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by Syonyk 3y ago
Are you using PHEV as "Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicle" in the sense of "Has a long range on battery only"? The ones I'm familiar with (which, admittedly, don't cover the ones you use) are all "parallel dri
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> ...because every car people are buying looks identical... Why wouldn't you expect this sort of convergence? A bunch of companies trying to solve the same problems with the same constraints are likely to find very similar solu
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Yeah, I (not really) joke that everything on the hill gets plugged in. It makes life a lot easier. Even with no idle draw, lead acid batteries self discharge over time. Life got way easier when I just accepted it, and now I've got a
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Oh man, that was a train wreck! I did some analysis of the Tesla 12V system back in 2016, and I'm amazed the batteries lasted as long as they did with how badly they abused the lead acid battery! https://www.sevarg.net/
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by Syonyk 3y ago
A standard hybrid (of the sort that a range of companies make, handwavingly a parallel hybrid with creep capability, which a PHEV is just a supersized version of) eliminates a huge swath of things that go wrong with ICEs. First and foremost
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by Syonyk 3y ago
No. Or, at least, not easily. The high voltage battery isn't generally connected until "the computers are happy" with the state of things, for various hybrids/EVs/etc. There's also a legal requirement that &q
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> But much like email, you have to let go of nostalgia. If the horse been dead for 20 years, dismount! It's not nostalgia. It's quite literally the best way I've found to get deep, weird, technical details on the deep w
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by Syonyk 3y ago
You can configure an Anderson connector pair in a way that it won't reverse. I use them quite frequently, and have a local (though admittedly undocumented...) standard for what orientations mean what voltage. It's not bulletproo
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Mine. Which, at least usually, has working federation... I don't like the modern internet, and I go out of my way to find workarounds. One of those, currently, is having a physical server colo'd locally to host my internet prese
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> But then it really had almost only benefits for everyone. (Although I will say the warm light of the old bulbs is still unmatched by LEDs) How's your sleep? The blue coming out even the "warm" LEDs is firmly in the bi
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Meanwhile, IRC remains there, working, independent of big companies, and low enough resourced that you can host it without too much trouble on very modest hardware and bandwidth requirements. It's the turtle: https://xkcd.co
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by Syonyk 3y ago
It's not really the same thing, as far as I'm concerned. I use both Matrix and IRC, very extensively. Matrix is, for me, a replacement (or a slightly less annoying way) to handle "person to person and local group" commu
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by Syonyk 3y ago
The majority of my life spent on IRC argues "It works just fine, the way it is." I use a znc bouncer these days because my home ISP is less than reliable some months (I consider "cybering" a channel to be quite rude and
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by Syonyk 3y ago
I run a few bridges. They're certainly a bit arcane to configure, but they mostly work fine once they're up and running. I run my own homeserver, it's not been too much trouble to deal with. Though I try to move people into
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by Syonyk 3y ago
The centralized mess of Discord is neither stable, nor reliable, nor lightweight to access, and it's going to bite a lot of communities in the rear end, very hard, at some point down the road. The history of "convenient, free to
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Indeed. The only sane place on the internet to get answers to a range of deeply technical questions about modern tech (or, at least, a discussion that will get you closer to the answer) I've found is IRC. It's filled with a lot
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Buy a vinyl album from artists who sell such things, which will get them far more, per album sold, than just about anything else. Your ability to play vinyl is irrelevant here, and all I'll ask is that you store it reasonably (upright
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by Syonyk 3y ago
They're a switching power supply. But you're making a mistake. You're confusing "should, in a competently designed power supply," with "does, in something trimmed to the absolute lowest cost that will mostly m
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by Syonyk 3y ago
I have a Jupiter, and if I were you, I'd get the Blizzard. The advantage of the Jupiter is that the font is gigantic. It holds enough fuel for several days burning - which is the point, it was a "weekend greenhouse heater" l
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Interesting - thanks for the clarification on the behavior! I've found, in general, "saying anything good about incandescent lights" or "anything bad about LEDs" is exceedingly unpopular on the modern internet, no m
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Every dark corner... of your yard. I can read outdoors by some people's lighting that's well over 1/4 mile away on an otherwise dark night. Get a cold blast kerosene lantern (Dietz Blizzard is my go-to lantern these days), r
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Heh. Well this thread got disappeared in a hurry.
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It's not just the waste heat. If you're well positioned, the radiant heat off an incandescent can heat a human body very effectively. Remember the "heat lamps" some bathrooms used to have? The same effect is found in
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Huh, prices have come down on them recently. They're only about $20/bulb now. They used to be a good bit higher. Waveform is a good example of a company that's trying to do it right - you can get photometric reports on thei
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by Syonyk 3y ago
They can look, to your eyes, "like anything." The problem is that the spectrum, which impacts "how other things look to your eyes," can be a wide range of things, ranging from "quite decent" to "a hot, pea
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by Syonyk 3y ago
The big one to look at with CRI is the R9 index. That's the "pure red" rendering, and it's not included in the main CRI measurement. There are two types of bulbs: Those in which the R9 value is solid, and they report
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by Syonyk 3y ago
I stocked up on incandescent bulbs last year, and run most of mine on dimmers anymore, because that radically helps longevity. My overhead bulbs in the living room (BR30 form factor) are a good bit over a year old, but they're almost
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Heat. Almost all modern fixtures count as "enclosed" - and most LED bulbs, if you look closely on the case, aren't rated for "enclosed or recessed" use. Basically, they're fine, if they're upright in a t
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by Syonyk 3y ago
This is why, if work wants me to have cellular connectivity, they can buy me an appropriate phone and plan to go with it. It's not my responsibility to have a high reliability plan on my personal phone if I don't care (and I don&
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Man, some of the early "Google before they had their own DC" stories are epic, if you can get an SRE talking at some point.

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