Nah.

Honda has a much better product in the first place, their engineering approach has always been better than Nissan (I say this having worked on every major brand, and some unknowns).

Nissan is one of the better ones, but they’re still a big step away from Honda.

And Honda was working on hydrogen nearly 30 years ago now, which seems poised to suplant batteries (again, maybe).

Not really, they’ve all had telemetry for probably 20 years.

The cars with satellite radio are even worse (which isn’t saying much, since they put modems in cars about 20 years ago)

Jeep/Chrysler have always been banned from my life.

Garbage. Worse than any other American car company. They even managed to screw up cars made for them by Mitsubishi.

Which is why adding Tailscale to this KVM is a killer solution

Excellent, thanks for the link!

I like your thoughts on runtime and recharge time.

That four hour limit really outs things into perspective for someone just starting out. Most people don’t understand the constraints at first.

I believe mailbox.org is all renewable, and I’m pretty sure it’s solar.

But you need a massive battery bank to run stuff, batteries have a limited lifespan (especially the crap used in a UPS).

It’s not cheap, you generally want to overbuild everything, and there are ongoing costs (hardware failures, batteries, etc).

But it can be done. Just have to do the math for your max power draw, then how much uptime you need determines the size of your battery bank and number of panels (which is influenced by how much sun you get/how consistent it is). You need enough panels to run your system and charge batteries, given the limitations of sun availability.

A whole video to say the FAA had a no-fly zone around Picatinny weeks before these drones were spotted.

Who requested the zone? Some government agency, of course.

Well you shouted, and I quote “WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU WAKING ME UP?”

Sounds like a convo is needed.

And lots of us have worked night shift at all kinds if jobs. I did it many years ago, did it some in IT (many, many night shifts in IT - stuff had to be maintained, and off hours is the time for it).

that I really should finish

That word “should” is a tricky little fella, he implies a judgement, the question is what’s the source of that judgement?

Wayne Dyer discusses the issues and challenges of words like “should” in his book “Your Erroneous Zones” by using a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approach: examining and rewriting how we think about things.

When I find myself using that particular word, I ask myself “should, according to who?”. Almost always I find I have an old “script” in my head about priorities, values, etc, that upon re-examining I find it’s no longer useful. Like “I bought this game, therefore I must get maximum value from it”.

Sometimes things run their course, and that’s that.

This, so much.

What my parents grew up with - always cold and hungry. Not starving, just hungry. And I can go to the store and get almost anything - like fruits my parents never saw/knew of before they were adults.

My grandparents waited something like 2 years to get a fridge - that’s the wait list at the time. Even when I was a kid stuff wasn’t always immediately available, and they’d sell you the floor model for full price if you were lucky, otherwise you waited a week to a month for an appliance that I can buy by the dozen today.

I grew up being told “you have no idea how easy you have it” (not in a mean way, just my parents explaining how different things were just a few decades ago), and they were right. Now I’m surprised almost every day at the difference since even 1970, let alone early 20th century and farther back.

The world is getting worse?

Yea, methinks you need some history. Go watch Edwardian Farm on BBC or Amazon. We have it so much easier than our forbears did.

Are there problems? Of course? Humans gonna human, and in that way things haven’t changed since, well, forever. “We only get 80 years on the planet” (to quote a Brian Setzer tune), so we all get a limited time to learn to be better people.

But there are a lot of people who continually strive to make their local circle better - which is really about all of us can actually do - work on our own little corner, and hopefully have influence on others nearby.

Perfect expression of “hey, dumbass, stop taking photos and do your damn job to get me out of this thing”

Hahaha, awesome.

We’ll always see a “wealth” angle, just depends on what people perceive as valuable and difficult to obtain.

Specific in that anything that uses that type of connector, which is a million different, specific, things

you need very deep pockets to trouser this

This alone got my upvote. Lol.

Who thought that deploy method made any sense whatsoever? My $10 knives from home depot are easier to open one-handed, haha.

I mean, really, “bad smell”, and you want to try to “save” it?

No, just no.

That’s fucked up

Fine, dammit, take your upvote, DAD