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Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?
  • For comparison, my rooftop solar array, with around 16 full-sized panels (~6kwp) produces just under 2 miles per hour in my electric car (around 3.3kwh/mi). Or in real life, takes about 2 fully sunny days to produce the power to charge the car.

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    Is Cereal a Soup?
  • Breakfast Cereal is cold instant porridge. We just usually eat it before it turns to the mush it was intended to be.

    A potage is a category of thick soups, stews, or porridges, in some of which meat and vegetables are boiled together with water or milk until they form a thick mush. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_soups

    ∴ Breakfast Cereal ∈ Instant porridge ∈ Porridge ∈ Potage ∈ Soups

  • What's a bit of good advice that's really bad advice?
  • I don't know that those have to be in conflict... If you make a 1 word change to the second. "Too many chefs spoil the broth". Good to have extra hands helping, in almost every case - but only if the hands are well directed. If everyone thinks they're in charge, or doesn't know the scope of where they're in charge, odds of success drop.

  • What is the cheapest way to signal to HA no one is home?
  • I would just use the old "Home changes to 0" state, and add a conditional for night (not night) and another for a triggered timer. I call my timer "Nanny mode", and it just blocks 'away from home' automations while it's running. I just need to remember to hit a button on my dashboard once a day or so, starting the 16h timer.

    Here's my "set the alarm and lower the blinds when we leave, and put them back when we get home" auto:

    description: ""
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id:
          - zone.home
        to: "0"
        for:
          hours: 0
          minutes: 1
          seconds: 0
        id: Left home
      - platform: state
        entity_id:
          - zone.home
        from: "0"
        id: Came home
    condition:
      - condition: not
        conditions:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: timer.nanny_mode
            state: active
    action:
      - choose:
          - conditions:
              - condition: trigger
                id: Left home
            sequence:
              - service: alarmo.arm
                data:
                  mode: away
                  skip_delay: true
                  entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
              - service: cover.set_cover_position
                data:
                  position: 0
                target:
                  entity_id:
                    - cover.front_room_blinds
          - conditions:
              - condition: trigger
                id:
                  - Came home
              - condition: or
                conditions:
                  - condition: state
                    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
                    state: armed_away
                  - condition: state
                    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
                    state: triggered
                  - condition: state
                    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
                    state: pending
            sequence:
              - choose:
                  - conditions:
                      - condition: sun
                        before: sunrise
                        after: sunset
                    sequence:
                      - service: alarmo.disarm
                        data:
                          entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
                      - device_id: #######
                        domain: alarm_control_panel
                        entity_id: #######
                        type: disarm
                  - conditions:
                      - condition: sun
                        after: sunrise
                        before: sunset
                    sequence:
                      - service: cover.set_cover_position
                        data:
                          position: 100
                        target:
                          entity_id: cover.front_room_blinds
                      - service: alarmo.disarm
                        data:
                          entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
                      - device_id: #####
                        domain: alarm_control_panel
                        entity_id: #####
                        type: disarm
    mode: single
    
  • I enjoy the process too much
  • Fill the reservoir in the bottom to just below the pressure valve with good water. Put the grinds basket/funnel thing on, and full it just barely below full with medium grind beans. Screw on the top, put it on the stove on whatever burner is closest in size, open the lid. Turn on the heat and wait until it finishes and you hear it spurt air, then take it off and pour. Time on the heat should be around 3 min total, so start with a low-mid temp, and adjust up each attempt until you know where that heat level is for your stove. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

  • Pants
  • These are the best. The Flex Firehose ones may not be super repairable, but they straight up last forever. I wore a rotation of 3 of these for 3 years straight before I saw the first fray.

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