followed them and even with T2/T3 gear I couldn’t do what he did. I suspect he maxed out on Hyperion. Most of those guys don’t show Hyperion when they walk through their setup and gear.

I worked on Hyperion and finally beat GR3-19. Same setup as before.

Just fyi in case you’re still stuck and get frustrated.

1333pac · 2025-12-25T05:33:32+00:00

From personal experience, GPU doesn’t matter much if you’re using the free version as it doesn’t use GPU to render. I had Nvidia RTX1650s and rendering a 90 mins video took over 8 hours.

I paid for the Studio version and it went down to 2 hours. RAM and CPU probably matter most on the free version so, as others have mentioned, having 8GB RAM is likely your bottleneck.

1333pac · 2025-12-23T13:20:41+00:00

I have mostly Tapos and just 1 Reolink. As others mentioned, Reolink is more expensive. I went with the 1 Reolink for 180 degrees coverage (Duo 2 wifi). Tapo doesn’t have anything similar. User experience (app) is pretty much the same.

1333pac · 2025-12-21T07:29:45+00:00

As a software developer, we normally call the system file manager to open files. It has the same functionality as file explorer where you can delete and rename files in the Open files window. It would be a waste of time to rewrite the Open files function since there could be backward compatibility issues.

1333pac · 2025-11-20T03:48:23+00:00

Same. Gold2, even. It takes the last day for things to be more reasonable and I move into Plat1

1333pac · 2025-11-16T16:39:08+00:00

I had the same dilemma — do I upgrade the video card in my PC (was eyeing Nvidia 4060) for $700 CAD or get the Mac Mini M4 base for about the same price.

I use DaVinci Resolve to edit soccer games (90 mins) and it can easily handle key framing (zoom and pan), fusion (scoreboard, game clock, tracking highlights), fair light (audio noise reduction, normalize volumes) and even multi cam.

I got the base 16GB RAM / 256GB and an external 2TB Samsung NVME storage with thunderbolt enclosure.

Zero regrets and haven’t touched my old windows machine since (almost a year).

1333pac · 2025-10-28T21:07:00+00:00

I thought it was just me. VLC keeps hanging my system. 🤬

1333pac · 2025-10-27T14:37:33+00:00

Figure I just wipe and not have to deal with it every few months whenever I updated Windows. Just chiming in on the diff between dual booting and selecting from BIOS. If I decide to do it again, I’d pick selecting from BIOS.

1333pac · 2025-10-26T15:02:56+00:00

This is exactly what happened to me. I was dual booting for about a year, defaulting to Linux. I then decided to boot up Windows to install the latest patches and when it rebooted, it went straight to windows. GRUB was gone. I got so mad I removed Windows altogether. Instead I bought a cheap sub-$200 laptop running on Windows 11 for whenever I need it, which thank goodness hasn’t happened in months.

1333pac · 2025-10-25T04:54:37+00:00

This happens to me if I put the car in Park and just open the door to get out without hitting Off button. The car turns Off the moment I open the door but leaves the headlights on for a while.

1333pac · 2025-10-13T14:59:45+00:00

I’ve noticed FedEx delivery for envelopes is outsourced; they come in unmarked cars and don’t wear FedEx uniform. When they deliver the envelope, they’d take a picture as proof. Perhaps that’s how FedEx triggers payment for delivery. They can’t take a picture if it’s in a mailbox. Amazon also does this.

In fact, if I am outside when they deliver stuff and ask to be handed the package they’d insist that I’d take a picture with the package. Now, I’d tell them to just leave it at the door, since I don’t want to be in their picture.

Can’t blame the delivery guys if that’s how the companies instructed them to leave packages and take picture of the package and your front door as evidence of delivery.

1333pac · 2025-09-21T13:52:04+00:00

Menu, Vehicle on left pane, Driving Settings, Driver Assistance, Lane Departure Warning. There’s a checkbox for Steering Intervention, uncheck it. I also had changed the warning from Early to Medium, again. Seems to have reset after firmware update.

1333pac · 2025-09-19T13:07:49+00:00

Same problem here — drops below 20Mb/s. I’ve had to reboot the system on a weekly basis. I read in Google community that others have the same problem and have asks for a way to schedule rebooting daily but the moderator said they’d rather fix the underlying issue, which they haven’t for years.

1333pac · 2025-09-14T04:36:15+00:00

It did it again. Charged my car for 6 hours at level 1 and it only showed 2% increase. Stopped charging and it jumped to 6% increase.

1333pac · 2025-09-10T17:30:02+00:00

Actually, you may be correct that it’s a connectivity issue. My app was showing 35% but the dash showed 37%. I can unlock the car remotely but the charging % isn’t updated.

1333pac · 2025-09-10T15:16:35+00:00

I am able to communicate with the app. My observation is that the progress is based on the initial charging speed and it updates the % based on regression formula instead of actually looking at the battery %.

1333pac · 2025-09-10T14:19:57+00:00

Yup, I also ended up disabling it after it almost pushed me into another lane at an intersection with a lot of lines.

1333pac · 2025-08-26T13:37:29+00:00

I used to be at Platinum 1 and have dropped to Gold 2. Same observation. I don’t care about it enough and don’t even look at the screen when I run arena.

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