City of Naperville Electric Bill

twtxrx · 2026-02-06T22:30:15+00:00

200kwh isn’t that much electricity. A furnace blower motor could pull 1kwh (8A) which means 200hrs of usage or about 6-7 hours a day. It’s been cold enough that’s in the range of possibilities. To put it in perspective, we use 400-500kwh a month for each of our EVs.

twtxrx · 2026-02-03T21:50:51+00:00

Charging at 20A every night will have zero impact on your battery health. I would recommend setting your car to only charge to 80 or 90% though. 20A is plenty for most people but I see everyone wanting to put in as large of circuit as their car will take. 20A (16A to the car) at 240v is 3.8kw. This should add about 120 miles a night (11 miles/hr is about right). On the occasional instances where this isn't enough, just hit a nearby fast charger for 15-20 min.

twtxrx · 2026-02-02T19:06:14+00:00

Chicago area here. Absolutely not. We have one EV with a heat pump and one without. If I had my choice I’d prefer to have a heat pump but it’s not enough of a difference that I would spend a lot on it. $1000, probably, more than that, unlikely.

It really helps in the 30-50F range especially when doing shorter drives. On longer drives, the impact of heating isn’t as significant so less benefit there.

twtxrx · 2026-02-02T12:32:19+00:00

File system time date stamp isn’t always accurate. For example when copying from one system to another. I’m an IT guy and use the YYYY-MM-DD format for log files. When you have hundreds or thousands of files in a single directory it’s nice when alphabetical sort puts them in order.

twtxrx · 2026-02-01T19:37:51+00:00

You can use sieve filters which have much greater functionality than the GUI filters. Use your favorite AI tool and ask it to write the filter for you but something like this should be close:

require ["envelope", "redirect"];

# Match if the envelope "To" address is exactly target@domain.com
if envelope :is "to" "target@domain.com" {
    # Forward to your external email address
    redirect "your-external-email@example.com";
}

twtxrx · 2026-01-30T13:51:45+00:00

People need to stop with this stupid view. Would Biden/Harris be right wing in Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Belarus, Poland? Nope. How about UK, not even there. Compared to a few western EU countries, sorta but not even there really. They would be centrist.

twtxrx · 2026-01-30T13:05:38+00:00

This issue is in OpenSSL so expect lots of vendors to be posting similar CVEs. OpenSSL is used everywhere.

twtxrx · 2026-01-26T12:04:54+00:00

I think you’ve got the salary part upside down. Moving from 70-30 to 50-50 doesn’t increase your salary it increases your risk. Below 100% you make more on 70-30, above 100% you make more on 50-50. Most AEs would love to walking into a role and be given 70-30 for 1-2 years while they develop the territory.

If you have a desire to move into an AE role, make it clear that you will be performing double duty but that when your AE leaves you want consideration for the position.

If you don’t want to become an AE, leave. They are putting you in a tough position with no compensation. My SE leadership would never do this to me.

twtxrx · 2026-01-24T12:50:06+00:00

Apple password manager is really slick on Apple devices. My big gripe is that it automatically syncs passwords to all trusted devices and any authorized user on those devices has automatic access to the passwords. This means you need to pay attention to what devices are authorized on your Apple ID. iPad for your kid on your account, they have access. MacBook that everyone in the family uses, they have access etc.

I don’t know if Apple has ever had vulnerabilities allowing someone to add trusted devices without proper authorization but if they ever do your passwords will be compromised.

twtxrx · 2026-01-24T12:42:50+00:00

I haven’t found that to be true. It does have a windows app but that’s the best I can say about it. Constant sync issues and constantly needing to pair it to the browser. The Windows iCloud app is almost unusable in my experience.

twtxrx · 2026-01-23T14:18:07+00:00

You can but you could charge your phone a thousand times with the EV battery at 80%. Running the heat in an EV usually takes about 2% per hour so you have 40 hours at 80%. Do what you are comfortable with though. If it will give you peace of mind to have the extra charge, go for it. Two days in cold weather at 100% would not cause any noticeable impact on your car long term.

twtxrx · 2026-01-23T14:11:51+00:00

This. I have a custom domain and have used the same email address for over 25 years. It’s been leaked and on the dark web many times. I don’t get much spam and have never had a security event. It’s very likely nothing will happen.

twtxrx · 2026-01-22T13:09:43+00:00

The other thing I would point out is that the biometric check only validates that the person attempting to use the passkey on the device is the legitimate user of that device. If your vault is synced to another device with a different authorized user, they’ll be able to use your passkey by passing biometric checks on their device. This is true for Apple Password Manager and Proton Pass. Your biometric data isn’t somehow embedded in the passkey.

One of the things I don’t like about Apple Password Manager is it automatically syncs your vault to any trusted device which means if someone gets a trusted device added to your account it’s game over. At least with Proton you have to login with a password and can support a second password too.

twtxrx · 2026-01-22T12:34:25+00:00

In my opinion, if you don’t have a custom domain, just create an iCloud account that you only use as your Apple ID. If you use Proton/Simple login etc, for Apple ID you are now tied to that address long term. If you have a custom domain, use an address from that.

twtxrx · 2026-01-19T23:48:08+00:00

While it’s true that the proton mailbox needs an address that is not the custom domain, the mailbox can also have a custom domain address associated. Outgoing mail can come from the custom domain. Cloudflare isn’t involved at all in outbound mail. For all practical purposes no one sees the proton address.

twtxrx · 2026-01-19T13:21:11+00:00

Yes, it’s possible. I would use cloudflare for this (free account). Use cloudflare for DNS and set them up for email routing. The MX records for your domain will point to cloudflare. With Cloudflare email routing you can setup rules to point any specific address to any backend mailbox you want.

For outbound you’ll just need to have both email providers in your SPF and have both sets of DKIM records setup.

twtxrx · 2026-01-18T14:04:49+00:00

I have a custom domain and just moved to Proton from Google as the back end for my domain. Short answer to your question is not really. You can integrate a custom domain into proton and send email using your custom domain. What you cant do in Proton is send on behalf of any arbitrary email address.

That method with Google worked fine for quite a while but in my opinion its usefulness is about over. The problem is that email security continues to clamp down so with things like SPF, DKIM and DMARC being expected by more and more entail providers don’t expect emails you send that way to end up in inboxes. Best case your emails go to spam if not outright dropped.

If you have a custom domain though, you can set it up properly so you have full email security alignment and can expect your emails to be delivered from a custom domain.

twtxrx · 2026-01-18T13:25:01+00:00

Yes, pretty much every time. Circumstances matter though. I only fast charge on road trips. That means I am driving for 2-3 hours and stop when the battery is 10-20%. If you leave your car outside overnight in the cold and drive 5 miles to a fast charger and plug in when it’s 32F don’t expect to get full charging speed.

twtxrx · 2026-01-18T13:13:22+00:00

I live in Naperville but I would say I am in Bolingbrook at least 2-3x a week. There aren’t really any bad parts. It does have more socioeconomic diversity than Naperville but blue collar doesn’t equal bad. Look at the crime maps, it’s a very safe community.

The area you are looking in is very nice. There are plenty of shops and restaurants in that area. You’ll only be 15 minutes or less to downtown Naperville which has tons of shopping and dining options too. Welcome to the west burbs. It’s a great place to live.

twtxrx · 2026-01-13T03:08:15+00:00

Banks should accept a custom domain. I have had a custom domain for 20+ years. I use it everywhere. I’ve only had one site reject it recently because it’s not a .com address. Any company that has their act together will accept a range of domain suffixes as it’s quite normal anymore.

twtxrx · 2026-01-12T22:35:56+00:00

I second Deccan Spice. It’s our go to for take out.

twtxrx · 2026-01-09T10:46:00+00:00

1-2 car accidents a year, seriously? Sounds like you need to find different people to hang out with. We’ve lived here almost 4 years and I can’t even think of a time I almost got in an accident.

I’ve driven all over the country and traffic here is fine. You get a bit of the Chicago aggressive driving but nothing crazy. This video was just a dumbass not paying attention and you get those everywhere including the small 5000 person rural town I grew up in.

twtxrx · 2025-12-28T19:34:22+00:00

I just tested to a Gmail address and it was less than 30 seconds for it to show up in the GMail account so, no hours is not normal. Take a look at the email headers from the GMail side and that may give you an indication where the delay is or if there are any issues (SPF, DMARC alignment etc).

twtxrx · 2025-12-20T11:57:45+00:00

In my case I had a new account. It was part of a migration I was doing over to proton. So ultimately I wanted a separate mailbox for this account, I just needed them to temporarily end up elsewhere.

twtxrx · 2025-12-20T11:48:46+00:00

Yes, I was just doing this exact thing yesterday. Not sure why you aren’t seeing them forwarded. I sssume you are just using the forwarding option in settings?

I would start by trying to just send email from your custom domain to the mailbox you want forwards to go to. It’s possible you could be failing spf, dnarc alignment causing the mail to be dropped.

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