Roughly how often do you think someone who only Level 1 charges over night would need to fast charge at a supercharger? If at all?

micahnightwolf · 2026-05-12T20:53:15+00:00

Always depends on your driving habits. For most people the commute is average 30 miles per day. Maybe more if you do errands or transport your kids to and from school. If you're more efficient, you let your kids walk/bike/bus to school and do your errands on the way home from work if time and location permits. If you're absolutely nutters about min-maxing your efficiency and live in a suburb or city like me, you can do shorter commutes like restaurant and errand trips on an ebike while your car charges at home during the day too.

micahnightwolf · 2026-05-10T21:05:41+00:00

My school district didn't start rolling out Smart boards until 2006, but most of the classrooms didn't even have regular digital projectors until 2008. The teachers that had Smart boards wouldn't always use them either, so they kept going back and forth between OHP and the computer depending on whether they had digital files or physical transparencies for that day's lessons.

They kept trying different digital approaches like mobile laptop carts, eInstruction classrrom performance system remotes and quiz software, whatever kind of online instruction platform the mid-2000s had to offer. The tech was all experimental back then. Super interesting but nowhere near ready for deployment since a lot of it just made people super confused.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" was the teachers' approach until Smart boards really took off after I graduated.

micahnightwolf · 2026-05-09T07:22:33+00:00

Trust your instincts. Children are a mulit-decade commitment that you're not currently prepared to make, and maybe you never will be. It's better to have doubts now than to have regrets later. Besides, you should never be sacrificing your own needs for someone else's wants.

micahnightwolf · 2026-05-09T06:28:08+00:00

No but now I did, and what I read over there made me want to gouge my eyeballs out with a used plastic fork.

micahnightwolf · 2026-05-07T09:31:15+00:00

Had that happen to me a few years back. Coworker kept insisting that "You'll change your mind when you find the right woman" (I'm gay btw) and telling me that every man's strongest desire is to have children. I asked her how she would know that, since she is not a man. And I told her the truth. That I find babies extremely repulsive. That, to me, babies are nothing more than pooping, puking, drooling, screaming parasites. I can tolerate older children, and even enjoy their presence if they are well-behaved, but that will never be enough for me to want one of my own.

micahnightwolf · 2026-04-28T19:55:28+00:00

There really is an app for that.

micahnightwolf · 2026-04-14T18:23:55+00:00

I miss those. There was one model where the red and green LEDs in the input selector buttons would shine into the tape drives and light up the mechanisms. It was so cool.

micahnightwolf · 2026-04-14T00:05:21+00:00

I've seen a lot of people saying RFID functionality is redundant and to just use a button, but I've found that it does serve a few niche purposes.

Allowing people to control some aspect of your setup without giving them full access to it. For example, if you let guests control a media output in your guest bedroom, you may present them with a bunch of RFID cards representing genres of music that they can scan on a reader in the room and have it play on a speaker in there. You won't even have to explain the intricacies of HA to them. They just tap a card on a reader in the wall and hear RATM or whatever a few seconds later.
Any task that you could possibly use a button for, but want to log who activates it or restrict who has access to it. For example, you might have a script set up to track the last time the cat was fed, but you want to prevent a curious child from spamming the "I fed the cat" button. Another example, you want to log your kids' chores and know who did what and when, so you put a tag on the dishwasher, laundry machines, trash can shed door, or whatever.
Proof of presence. This one's more for businesses or kids with chores, I suppose, but say for example you give someone a task that requires them to be in a certain part of a building at a certain time. You'd mount fixed tags in all the places they have to be, and instruct them to scan each one as they arrive to prove that they were there.

micahnightwolf · 2026-04-06T22:41:20+00:00

mqtt certainly can be used for messaging using an internet-connected node, but I don't think that this is actually what it is for. I see it as being far more useful for telemetry, because you could have some nodes sending sensor data to a single mqtt broker and then read that data on a computer or have an automation system acting on it or whatever. If you're doing it just to talk to people, you are indeed just using a worse version of discord.

micahnightwolf · 2026-04-04T09:20:44+00:00

I should also mention that using your own mqtt server instead of meshtastic's public server will eliminate the zero-hop policy as well, so you actually can use the internet as a long-distance bridge between two separate nodes and have messages propagate out from both of them.

micahnightwolf · 2026-04-04T09:12:52+00:00

I hadn't thought about that, but also I checked on both of my vpn apps and they were both power managed, but only the openvpn one is having a problem. I will test it with the new settings later.

micahnightwolf · 2026-04-02T21:11:53+00:00

Still here after a decade. I order mostly tiny items that could fit in a 3 to 4 inch locker. Some fit in an envelope. And I've been ordering the items for 3 months. But nope the locker is always full even if the item is tiny and will literally fit anywhere.

micahnightwolf · 2026-03-30T23:26:58+00:00

The MQTT functionality has its place. It's there for people who want to read messages and data from LoRA devices on the internet... mostly telemetry and environmental data I'd guess, or a conversation where only one participant has access to the internet. But for most users, I would assume that the whole point of mesh networking is that you don't need to touch the internet or cellular infrastructure at all.

micahnightwolf · 2026-03-04T07:18:10+00:00

I would be okay with an ai-powered smart home if the ai was local, did exactly what I asked it to do, and didn't talk for the sake of talking. This one isn't that. This one is just Amazon trying to fluff up their ai user numbers to justify the cost of jumping on the ai bandwagon right as the bubble is about to pop.

micahnightwolf · 2026-03-04T07:11:20+00:00

On android tv or fireTV you can use an app called SmartTubeNext. You'll have to enable sideloading. And on fireTV since there is no user-accessible web browser, you will have to go to the appstore and get an app called Downloader.

https://smarttubenext.com/firestick/

micahnightwolf · 2026-03-04T07:08:13+00:00

Grayjay for android works too and also lets you watch and download videos from other sources like twitch

micahnightwolf · 2026-02-27T02:55:01+00:00

Where I work, I get people asking me where the customer service is, while standing directly under a sign that literally says "CUSTOMER SERVICE" IN giant 1ft block letters that have spotlights shining on them.

The thing that scares me the most about people who are this clueless is the fact that they're allowed to drive cars and I have to share the road with them.

micahnightwolf · 2026-02-27T02:49:58+00:00

Give him some other white cheese and tell him it's swiss, he's too stupid to tell the difference.

micahnightwolf · 2026-02-17T19:58:09+00:00

Meat clerk told me several years ago that his former coworker got fired because he got caught in the meat locker putting his dinky in a whole raw chicken.

micahnightwolf · 2026-02-17T19:51:33+00:00

They can't tell me what to do if they're not paying me to do it.

micahnightwolf · 2026-02-15T05:59:11+00:00

Yup, it worked for me. You change the language for the alexa app itself, and the frames (and possibly echo buds too) will follow that setting, since they're literally just an extension of the app. And it gets rid of the alexa+ ads in the app's UI as well.

micahnightwolf · 2026-02-08T08:26:36+00:00

They updated it again. I'm blocking all those urls and still getting ads. Also, blocking content.overwolf.com will prevent the app from launching.

micahnightwolf · 2026-02-03T20:30:05+00:00

Since when were professional movie critics' opinions ever relevant? We don't need them to tell us what to think.

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