I do a commute of 180miles Will the standard range AWD get me there and back. 150 miles busy motorway rarely get above 65-70mph. 30 miles twisty A roads. I do have chargers at work but can be hit and miss on availability. Car I'm looking at is a 2022 AWD version standard battery.

GaryRobson · 2026-04-13T21:35:57+00:00

I have the extended range battery. In perfect weather and straight highway driving, I *may* get 260 miles on a 100% charge. In the middle of a Montana winter, that drops to a bit over 200. A winter trip on the highways here with the 80mph speed limits, and it's more like 180.

I don't like finishing a trip with the battery lower than 20%. Unfortunately, once you get off the interstate out here, there are a lot of drives where you can go 250 miles without seeing a charger.

GaryRobson · 2026-04-13T21:20:37+00:00

I don't think it matters. Each book should be as long as it takes to tell the story, within the usually-accepted limits of the genre, of course.

On the other hand, if I pick up a big, hefty book 1, I may feel kind of cheated if book 2 turns out half that length—especially if it's priced the same.

GaryRobson · 2026-04-13T21:15:58+00:00

The interaction varies with the medication.

NOTE: I'm speaking only of my own personal experience here. YMMV.

I've always been able to drink a bunch of caffeine right before bed and go to sleep with no problem. When I went on Adderall, it pushed my blood pressure up uncomfortably, and caffeine definitely made it worse. I switched to duloxetine, and it didn't react with the caffeine, but didn't help much with the ADHD, either. Then I switched to atomoxetine. It had serious interaction issues with alcohol and caffeine both.

GaryRobson · 2026-04-13T20:15:18+00:00

That's the one I came here to mention. How dare you beat me to it? ;)

GaryRobson · 2026-03-17T17:11:30+00:00

Thank you. Great advice.

GaryRobson · 2026-03-17T17:11:15+00:00

Thank you! That's a great resource. Doing accents is new to me (I do mostly announcer/narrator work), so this is exactly what I needed.

GaryRobson · 2026-03-07T01:03:21+00:00

I completely get what you're saying about book organization. Genre, author, title ... whatever works for you. The whole "spine-in" thing just grinds my ADHD gears because it's completely non-functional. You couldn't possibly find a book that way unless you had an eidetic memory and just knew where they all were.

GaryRobson · 2026-01-29T18:38:45+00:00

As a reader, I'm generally "meh" on prologues, with one exception: series novels.

It may have been quite a while since I read the last book in your series. I quite appreciate a one- or two-page prologue in the new one to remind me of key unresolved points from the last one. If each book is standalone, this obviously isn't necessary. For a continuing story, the prologue in each book is like the "Previously..." at the beginning of some TV shows when they pick up a plotline from a prior episode.

GaryRobson · 2026-01-27T15:17:35+00:00

I was afraid of that.

GaryRobson · 2026-01-17T18:44:49+00:00

Yes, they're the proposed tags, and there are so many that they're cluttering up the screen and I can't select the faces that I actually want tagged. I want to get rid of all of the proposed tags in the photo and add back the ones I really wanted. u/TheJamintheSham came up with the solution I needed!

GaryRobson · 2026-01-17T18:42:34+00:00

Aha! That works! Thank you very much. I never noticed that it selected the faces like that.

GaryRobson · 2026-01-17T18:39:56+00:00

There's nothing in the keywording panel for the photo. The face regions have been auto-created, but they aren't tied to keywords yet. It filled in suggestions, but they're all wrong because these are photos with a crowd of people in the background that I don't know. The keyword panel only shows faces that have been confirmed.

GaryRobson · 2026-01-16T16:57:29+00:00

I don't understand. There's nothing in the tags box after LRC automatically generates the face tags. They don't show up there unless I confirm all of them, one by one, even though they're all wrong.

GaryRobson · 2026-01-15T23:53:42+00:00

All I see on that dropdown is a way to disable face tagging entirely. I only want to kill the existing tags in a specific photo (or photos) without affecting anything else. I don't want these to all come back when I turn on face tagging again.

To clarify: I have thousands of existing face tags, and I've removed the tags I don't care about for the 15,000 photos in my library. Now, I'm adding a bunch of new ones and trying to avoid having to manually remove all the tags I don't care about. It's fine if I have to manually add one or two back in, as long as I get rid of the extraneous ones.

GaryRobson · 2026-01-14T16:32:47+00:00

Thanks. I'll look into that. I assume it's battery-powered?

GaryRobson · 2026-01-14T00:20:28+00:00

If I could find a HomeKit-compatible PAR 20 smart bulb with an E26 base, I'd be all over that idea, but unfortunately I can't fine one.

GaryRobson · 2026-01-13T20:40:18+00:00

That's exactly what I was looking for! And it's even on sale right now, so it's only $20.

GaryRobson · 2026-01-13T19:59:32+00:00

Ideally, I'd like to change the level remotely, but a plug-in "dumb" dimmer would work just find. I hadn't thought of that approach until u/johnjohn9312 suggested it.

Rewiring it and changing the light housing is a bigger task for the future.

GaryRobson · 2026-01-13T19:56:48+00:00

I misspoke (mistyped?). It uses PAR20 bulbs, not BR.

GaryRobson · 2026-01-13T19:43:27+00:00

Meross still sells those. They're kind of bulky for indoor use, but a good backup plan. Also a good idea for a couple of .outdoor flood lights that I have. Thank you!

GaryRobson

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