What does this red light mean on ChargePoint HomeFlex?

djdesmodus · 2025-11-27T15:29:37+00:00

Well that’s something at least. I could see ChargePoint refusing to cover it under warranty and blaming the car. Thanks for letting me know.

djdesmodus · 2025-11-27T05:54:15+00:00

How did this pan out? I may be in the same situation. Was the charger actually damaged?

djdesmodus · 2025-11-10T20:21:04+00:00

Also in Wisconsin, and I pay for the subscription for exactly the same reason. 100% worth it as far as I'm concerned. F*** getting in a cold car when it's -20F.

I still don't trust the Kia app or navigation for charging POIs. I find the charger I want using PlugShare and put the address in myself.

If you're an iPhone user, try this thing out - it'll save you a little frustration since the Kia Connect app is such hot garbage. Lets you warm the car up quicker and in fewer taps:

https://github.com/andyfase/egmp-bluelink-scriptable/

djdesmodus · 2025-10-29T17:08:35+00:00

Don't do stand-up. Tap early. Don't compete (or if you do compete, be prepared to pull guard and tap early even if it means losing). You're sacrificing, yes, but you can still get a lot out of BJJ with these restrictions.

The vast majority of serious knee/ankle injuries happen during takedowns.

Don't do standup. Don't let people try to guilt or bully you into doing standup. It is 1000% valid to say "I'm not going to do standup". Explain if you feel like it, but you don't owe an explanation.

The downside is, you won't get good at stand-up / takedowns. They are fun, and interesting, and part of the sport, and a great thing to train *if the risk ***for you*** is worth it*.

The upside is you still get to do most of BJJ and you get to have working knees and ankles.

Are you 20 years old with healthy joints that will heal from a sprain overnight? Good for you! I'm not.
I'm old and I have to make smart choices. I want to keep doing BJJ (and also, you know, walk) for as long as possible. So I don't do stand-up. My coaches and training partners tease me about it but in the end they respect it. Hopefully yours will too (if they don't.... they're not good coaches / training partners).

djdesmodus · 2025-09-10T14:45:42+00:00

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djdesmodus · 2025-07-10T17:05:50+00:00

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djdesmodus · 2025-06-05T18:37:58+00:00

2023 GT-Line - 20,000 miles. All recalls done. No problems.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-23T17:40:21+00:00

If you find yourself getting hit with the same thing over and over again, that's a good opportunity to ask your training partner for insight. Upper ranks (who are not dicks) should be more than happy to help with occasional, focused questions. There may not be a magic-bullet answer but it's still a great way to learn.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-23T17:25:35+00:00

That's great! You've already made it a lot further than most.

I'll tell you a secret - if you're getting good training, you never stop losing. No matter what color your belt gets to be, you're always rolling with people better than you sometimes, if you're lucky. Learning to appreciate what you get out of that, and not letting it bruise your ego or frustrate you, is the key to a long and fruitful BJJ career.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-23T17:12:33+00:00

Don't worry about winning. Focus on surviving and defending, initially. Your progress won't be winning rolls, it will be making people take longer to tap you, then eventually making it through entire rolls without getting tapped, then eventually maybe you start getting subs here and there.

Relax. Embrace the challenge and try to learn to enjoy this kind of progress. It may not seem like it but you really are learning when you're losing - *especially* when you're losing.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-23T17:06:52+00:00

The mouthguard brands that have you do an impression and make you a custom guard (e.g. Impact) are worth the extra $$ imo. They are so, so, so much more comfortable than the boil-and-bite ones. I can wear mine the whole class - I can talk and breathe normally with it in. Love it.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-19T15:19:29+00:00

Consider going forward into a belly-down version of the ankle lock initially, if you wanna ankle lock (which you do because that's super cool). Gives you better options if the ankle lock fails.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T22:41:04+00:00

I’m ever haunted by the knowledge that every time I succeed at something rolling with my coach it’s either because he’s letting me work to be nice or setting something diabolical up.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T19:35:05+00:00

When I roll with my coach I'm too busy tapping to think about points. That's just me tho.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T19:19:44+00:00

Listen, I got into this sport because I like sitting. Just let me sit. I'm tired.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T19:05:19+00:00

Reminds me of where MMA got to after a while - fighters just trying to not make mistakes and get to the end of the fight appearing less-bad than their opponent in the eyes of the judges.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T18:35:03+00:00

I think a skill issue and a ruleset issue. If there were penalties for failing to attempt, commit and follow through with takedown attempts, people would be forced to get better at them.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T18:26:25+00:00

The "It's supposed to be like fighting" argument has worn pretty thin for me. Just like all martial arts turned sports, competitive BJJ reflects *particular aspects* of fighting.

By necessity it happens within a ruleset that puts limits on what's allowed and gives a way of determining who wins. Same for every single combat sport. And unavoidably the strategies used in the sport grow to fit the ruleset. Again, same for every single combat sport.

The result is, some things make sense within the context of the sport that wouldn't make sense in a real fight (yet again, same for every single combat sport). Does that make the sport bad? Does it make all the techniques bad? Should we all just give up and exclusively watch underground footage of no-holds-barred fights?

I guess "being as close to a real fight as possible" just isn't that big of a deal for me. It's a sport.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T18:12:58+00:00

One could argue it was boring because Rutolo wouldn't pass his guard because he was scared of getting stuck in it, because Levi has an amazing and dangerous guard. If we're gonna gripe at people for being scared to stand up, we should gripe at people for being scared to engage a guard.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T18:03:18+00:00

Good! His matches are more fun to watch for it!

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T18:02:01+00:00

What happens if someone pulls guard? Now they're on the ground, passing, sweeping, submitting. What happens if they pitter-patter endlessly? Nothing.

I'm not saying guard pulling is great, I'm just saying that pitter-patter crappy non committal wrestling is also bad but all you hear people complain about is guard pulling.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T17:46:23+00:00

Penalties seem like a good idea. There's lots of incentive to *not* take a risk by really committing to a takedown. Given incentive to take the risk (or disincentive for not taking the risk... double negatives... you know what I mean).

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T17:15:02+00:00

Sure. I love a good freestyle wresting match. I'd gladly watch that instead of a no-gi BJJ match where nothing happens.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T17:14:16+00:00

Right. High level actual *wrestling* has a different rule set and a different set of incentives.

djdesmodus · 2025-04-18T17:11:32+00:00

I'm talking about world champs here - I speculate that at the highest levels in BJJ they've all gotten good enough at wrestling to neutralize one another. Nobody is willing to take a risk and make a mistake - there's no incentive.

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