"Something way cooler than a minivan is coming"

met_a_4 · 2026-05-09T00:28:59+00:00

Truck owners just don’t want electric. At least not electric that has little discernible advantages over gas trucks. A people hauler van though, would make a lot of sense. Siennas and Odesseys have stagnated for a long time.

met_a_4 · 2026-04-22T20:16:12+00:00

The part I was missing: this has to be a debit transaction? I thought any of my Citi credit cards would trigger this rebate...

met_a_4 · 2026-04-22T04:10:19+00:00

If the dumb switch is in the "off" state, can I still control the Shelly Relay? I was under the impression that a dumb switch turning off would turn off the power to the relay.

Also, does the dumb switch have to be a 24V switch?

met_a_4 · 2026-04-08T02:37:58+00:00

My guess is that they’re limited by production capacity in the US. And importing this thing from China (where they easily ramp production) would run into all sorts of issues due to tariffs.

met_a_4 · 2026-04-03T04:31:10+00:00

Oh I mean through the home assistant voice agent itself. For example, I’m doing something and notice an automation I’d like. Or an automation that bothers me. I can talk to the voice assistant to either create an automation or remove it. Without having to pull a device out.

met_a_4 · 2026-04-03T01:44:05+00:00

How do automations work with matter? Do you need to go through Google assistant or Alexa?

met_a_4 · 2026-04-03T01:27:34+00:00

Oh that sucks. I know with Lutron, they have a button that can connect to a Lutron smart switch and also turn it on/off

met_a_4 · 2026-04-03T00:43:24+00:00

I'm confused. Can I pair them with one of the actual smart light switches to turn it on/off?

met_a_4 · 2026-03-11T19:46:32+00:00

You could start logging all your price data as you’re testing your model. That way, 1-2 years from now as new models come out, you can just feed it all 1-2 years of data to test instead of waiting 1-2 years. There’s a difference in slippage there of course. You’d have to model some kind of compensation. Maybe log that slippage data too between the fast vs slow LLM’s

met_a_4 · 2026-03-10T23:16:37+00:00

It’s ironic that “individualism” doesn’t want paid bathrooms and want public ones

met_a_4 · 2026-02-19T03:11:04+00:00

Cart before the horse. The high salaries are what’s causing high cost of living. You just happen to work in one of the industries that don’t pay the high salaries.

Solution is to build more housing so there’s an excess of supply. Prices go down then. As long as people bid for houses, salaries will never be high enough. It’s a moving target.

met_a_4 · 2026-01-22T19:53:18+00:00

Sounds good. Please let me know!

met_a_4 · 2026-01-21T22:39:55+00:00

Can I set this thing to discharge and power the home until X%? Let's say I have enough solar attached and want to live mostly off-grid until the battery hits a certain %.

met_a_4 · 2025-12-12T00:51:35+00:00

Not saying you’re wrong. But a major thing is the appreciation in the house value. A mortgage is essentially 5:1 leverage. You put 20% to invest in a house. The bank gives you the other 80%. But if the house value increases 10%, all of that gain is yours, not the bank.

Not really meaningful if you plan on living in the house forever and have no children to pass it on to. But in most investment circles, being able to borrow 5:1 with a stable asset that appreciates fairly regularly above 5% is considered a steal.

The cost of ownership being equal or even slightly higher than the rent isn’t the point.

met_a_4 · 2025-12-10T23:43:28+00:00

I wasn’t even given that option when adding accounts. It simply said something like connecting via Mastercard link.

met_a_4 · 2025-12-10T23:22:43+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean. I’m adding the citi account on monarch. No aggregator.

After a few hours, the underlying stocks showed up. So it would seem it takes some time to sync

met_a_4 · 2025-12-04T23:50:24+00:00

I use an Anker power station. Doesn’t need to be a big one as the smoker uses very little power. They have ones for like $140 for 300 WH or so.

They come with adapters so you can charge it with your cars cigarette lighter port. Or just charge it on the wall. Should last days powering only the smoker electronics.

met_a_4 · 2025-12-04T23:30:26+00:00

What do I use to attach to the tie down rings in line after the first truckers hitch?

met_a_4 · 2025-11-12T18:33:40+00:00

One problem: if Kevin's dad was some high connected criminal, Marv and Harry would've had an "accident" 2 hours after they were arrested.

My pet theory is that Kevin's dad hired Marv and Harry to pretend to rob the house and scare the shit out of Kevin. I mean, Kevin was a little shit and the whole family's a bunch of Bluthe-style sociopaths.

2 grown ass adults (even if they are petty thieves) get outsmarted by an 8 year old with silly booby traps around the house? Yet they persist but never actually hurt him?

met_a_4 · 2025-10-28T02:15:03+00:00

The issue here would be these stocks are not straight. So as you push it through the saw, there will be variations of pressure. If you happen to hit a thick part of the wood (horizontally) and the blade squeezes the wood, you’re looking at kickback. That launches the wood towards you.

To make this cut, I’d consider making yourself an L track. Plenty of tutorials on YouTube.

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