There is nothing wrong with admitting that a (small) part of a hobby is getting recognition from your peers.
I’m just happy that, for now, AI can hold a soldering iron or operate a multimeter.
As for gardening: the town where I grew up has these plots of land for vegetable gardens There’s a long waiting list to get one. You should see how the plot holders compete over who has the best vegetable beds.
Twitter used to be a fantastic place to interact with other electronics hobbyist. Then it became the nazi bar and that was that. Every once in a while I go back out of morbid curiosity but the Following tab is barren and the For You tab is disgusting.
I found a place on Mastodon, but the critical mass just isn’t there.
It doesn’t help that many cool looking hobby projects are now just AI slop.
I use xitter and as long as you nudge the For You tab by clicking show less of this a bit and following the odd thing you like it becomes quite useable.
I don’t have solar panels but own a house with parking spot.
I use the PG&E EV2-A night tariff at home which is still 0.23 $/kWh, though the rate at work is only 0.14 $/kWh which I use as much as possible. I rarely use the superchargers (0.45$/kWh.) Let’s use the 0.23 value.
I drive 15k miles per year. At roughly 2.5 mi/kWh. That gives $1380 per year.
At 20 mi/gallon and $6/gallon, I’d pay $4500 per year. At today’s gas prices, the difference is IMO not marginal anymore. (That said, I didn’t buy the EV for the drive savings…)
For whatever reason, my wife’s car needs yearly scheduled dealership visits that always cost a few hundred. Meanwhile, my 5 year old EV has had none of that, other than one of those recalls that required a technician to park 15 minutes on our driveway to tighten some bolt (which my wife’s car also had, but it took another visit to the dealership.)
The depreciation thing is true, but I drive my cars into the ground anyway, so it’s not a factor for me.
Break pads on ICE wear out slower than EV due to torque and weight difference (but also greatly subject to driving style of course). Similarly EV tires wear out faster creating lots of very bad pollution.
> Break pads on ICE wear out slower than EV due to torque and weight difference
The only time I use brakes on my Tesla is for unpredictable events on the roads or for going from slow to standstill. For everything else, I use regenerative braking. In fact, back when I just got mine, I asked my tire/brake shop about typical brake pad lifetime. They said that they almost never service brake pads on EVs. It's just not a thing.
If your brake pads don't last at least 100k, then you're holding it wrong.
That’s understating the importance of the error coding. The modulation scheme is almost a side show, it’s the modern error coding algorithms (LDPC or Turbo coding) that allows you to get arbitrary close to the Shannon limit.
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