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TechConnectify

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I'm that snarky, sometimes cranky YouTube person who told you about how dishwashers work.

I post many things which should not be taken too seriously (on account of the cranky snark thing). If you think I'm mad at you, I'm almost certainly not!

Friendly and helpful, if strongly opinionated.

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New Internet Annoyance Unlocked:

Nitpickers who know a lot about specific things chipping away at (and not seeing) a holistic argument.

TechConnectify,
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@lienrag No, I'm saying that some facts which are important to one person's understanding of a situation may not actually be that important in the broader context. They're fixating on issues they know sometimes come up and not questioning whether those issues are pertinent to the discussion at hand.

Oftentimes these folks have specific knowledge which they don't understand is irrelevant in the moment. So they're arguing things which don't matter and they don't realize it.

TechConnectify,
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@jeffm @lienrag It's kind of similar, but I'd say it's closer to making a mountain out of the molehills which are pet issues.

Snow build-up on traffic signals is a real problem. But it can be fixed.

There are other folks who think some things are problems which just... aren't.

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Just having a wild night over here.

TechConnectify,
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@EmuAGR I won't tell you that, in no small part because the car won't let you do that. It knows it's plugged in even if the station is dead!

TechConnectify,
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@monorailtimes it's not mine, I'm prepping it for install though

TechConnectify,
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@nul42 ah, this isn't for me. I have a Clipper Creek already.

But I hope you're enjoying your Ioniq as much as I am!

TechConnectify,
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@craigtheguru I won't go so far as to call it bonkers but because J1772->NACS adapters exist (and vice versa) I didn't see that as important.

This will be charging my folks' Bolt until it dies and if/when they replace it with a car with a NACS port, then sticking on the adapter is all that's needed and that's effectively permanent. It would only be annoying (and even then only slightly) if they got a second EV but I don't think that's in the cards for them.

TechConnectify,
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@craigtheguru Why not just stick the adapter on and leave it on forever? That's what I mean.

Sure, it's less elegant, but I'm generally not a fan of paying more for elegance.

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Real thought:

What depresses me most about the state of the world at present is that we've stopped caring to live up to the spirit of our ideals.

When we fail them and are pressed, we can rationalize our terrible actions based on technicalities - and large swaths of our culture have normalized doing this very thing.

It is my most sincere hope that we can walk our way back from this. I see some signs of this, but would prefer to see many more.

TechConnectify,
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@glyph First, this isn't helping. Congrats?

But second, the reasons these thoughts are intensifying for me come from many places. An acute one right now is what media is popular and how much of it doesn't seem to have any spirit behind it.

Watching older television (I'm on a Perry Mason kick atm) and being able to see that there were overt principles being demonstrated and the writers were true to their morals makes it feel like we once had a healthier understanding of our duties of care.

TechConnectify,
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@yacc143 There is some cynicism which is healthy, but I don't think this is.

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@franktaber @glyph The trouble, as I see it, is that two things were shattered: the illusion of our moral superiority (a good thing to have shattered) and the idea that we need to care for one another (the terrible thing I'm lamenting).

There's some combination of fatalism, nihilism, and narcissism which seems disturbing popular at the moment. If I have a guiding light, it's that things can change and we can learn from each other. I hope my work speaks clearly enough to that.

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@shandrew It may be more acute in the US but I don't think we're alone.

stephen, to random

@TechConnectify would you consider doing a video in J3068? More V2X opportunities plus North America joining the type 2 AC standard (with some tweaks). Will it catch on or remain niche to commercial?

https://www.sae.org/blog/j3400-NACS-standard-rodney-mcgee

TechConnectify,
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@stephen In a world where J3400 also exists, I suspect it will remain very much commercial.

However, part of the J3400 standard includes moving to a more European-like system for public charging where you are expected to carry your own whip - with the Type 2 connector on one end and whatever your car takes on the other. That might fix the compatibility problem between various EVs and various connectors in a really elegant way.

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@TechConnectify watching your informative rain sensor video and have a(n) unrelated question(s):

Are those OEM seats or do you have 3rd party covers? If the latter, what did you install, and do you like them?

My partner is interested in covers for her new Kona EV and I am looking for 1st hand recommendations.

Thanks!

TechConnectify,
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@rickscully they're OEM, no covers

fo0bar, to random German
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@TechConnectify thanks for your rain sensor video. I might have accidentally skipped or missed it, but where exactly are the emitters and the sensor here? And is the squiggly line only the adhesive?

TechConnectify,
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@fo0bar I only explained that you can't see them because they're under a filter - those black shapes are IR-transparent parts of the filter and they're under those

TechConnectify, to random
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Anybody need a wet wipe?

https://youtu.be/TLm7Q92xMjQ

TechConnectify, to random
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Proposal to refer to solar arrays as amp farms.

TechConnectify,
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@teotwaki I think it has potential, personally.

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Great video about simmerstats in stovetops:

https://youtu.be/ff04ecF9Dfw?si=p2Fr8KgeC16YIePT

@TechConnectify Can you also explain European stovetops with
A) 3-phase 400V power compared to the two 120V phases?
B) knobs with individual positions, compared to the continuous cams?

I am especially wondering about the latter. I remember our stovetop from my childhood having something like 6 discrete steps or so.

TechConnectify,
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@root42 I'm not intimately familiar with the three-phase setup but I think it's likely that each element is wired phase-to-neutral and thus only has 230V across it. Access to all phases just allows for better balancing.

As far as those with discrete positions, it depends. Some hot plates have multiple resistors and you're selecting different combinations (apparently this was big in Germany?), others might be stepped simmerstat-like controls.

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Things are really heating up in this new video:
https://youtu.be/ff04ecF9Dfw

TechConnectify,
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@vykend Indeed. Couldn't... resist.

TechConnectify,
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@trantion Yes, induction is a whole other kettle of fish relying on very high frequency switching through copper windings.

TechConnectify,
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@cs My guess is that these select between different resistor values to heat up the bimetallic strip at different rates.

I have seen really thick coils which could have multiple heating elements going through them but that doesn't look to be the case here, so I think it's more likely this is basically a conventional simmerstat but with several discrete settings (which would absolutely annoy the living daylights out of me)

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