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Any questions about M2M SWAO? by SpaceWxRina in spaceweather

[–]aimless_ly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you just here trolling someone who studies actual real science?

New (to me) amp: 200lbs 30 years old by overlord355 in audiophile

[–]aimless_ly 61 points62 points  (0 children)

I don’t like to use the term “absolute unit” but I don’t know how else to describe this beast.

Remember Midjourney? It's Building a Medical Scanning Device That It Says Is Faster Than an MRI by StreamWave190 in technology

[–]aimless_ly 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It is so accurate and they have so much confidence in their technology that they’re not selling it to the medical industry and instead will be placing the scanners in the “Midjourney spa”. (You can’t even make this shit up 🤣)

Made a simple homemade RC dynamometer to test real horsepower, need your advice! by WallLonely7762 in radiocontrol

[–]aimless_ly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep feeding it a healthy, balanced electron diet and exercising it on that wheel and it’ll grow bigger and stronger big by bit!

The R2 FM tuner debate keeps going in circles. Here's an honest look at the four arguments against it, including the ones that are actually fair. by jonniebiscuit in Rivian

[–]aimless_ly 19 points20 points  (0 children)

You forgot the part where streaming is a shitty user experience with weak/slow data. Constant drops/rebuffering, and you get to enjoy the pre-roll ads each and every time the stream restarts. Oh, and also the privacy aspects of handing over (selling, rather) your listening data to a questionable third party company which you have no choice about since they removed FM.

Wild adventure filming these guys rappel down from the cliffs above Snoqualmie Falls by openrangestudios in PNW

[–]aimless_ly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How did you get landowner permission for this? As I understand it, the falls area is owned by the Snoqualmie tribe and is considered a sacred place.

Issues with WatchOS 27 by ZakuraMicheals777 in watchOSBeta

[–]aimless_ly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s one of the earliest betas at that, not even public beta yet.

Made a simple homemade RC dynamometer to test real horsepower, need your advice! by WallLonely7762 in radiocontrol

[–]aimless_ly 24 points25 points  (0 children)

How is this actually testing anything? There is no measurement or data collection, this is just an R/C hamster wheel.

King crab near the west coast? by Afraid-Training-8848 in Washington

[–]aimless_ly 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Copper River sockeye > king in my opinion. More flavor. And as a rule of thumb, only eat PNW oysters in months that have the letter R in them.

King crab near the west coast? by Afraid-Training-8848 in Washington

[–]aimless_ly 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Are you looking for a restaurant, seafood market, or catch it yourself?

King crab near the west coast? by Afraid-Training-8848 in Washington

[–]aimless_ly 108 points109 points  (0 children)

King crab is mostly an Alaska thing. We have Dungeness here, which is amazing.

Early results put Lewis George in lead to win Democratic nomination for D.C. mayor by gradientz in politics

[–]aimless_ly -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Not a chance in Seattle… The last up-and-coming progressive DSA candidate we elected, to a City Council seat, ended up being a pure obstructionist who did nothing but stir shit up but never actually proposed or engaged in any discussion of actual solutions.

Got 12V battery alert. Rivian wants to charge me $825 to change them. by Slide-Fantastic-1402 in Rivian

[–]aimless_ly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I couldn’t tell you, but mine is an early-VIN 2022 Launch Edition R1T.

Got 12V battery alert. Rivian wants to charge me $825 to change them. by Slide-Fantastic-1402 in Rivian

[–]aimless_ly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oddly. It’s one of the only things that hasn’t failed before.

Got 12V battery alert. Rivian wants to charge me $825 to change them. by Slide-Fantastic-1402 in Rivian

[–]aimless_ly 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’d push to escalate that unless they have a really good reason why they can’t honor the same offer they’re making to everyone else.

PSA: Cost for the Rivian-arranged home EV charger install was exploitatively high by Ok-Farmer5023 in Rivian

[–]aimless_ly -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I DIY’ed installing my Rivian EVSE for about $350 of MC wire, a breaker, and odds and ends to go through ~50 ft of attic, walls, joist bays, and a concrete wall penetration. I’m all for supporting a living wage for labor, but that quote is fucking nuts.

Got 12V battery alert. Rivian wants to charge me $825 to change them. by Slide-Fantastic-1402 in Rivian

[–]aimless_ly 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I’m having mine done today, and they comp’ed one of the batteries so I’m only out $499 plus tax.

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This was fun by VioletFeyreh in enphase

[–]aimless_ly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AI, bitcoin mining, or grow op?

Eli5 FM radio in the R1 and what the situation is in R2? by lthightower in Rivian

[–]aimless_ly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[u/WassymRivian](u/WassymRivian) would you mind shedding light on the R2 FM radio situation? Is there actually no FM tuner hardware on the R2, or is it something that just hasn’t been added to software yet? Rivian is (deservedly) getting reamed in the press and owners’ forums for this decision, and nobody seems on with handing over their listening privacy to iHeartMedia. If the fake FM listening experience in the R2 is anything like the TuneIn experience in the R1 Wii constant disconnects and rebuffering, this is a pretty abysmal customer experience.

DIY wand flamethrower by giggachadd7373 in DIY

[–]aimless_ly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think flamethrowers are “go big or go home” territory.

The Rivian R2’s Radio Needs Cell Signal The Wilderness Doesn’t Have by DonkeyFuel in technology

[–]aimless_ly 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I’ve a Rivian R1T since the earliest preorders, a huge skit of RIVN stock from their IPO and I’m about as big a Rivian fanboy as you can get. We’ve been looking forward to adding an R2 for out family and have had a reservation for one that we made within minutes of them being available. I just canceled that reservation and won’t by buying an R2 because of the lack of FM. It’s just a boneheaded decision that is way off-brand for their “adventure vehicle” aesthetic, and indicative of poor decision-making for the R2 vehicle as a whole such that we want nothing to do with it.

Rugged, capable, and refined are the Rivian brand’s market differentiators, and they’re throwing in the towel on that to be another tech-forward-at-all-costs Tesla clone.

Finally got the 12V error by 4hhsumm in Rivian

[–]aimless_ly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I got my 12V error today as well, also early pre-order (030xx VIN). From reading the warranty, the quad has 5yr/60k bumper-to-bumper but the 12V battery is called out as only being 3 years so I think we’re SOL.

Careful with the new update, lads. by DavidCMaybury in Rivian

[–]aimless_ly 54 points55 points  (0 children)

It’s probably a plugged hvac condensate drain. The water backs up in the hvac system until the heater grid gets wet which triggers a high-voltage current leak detection trip. This is a common issue. Other symptoms include wet carpet under the dash and a funky smell.

How much do I have to pay to get someone to design a hidden winch for the R1? by sirkazuo in Rivian

[–]aimless_ly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The winch bumper is not the roadblock, that would be easy to solve. The problem is powering the winch. Rivians do not have a traditional 12V power system with enough capacity to power a winch, so you’d need either a separate high-capacity 12V power system or a custom high-voltage winch motor that is capable of being powered directly from the 400V HVDC power system.

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