BluePen7

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by BluePen7 3y ago
> You absolutely couldn't plan a calendar appt around it without adding 30 minutes of buffer. These cars have ranges in the hundreds of miles, how far are your appointments? If I have an appointment that far away, my whole day'
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by BluePen7 3y ago
Source? Even as an EV owner/enthusiast I find that a little hard to believe. I find the idea of the portable power fascinating and have watched some YouTube videos on them, but it seems like a very expensive and niche thing so far. I&#
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by BluePen7 3y ago
You must have very limited use cases, I tried to do that but ended up with a vehicle that was heavily compromised because half my use cases are at odds with the other half. I was driving to my office job in an F150, burning enough gas to fi
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by BluePen7 3y ago
The hobbit was 48FPS, so that was probably pretty weird.
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by BluePen7 3y ago
Can confirm, my one incident is a homeless guy who decided to sail down a hill on his BMX at night, wearing all black, and run a red light against my right-of-way. He "hit me" as much as I hit him, but given I'm in a car on a
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by BluePen7 3y ago
I owned an F150 because there's a weird premium on anything smaller, it was cheaper than a Ranger or Tacoma. Eventually just switched to an economy car with a trailer hitch, and it was somehow mind blowing to everyone that a Toyota Cam
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by BluePen7 3y ago
> Then Tesla pulled a fast one on the morons at GM and Ford They're trying to sell expensive EVs, but people were buying Teslas instead because they can guarantee the chargers work and are in good locations. I have a lot of strong c
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by BluePen7 3y ago
As a Tesla owner I agree they've accomplished a lot, but they've also promised us the world, by yesterday. Until something is delivered, and bug-free, I don't really believe anything they say. They've done a lot, but the
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by BluePen7 3y ago
Ioniq 5 does it too
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by BluePen7 3y ago
As a new Model 3 owner, I've been looking into how to do this. The solutions aren't particularly nice, there's the Quick220, a device which does all the safety checks of manually combining 2 circuits on opposite phases so you
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by BluePen7 3y ago
That is correct, although the filter location on my first gen Tacoma is also not ideal.
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by BluePen7 3y ago
$25 and $65 did not include parts (the oil or filter) I use synthetic, and their markup is so much it's cheaper to just provide them with my own. Hell their price for filters is more than the parts counter at the dealership. Quick lube
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by BluePen7 3y ago
Even as a rider myself, just seeing how others ride I'd agree. If you're going to go twice the speed people are expecting a vehicle to go, in a space nobody expected a vehicle to fit, in a vehicle that offers none of the usual pro
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by BluePen7 3y ago
Unless you have a bus route that goes straight to the auto parts store, yeah that's the ideal. Often I'd invite a friend over while I did the work, keeps me company and that way they can be the backup vehicle (and I'd return
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by BluePen7 3y ago
Just due to the lower volume the price jumps up unexpectedly. For the labour of an oil change, I was quoted $25 for my car, and $65 for my motorcycle. To change the oil and filter on my car, you have to reach in a super terrible spot prone
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by BluePen7 3y ago
They've just acknowledged degradation with lambda
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by BluePen7 3y ago
As with most investments, real estate is potentially profitable if you're careful, thorough, and knowledgable. It can be low margin though, so you're going to lose most of your profit if you genuinely intend to be fully hands-off.
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by BluePen7 3y ago
I also preferred working in office. My company had a really nice one. But due to covid forcing remote work I was able to go from renting a basement, to buying a home (and renting out MY basement). House cost me the same as a city apartment,
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by BluePen7 3y ago
I actually kinda liked it. The issue is the cost of getting to work, and even to live near work. Just getting to work is a significant expense, parking, having a vehicle that's good enough to commute in, insured for commuting, and alwa
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by BluePen7 3y ago
If I were to attempt to re-buy any large portion of my tools all at once, I'd consider it an absurd amount to spend. But over a lifetime of things breaking, you'll get a lot of large quotes for professional repairs, or replacement
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by BluePen7 4y ago
Maybe it could have lasted 4 years, but you had to choose carefully. I've worked at orgs that used a variety of expensive windows laptops, because they kept having abysmal failure rates and switching every year. They already had stacks
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by BluePen7 4y ago
But, they often still pay far better than just about any other career you can do. I'm a fairly unremarkable developer who works for a no-name tech company, but still make twice as much as my friends my age who are in law or accounting,
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by BluePen7 4y ago
As a Canadian, there isn't actually an alternative with reliable and fast shipping. And if you live outside of a major city, it's still like 4 days. The only downside is there's entire categories of amazon lost to fakes, if I
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by BluePen7 4y ago
There are certain categories you can basically guarantee to get fakes. Brand name batteries is one of them, I guess that's one more thing pushing people towards "Amazon Basics", it's the only one that's not going to
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by BluePen7 4y ago
They've gone downhill enough I've started returning a fair bit of things and it's almost always effortless. Only time it was a hassle was when a price dropped the day after my order, and they don't have price matching, s
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by BluePen7 4y ago
> I prefer music when cooking or cleaning or whatnot. And that's where the time is found. Podcasts play in my headphones as I do any mindless physical tasks I need to get done, snowblowing, renovating something, mowing my lawn, etc.
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by BluePen7 4y ago
Without functioning spray and wipers, even a human wouldn't be able to make it further than 30 minutes where I live. Some of us live in areas where a car wash subscription is common and basically required.
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by BluePen7 4y ago
Have you looked at any of the Pi clones like the Orange Pi? Also if you're building these IoT things at scale, have you looked at the more simple/cheap chips like an ESP32? Obviously I ask without context for what you're doin
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by BluePen7 4y ago
I buy a lot of small electrical components from AliExpress and have had a near perfect success rate here in Canada (not bulk, maybe 1-5 of each to have spares). Just lots of soldering accessories (and my TS100 soldering iron). Only board I&
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by BluePen7 4y ago
When I researched appliances, nobody could decide on the best fridge other than suggestions that were 4x the price (or even more). But dishwashers it was almost unanimous, Bosch is best. I couldn't afford new ones, so I found good deal

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