Call it Yule and have fun.

I feel this pain. Congratulations. Throw that payment into a savings account if you can.

Code is the floor and developers work in the basement.

Is this why diplomacy in the Balkan region is a long history?

I don’t think we have the data yet to answer the question, and then there’s the trap that past performance does not indicate future results.

All the manufacturers are designing and building new platforms with wholly new drivetrains. Some are recycling a lot of previous experience, and others are not (eg VW has a lot of experience with chassis and interior whereas BYD is new). But all cars are increasingly software dependent and manufacturers are assuming that they can fix bugs in production, so the prior experience is mostly limited to physical arena.

We can make assumptions and generalizations based on what the corporate culture has produced over the previous decades - Germans tend to be higher maintenance and require more precision in their repairs than other cars but they have good dynamics; Japanese cars are boring but require minimal maintenance; American cars are increasingly complex and leaning towards German levels of precision but with highly variable levels of reliability.

Overall though, electric vehicles have vastly fewer moving parts; the WeberAuto teardown of the Bolt EV drivetrain demonstrates it - I think there’s fewer than 10 moving parts including transmission, whereas there’s more than 10 parts in a single cylinder’s exhaust valve train in an ICE. So it comes down to the resilience of the electronics - is the heat managed properly, are the components sized adequately to handle the load over long term, are they waterproofed for the long term, vibration managed, etc. It’s hard to assess that.

I’m gonna spend 2-4 hrs waiting for it to be time to get ready, and then when it is time, I will be doomscrolling and realize I’ve only left myself 10 min to get ready when it takes 15.

Also, once I really had my stuff together and got ready in 15 minutes so that’s my time, even though I repeatedly prove that it takes 20. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

One or more of the URLs on that page/app is being blocked. You need to figure out which; that should be in the log on the dns tunnel service.

This kind of error happens somewhat frequently, so you’ll get comfortable with it quickly!

It’s a good application for swappable batteries. Then it becomes even more expensive, unfortunately. Farmers typically do have the mechanical knowledge for something like that, it would be just like mounting another implement. 1000kg of plates on the front of the tractor.

There’s peel and stick panels I’ve seen people put on their overlanding rigs but I’m not sure they make a lot of power. That would be a better option vs a stiff panel because of aerodynamics. But converting that power to be useful to the car is another problem. It needs 220AC or some kind of medium voltage DC and it may also not move if it detects power on those inputs, for safety reasons. Car roofs aren’t oriented in the correct azimuth and inclination most of the time to maximize charging. I’m not sure the ROI is more than “fun”.

Yeah, that means all new farm equipment I would think. That’s cheap, right?

There’s not as much efficiency to be gained in tractors vs cars either. There’s no regen at the end of the field when cultivating. It’s just a steady application of say power to the soil, for hours on end, often with almost zero flexibility for timing (I mean charging). This article is a demonstration of the phrase “easier said than done”.

This guy has built a conversion though and it seems practical on a small farm. https://hackaday.com/2026/01/02/adding-solar-power-to-an-electric-tractor/

Hey, that’s true!

This is so low on the list of things to care about in the current situation it’s ridiculous.

Unless it’s the only datacentre hosting critical infrastructure, then you can care, but not on a weekend.

Wow. Awful taste and poor execution! What a trip.

Lack of maintenance will do that too. They’re beholden to shareholders.

Yeah there’s not a lot of petrol stations that way either.

But if it’s a problem, rent a gasser.

Hmm, the amount of ewaste created by returns on a whim is massive. I think it’s probably a good idea, but the warranty is more concerning.

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PWM is vital; I can melt chocolate on my stove today but “low” often is 100% power at 90% off 10% on and burns food.

Also making sure the boards and chips are hefty enough. I don’t trust Samsung and LG to lay enough of a trace on the board or use a sufficiently large heatsink on the switching circuitry that it’s not going to melt through when I boil water daily. I don’t recall details but last time I was looking into it, even some higher end brands had failure rates after 5-10 years (or sooner if the “power boost” or whatever was used because they cheaped out. My gas stove will survive the apocalypse, but whether it survives the Operation Epic Fail is another thing.

Electric resistance or infrared simply doesn’t have the response time. Plus many of them don’t actually have “medium” but just do on/off at 50% duty cycle (I can’t remember what that’s called) so there’s absolutely no nuance to them. Many of the induction stoves share this problem with the added complexity of delicate circuitry.

There’s a lot of talk about air quality with gas stoves and I am not going to downplay that, because electric isn’t a magic switch - most people don’t have adequate ventilation to keep the VOC and PM levels in check when cooking on an electric stove let alone gas.

Ai slop announcement, ugh.

This place any good? I’m down to one decent tracker and it’s good to have backup.