#the-water-cooler

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last cedar
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YESSSSS

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So dark

finite atlas
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xD

last cedar
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Opnsense

pale shadow
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What hardware you got

last cedar
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And stop derailing the shit post channel with serious questions /s

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I literally just changed hardware

pale shadow
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I need to knooooo

last cedar
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Ran on an optiplex 7010 with a 350t4 card, one pihole vm and a opn vm running on esx

pale shadow
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I wanna virtualise pfsense high availability and clustering

last cedar
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Now running on a 1220v3 e3 xeon bare metal

pale shadow
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BARE METAL?!"

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Naughty

last cedar
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It pulls about 24 watts

jade tartan
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ive never done pfsense

last cedar
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So I can live with it being bare metal

jade tartan
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i have my r710

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i could

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but

pale shadow
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R710s are power suckers

jade tartan
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mine espically

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idle it's like 200w

last cedar
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Using adguard as a plug in, so don't need a pihole vm anymore

pale shadow
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I have 2x 710s and 1x r410

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but i wanna get a r230

jade tartan
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i also have 6 x 1tb hdds in raid o

pale shadow
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why...

jade tartan
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so my power consumption is higher

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because they were free

last cedar
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A 220 would be a nice modern ish opn box tbh

pale shadow
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Why raid 0

jade tartan
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FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE

last cedar
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230 would also be nice

jade tartan
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because i wanted to see what i could pull

pale shadow
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RAID 6

last cedar
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They are pretty efficient

jade tartan
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oh sorry

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it's raid 10?

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or 01

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one of those

last cedar
pale shadow
jade tartan
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and the read is 1.6gb/s but the latency is meh

last cedar
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The one with green lights is the opn box

jade tartan
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i really want something like that

pale shadow
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Why are the drives all not in order

hollow glacier
last cedar
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Yes I know I have a supermicro fetish

pale shadow
jade tartan
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i need to get a GOOD ups

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my desktop one is kinda meh in it's switching

hollow glacier
last cedar
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I got a SMX1000i. With SMT front

pale shadow
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I have to use Java 7

hollow glacier
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Ur a Java 7

pale shadow
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Ima Java trash

last cedar
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Pulling 56W it will go 2 hours 50 mins apparently

brisk glen
last cedar
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Expecting my whole rack to pull about 120W total and give about an hour of actual runtime

pale shadow
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I want idrac9

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All our work servers use it, and its so sexy

jade tartan
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i think idle what i'd need to handle is like 600w switch over

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only for like 10 min tho

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just enough to not let it power fail

pale shadow
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what ups u got now

last cedar
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Ooof, you probably want like a 1500VA/900W at absolute minimum

jade tartan
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just some random retail no screen bs unit

pale shadow
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You only need something that keeps every on long enough to shutdown

last cedar
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Try and get pure sine wave, R710 psus don't like stepped or modified wave

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Not sure how the later servers are though

jade tartan
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word

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good to know

pale shadow
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Everything should be filtered anyways

jade tartan
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i wish our mains here was filtered a little better

pale shadow
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What you need is 3 phase power

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with a tesla wall battery

jade tartan
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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yes

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i agree

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but that is EXPENSIVE

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ill make an 18650 wall though

last cedar
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I got the 3 phase, but no battery

jade tartan
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i do want to bring in 3 phase if i can when i do build

last cedar
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Pull a cable for it, if nothing else

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Saves digging up again

pale shadow
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imo all modern houses should have 3 phase redundant power, smart housing and a dedicated server room with hvac

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A 3 floor underground car storage would be nice too

last cedar
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Only 3 floors? :(

finite atlas
jade tartan
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no where near being ready to do it

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need a house

pale shadow
jade tartan
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and for the expendable money for that stuff on top

finite atlas
last cedar
pale shadow
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dont need to

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You can get a car treadmill and get a car walker

last cedar
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Never thought of that

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I could actually maybe see me having 2 cars, max

pale shadow
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I just want three lol

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Track car, Daily driver and something shit that i can do up

last cedar
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I would love an old r32 or r33 skyline. And would need a works car

clear ferry
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Skailein

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Just buy an epatraktor

pale shadow
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Just buy a gotterdammerung

last cedar
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If I could afford one I would probably buy one

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Heavily moded ones are like about half what house cost, would rather have a basically stock one

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I wouldn't get one solely for making 1000bhp like some people set out to do

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I just like the music

pale shadow
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1000bhp

last cedar
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Rebuilding it after every pull is annoying though 🤣

pale shadow
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i think that'd be the point

last cedar
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Would be nice to have a bit less fire spitting and only 400bhp, but all the music (probably less wastegate chatter though)

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That would be SWEET

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But it will never happen

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Could possibly swing a volvo R though, within a couple of years

finite atlas
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too bad you have no unlimited speed limit

last cedar
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Who thought a speedo that tops out at 180 was a good idea? Hahaha@finite atlas

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That thing is crazy

finite atlas
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its fun

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the manufacturer thought that 180 would be enough

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i find it funny that it tops out at 250 and he keeps accelerating without knowing the speed

last cedar
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Mmmm

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Stopped by the police

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How fast were you going?

pale shadow
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In the UK they want to put mandatory speed limiters on cars

finite atlas
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Dont know, my speedometor isnt showing more than 180

dusky plank
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those cars usually have a gps speedometer somewhere

finite atlas
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yeah he as one on its phone

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100-200 in 4.2s

last cedar
finite atlas
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his highest speed was 310 km/h

last cedar
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Iirc new volvos are limited to 112mph

finite atlas
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most german cars are limited to 250kmh

last cedar
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310?it is shaped like a brick

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Crazy

finite atlas
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but has 1000 hp

last cedar
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Well, yeah :D

finite atlas
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with a proper unbricked car, you can do 400

last cedar
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Still has to punch a sizable hole though the air though

finite atlas
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yeah

dusky plank
last cedar
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Chiron does 430 ish right?

finite atlas
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already going 200 in my brothers 1.5 tdi is amazing, i cant imagine how 300 would be

finite atlas
dusky plank
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300 is almost full tunnel vision

finite atlas
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i dont think you need a special license for anything above 350, but i dont know it for sure

dusky plank
finite atlas
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the law is, that you should be able to drive your car safely with sane limits
if you drive 350 and cause an accident, guess who's fault its gonna be, even if it wasnt really you

pale shadow
finite atlas
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for the uk, thats a sane limit
however i wouldnt buy a car with such a limit

last cedar
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Never driven that fast tbh, 170kmh only. I can imagine that 300 would be tunnel like though

finite atlas
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200 is already somewhat tunnel like

dusky plank
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according to the law everything above 250hp is unreasonable and thus illegal then

finite atlas
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and little bumps and rocks on the road are rather scary

dusky plank
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😄

finite atlas
dusky plank
finite atlas
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nope

last cedar
# pale shadow 70mph

Not sure it would help, frontal crashes at a lot less than 70 can be fatal. I guess they have better statistics than I do though

pale shadow
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They don't care about crashes

dusky plank
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💸

last cedar
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They just don't want people speeding?

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It is not designed to help prevent deaths?

finite atlas
dusky plank
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ok, so no speed locks

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imagine driving your porsche with 300 and still get taken over by a bugatti with 200 more

finite atlas
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however, you can play lead foot on the autobahn all day long

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other cars may clog up the lane and some parts of the autobahn has speed limits

dusky plank
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I mean, the bugatti will fly away with the littlest shock but this power is mental..

finite atlas
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  • the insame fuel consumption going that speed
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my brother drove 200 on a 3 lane autobahn for an hour and had to slow down about 10 times, cause other slower drives clogged the lane
he also burned through like 20L of diesel

last cedar
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Didn't clarkson say a squash court of air per second? That would mean a lot of fuel 🤣

finite atlas
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i think the bugatti had something like 120L/100km at max speed

last cedar
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Probably a big tank too

dusky plank
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too bad there is no kerosene available in public

finite atlas
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ethanol is

last cedar
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E85 was pretty cheap here

finite atlas
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the W16 bugatti Chiron has a 100L fuel tank

last cedar
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Bearing in mind you use 30% more liter for liter

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But now it is the same price as 95

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For some silly reason

finite atlas
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but tbh, i'd be more than happy with an Audi A2 1.2 tdi

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3.5L/100km, all aluminium and needs very low maintenance, i love that bad looking car

fallow karma
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Merry Xmas. Speed limit? Philosophy here is: No cops or speed trap nearby- no limit. All speed traps are on Google maps, only problem is unmarked police car. No risk no fun . Anyway, worst penalty for speeding is to loose your license , but on the other hand driving without license is only 100€ penalty, (except you will cause an accident or riding drunk) so...

dusky plank
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you can lose your car here too

pale shadow
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we can be imprisoned

umbral cliff
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We have hidden mobile speed cameras, they look like a normal car till you get close and see the camera gear inside. Depending on speed it’s either a fine, loss of licence, car impound, court hearing

clear ferry
# last cedar Probably a big tank too

Fun thing about large engines and small tanks, my father had a 73 thunderbird, with a 7.5l engine or so, it had a 50l tank, you could see the needle move when you pushed the accelerator

last cedar
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50 liter tanks need to die

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Current octavia has a 50 liter tank, it feels silly filling it at half full, in like 5 seconds 🤣

clear ferry
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I wasn't surprised my friend thought the xc90 was a guzzler

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Because it only has a 50l tank

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And a very long gas-tank measure thing

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So it looks like it is eating gas, but in reality it is 0.75 usage

last cedar
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It isn't liters

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It is meatballs

clear ferry
umbral cliff
clear ferry
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My old A8L had a 80l tank

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The 100q 2.6 had 70l

last cedar
fallow karma
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Nah , my cars are always filled max 1/4 tank . I never know which one I'll drive next week, and it's always good reason to buy a hot dog at gas station

clear ferry
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I stop by a gas station every day I drive anyway DogeWink

scenic radish
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I have a 55L (14.5 US gal) tank lol

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Smol

green inlet
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I have 30 miles to find a gas station when the low fuel light comes on. On all my old cars, I was routinely on 0 with at least a 1/4 -1/2 mile to go. My new car goes to x x x x after 14 miles so I have to start looking then and just guess. Knock on wood, I have neva run out of gas 🤪

jade tartan
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Is there a way to stop capacitor hum?

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Old tv

pale shadow
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Isnt it the compressor

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not the capacitor

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Wait no

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why did i say compressor

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I meant the cathodes

scenic radish
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I was trying to figure out what TV uses a compressor 🤣

pale shadow
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I was just looking at the word like

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That is not what i mean at all

scenic radish
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something looks wrong here

jade tartan
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Old samsung lcd

static schooner
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Analog MP4

pale shadow
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Rob

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Im drinking your coffee

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thank you so much for bringing it

umbral cliff
forest edge
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wtf

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you would hate my truck. the gas gauge is brokered so most the time it says empty but sometime it will register half of what I actually have

umbral cliff
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Couldn’t do that. I want to know how much petrol I have all the time

pale shadow
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i never let mine go red

hushed basalt
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I generally try to always keep 100km of range in the tank at all times as an extreme minimum

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You need to be able to drive somewhere in an emergency without worrying about fuel

umbral cliff
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Lowest I’ve ever gotten in range was 80km. Because I had to do a lot of driving but no time to actually fill up

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First second I could I got petrol

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Had 5L left in the tank

hushed basalt
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My wife does most of the driving so she usually leaves me with 5L

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Very annoying

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My tank is only 50L too

umbral cliff
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I’m pleased with my car, 60L tank but can get like 800-900km of freeway driving at 110kmh, or 500-700km urban

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The latter depending on how much I like to floor it

hushed basalt
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My car say about 450km when I fill it up

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The estimate disappears under 60km so I've never tried testing it

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Mileage is pretty crap to be honest.

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Hyundai ix35 2.0L 4 cyl

hollow glacier
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ur pretty crap

umbral cliff
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Mine varies depending on my fuel economy at the time. If I drive hard it’ll drop. If I drive soft or only drive freeway it’ll climb

hollow glacier
umbral cliff
hushed basalt
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Is that a sedan?

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I hate SUVs to be honest. But wife wants what she wants.

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I'd much rather have a station wagon or a minivan

umbral cliff
hushed basalt
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But station wagons are near extinct in Aus

forest edge
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minivan? ew lol

umbral cliff
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Stuff SUVs

hushed basalt
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SUVs are the worst of a sedan, wagon, 4wd combined

hollow glacier
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wait no.. no they dont

hushed basalt
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Not good at anything

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I don't care what people think of what I drive

forest edge
hushed basalt
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No one at work has even seen what I drive anyways

umbral cliff
hushed basalt
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Only use the car for lugging kids and stuff around

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Minivan would be amazing but they're quite pricey

umbral cliff
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SUVs here don’t always come with a tow ball either so it’s just for show

hushed basalt
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Buying my mums Pathfinder off her mid next year

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Not really want I want but we need a 7 seater and the price is too good to turn down

hollow glacier
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7 seater?!

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4 wives?

hushed basalt
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SUVs have no advantage for towing anyway

forest edge
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minivan's here are all but dead

hushed basalt
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You need good engine and transmission for towing.

forest edge
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and there is no stationwagon's anymore lol

hushed basalt
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What do people drive, trucks?

forest edge
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sedans, suv's and trucks

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sports cars

hushed basalt
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Sedans are definitely on the way out herr

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Well on the downwards trend for new

forest edge
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4 door cars will always be here

hushed basalt
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Everyone wants an SUV at a minimum herr

umbral cliff
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Trucks are too big

hushed basalt
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Trucks are insane

umbral cliff
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Why do they have to be so bloody talk

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*tall

forest edge
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i wanted an suv with some towing capacity which years ago use to be a thing but is now is very limited

umbral cliff
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(By truck I mean what the Americans call Utes)

hushed basalt
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Unless you're putting a sheep in the back or towing a 40ft boat why does an average person need a truck

umbral cliff
hushed basalt
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Thankfully trucks in urban are relatively common here for now

forest edge
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you really don't see many average people who do not use the bed for hauling stuff own and drive a truck

hushed basalt
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Although Utes are getting bigger and more ridiculous

forest edge
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I think they are on a downward trend now

umbral cliff
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They keep getting bigger

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Doubt they’re going down

forest edge
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the current models don't seem as big

umbral cliff
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They’re still huge

forest edge
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I drive a 2006 so I get a pretty good size comparision as I drive past them lol

umbral cliff
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Thanks for that @scenic radish lul

scenic radish
umbral cliff
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I don’t get why they need to be so tall, allow people in sedans to see past please

forest edge
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he's vibing atm

umbral cliff
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I’m trying to turn left, can’t see any traffic coming because of this giant Ute

forest edge
umbral cliff
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Or sub

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*suv

umbral cliff
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Then don’t sit far forward so people can be staggered

forest edge
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why would i care what the person behind me can see lol

umbral cliff
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Not behind. To the side

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If im turning I want to be able to see traffic

forest edge
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well that's the cons of owning a small car

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you gotta wait for everyone else

static schooner
umbral cliff
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Cars shouldn’t be 2m tall

forest edge
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if i gotta look down, it's small lol

umbral cliff
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If you make your truck tall for no reason then anything can look small

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(And truck height is usually inversely proportional to something else too)

green inlet
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There is def a benefit to having a higher vehicle 😉. And we don’t call them utes.

scenic radish
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Yeah, I'm in the US and I can't say I've ever said ute before lol

green inlet
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I think the aussies call them utes

umbral cliff
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Yep

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Truck to us are like 18 wheelers or whatever

scenic radish
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That's a semi boi

umbral cliff
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We can use semi too. But truck means that, can be a box truck thing too, etc

scenic radish
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|| inb4 dick joke ||

umbral cliff
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Basically heavy commercial vehicle

green inlet
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Just a guess….but I would say pickups were traditionally for the country areas. They were work trucks. Sometime in the 80s, it became fashionable to raise them and go 4 wheeling

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It kinda took off from there.

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Then soccer moms who didn’t want to drive vans made SUVs a thing

forest edge
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people still do that and in cities which is dumb as shit

green inlet
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Because the truck became popular

forest edge
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wtf you need a raised truck with big ass tires for in the city

green inlet
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It’s a penis extension

umbral cliff
static schooner
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One of the final scenes in Back to the Future where Marty gets a giant pickup truck, supposedly the epitome of awesomeness, always confused me.

green inlet
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Urban cowboys

forest edge
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I understand county having trucks like that. been stuck in some pretty deep mud in the middle of a field myself a few times but never in a dense city

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those asshats can't even fit in parking garages

umbral cliff
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Rural is fair, you actually need to take stuff in your bed then usually

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Same with tradies (but they don’t need to be as tall)

green inlet
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I grew up in an urban area with a bunch of rich kids who had nice trucks. We used to go mudding. Aka 4 wheeling. Good time

forest edge
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good till you get stuck then gotta wade your ass out for help

green inlet
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Uhm….not with those big ass raised trucks with 4 foot tall wheels

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They all had wenches on them also

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And in them also @static schooner 😉

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I guess I did that wrong. Winches on the outside, wenches on the inside 🤣

pale shadow
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RUDE

scenic radish
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Hateful

strange crag
# umbral cliff If you make your truck tall for no reason then anything can look small

they are tall for ground clearance - gotta stop your sump getting ripped out by rocks. OTOH in the city people drive cars that have been lowered so much that they have to take 5 minutes and go diagonally over speed bumps! Bloody idiots! What makes me laugh is that people in the city with 4wd that also take those speed bumps very slow. Also idiots as you can take them at normal speed even in a standard car.

forest edge
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dunno what kind of speed bumps you got but if you hit ours at normal speed it's gonna do damage lol

hollow glacier
hushed basalt
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The hard edge metal ones with no curve

static schooner
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That could be a wall 🙂

hushed basalt
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Some of them seriously are almost box curbs

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"safety"

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Even those people with offroad cars can cruise over them at 40k while people in a Yaris have to come to a stop and roll

umbral cliff
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I wouldn’t dare go over a speed bump at more than 30-40kmh. Too easily damage my bumper or suspension lol

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Sure might be fine for a small one, but one misjudgement and boom

hushed basalt
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Good design of carparks is better than putting in crappy speed bumps that just wreck suspension of small vehicles

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Yeah some outside Bunnings near me I have to come to almost a complete stop

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The amount of car parks I've seen with intersections on them that are impossible for 2 cars to go through at once

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When they could just remove 1 or 2 car bays on the entry to make it easier and safer and quicker

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But I suspect there's some "metric" that says every car bay generated $X amount of revenue per year

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Ignoring the fact that people will be reluctant to do their shopping at places where the car parks are mental

umbral cliff
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Side topic, what did the home automation Santa get you all for Christmas lul

hushed basalt
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Life tip. Always look at the big picture and ignore "local optimisations"

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We just did presents for the kids

umbral cliff
hushed basalt
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No not the parking fees

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But like, say someone would have done a calculation at the shopping centre design stage

umbral cliff
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Ahh shopping centre income

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Yeah that makes sense

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I misunderstood

hushed basalt
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And said "80 stores and 1000 bays with a store aggregate revenue is $50m/year, "

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To be honest I have no idea what they do but I strongly suspect that's the justification for car parks that squeeze in every single bay possible while making them impossible to navigate

umbral cliff
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Even though I’m sure 990 bays but better traffic flow would generate the same amount of money too

hushed basalt
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I suspect more

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Turnover speed of carparks is far more valuable than total capacity imo.

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Slightly less bays but faster turnover = more money

umbral cliff
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I guess it’s harder to quantify in plain numbers as better flow is more wishy washy than saying 1 spot generates $X so 1000 generates $1000X

hushed basalt
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Yep

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It's like when people focus on how fast some software runs in one stage

umbral cliff
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Especially when people doing the shopping centres aren’t going to be shopper sociologists

hushed basalt
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And ignore the entire system

umbral cliff
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Or psychologists

umbral cliff
hushed basalt
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Theory of Constraints is a good thing to look into if you like this stuff

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There's a book from the 80s called The Goal which is the "inspiration" for The Phoenix Project

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The basic premise is a fictional manufacturing plant that's failing

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And how they need to learn how to do less to do more, rather than make every machine become utilised/make as much as possible as fast as possible

umbral cliff
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Yeah I guess big picture vs small picture too right? Like instead of just focusing on individual machines operating at <100% efficiency look at the whole plant as to why it’s dropped

jade tartan
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make the tiny high pitched hum stop in my extra tv

scenic radish
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Just get older and it'll go away

jade tartan
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lol, nooooooo

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i like hearing 17,000hz and above

green inlet
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When did off-topic become so intellectual 🧐

scenic radish
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I was thinking the same thing

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This is bullshit

hushed basalt
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When you're not here : D

umbral cliff
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Get smarter the more alcohol you have think

green inlet
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Auh….the budlight commercial. ||I love you man||

scenic radish
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That's right, it's Christmas day down under right now

green inlet
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Now that’s acceptable 🤣

hushed basalt
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Theory of constraints is also the precursor to Devops btw

green inlet
umbral cliff
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What time is it east coast USA?

jade tartan
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846

green inlet
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8:45 pm

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Friday night

umbral cliff
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Few more hours left for you lot then lol

jade tartan
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left for what? another day same as any to dawn?

green inlet
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Midnight mass in 3:15

jade tartan
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i am the grinch

scenic radish
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I wouldn't touch you with a 39 1/2-foot pole

jade tartan
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insert dick joke

green inlet
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Or mast joke

umbral cliff
pale shadow
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Such goodness

shy prawn
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How's it going.

scenic radish
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I figured out how to make my 🍆 12" long
|| Fold it in half ||

shy prawn
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I'm new around here

green inlet
jade tartan
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if i click this, and it says fold it in half.....

umbral cliff
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Or today

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Depending on time zone

jade tartan
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...god damn it

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lol

shy prawn
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There she is

green inlet
jade tartan
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lets spice it up then

umbral cliff
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🌶

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There’s some spice

shy prawn
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Spice

scenic radish
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Shaq is a national treasure

shy prawn
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And that hot ones interview is a masterpiece

hollow glacier
scenic radish
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Yes

hollow glacier
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Iirc he actually has helped esports

hushed basalt
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Jingle bells

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Batman smells

scenic radish
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Robin laid an egg

finite atlas
scenic radish
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Disturbing lol

hollow glacier
scenic radish
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I lol'd

strange crag
#

Is it time for Rodney Rudes Christmas song? yet?

brisk glen
#

That gif will get you banned in a lot of places

strange crag
#

actually it was kevin bloody wilson and its been taken down - bummer!

finite atlas
brisk glen
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Oh no, you are not doing that today

strange crag
#

Ho, Ho F...g Ho,
What a crock of shit
We all work for Santa
We've had enough we quit
etc

finite atlas
#

i'm very confused xd

strange crag
#

its the elves song lol

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and if you can find it, its a classic

brisk glen
brisk glen
strange crag
#

yup thats the one!

brisk glen
#

@strange crag you are Wack

#

And the fact that Apple Music has this….

heady vale
#

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone.. 🙂

forest edge
#

it's not christmas yet you futuristic bastards!

brisk glen
#

What? You didn’t get a time machine for Christmas?

forest edge
#

no, pretty sure i got socks

strange crag
brisk glen
#

Funny how we always need socks

strange crag
brisk glen
#

Because Texas is cold

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Sure

strange crag
umbral cliff
strange crag
#

yeah Cal I was gonna update and say that the artist would also make money if apple got paid

brisk glen
#

My point about Texas being cold… it’s not

umbral cliff
hushed basalt
#

Over 55 degrees in my roof right now

#

Anyone ever installed radiant barrier in their attic?

glacial knot
#

are you in Australia? Or how do you manage that at this time of the year?

umbral cliff
#

35c in my roof atm. Not terrible

glacial knot
#

you could go and sunbath there 🙂

umbral cliff
#

Too many spiders lol

#

Also no sun in the roof

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(Nor is it sunny atm)

hushed basalt
#

Australia

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45 degree ambient outdoor today

#

Just hit 57 in the roof

umbral cliff
hushed basalt
#

Might make 60

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Yeah

umbral cliff
#

Yeah heard the west coast is sweltering

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Only 20 and cloudy in Melbourne

brisk glen
#

More thread

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glacial knot
#

is there a benefit of thread over zigbee? i don't like change

brisk glen
#

Matter, HomeKit and ha can control the same network

#

Plus 3 thread to rest of network routers? All as a hub as needed?

glacial knot
#

redundancy of the hub sounds nice

scenic radish
#

Yeah, I do like that another device can take over as "coordinator"

glacial knot
#

I could rig that up with z2m. But having it in the protocol sounds way better

scenic radish
#

And it being based on ipv6 is cool too

umbral cliff
#

Thread definitely sounds like zigbee but with more flexibility

glacial knot
# scenic radish Automatically though?

Kinda? I have backup coordinator USB sticks. the config + persistence is on NFS already as well. I could just spawn a container on a different host if the primary one goes down

scenic radish
#

That being said, I don't plan on switching my 70 zigbee devices with thread anytime soon 😄

umbral cliff
#

Hoping the coordinators will be able to do zigbee and tread simultaneously

glacial knot
#

meh in IPv6 for local networks though. Huge addresses for pretty much 0 benefit /shrug

scenic radish
umbral cliff
#

So we can start swapping over once HA supports it

glacial knot
#

worst case, just run 2 different coordinators and have HA do the coordination between the meshes

forest edge
#

while using portainer how do you connect something running in one container to another container? I've tried using localhost, the the containers ip.. I cannot seem to figure it out

umbral cliff
fallow karma
forest edge
#

pickup beds are generally only 8ft long or less maybe 5ft wide

#

I figured out my container issue btw

hushed basalt
#

Didn't quite make it to sixty degrees in the roof

fallow karma
tawny orchid
#

Happy Holidays everyone!

fallow karma
#

As i mechanic i often watch yt clips, where people do some car repairs. I always wonder why in America middle size truck (substitute of European eg. Iveco daily or Renault Mascot) need 7.4 L engine. Renault has 2.3 and Iveco 3.0 . Both has about 180HP and 400Nm torque , that's More than enough

glacial knot
#

'cause compensation (not the monetary kind)

fallow karma
#

But i kinda like American automotive. Everything is simple, easy accessible ( big means lot of space everywhere ) . Did i mention about simplicity? In '90 while in EU everything was multipoint injected, dohc with 4valve per cylinder, aluminum blocks with output about 60hp per liter , in US they still had 2.5 Iron Duke , and OHV V8's with output about 30Hp per liter. I don't know nothing about reliability of those US engines, but i think it was better than some of European

umbral cliff
#

Yeah European ones are designed to reduce emissions too. US doesn’t care as much

fallow karma
#

Not true , i think first EGR valve was obligatory in US

#

But in EU fuel economy always was more important than in US

#

Russian automotive is similar to US. Simple, easy to fix . BTW most of their engineering designs are derivative from Ford AA, because Russian produced it under license. So if u have a UAZ or Volga and take the engine out, bolt pattern of the gearbox is the same as on early Ford Sierra, or Taunus.

clear ferry
#

EGR Valve 🤢

#

That is some nasty shit

umbral cliff
last cedar
#

Not sure if the better emissions when new offset the time and energy cleaning up when they clog the entire engine

finite atlas
#

just get an electric car, problem solved

fallow karma
last cedar
#

But a good one costs as much as my house cost

fallow karma
#

@finite atlas nope. 75 % energy in my country is produced by burning coal

finite atlas
#

in meinem land ebenfalls

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but i'm planning on putting solar panels and a wind turbine or two onto our land to charge the future EV

last cedar
#

Next car is a hybrid company car it seems

#

Octavia iv

finite atlas
#

thinking about getting a twizy first for short range drives and using our petrol car only for long tours

last cedar
#

Asking about an xc40 recharge, but atx said they were smol and I don't think I am allowed one

fallow karma
#

Our government made new regulations, now solar panels are less profitable

finite atlas
#

same

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hence why i'll do everything used

#

let me take a picture of one of my rooms

last cedar
#

Same. But energy prices going up a lot might make it worth it

#

I am thinking about a hot water panel at least

umbral cliff
last cedar
#

Always have to heat water, can probably save 1 burn a day

finite atlas
last cedar
#

Oh, your tesla smart wall!

finite atlas
#

i have about 30kWh of laptop batteries that i'm salvaging, got them for 600€

finite atlas
fallow karma
umbral cliff
last cedar
#

Where is your fire extinguisher

finite atlas
finite atlas
umbral cliff
#

Water & lithium don’t mix

#

Well.., they do mix. Too well

finite atlas
#

the ceramic is already melted thanks to one exploding 18650

umbral cliff
finite atlas
#

i now know, that it mixes too well

last cedar
#

I think those lipo ones are safer, right?

#

No thermal runaway

finite atlas
#

its the opposite

#

LTO > LFP > NMC > LCO > what ever chemistry lipo is

umbral cliff
#

Tbh I just want an electric car that can be bought used without the issue of dying batteries

finite atlas
#

Lithium Titanate Oxide > Lithium Iron Phospahate > Nickel Mangan Cobalt > Lithium Cobalt Oxide > lipo

#

what about a tesla?

umbral cliff
#

The idea of a Tesla battery pack being $20,000 is eeek

finite atlas
#

goes about 320.000 km and still has 80% left

last cedar
#

Sorry, LFP it was called

#

Like what they use

finite atlas
#

yeah LFP is waaay safer

umbral cliff
finite atlas
#

320 thousand km

fallow karma
#

If someone wants to live in harmony with nature, should made batteries of cucumbers

umbral cliff
#

Oh you meant total life? Yeah still age of battery pack

clear ferry
#

Don't know how the Tesla engine quality has improved, had a colleague replace two engines in 18 months

finite atlas
#

yeah

finite atlas
last cedar
#

I could see myself with panels and batteries. But we get so little sun in the winter here, could never go off grid I think

finite atlas
umbral cliff
#

Like I drive a 21 year old bmw, 84,500kms, still kicking strongly and will do for another 5-10 years I think

#

Then going to look at converting to electric for fun lol

umbral cliff
finite atlas
#

not much tho

#

i have used laptop cells that are 20 years old, that still hold 80% or more of their original capacity

last cedar
finite atlas
#

):

last cedar
#

If I could get energy from the cold, or the dark I would be rich

umbral cliff
finite atlas
#

are there any predators for raccoons?

finite atlas
last cedar
#

I should invent anti solar panels, thry make electric in the dark, but not in the light

umbral cliff
fallow karma
finite atlas
#

not caretakers calmelb xd

last cedar
finite atlas
#

wellllll

last cedar
finite atlas
#

i know a solution for your energy problem

#

hang some doormats into human hamster wheels

#

and let them produce the electricity for you

last cedar
#

I am thinking I can cut usage dramatically by having water heating panels.

#

No heating via electric in summer. Reduced heating by pellets in winter

umbral cliff
#

Imagine having electric hot water

fallow karma
#

Not cooking

umbral cliff
#

and not a 20 year old gas boiler

last cedar
#

Can possibly even heat a couple rooms via excess heat from water heating and use ftx to pipe the warmth though the house in spring and autumn

#

Next years projects are windows, doors and insulating behind wood panels, so should save a ton of heat. Need to insulate the loft to standard too

fallow karma
#

Maybe collect farts , isn't it burnable gas also?

finite atlas
#

oh and back to your safer LFP batteries
shipped directly from the manufacturer, they cost about 135€ / kWh capacity, my used 18650 cells hit 25€ / kWh capacity
while yes its much safer & easier to do and they would last much longer, they are also way too expensive compared to my DIY approach of used stuff

  • a well designed NMC / LCO battery just like a tesla battery pack can last a looong time aswell
last cedar
#

Big price difference

finite atlas
last cedar
#

Don't need one

umbral cliff
#

@finite atlas how did you combine the lipo cells together?

last cedar
#

I can stand anywhere and feel the freezing draughts, I know where it is leaking 🤣

finite atlas
# last cedar Big price difference

but keep in mind, those 18650 cells are used and often 20-10 years old already, i spend like 2 hours daily for the next 2 months on them

finite atlas
last cedar
umbral cliff
fallow karma
#

If u have some solder skills it's doable

finite atlas
#

and a good soldering iron

#

you need at least a 65w one

#

cause those cells suck the heat out of the soldering iron

fallow karma
#

I've got 75W and soldered few of them successfully

last cedar
#

And a 40 cal suit

finite atlas
#

xD

umbral cliff
#

Surprised the cells don’t mind that much heat next to them

finite atlas
fallow karma
#

I soldered many laptop or drill cells and if u solder it quick with powerfully iron, you heat it only in the specific place.

finite atlas
#

i have some super thin 0.071mm wire, that glows at 0.8A and breaks at 1A, which is perfectly fine with me, cause the max load would only be 50-100mA anyway.

hushed basalt
#

So I'd be buying it outright myself,

dawn prawn
#

Merry Christmas HA Crew

hushed basalt
#

So about A$600 is a hard pill to swallow

#

Even though my gut says it will definitely pay for itself several times over

umbral cliff
hushed basalt
#

That is the one that attaches to the phone

umbral cliff
#

Oh

#

😂

hushed basalt
#

Discrete ones start around $900+

umbral cliff
#

I massively underestimated how expensive FLIR is

dawn prawn
#

Like a night vision camera?

clear ferry
#

The flir you got for the iPad was pretty good

#

I've seen a lot of electricians use it

#

Use it for doing monthly checks of the fuse boxes

dawn prawn
#

What’s wrong with using your eyeballs?

clear ferry
#

Your eyes can't see background heat

last cedar
#

Thermal

#

Not night vision

#

Flir have been market leaders for years

#

And they now how to charge for it

#

The materials used in thermal cameras are insanely expensive too, which doesn't help

glacial knot
#

I should coax my boss to buy one for the office

#

We got him to buy a logic analyzer already, I'm sure I can find a reason we need a thermal cam

dawn prawn
#

I used a monocular in the military that was both nvg and flir in the same tube

#

50-50’s - was kinda hot

last cedar
glacial knot
#

hehehe

last cedar
#

I should co ax my boss????

#

Haha

glacial knot
#

Will you approve my investment if we don't do things to you with the antenna cable?

last cedar
#

They might be into that, though

clear ferry
#

Cox the box

low harness
#

Hm... maybe I should use the holidays for some updates...

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glacial knot
#

ehh, sounds recent enough to me

low harness
#

Most should be fine. I expect gitea to have some cool updates, but it'd surprise me greatly if netcat had any new features. And this is triggered by me realizing a bug in code-server I've been annoyed with for a while was actually fixed 16 months ago...

#

... I wonder why deconz is in there... I don't use it, and I just pruned the images.

glacial knot
#

mhhm

snow hedge
clear ferry
#

Watchtower 🤢

low harness
#

Yeah... that's not for me, but if it works for you knock yourself out

clear ferry
#

I just do regular updates of all my servers every two weeks like a proper sysadmin

last cedar
#

every 2 weeks, who has time for that?!

#

I restart mine like once every couple of years

#

like a shitty sysadmin

clear ferry
#

I have standards

#

And I announce service windows

static schooner
#

By shouting?

clear ferry
#

Basically, yes

static schooner
#

imagines town crier at atx’s house

clear ferry
#

I should automate it with ha

#

Send my wife a telegram notification when I do a compose pull

clear ferry
#

12pm shot from my hometown this morning, looks nice

static schooner
#

Beautiful. Almost looks fake

#

painter: you know, it needs something. I know, a giant moon!

clear ferry
#

Y'all should see the midnight sun then

static schooner
#

It actually reminds me of the episode of Voyager where Chakotay uses the moon as a way to know if he’s dreaming

clear ferry
fallow karma
static schooner
#

The giant, boxy, corporate-looking building detracts from the otherwise idyllic scene

glacial knot
#

I assumed it's a school

finite atlas
clear ferry
#

For reference, the same location in summer at midnight

low harness
#

Tromsö?

clear ferry
#

Yes

#

With the inferior Swedish Ø

glacial knot
static schooner
#

Nice island, even with an airport

low harness
#

Oh! They got the goat this year! Maybe the gods won't punish us with draughts all summer then.

clear ferry
#

That is Swedish @glacial knot

glacial knot
#

Argh. I read it earlier and though I remembered Norway

#

well, you are both north. So you'llh ave to answer for their fun

static schooner
#

It has been the subject of repeated arson attacks, and, despite security measures and the nearby presence of a fire station, the goat has been burned to the ground most years since its first appearance in 1966. As of December 2021, the goat has been damaged 38 times.

clear ferry
#

Don't mix us up with those Francophiles

static schooner
#

Who are these people?

low harness
#

2005 is my favourite.

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Burnt by unknown vandals reportedly dressed as Santa and the gingerbread man, by shooting a flaming arrow at the goat

#

2001 is good too

In 2001, the goat was burned down by a 51-year-old visitor from Cleveland, Ohio in the United States, who spent 18 days in jail and was subsequently convicted and ordered to pay 100,000 Swedish kronor in damages. The court confiscated his cigarette lighter with the argument that he clearly was not able to handle it. He stated in court that he was no "goat burner", and believed that he was taking part in a completely legal goat-burning tradition. After he was released from jail he returned to the US without paying his fine.

static schooner
#

“I didn’t burn that goat, and if I did, it was totally legal!”

#

It does seem to have achieved “tradition” status, unwelcome as it may be

clear ferry
low harness
#

I bet pretty much everyone who isn't involved hopes for it to burn at this point. But it is a public safety problem.

modern sorrel
#

ohh fck I bought the new macbook pro for 3500 $ if that was a good idea ....

clear ferry
#

🤢

modern sorrel
#

but i heard its wonderfull for coding etc.

clear ferry
scenic radish
#

So is a 200 USD Chromebook 🤣

modern sorrel
#

yest its critical

clear ferry
#

Heck, my Chromebook was $180 3 years ago, it is still my daily driver when I'm not in the office

scenic radish
#

I like my Chromebook

#

HP Chromebook 15 with the numeric keypad

clear ferry
#

ChromeOS is fine, but I do prefer galliumos

modern sorrel
#

yes i had a chromebok too, but for api dev i need significantly more power

clear ferry
#

Yeah, all those curl calls can be exhausting

modern sorrel
#

yest but that true and the greatest achievement of apples marketing

clear ferry
#

What's a laptop?

low harness
#

*computer

clear ferry
#

Oh right

#

It was even more pretentious

#

Made me want to yeet that kid over a mountain

low harness
#

Don't stoop to Star Wars fan territory. She's just doing her job.

static schooner
#

There’s a part of me that wants to upgrade my 2020 MBP, but even with the deep discount I can get, I can’t bring myself to spend that much money for something that’s bigger and heavier in nearly every way

low harness
#

But you weren't alone in that...

clear ferry
low harness
#

I've been thinking of upgrading my 2013 MBP... but it actually works great

clear ferry
#

I do love my zbook g8 firefly, I should retry getting Linux on it after Christmas

static schooner
#

If it doesn’t support the latest OS, I would upgrade

low harness
#

Yeah. That's the one problem with it. Can't debug mobile safari stuff anymore.

static schooner
#

Even if you don’t need it for anything else, you start to lose compatibility with apps

modern sorrel
#

did you had good experience with dev on a mac ?

low harness
#

Meh. I need Chrome, a terminal and maybe vscode.

#

Webdev - great. Low level C - good. Higher level - no idea.

clear ferry
hollow glacier
#

"webdev" and "great" should not be in the same sentence

finite atlas
clear ferry
#

Well

#

Yes

clear ferry
fallow karma
#

-10°C here
BTW most popular method of car stealing is now a "suitcase"
Two devices which are signal extender between your hands-free key in your pocket or hall, and your car on the parking place

clear ferry
#

Yeah, which is why I'm considering building a Faraday keybox

clever mortar
#

Thank goodness for garages

clear ferry
#

Well, I have one, but it is full of my projects

#

And three cars in the parking lot outside

brisk glen
#

Good thing I do t have hands free

#

Optimizations that eliminate system stalls and improve overall responsiveness. Chrome books have this issue?

clear ferry
brisk glen
crisp sapphire
#

Love that tradition. Its such a meme worthy thing.

finite atlas
#

a sweet computer farm

static schooner
#

They were put out to pasture

hushed basalt
#

Briefcase car thefts would generally be out in public no?

#

Not at home

#

Unless your keys are near your front door.. hmmm

#

Although a perp standing on your porch is a lot more suspect than someone sitting next to you in a crowded cafe.

#

I'm glad I live in a relatively safe place where that sort of stuff doesn't even come into my mind

#

I don't even lock my wheels on my bike at the train station, nor take the lights off

umbral cliff
#

So no one would know

strange crag
forest edge
clear ferry
glacial knot
#

and the cage doesn't need a ground to shield

#

depending on the material and what you want to shield with it, ground will be required to access (or leave) the cage

finite atlas
clear ferry
snow hedge
#

Home Assistant glow is clearly telling me I need to use less power 😂

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strange crag
#

continuous 2 kw drain with regular spikes to 4kw and electric cooking. You must have gas hotwater cos I dont see that kicking in. I would be worried about that continous drain. If you had solar that would consume all of it on a sunny day!

snow hedge
#

there's still some continuous ~300W load that I have no idea what it could be, once mining becomes unprofitable it'll drop down to like 570W for my office, gfs pc will be off most of the time, but will still have that continual heavy load 🤷

strange crag
#

No solar? Hope you are making heaps mining to cover the cost of the power!

#

could drop the HA onto a NUC?

clear ferry
strange crag
#

lol

#

atx runs 5kw as his base load - lol

snow hedge
#

Not currently, I'd like to get solar, have a nice large south facing roof, although being in the midlands in the UK isn't exactly optimal.
The mining profits are pretty good, works out about £10/day on the two cards, which actually covers the entire power bill for the house nearly, so that's cool.
The home server is running boatloads of other stuff apart from home assistant, there's 30TB of storage in there to start, a NUC wouldn't really be suitable I think

clear ferry
#

Actually, yes I do mostly @strange crag

#

Average wattage of my house is somewhere between 3200-4500w

strange crag
#

see - move away from all that snow and ice and you wont need to have such a high power load 😉

snow hedge
#

haha, well heating is natural gas so there's no additional electrical usage for that

clear ferry
#

Low power draw 🤢

#

Gas 🤢

snow hedge
clear ferry
#

I peak at 12-14k

strange crag
clear ferry
#

When making dinner

strange crag
#

you dont need a nuclear reactor to boil your eggs atx!

clear ferry
#

Maybe I do

strange crag
#

lol

#

they will be bloody hard boiled like cement!

snow hedge
clear ferry
#

🤢

#

I almost bought a Honqi ES9

snow hedge
strange crag
#

In this country the max solar you can have for a household is around 5kw. If that is the case in your country then you might be in trouble, although I guess you could probably get more power from wind.

glacial knot
#

in trouble? o.0

#

only if you assume he tries to be able to run off grid

snow hedge
#

I haven't heard of a limit here, that said I think if you want a particularly large setup, you have to upgrade to 3 phase power

strange crag
#

in trouble in that he will be having to keep paying the power company .

#

yeah - only so much you can get from single phase.

glacial knot
#

We have a 10kW limit for personal use. If it's over that you'll have to run it as business. though I'm unsure if there's some ways to math base load into it to lift the limit

#

Unless you get a batterygrid you shouldn't expect to be fully "off grid" without active planing for it either way

clear ferry
#

If I get solar panels I'll produce 14000kw per year

glacial knot
#

only cook when you aren't washing clothes. And only do either when there's sun and wind =.= no thank you

clear ferry
#

That would be 1/3 of my use

strange crag
#

how did you calc that atx?

snow hedge
#

Funny enough, that'd probably knock me to zero almost exactly, I use around 1400kwh/mo

clear ferry
strange crag
#

who is they? is it a global calc or local to your provider?

snow hedge
strange crag
#

ongy - wonder if your 10kw is the same as my 5kw given that my power is 240v and yours is 110 (I think)

glacial knot
#

230V

#

and no. kW is kW

#

maybe yours is in some normalized? The 10 here is peak

strange crag
#

ahh ok so thats OK. Also shift key is a bit fujnny on this laptop

glacial knot
#

I wasn't making fun of the lower case 'w'. Even if I do that with people that use mb instead of MiB or MB 🙂
I'm saying that the difference between 1kW@110V and 1kW@230V is the amperage. It's still the same energy

fallow karma
snow hedge
#

Ah, MB, the unit where you can have no idea what the actual answer is. Best unit 😄

umbral cliff
strange crag
#

it might be normalised, but we can only put in 24 x 250 Watt panels - thats about 6KW

glacial knot
#

Mega Bell 😉

strange crag
umbral cliff
#

30kW if you can get 3 phase to the home

#

I’m guessing it’s a current issue

strange crag
#

When we got ours done it was max 5 KWE

#

KW

umbral cliff
#

Yeah you can have 10kW as long as you don’t export more than 5kW. Or pay to have the electrical distributor to connect 3 phase to your home

#

And then benefit by you being able to add a electric car supercharger

strange crag
#

who wants an electric car?? Not me

glacial knot
#

You don’t have 3phase in every home already?

umbral cliff
strange crag
#

nope - only single phase

snow hedge
umbral cliff
strange crag
#

I drive longer distances and tow stuff

#

and I am outback

umbral cliff
#

Yeah that’s fair then

snow hedge
#

I might not get one, just because it'll be my first car and they are a tad expensive for a first car, used Nissan leaf would be the one though if I do go that route

umbral cliff
#

If you’re in the city then electric cars work

strange crag
#

yeah - they are built for the city - no doubt about that

snow hedge
#

to be fair, if you're looking high end they also seem to work, the newer ones have hundreds of miles range and can tow too afaik

#

and with 20-80% charge times at less than 30 minutes, I don't think many people are gonna wanna drive like 300 miles without stopping for a toilet break 😂

strange crag
#

they are getting better, but for county stuff they arent there yet.

umbral cliff
#

Hundreds of miles is still useless for bush australia

#

Can be that far till the next charger lol

strange crag
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till the next town- and it might not have a charger!

umbral cliff
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ah yea, fair, I live in the UK and you're never more than like 10 miles away from a charger

strange crag
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most people dont take 30 minutes for a toilet break 😉

snow hedge
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well, toilet/snack break 😄

umbral cliff
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I don’t want to do those same stops plus 30 minutes for a charge (since the stops won’t disappear just because I’m stopping for longer to charge)

umbral cliff
snow hedge
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lol

umbral cliff
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Going 110kmh and just grab the lolly snacks and eat during the drive

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Or after petrol go drive through McDonald’s and snack on the drive

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umbral cliff
snow hedge
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I dunno why there are so many complaints of broken charge points...why do they keep breaking? petrol pumps seem more complicated and they aren't usually broken

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when they get to the point where they swap out the battery in the same time it takes to fill a petrol tank then it would be worth it for the longer trips.

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but they will probably do it like the swap n go gas bottles in that instead of 9kg of gas you only get 8.5kg

strange crag
clear ferry
umbral cliff
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You should see the Norwegian charger network @umbral cliff

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makes sense I suppose, people more likely to vandalize unattended chargers

umbral cliff
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Probably like 10 people for 300km area

clear ferry
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Every gas station has chargers too

umbral cliff
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To repair

umbral cliff
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clear ferry
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Got a map for you

strange crag
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Anything else would be strange

strange crag
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it was strange for me! lol

clear ferry
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Aud56k for 14 kwh aud27k for 11kwh

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Know which one I'd buy

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strange crag
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buy 2 and get twice the amount!! 😉

snow hedge
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yeah - not the same effect of a contiguous bunch of screens lol

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I need to clean my office after Christmas

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Maybe mount a fifth monitor

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Here's mine, still working on it 😄

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strange crag
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you go 3 or 6 or 9!

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not 5

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but you have done well on the contiguous bit though

snow hedge
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I could understand if you're gaming that you'd wanna go for 3 or 9, but why 6? o.O

strange crag
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6 is the poor mans 9 ie on the way to 9

snow hedge
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but you'd have the center of the game split between 2 monitors, 6 sucks like 2 does for gaming

clear ferry
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I have one roof mounted one

strange crag
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no - 3 on top of 3

clear ferry
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Thinking about two more

snow hedge
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yea, 3 on top of 3 results in a horizontal split in the center

strange crag
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yes - just like atx has a horizontal split - and its not to shabby!

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🤷 I'd have thought a horizontal split would cut your character in half in games, and look not good

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I only game on one of the ultrawides btw (5120x1440@240hz is more than enough 😂)

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Wait for screens sold by the metre

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it would, but probably the join would be right where your aiming site would be. OTOH youi can use 3 monitors for the game and 1 for discord, one for browser, and a spare

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until you can get thte last 3

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ah yea, that's a good point, crosshair cut in half would be not good

clear ferry
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Multi monitor gaming catno

last cedar
clear ferry
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Working on 5 customer systems at once DogeWink

strange crag
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I can only game on a laptop - 17" screen @1920x1080 😦

last cedar
snow hedge
clear ferry
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I just game on a 65" 4k

strange crag
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IT was a slight exageration, but not by much

strange crag
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actually I tell a lie - it might cover Tasmania

last cedar
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There are some quick chargers at food places in the larger towns, but no where near enough

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they are increasing the diesel price after new year, going to be record high, yet we still don't have a proper electric system to cope with everyone having electric cars

strange crag
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and my new hybrid will cost me more per month than my current diesel only (offset by cheaper running costs), they are not really making it attractive to switch, whilst also making it uncomfortable to not switch

strange crag
snow hedge
umbral cliff
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Even tassie would support more than 5

umbral cliff
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oh yeah - forgot about that scum sucking state of asutralia!

last cedar
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the hot air specialists

umbral cliff
strange crag
snow hedge
strange crag
umbral cliff
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yeah - but you love it lol

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I would buy an electric car but the apartment im moving into doesn’t have electric car chargers in the carpark. So no use yet

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Also that my bmw is still going very strong

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It’ll eventually get an electric conversion when I have the time/ space/ money

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I'll be a first time driver, so cheap and cheerful is the way to go. Used Nissan leaf seems to go for like £7k here, which isn't too bad

umbral cliff
strange crag
snow hedge
umbral cliff
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Pfff hard terrain can spent whole battery in 5 km

umbral cliff
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only thing is I do have the occasional 200 mile run I'd like to do, which the leaf will suck hard at

strange crag
umbral cliff
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I'll be too old for off road then

strange crag
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there will be better batteries in a lot less time than that

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Maybe I'll wait for cheap crashed Toyota Mirai and convert my UAZ for hydrogen

umbral cliff
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Hydrogen would be nice

fallow karma
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Hydrogen propelled UAZ would be nice 😎

strange crag
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I'm gonna free hydrogen more slowly little bit

strange crag
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until someone crashes into your car and it goes boom!

umbral cliff
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Plus hydrogen is a fuel cell so different to combustion

strange crag
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he didnt mention fuel cell - so could have been another method

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I mentioned Toyota Mirai , it is fool fuel cell