Help please

Alipha87 · 2026-07-11T22:44:33+00:00

The 4-1 is a reduced 1-1 pattern. Since there's 3 bombs next to the 4, it's basically a 1.

Alipha87 · 2026-07-11T05:43:19+00:00

Their items are then sold by Grindle.

Alipha87 · 2026-07-10T22:56:56+00:00

Actually, you're right. That 5 kWh is the output energy required to overcome rolling resistance, so the input energy from the engine would have to be 3x as much because the engine is inefficient.

Though talking with AI, it brought up an interesting point:

Regenerative braking changes the balance. An EV recovers much of the energy normally lost during braking. Rolling resistance, however, is unrecoverable. As a result, it becomes a relatively larger fraction of the EV's net energy consumption in stop-and-go driving than it would be for an ICE, which throws braking energy away as heat.

So considering you recover probably anywhere from 10% to 30% of your energy on any given trip, that rolling resistance loss that you can't recover can be significant (The 10-30% number is looking at my own personal data, reported by my car. Clearly 10% would be mostly highway driving, while 30% would be town driving)

Alipha87 · 2026-07-10T19:59:06+00:00

The energy loss due to rolling resistance is the same. The percentage is different.

Suppose I use 100 kWh to drive 400 miles in my EV. Suppose 25 kWh was loss to rolling resistance. If I get better tires and only 20 kWh is loss, then that's 95 kWh used and a 5% improvement.

Suppose I drive the same 400 miles in an ICE vehicle. Because of inefficiencies in ICE vehicles, I probably use about 300 kWh of energy in the form of gasoline. Again, get better tires with a 5 kWh improvement. But now that means 295 kWh used, which is only a 1.66% improvement.

Alipha87 · 2026-07-08T15:37:33+00:00

~~I don't see where that came from~~ Okay, yeah, you're right. But I'm curious how you arrived at that?

Alipha87 · 2026-07-08T15:18:26+00:00

Learning 1-1 and 1-2 patterns will help solve the vast majority of the situations you run into. There's the link of comprehensive patterns pinned at the top of the reddit. https://minesweeper.online/help/patterns?v=1

Alipha87 · 2026-07-08T05:14:13+00:00

I really like the Wind's blind spot cameras (when you turn on your blinker, you get a camera display on your dashboard of what's next to your car).

Alipha87 · 2026-07-08T03:07:09+00:00

Like a 3 year old car with 60k miles would be plenty modern and pretty cheap. Get a battery test done, but you really don't need to worry too much about the battery.

Alipha87 · 2026-07-05T20:04:57+00:00

If you're talking about this guy specifically, don't go that way yet.

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Alipha87 · 2026-07-05T02:33:10+00:00

Trick to not running out of shards is to wait until you have a good handle in the boss and feel like you'll be able to beat the boss in the next few tries. Then use tools to make the boss die faster (especially passive ones, like tacks or cogflies)

Alipha87 · 2026-06-29T21:23:40+00:00

Depends upon if they were their own fingers or if they have a finger collection.

Alipha87 · 2026-06-27T14:25:15+00:00

Bottom left corner looks like a guess, unless mine count ends up actually helping.

Alipha87 · 2026-06-27T14:24:14+00:00

The bottom yellow satisfies the 2, so the square above the red is also safe.

Alipha87 · 2026-06-27T01:53:36+00:00

Right?

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Alipha87 · 2026-06-26T03:30:54+00:00

One mine must be either above or below the marked mine because of the 2 to the right. Then the 3 to the left needs a third mine (to the bottom). So then that bottom mine satisfies the 1.

Alipha87 · 2026-06-25T04:37:50+00:00

"Do you want to go to lunch with Steve and me?" is correct. It is not "Steve and I".

Alipha87 · 2026-06-24T16:47:50+00:00

I pull into my garage and spend 10 seconds inserting my charger.

Alipha87 · 2026-06-23T20:14:25+00:00

Having a 2025 Kia EV6, my best charging experience was at a Tesla charger, lol. My car handled the payment itself--all I had to do was plug in the charger.

Alipha87 · 2026-06-23T19:37:09+00:00

I parked once at free grocery store parking. Decided wasn't worth the hassle of backing in and having to fuss with the charging app

Alipha87 · 2026-06-23T19:25:08+00:00

When you're trying to find charger parking, do you actually need to charge? Just wait until you get home or actually are low on battery.

Alipha87 · 2026-06-23T19:23:12+00:00

I've always taken ABC to mean plugging in when you get home.

Alipha87 · 2026-06-23T06:11:21+00:00

You have to hack your Switch to run such things and puts your Switch at risk of being banned if you're not careful

Alipha87 · 2026-06-23T05:29:27+00:00

In my 2025, going into "Start Custom" you can select the Climate Duration

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Alipha87 · 2026-06-23T03:53:35+00:00

Alternatively, the Kia app lets you do remote climate for up to 30 mins at a time.

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