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fratermus

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Living offgrid in a campervan since 2018 w/ pibble+boxer Muffin.

LIKE dogs, books, thoughtful people of all flavors DISLIKE bullies, sh1tposters, partisans, noise

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Murderbot, but I don’t think it could make the transition to film.

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I have little dance moves that I like to use when walking around the office. Little turn on heel here, stand on tiptoe there, round the corner in a fluid motion, balance on one leg, little jump, etc.

You might enjoy the 1996 Japanese film Shall We Dance?. The protagonist is taking ballroom dancing lessons in secret but when walking around the office subtle dance-inspired moves creep in. :-)

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Title says plugged in and body says plugged in at 100%; these can be separate concepts if one has fine control over the charging voltage.

Will leaving my things plugged in at 100% hurt it more than constantly unplugging at 80% and replugging at 20%?

Plenty of academic research out there showing that pegging Li to 100% SoC reduces cycle counts to EOL (by electrolyte degradation and other processes), especially at higher voltages/temps. You didn’t mention capacity reduction associated with charging at freezing temps so I assume that is a non-issue in your use case.

It seems to me that if leaving it plugged in is an option you have shore/mains/grid power. So I’d

  • charge to middling SoC and unplug the powerstation (according to the manual); and
  • run the loads off the wall socket

Am I missing something here?

offgrid with LiFePO4

I live offgrid with Li on a very limited budget, so performance and maximal cycle life is a practical matter for me. Based on my own reading and experimentation I charge my 4S LiFePO4 to 13.8v (3.45Vpc) until Absorption falls to 0.10C then quasi-float at 13.31v (3.3275Vpc). I warm them to 50F and charge at ≤0.4C.

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manufacturers have zero incentive to make sure their devices treat the batteries well

as long as they survive the warranty period

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I am off griding running off solar

This would have been useful to mention in the original post.

just got a bluetti eb3a to manage panel power since

We have very little control over what the solar does with “power stations”. I’d just leave the panels plugged in.

I’ve never done any solar before

gentle introduction to solar

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Am I just old or is 4GB actually loads or RAM?

First stick I bought was 1MB of SIPP, used, for $50.

“When I was a boy we had to load HIMEM and EMM386 uphill in the snow”

‘Archer’s’ Final Mission: Sterling and His Frenemies Sign Off After 142 Episodes of Awful Behavior. We Will Miss Them. (variety.com)

I first heard about FX’s “Archer” in the ready room of VAQ-135, a navy squadron who were serving an interminable deployment aboard an aircraft carrier somewhere near Midway Island. (This sounds very much like a humblebrag that Sterling Archer would obnoxiously drop into conversation). It was 2010, and the pilots had lost...

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H Jon Benjamin is a national treasure

PSA: Coach McGuirk in [Home Movies(www.imdb.com/title/tt0197159/) is peak H Jon Benjamin

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anything with the word but in it

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anything related to dinosaurs or Egypt

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Wiki link goes elsewhere. But when I read the summary above it sounded a lot like Hotel Coolgardie. So I looked up the RH wiki article; yup, inspired by that doc.

Do you have a rating? What is your rating?

Today I found out I have a rating on FREE NOW as a passenger (I’m not a driver at all, I use it on the rare occassions I need to move something or I’m too sick to make it via public transport, i.e. after a surgery - I have an upcoming one so I redownloaded it). Checking my settings to make sure I had payment in, I saw I had...

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in the bedroom I’ve gotten two thumbs up multiple times.

gotten them up where?

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Grocery discounters exist. They sell expired, distressed (torn labels, box tears, dents), test-marketed foods that failed, overage, etc.

Or see the Manager’s Special section in your favorite supermarket.

I guess I was thinking more prepared/restaurant food.

Check your supermarket deli for discounted foods at the end of their “best by” time.

If religion is the opiate of the masses, is nationalism meth?

When Marx wrote that religion is the opiate of the masses, his intended analogy was to opium as a medical treatment for pain - something that would not cure the underlying disease, but that could ease suffering. He saw religion as a pacifying substitute for economic and political change. He did not fully flesh out the political...

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In the US today, nationalism and religion have become fused and intertwined to the point that some religious leaders are bemoaning their communities following Trump and conservatism and thinking Jesus was a wimp.

Cf. Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

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In the late 90s I taught an intro course for folks who wanted to run *nix boxen (Solaris, IIRC). On the afternoon of the last day I had them swap places after lunch and gain root access to each others’ machines. It was partly for root passwd recovery and other maintenance tasks, but also to demonstrate that physical access to the box was a serious issue.

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What age were you when you started vaping?

Around 50.


<span style="color:#323232;">Why did you start?
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A friend was vaping to stop smoking and was complaning about flavors and cost of the juice. I wanted to DIY for him and ended up enjoying the overall experience.

Note: descreasig nic mg for him, 0mg for me.


<span style="color:#323232;">Do you regret having ever started? If so, why do you regret it?
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No.

Have you noticed any long-term negative health effects from vaping?

No.


<span style="color:#323232;">Do you feel that the socialogical and/or legal issues around vaping are more or less of a concern than health effects? 
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Big Tobacco and neo-puritains have teamed up to flood the zone with FUD. A classic “baptist and bootlegger” scenario.


<span style="color:#323232;">Do you feel that the financial cost of vaping is more or less of a concern than the health effects?
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DIYing one’s one coils and juice can make the cost quite minimal, and increase control over what you put into your body.

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What would you say you most enjoy about vaping?

  • It kept me from stress-eating.
  • I liked the recipe experimentation
  • I have always liked watching how smoke plumes move in the air
  • I enjoyed the math and the physical action of making coils

How much e-liquid do you get through in, say, a month?

I don’t remember, it’s been a few years. Maybe a hundred ml?

Have you ever been tempted to try e-liquid containing nicotine?

I had bulk nic for making juice for others. I do not enjoy nicotine and would not take it for recreational purposes. There is some evidence that there are neuroprotective aspects, so had I continued I might have added 0.5mg/ml or something for that purpose.

I stopped because I travel fulltime now and the constant altitude changes caused constant leaking and mess.

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I’ve had dogs all my life and have chosen zero of them for their intelligence. My best-ever dog (greyhound) was a beautiful dullard by dog-intelligence standards. My current companion is a box-'o-rocks pibble whose unbounded goofiness and joy makes passers-by smile.

But I once adopted a young doberman from a shelter who kept me on my toes. So did so many crazy-smart things that it’s hard to think of one. She’d unwind her lead off of obstacles, learn things I didn’t necessarily want her to learn, etc. She was a real challenge, like having a toddler around.

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what small physical gift would you give your past self?

Sumatriptan

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Tell us your definitive “I really should not do this” moment.

Standing on the JP’s doorstep about to get married. I though “this is a terrible mistake” and did it anyhow.

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JP?

Justice of the Peace

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What kind of people frequent on forums?

people interested in the forum topic

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Not for living out of

He appears to live in a house. The description says “Follow me as I convert and modify vans on my driveway” and the build vids show him working in a driveway in a residential area.

Folks interested in full-timing might drop in at /c/houseless@lemmy.sdf.org if they haven’t already

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“physics”

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Install quickly and without license hoopjumping.

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which country

West (at that time) Germany

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