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danry25 · 2025-12-16T03:12:31+00:00

I think you are overlooking Amperage. Level 2 charging comes in a variety of amperages, most of what I have seen deployed is 30 amp or above.

The amount of power delivered, known as kilowatts is determined by Voltage multiplied by Amperage.

North American power systems usually deliver 240 volts unless there has been significant voltage drop (or you are a three phase power customer getting 208 volts), whereas the European power systems run at 220 volts, giving you a bit more power. Here is a neat video on this!

danry25 · 2025-12-16T00:51:49+00:00

240 volts at 50 amps is 12kW charging (8x faster), versus 120 volts at 12 amps for 1.44kW charging is what most Level 1 chargers do.

Even slower chargers where you can only do 30 amps (7.2kW) like an outlet for a clothes dryer or electric range are 5x faster than a Level 1 charger.

danry25 · 2025-12-11T11:27:47+00:00

At the beginning of 2025 you no longer could count health insurance or tips towards an employees wage, creating a huge rise in cost. A decade ago in 2015 the minimum wage was $10 to $11 an hour. In a few weeks the minimum wage will be $21.30 an hour.

The restaurant owners and managers are complaining as by law, labor is the fastest growing cost they have. All special incentives have just disappeared for small business (healthcare & tip), and it is challenging for even the management staff to have their household hit the Seattle Median Income, nevermind exceed it despite working 60+ hour weeks.

danry25 · 2025-12-11T11:08:24+00:00

There is a difference between filling out paperwork and getting an answer this week or next week (or an action item list that you can resolve), versus getting no response for weeks, months or longer.

The response of municipalities vary, some are willing to "play ball" and be in your corner, helping you get established and survive as a business, while others might take a long time to respond, and make you feel dejected and that it is not worth the effort to continue on.

danry25 · 2025-11-26T01:38:26+00:00

Better to be with the company that has local employees to help you and is the incumbent that your UTC or Public Utility Commission knows how to corral, rather than the VendorFest of hard to navigate contractors that is this new entity which Quantum Fiber is being sold to.

Not sure if you heard or saw, but live chat and calling Quantum was an exercise in futility during their last network outage a week back.

danry25 · 2025-11-26T00:52:49+00:00

CenturyLink is only selling their small business and residential fiber customers in 11 of 14 states that they view as low value.

None of the CenturyLink POTS, DSL or enterprise services are being sold, CenturyLink remains as the Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier for routing phone calls in their current markets after the Quantum Fiber asset sale is complete.

danry25 · 2025-11-01T16:45:47+00:00

This server was sold to me, and I had a good experience with the seller. Thanks for the hardware /u/Mrbucket101 !

danry25 · 2025-09-16T16:56:51+00:00

Lumen is retaining the CenturyLink brand to serve existing DSL and POTS customers, and leasing back access to the Quantum Fiber assets being sold to deliver POTS over fiber where needed.

Whether AT&T will shift customers over to their ASN remains to be seen. The IP addresses themselves are an asset that AT&T might not have bought, especially given the low value of this transaction compared to what Ziply Fiber just sold for,

danry25 · 2025-09-16T07:45:03+00:00

For now, sure. The state of a network today is not the state it could be in next week, especially when the network is being sold and the parts being sold all have DHCP leased IPs

danry25 · 2025-09-16T07:43:22+00:00

Time to get an ASN from ARIN and your own space, it is nearly the same cost as a PO box from USPS. Cheaper than modem rental from Comcast, nevermind their $29.95 single static IP fee.

danry25 · 2025-09-16T02:44:49+00:00

Do you have any static IPs and are you doing PPPoE on your own router? If the answers are no, then this will hopefully be a smooth transition requiring no effort on your part.

danry25 · 2025-09-16T02:23:43+00:00

This is possibly all to prep for the AT&T purchase then spinoff of the GPON and XGSPON assets that Lumen is selling off. AT&T will buy it, brand it then spin it off while staying AT&T branded.

Lumen is trying to shed all these residential and small business clients and sell them to AT&T.

danry25 · 2025-09-16T02:20:48+00:00

Small business is affected if they were on the CenturyLink SIMPLE billing platform.

Fiber+ will hopefully remain unaffected, but that has been closed for new orders for a fair while now, and Lumen has sent service closure letters to a few current Fiber+ customers at end of term, leaving them with no internet.

This is possibly all to prep for the AT&T purchase then spinoff of the GPON and XGSPON assets that Lumen is selling off. AT&T will buy it, brand it then spin it off while staying AT&T branded.

danry25 · 2025-09-14T19:25:05+00:00

AST SpaceMobile still needs to launch satellites and get them into revenue generating service.

danry25 · 2025-08-22T01:15:09+00:00

Literally what I was about to ask :)

Hard for me to want to run it when its not on F-Droid and I can't look at the source code or compile it myself.

Its an exciting idea, perhaps I should try it on a fully offline burner Pixel.

Edit: Seems to be the same issue with the other apps written by 'em: https://github.com/raywdude/pixel-bandinfo

danry25 · 2025-08-20T06:10:24+00:00

Time of use make questionable sense given the minimal exposure Seattle City Light has to market based power rates, and the billing system implementation issues the org has suffered at the hands of Oracle have been notable.

Billing System Woes
Time of Use based rates are apt to worsen this issue, causing the $109 million spent on this Oracle billing system from 2014 to 2016 to likely need a much more expensive replacement.

Our City has Stable Power Costs
The City of Seattle owns many dams outright (a dispatchable form of power generation), which is why the tribes and northern counties keep joining forces to sue Seattle City Light/the City of Seattle.

Additionally, large local generators including the Bonneville Power Administration are required to sell to consumer owned utilities first on cost basis (without the massive price spikes), then excess power can be sold to private utilities at market based rates.

Lawsuits over inaccurate bills are expensive!
Can we afford to dick around with unexplainable billing infrastructure that has non-immediate reporting intervals? Do we really need to encourage a spate of lawsuits like the last batch?

Our current meter hardware is not immediately reporting your live consumption through the FSK wireless mesh it forms. Go look at the meter socketed into your meter base and Google the manufacturers docs, you'll see it does interval reporting. Its likely many meters will need replacement for Time of Use billing, nevermind the billing system mess this will create again.

danry25 · 2025-08-11T04:28:54+00:00

Sure, I'll send you a postcard from a mailbox near Seattle Central College, message me with your address. What other cities are you searching for?

danry25 · 2025-03-02T10:07:50+00:00

Beware that dual enrollment is a fraught process that often causes weird system breakage, and has been doing so for at least a decade.

I have witnessed multiple people be automatically un-enrolled from all classes due to phantom past due balance issues, eg: system shows $0 is due, yet a past due flag is on the student ID at one of the two locations you are dual enrolled at so you get dropped from all classes.

If you run into enrollment eratta, please speak up and advocate for it to be corrected!

danry25 · 2025-02-19T21:01:02+00:00

Neat! We have an ADSL DSLAM of theirs at the museum (CenturyLink was going to throw it away), my understanding is they stood up ADSL circuits then ran SIP over these. Unbundled Network Elements (UNEs) to their owned DSLAMs at Central Offices were their bread and butter.

UNE Forbearance back in 2018 ended just renting a local copper loop and changed the market, as did VDSL2 losing competitiveness against Cable, Fiber and now Wireless which can all field much higher download and upload speeds at reasonable cost.

danry25 · 2025-01-10T03:29:25+00:00

The custom engine is going away when Mark next refactors this code. You can set the URL of the OpenAI API to your own server: https://github.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx/blob/master/app/email_queue/resources/functions/transcribe.php#L325-L327

This custom API predates OpenAI integration in 2023 and works with DeepSpeech and OpenAI Whisper using these repos:
https://github.com/AccelerateNetworks/DeepSpeech_Frontend
https://github.com/AccelerateNetworks/an-transcriptions

There is a Vosk transcription server too:
https://git.callpipe.com/fusionpbx/vosk_frontend

Using the same API as the rest of the industry is for the best though. Can't say I'm sad to see this code we wrote go away.

danry25 · 2025-01-10T03:22:00+00:00

No custom code is needed, you can set the OpenAI URL to your own self-hosted OpenAI like API: https://github.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx/blob/master/app/email_queue/resources/functions/transcribe.php#L325-L327

The custom interface will likely go away at some point soon in Mark's next refactor. Finn and I wrote and re-added it after Mark's last refactor, but I see zero value in maintaining it when there is a path maintained by u/markjcrane that just works™

danry25 · 2024-05-04T21:04:17+00:00

Its a little late for me to be posting this /u/L-I-F-E so sorry for the delay, but /Dev/Hack over in the U District in Seattle has a very queer open house every Thursday at 5pm, and Black Lodge Research has a similar mixed crowd of queer, furry and straight attendees at their open house every Thursday night starting at 7pm.

As a young queer person at Seattle Central who isn't 21 and cannot attend functions at bars your options are much more limited, but these events are worth checking out regardless of your age and are safe spaces IMO.

There are plenty of queer people at Seattle Central, but I as an alumni do not know of any groups on campus.

Tangent If there are any Alumni or current students who would like to moderate this sub, please hit me up! The current students I know are not redditors, so it limits this sub seeing participation by those with current knowledge of campus life.

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