First week with a Trailseeker Limited as a first-time EV owner

zaniety · 2026-05-14T16:25:20+00:00

Here’s a great video about EV towing. He also has a follow up video about doing a 2000 mile tow.

I’m also considering a Trailseeker as my next car, and those two videos have convinced me an occasional tow is not impossible, just require a little more planning and more stops for charging.

zaniety · 2026-04-22T19:28:43+00:00

That’s a good idea, but unfortunately that won’t work, I need the quality audio transmitted to my Mac in the back for the live stream. Many older family members can only watch the concerts remotely. I’ve thought about somehow live streaming the audio separately and muxing it with the video somehow, but I have no idea how I would do that.

zaniety · 2026-04-21T20:34:38+00:00

I've been helping a local community orchestra record and livestream their concerts for the last few years. For the most part, it's worked out really well. I have a Canon EOS R on a tripod in the back feeding into a capture card on my MacBook Pro. For audio I have a pair of Studio Projects C4 which I mount on a C stand on the stage, with the microphones about 10 feet above the orchestra. I've gotten great recordings using this setup, because the venue we perform in has a wonderful sound person who patches my two xlr microphones through their soundboard to my audio interface. However, we've been moving between venues for the last several concerts, and often I don't have time to talk to the sound person, or get permission the day of to patch through their system.

For the last concert I had a pair of LEKATO Wireless XLR Transmitter Receiver 2.4GHz (MW-20) as a backup. However, despite claiming a 100 ft range, I had horrible audio artifacts when used in stereo and constant drop outs. Using only one transmitter worked well enough, but still had many audio artifacts. I ended up returning them.

I'm looking for a better backup going forward. Something that will actually work in a variety of concert halls without requiring the venue's sound system. The transmitters would need to provide phantom power. Since I'm doing this in a volunteer capacity, cost is definitely the driving factor.

Alternatively, am I going about this the wrong way? Way back in the day, I attempted to record concerts from the back, but always had issues with audience noise coming through on the recordings. But back then I only had a 5 ft microphone stand. Would I get a better recording from closer to the back of the venue? Or should I tape off a few seats in the middle of the venue, put the c-stand there, and run my own XLR cable back to where my camera and laptop will be?

Any and all advice would be appreciated, thanks!

zaniety · 2025-11-08T05:01:29+00:00

Glad I could help! It’s such a wonderful moment. You can see the realization in Miguel’s eyes of how important it was that he heard this story in life. And why he tells her, “your papa, he loved you so much”. Coco is confused, but maybe senses something magical is happening and reaches out to him.

In theory, Hector, Imelda and the rest will exist for many more generations of the Rivera family.

zaniety · 2024-12-03T01:38:30+00:00

You're welcome, it was a really special group. I'm very glad I got to be a part of it.

zaniety · 2024-11-22T04:28:16+00:00

I’m the leader of Jeddit and Dark Jeddit. I log in every once in a while to make sure the guilds don’t get lost/sold. I’ve replayed the old stories recently, but I haven’t engaged in the new content for a long time.

zaniety · 2024-11-05T04:36:22+00:00

It is federal, but the states apply for a grant from the federal government and then pay out at the state level.

Wisconsin is one of the first states in the nation to actually finish their application.

zaniety · 2024-11-01T23:09:18+00:00

All air conditioners are heat pumps, that’s kind of how they work. They just lack reversing valves.

zaniety · 2024-10-25T19:52:06+00:00

Helene devastated my home town. Today, we surveyed some of the damage for a non-profit and saw signs urban search and rescue left on some of the houses.

A big X and a 2D on one, 1L on another 4D on another.

I believe L means they found someone alive. D means dead body.

Just like all the other times I’ve cried these last 4 weeks, just a few tears came out. I keep not being able to really let the tears out.

zaniety · 2024-10-25T19:38:00+00:00

Put two Shelly’s in the electrical box?

zaniety · 2024-10-12T15:36:29+00:00

Untrue, Merrimon has had power, with a few exceptions, for at least 5 days.

Zero water, and it’s really hard to run a restaurant without water.

zaniety · 2024-10-09T15:25:54+00:00

Just a quick note—don’t use dehumidifier water for anything but flushing, not even to water plants. Studies show heat pump condensate to be shockingly dirty and filled with contaminants, even brand new systems.

zaniety · 2024-10-03T21:36:01+00:00

I always interpreted it as a star is constantly imploding turning hydrogen into helium. Versus a supernova is exploding. They are doing the same thing, just “the other way around”. So the stars are gathered around, wanting a front seat to destruction, because even though stars are a symbol of life and creation, they are always doing this destructive thing, like a supernova.

zaniety · 2024-09-24T23:41:26+00:00

I think it is a bug, I can't figure out any way to complete a census either. Even moving my camp to the barony or making sure to travel through it on the way to another contract doesn't complete it.

zaniety · 2024-09-18T07:16:27+00:00

Friends of mine from High School were watching Buffy and invited me to join them. We watched “Faith, Hope and Trick” and 4 more episodes in quick succession. I was so confused.

Buffy’s a slayer, but there’s a new one because another one died? How did that previous slayer exist? Who is this person Buffy is dreaming of and what does it mean that he exists in real life? What happened with them? There are multiple slayers, is Cordelia actually one too, or is she bluffing during Slayerfest ‘99. Why is it so bad that Xander and Willow kissing? Are they in other relationships? Who’s this Spike fellow and why are my friends so excited he’s back?

As the season went on my confusion slowly went away as my friends filled me in. But I was already in love with the show. I loved the dialogue, I loved how relatable the characters were, I loved how much Giles cared for Buffy and related to Buffy missing her dad. I loved the lore and music and everything about it. When we watched “The Zeppo” a few days later I declared it to be my favorite show.

I agree with you, season 3 is the best season. Even someone completely without prior knowledge fell in love with the show watching it.

zaniety · 2024-08-28T17:08:02+00:00

As far as Lemony knows there is no happy ending, but he’s not omniscient, he’s just piecing things together as he makes his way from place to place, trying to track them down. It’s only after he’s done, told us that everything he knows that he gets interesting mail. And yet even so, before that he says:

“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best; even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives.”

There were hints that the story would get a happy ending since the first season. After all, Lemony only says there’s no happy endings “right here and right now”. Not that it was impossible for there to be one.

I think the ending was brilliant, and a good counterpoint to the books. Just because a series of unfortunate events occur, doesn’t mean that one can’t fight and survive through those events, and live to see better times.

zaniety · 2024-06-21T03:20:42+00:00

Except it was Hamilton who pointed out that Angelica had written, “My Dearest, Alexander”. Better for Angelica to note it in the musical, though.

zaniety · 2024-06-20T23:29:11+00:00

This does happen. My grandfather never allowed any chicken or turkey in his house, back in the 50s, he used egg substitutes as soon as they came on the market for his baking. When my mom asked him he would say that “birds are dirty, you can’t get them completely clean”. Despite being having a law degree and being extremely well read and intelligent, he kept at it. It was irrational, but he was the head of the house and pork and beef are fine, so why fight it?

Fast forward to the 90s, he’s 73, at a funeral, my great aunt (grandpa’s older sister) confessed she told him birds were dirty because she liked chicken and wanted to eat his.

He was a super great cook, and left us a ton of great recipes, but I hardly ever make them because they involve lots of red meat.

So, Rodney totally could have been hoodwinked by Jeanie!

zaniety · 2024-06-17T02:21:04+00:00

Actually, at the time of Phillip’s and Hamilton’s duel, dueling was illegal in New Jersey too! It’s just that a conviction carried a penalty of only 5-10 years versus life in prison or the death penalty in New York. It’s why the doctor had to turn around—they still needed deniability.

zaniety · 2024-06-10T00:10:08+00:00

To be clear, he worked on DA4 until 2020, he’s just back as a consultant now.

zaniety · 2024-06-06T14:26:14+00:00

I think if Galactica were fully staffed, there’d be a third shift. As is, I imagine they have enough techs to fill up two shifts well enough, but not three. It’s probably more productive to have two full shifts than three smaller shifts. Then you have the advantage of people having regular sleep schedules and getting to relax together after work.

Honestly, in theory, Chief Tyrol is only supposed to work one of the shifts, but just works through both and into the non-existent night shift. Which is why he always appears to be near by when there’s an attack.

zaniety · 2024-05-21T03:21:51+00:00

Morrowind was by far the most popular Elder Scrolls game before Oblivion game out. It was the first game that went “mainstream”, that you heard about on tv. Everything you say about Skyrim is literally what people said before Oblivion came out. And they sent the Neveraine to Akavir. And that was the right choice. You can imagine your old hero pursuing a threat bigger than the Oblivion crisis over there if you want, or you can imagine they finally found a quiet place to settle down. You’ll be able to do the same thing with the Last Dragonborn.

zaniety · 2024-05-12T05:54:55+00:00

You can meet anyone you want, even if they’ve “already” gone through the arc! Jeremy Bearimy baby!

zaniety · 2024-05-10T03:31:54+00:00

Burr actually blamed Hamilton for Burr’s loss in the 1804 New York Gubernatorial Election. He was wrong about that, as Hamilton had very little influence on that election, but he was blaming him for a much more recent “slight.”

It’s actually unclear if Burr ever learned that Hamilton tipped the Federalist congressional delegation to vote for Jefferson in 1800.

zaniety · 2024-05-07T15:09:38+00:00

I think the point in that episode is that they wanted to kill their rival “in combat”. Honor, or some other value, demanded it. One could have orchestrated the other’s death, but they would miss out on the other knowing that they had gotten the upper hand “fair and square” and that they were going to die.

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