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.

Everyone needs a break, more frequently than most people realize.

I’ve worked in places where I’ve really enjoyed my team - still need a break.

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.

More than a third of 15-year-old girls in the UK have been drunk at least twice, compared with less than a quarter of boys the same age

How was the study done? Is there an angle where girls are more likely to admit this/click on a button than boys? (Yes, studies should account for this kind of thing, but we know what “should” means).

Interesting either way.

It’s really frustrating there’s no proper backup/restore without root - that’s my primary reason for having root.

Yea, Syncthing-Fork is still maintained, though there hasn’t been an update for a while. The company that makes Möbius Sync for iOS is a big supporter of Syncthing, hopefully they’ll help in some way. Alternatively there’s Resilio Sync, but it’s hard on phone ram - I’d have to manage it a lot more often. Though it has Selective Sync - I can browse a shared folder from my phone and tell it to sync specific files. This is great for my media server - I can grab any movie/music anytime.

I like Syncthing-Fork better because it moves sync conditions to within each folder. So my DCIM folder syncs on any network or battery condition (so I don’t lose photos), but NeoBackup folder only syncs on wifi and while charging.

Pretty much all folders now sync 2-way, and I export the Syncthing config on the phone whenever I change something. That export folder is also synced, so when I switch phones I just install ST, import that config, and after a couple hours the new phone has all the same stuff as the old phone. Then I launch NeoBackup and start restoring.

Wow, amazing shot for a phone.

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.

I thought I read last year that new variants of the F16 were replacing the A10 in close-support/low altitude/ground target roles. I assumed circumstances and tech had changed in some way that made the F16 more viable at such low altitudes (hundreds of feet) than when the A10 was initially deployed.

I don’t really know, just thought it was an interesting perspective.

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.

Yea, longer steep = more bitter. Same with coffee.

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