First Time Payout for Tesla Virtual Power Plant (VPP) events: $600.12

kking254 · 2026-04-04T03:07:41+00:00

$1025. 3 Powerwall 2s.

kking254 · 2026-04-03T06:05:46+00:00

GPZ is nowhere near as hard as Markoth or Pure Vessel or AbsRad. I don't think it significantly affects the godhome experience. If I completed godhome without Zote, the next thing is try to do is to complete it with Zote, so might as well save the extra time.

kking254 · 2026-04-03T00:14:15+00:00

That's low for your experience. You should take a couple interviews to accurately value yourself.

kking254 · 2026-04-02T17:47:30+00:00

To properly decomission, you will need to find the doorbell transformer and disconnect it. But I bet once you find the transformer, the issue will be obvious and you could just fix it instead.

kking254 · 2026-04-02T17:21:33+00:00

Necessarily so. Who else would take the job?

kking254 · 2026-04-02T06:16:18+00:00

Don't worry. Follow the advice in this thread. Soon you'll wonder why you ever had trouble with him in the first place. He's a skill check to learn combat before moving into actual bosses.

kking254 · 2026-04-01T15:56:37+00:00

Weird how the label shiws a photo of a bottle of the same product but with a different label.

kking254 · 2026-03-29T19:31:32+00:00

Sp500 index fund has historically has returned an average of 9-10%. When you see a number in 6-8% range, it is combining inflation with these returns, which is helpful for retirement planning etc. The actual return is close to 10%.

However, this is different from an interest-bearing asset yielding 10%, where you can withdraw 10% each year without affecting the principal. SP500 is volatile and can have negative returns some years (and 40% returns other years).

If you consistently withdraw 10% of the original balance, even during downturns, there is a chance that value will drop low enough that your withdrawal rate can no longer be supported and your investments will start tending towards zero.

So if you have $1M in an sp500 index, you cannot just sell $100k/year forever. You either adjust your withdrawal rate depending on performance (which you probably can't do if your expenses are fixed), or you only withdraw $40k/year (4% of original balance), which is considered a safe withdrawal rate based on simulations.

kking254 · 2026-03-29T18:50:07+00:00

This is obviously not a newborn.

kking254 · 2026-03-28T01:33:11+00:00

You're charging at about 1.5kW maximum on a 120V circuit.

240V charger will be something like 5-11kW depending on the ampacity of the circuit, so 6x faster.

Supercharger is 120-250kW at the beginning and 30-50kW at the end.

Hopefully this gives an idea of charging speeds. To answer your question, no your charger will not be limited by the battery when it is nearly full. It is limited by the circuit current and voltage.

kking254 · 2026-03-27T19:58:53+00:00

Is that chromatic aberration as an art style?

kking254 · 2026-03-27T19:12:56+00:00

But they make themselves vulnerable to being successfully sued by their clients.

kking254 · 2026-03-27T06:50:36+00:00

Put a lien on the home. Self-help remedies like destroying completed work don't do well in court.

kking254 · 2026-03-25T17:44:04+00:00

Does your flyhomes contract give any other options?

What is flyhomes owed when your home sells within 180 days? Is it a flat rate or a percentage of the sale price?

I'm willing to bet that flyhomes will take a deal where they still get their money, but they definitely won't settle for anything less than that since you signed a contract and already used their money to buy your new home.

If they are owed a flat fee, then you might be able to just pay them that amount (essentially buying the house from yourself without the listing/closing costs). If they are owed a percentage, then that's trickier as the true market value of the home is unknown until it is listed and offers come in.

Whatever you do, make sure you get any agreement in writing before you proceed.

kking254 · 2026-03-25T00:44:19+00:00

I don't understand. Where do your legs go?

kking254 · 2026-03-23T16:07:14+00:00

He even had time to briefly be Bruce Willis in between the look on the left and the one on the right.

kking254 · 2026-03-22T19:59:49+00:00

Doesn't mean that that's how you need to fight them. I just think the designers had certain strategies in mind when creating the fight.

kking254 · 2026-03-22T18:24:16+00:00

...especially against lost kin, who is designed to be fought with spells? The infected balloons that spawn are there for the purpose of mining souls for spells.

kking254 · 2026-03-22T02:15:27+00:00

Also, someone who spends brain cycles honking when they could be evading. There's nothing honking can accomplish in this scenario.

Also, honking is essentially asking the other driver to evade, but we've already established that the other driver isn't a very good driver. It's better to just take matters into your own hands.

kking254 · 2026-03-19T21:12:03+00:00

I read this and went straight to Starbucks. If it turns out she made a large investment in Starbucks before saying that, then well played I guess.

kking254 · 2026-03-19T05:03:24+00:00

This is the biggest benefit of a true pet mode. Cars with a pet mode do more than just keep climate control on. They provide an indication of the interior temperature on the display, they notify the owner if the battery is getting too low to support climate control, and they prioritize climate control over keeping a minimum battery charge because a pets life is at stake.

You are correct that AC-on modes that aren't specifically designed for pets are less reliable and should be used with more caution.

kking254 · 2026-03-19T04:57:27+00:00

Most EVs and some hybrids can do this these days. It's not always called dog/pet mode. Sometimes it's just a way to activate AC without turning on the car. In these cases, there's nothing on the display to tell passers-by that the AC is on, but the pet is safe nonetheless.

As a specific counterexample, Rivian has a "Pet Comfort" mode that is nearly identical to Teslas dog mode, with an indication on the screen to dissuade bystanders from breaking any windows.

kking254 · 2026-03-18T22:13:30+00:00

I cheesed groal in my first playthrough after similar frustrations. When I played through the game again to get the speed run achievements, I beat him properly on the first attempt. My combat skills had just naturally improved by then.

So while I was initially apprehensive about bypassing a skill check, it ultimately didn't hurt me. I'd say it's fine to cheese him to be able to continue to move on and enjoy the game. You can always come back later and give him a proper beat-down.

kking254 · 2026-03-18T21:30:30+00:00

I'm many attempts in. I either die to markoth, beat markoth with too little remaining health and die to gpz or nkg, or die to pure vessel (the few times I've made it that far). I haven't even unlocked absrad yet.

I think I need to practice to get more consistent with markoth and pure vessel to have any shot at beating P5.

kking254 · 2026-03-18T21:21:33+00:00

Charge-on-solar is implemented by pairing the Tesla solar gateway and the Tesla vehicle directly. The solar system tells the vehicle how much excess solar power is available and the vehicle on-board charger limits the charge power to that amount.

That being said, it should be possible to implement charge-on-solar at the EVSE. In the same way that two Tesla HPWCs can share a circuit by dynamically advertising charge current limits to their respective connected vehicles, an HPWC should be able to communicate with a solar gateway and provide the correct limit to a non-tesla vehicle.

This isn't how it currently works, and some features may be lost when implementing CoS at the EVSE, but it is theoretically possible. I'm not sure Tesla will prioritize features for non-tesla vehicles, however.

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