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Since I got my Subaru Legacy (III) two years ago, I have been registering the fuel consumption quite closely. Yesterday I crossed the point of using 5000 litres of fuel cumulatively. This has cost me about € 7500 and brought me over 62000 km. These figures result in an average fuel cost of 0,12 €/km and 10,14 €/day. Furthermore given that burning one litre of 'petrol' results in approximately 2,3 kg of CO2, I have generated >11500 kg of CO2. That is over 136x my personal mass in two years! In fact it is almost my own mass of 84 kg per average filling up of the tank (ca. 38 litres). This also gives 185 g/km on average; considerably less than the 215 g/km the government claims my car would produce.

Having an average consumption of 8,04 litres/100km is not bad for a 1280kg MY 2000 car with AWD. Certainly not with all those high speed Autobahn kilometers between CZ and NL. Did a record of 7,5 hrs yesterday for the 900km it takes between Mechenice and Bennekom. That is 120 km/h average. I fear the day when the German government in its wisdom will decide to enforce nationwide the 120 km/h speed limit they already have near many cities.

To all the hippies pointing at the CO2 emissions I just described: have a close look at the environmental impact of your muesli mobile for toxicity and full life cycle energy footprint. EVs might seem promising, but currently it still they cause far more harm to the environment than conventional internal combustion engine powered vehicles.

My iPhone started to act weird again, but fortunately all it took was a shutdown followed by a hard reset (keeping the sleep and home buttons pressed simultaneously until the thing restarts again). Seems to have the same effect as 'zapping the PRAM' on a Mac (reboot with CMD-OPTION-p-r pressed). It behaves like new again.

I recently wondered what my iPhone would look like with a completely black background. I created first a 960x640 image, which looked great. I also created a 1x1 black pixel PNG which ended up being only 95 bytes (yes, bytes). Turns out this thing tiles when used as a background on the iPhone, so this gives the same clean black background but with minimal memory use. Nice.

It seems to be major update weekend for a bunch of open source applications: Blender, Firefox, LibreOffice and VLC. Curious if the new versions offer new features and are stable still...

Recognise many of the locations. Want to make an epic drive there again as well.

I have to admit that I never really got the VI or gVim editor. It does have a good reputation though and has been recommended to me by IT friends. After reading a bit more about it, I have to admit that it does seem to be very promising. Just like Blender it features a 'modal' interface and the simple single key commands that can come with that. More to explore.