“hey Tesla, turn on the defroster”

—“ok, indicating right”

“No! I need defrost!”

—“I didn’t get that, say again”

“Turn on the windshield defrost”

—“ok, wipers on high”

I agree with you fully here. Probably why I have a 500e for commute and a '95 F-250PSD for when I need a truck.

Eventually nobody.

Capitalism isn’t about sustainability, it’s about making the most amount of profit in the shortest amount of time.

Eventuall you bleed everyone dry and nobody has a job. But for a short amount of time the shareholders will have had a huge number of 0’s and 1’s in a database somewhere equating to their “worth”

I’d bet the conversion companies could almost as easily convert the phev Pacifica as the gas only Pacifica.

Agreed, most people don’t really know how far an ev goes on a kWh. In my experience: Trucks average 15-20mpg. Evs average 2.5-4mi/kWh.

Let’s take the high of the truck and the low of the ev for comparisons. 8.32/20=0.42/mile gasoline 0.42/2.5=0.17/mile electric

In my case both are cheaper as my fuel is~$4.30/gal, and the car I drive gets 38mpg. (0.11/mile) But also my electricity is 0.12/kWh and my electric car gets average 4mi/kWh. (0.03/mile)

Obviously sabotage.

He weaseled his way into the company and changed an engineers documents without them noticing, causing them to over rate the motor controller…

Or just an over current, which could be as simple as surge when connecting due to a discharged capacitor.

I have enphase inverters as well. I don’t find their data to be useful.

I went the route of installing two circuit setup boards running esp8266. One is installed in the subpanel in the garage where the solar feeds, the other is installed at the main panel on the main cables before any loads.

This way I can more accurately see production and usage. And can tell during production how much I’m actually utilizing before sending residual back to grid.

If I had only one panel and the solar fed directly into it, I’d use one of the 6 channel circuitsetup boards instead to monitor both solar feed and main.

Setup a self hosted media server, put your media on it, stream from that.

Would this not require a battery as well, as usually the light is only lit while the door is open.

Making vacation even worse for said battery.

Proton has stopped the “visionary” that allows SMTP, now it’s only available in business accounts. :( I tried setting up the bridge CLI, but so far haven’t been able to get it to send anything after logging in and syncing the account, Maybe I’ll try again once I’ve got some things off my plate.

Setup rules that forward to an IP:port I used a guide on smarthomebeginner initially. I’ll try and find it found it.

Go here https://www.smarthomebeginner.com/traefik-docker-compose-guide-2022/

And scroll till the section. “Adding non-docker or external apps behind Traefik”

Time to code your own thermostat.

An esp32, a 4x or 8x relay board, and a 24vac to 5vdc rectifier/regulator and you’re golden.

Even has WiFi ;)

Jack and charger ports can be controlled by the phone to turn off if there is low resistance (ie water) between contacts.

A battery is harder, as it’s what provides the power to the thing that decides whether to turn off the port. Not that it’s impossible to put some smarts into a battery, to decide when to power the output. But it’s going to add a lot of complexity and bulk to do it (switching circuit, logic circuits, etc)

I see it as a longevity thing.

Sure you can bring another battery pack with you and charge your device from it, but at some point your internal battery will be degraded enough that it essentially needs to be plugged in to function, which is not feasible.

Being able to easily replace the thing in the device that wears out fastest is a good thing.

Granted I expect if this does go through, that mfg will make the battery hard to replace by other means (ie drm locks) making sure they can nickel and dime the consumer all the way.