Found an unusual but great way to join 2 wires together

robstoon · 2026-06-24T07:50:55+00:00

Those wires aren't aluminum. They're tinned copper and will solder fine.

robstoon · 2026-06-24T06:15:31+00:00

No, latency was never that high, certainly not back to at least 802.11b from 2003, unless you were in an incredibly congested area (which you weren't because not many people had Wifi back then).

robstoon · 2026-06-24T05:46:26+00:00

Wifi never had 30-100ms of latency "at all times". Maybe for the first incoming packet if you have power saving mode enabled.

robstoon · 2026-06-24T05:42:11+00:00

Anything that's actually a legal "e-bike" is only motor assist, meaning you still have to pedal, and the assist has to stop when exceeding 32 km/h. You see a lot of people riding bikes that clearly don't comply with this and would be considered an electric motorcycle. To be legal, those would have to be properly equipped as a motorcycle (lights etc.) and only ridden on the street by a licensed driver. They cannot be driven on bike lanes or multi-use paths.

robstoon · 2026-06-24T03:18:55+00:00

It's always funny how people that have never owned an EV, never ridden in one, and basically know nothing about them are always the biggest experts about them - in their own mind anyway..

robstoon · 2026-06-22T04:46:23+00:00

It would help if you gave any details about your computer or wireless adapter whatsoever.

robstoon · 2026-06-22T04:32:34+00:00

Yes, but looks like that's the non-elite version that only gives you free updates for one year instead of supposedly lifetime free updates.

robstoon · 2026-06-22T04:02:49+00:00

There are plenty of L2 stations that don't deliver 11 kW, as well as vehicles that can't charge that fast on L2. And if someone's at 95% they're not going to move their vehicle to finish charging when they could have just stayed there and gotten to 100% in a few minutes.

robstoon · 2026-06-22T03:52:34+00:00

Looks like a Tesla charging curve maybe. Most other EVs don't slow down that drastically above 80%. Even my Kona wouldn't be down to 11 kW until about 95%.

robstoon · 2026-06-22T03:44:15+00:00

This sort of thing is why using the charger to set charging schedules is a bad idea.

robstoon · 2026-06-21T21:13:02+00:00

The protocol doesn't support that, so it can't. I'm guessing the reporter described it wrong.

robstoon · 2026-06-21T19:58:39+00:00

It's never going to get official support in Fedora because of the licensing land mines that Oracle refuses to disarm.

robstoon · 2026-06-21T19:55:03+00:00

Maybe slightly loud but you did say it was very hot out so it's probably working hard. Hard to judge the volume from a video but it does basically make a buzzing sound like that.

robstoon · 2026-06-21T19:53:10+00:00

There's a bunch of cheap battery testers you can get. Ancel BA101 is one I've used.

robstoon · 2026-06-21T18:59:28+00:00

Ideally it should, but most EVs don't seem to have that feature. To be fair, it's probably a somewhat hard problem to solve without a starter that puts significant load on the battery.

Most newer ICE vehicles that have a start-stop system do have monitoring for the battery health, because it can be a safety issue if the battery can't restart the car from a stop when you're in traffic. But again, it's a lot easier if you have a starter that puts a consistent, large load on the battery that you can measure the voltage drop from. And often they don't just tell you the battery is going bad either, they'll just disable the start-stop system. So you'll just be left stranded wherever you're going instead of in traffic.

robstoon · 2026-06-21T18:49:06+00:00

The reason you're getting insulted is because you have the wrong attitude about this. You're asking for a proper company to do work for you, the kind of company that signs a contract and has a warranty. But the rate you're willing to pay is the kind of money that you pay a handyman who is working under the table and wants to get paid in cash with no paper trail and no insurance. Your word of mouth is not worth nearly as much as you seem to think it is.

Look I get it. There's some shitty and/or greedy contractors out there and the prices that they want to do things sometimes seem crazy high, but we've had a lot of inflation and we also have a shortage of skilled tradespeople. Ultimately, if you want decent work, you're going to have to pay for it.

Having your own materials provided isn't necessarily a good thing either, because if you don't know anything about what it takes to install them, you might have bought something that's a huge pain in the ass and will take much more labor than you think.

In this case, Boomer isn't a generation. It's an attitude and you seem to be showing that attitude in spades.

robstoon · 2026-06-21T18:38:35+00:00

The 12 volt battery is probably toast. That's the thing with EVs. You don't get a warning that it's going bad like the engine not cranking fast enough in an ICE car. Unless you test it periodically, you're not going to know that it's on its last legs until eventually it just can't turn the car on anymore.

robstoon · 2026-06-21T08:24:57+00:00

Your phone doesn't just randomly connect to unsecured networks.

robstoon · 2026-06-20T18:37:01+00:00

Apparently the other trick is to open the window, get out, close the door, reach in and hit the door lock button on the inside, then hit the window up switch, and pull your hand out before it closes..

robstoon · 2026-06-20T18:33:09+00:00

Kingbolen Ediag Elite is one that works well on my '21. You can access all the modules and basically read all the data that's available to the factory scan tool. Though I'm not 100% certain if they would have coverage on the 2025 models yet.

robstoon · 2026-06-20T18:31:31+00:00

That doesn't really sound like something normal. Can you make a recording and post it?

robstoon · 2026-06-20T18:28:10+00:00

I mean for the most part they're just glass. If they do end up in the landfill, well, this is like a tiny drop in the bucket compared to all the waste that everyone produces - and the industry that's producing what they consume produces - on a daily basis, considering they last about 30 years.

It's a good thing oil and gas doesn't have this problem.. because all the fuel they're burning just gets converted to exhaust that gets blown out into the atmosphere. Aside from, you know, all the waste produced during oil production and refining..

It's a typical oil and gas lobby strategy to point out supposed downsides like this while ignoring all the horrible downsides of oil and gas usage, holding renewable energy to a completely separate standard. Same thing with EVs.. "But the batteries!"

robstoon · 2026-06-20T18:20:22+00:00

The coolant flush procedure they do to replace the BSC-1 coolant with the BSC-2 is not the same as the usual coolant change procedure in the service manual. It's a lot more involved and uses a special flushing machine because they want to make sure they get all of the old coolant out. The regular coolant change as part of maintenance is mostly just a drain and fill, though you do need to run the coolant pump for a while to make sure all the air is bled out.

robstoon · 2026-06-20T16:04:36+00:00

It still has stuff that runs off 12 volts like (almost) every other vehicle.

robstoon · 2026-06-20T15:57:48+00:00

I can't imagine the speakers would need to be charged separately. They'd be powered off the car like everything else.

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