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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • “Yes.”

    I use multiple gmail accounts and self-hosted for mostly junk/apps, and then a Proton mail account for “serious” accounts like financials.

    I’m considering swapping to “Unlimited” especially for the VPN which has already proven far faster for me under the “free” tier than what I get from ExpressVPN, and it works out cheaper on top of that.







  • Oof, sorry to hear that. And yeah I think folks in the Leaf subreddit were calling them “crocodile” cells/packs, and I’m completely blanking on the internal name, only vaguely remembering one translation as ‘high heat’ which was incorporated into the warranty packs and the cell upgrades in 2015 for the 40kWh “HC1” version.

    And yeah, originals were 24kWh and there’s no getting around that being just for short commutes. I’m assuming at this point on the newest models, that they’re beyond the 63kWh, but those did have a different pack design. The 40s would absolutely physically fit on an older leaf, but the battery controller wouldn’t be compatible with the computer without 3rd party changes, though I’m sure people have done that and probably more by now.


  • Yeah, they never intended the chemistry for the extreme southwestern US environment. The production design included an aging process that was supposed to minimize initial degradation but it wasn’t enough without active cooling, even in a pouch design.

    Around mid 2014 a chemistry change was made that was intended to alleviate some of the issues, and a fair number of US packs were replaced under warranty.

    Through design changes for the 64kWh packs for the newer models, they were insisting active cooling still wasn’t needed, so out they went, still sealed up without any cooling system, but I haven’t looked them up to see how well they’ve been faring since they dumped the production to a Chinese company.

    Uh, I may or may not have been involved…




  • Dumb story time:

    Many years ago when meeting up with friends for drinks, one brought along her classmate/friend from out of town. I already thought she was cute, but then talking about work (as a jr. sysadmin at the time) she talks about her CS classes and that she was into Linux, so this was already “head over heels” territory for very early-twenties dork me.

    So I decided to be saucy and asked her, “pico or vi?”

    She immediately responded, “pico is for pussies.”

    After I replaced my jaw, I did the only logical thing I could think of and proposed to her on the spot. I never saw her again.


  • I get it, but unlike reddit, there aren’t a million other comments to sift through, and my other one is right there with this one at the bottom because a bunch of seriously humorless people jump to the conclusion that I’m a musk lover due to a off-handed quip about NACS ports on EVs.

    Granted, I’m serious in that it’s infinitely better than the behemoth ridiculousness that is either CCS Combo 1 or 2, but this objective truth that is known by anyone that has used both, and has nothing to do with sucking the dick of a malignant narcissist. But I digress.

    People in lemmyshitpost are taking shit way too fucking seriously.