Whenever someone has to do this on an electric car that turns itself off after half an hour (or 90 seconds, looking at you Audi Q8 eTron), just jam something lightly onto the brake pedal, so far that has kept them all on. Cardboard boxes of filament work well for me.

I’d hate for the update to fail because the puny 12V boat anchor runs out of juice with all the kWh sitting unused under the floor.

Get an extension if one is available, much better than blasting between the cladding from a low angle when reaching for the upper rows.

So… Is there still room for the peas, or is it going to be a sunflower seed kind of year?

Happy wife and no more mowing the lawn, what’s not to like.

Well, that’s certainly more practical than the roof.

So, you’re moving the panels around? Are they sitting on the ground in a frame?

What I do is, I leave some lengts of the trunks in one piece, usually right before it turns too thin anyway and just put two of those beneath my firewood piles. Works just as well, especially if you’re stacking somewhere in the forest where you’d have to cart pallets there from miles away.

Alert fatigue is always a sign that the alerting isn’t on point enough. I have no good idea for a replacement here though.

Well, that explains the firm seats. It’s either that or you’re cuddling with your passenger in every spirited corner.

That sounds like a great idea but then it turns out that the backup vehicle also has a set of summer tires, a set of winter tires, different motor oil than your main vehicle, different gearbox oil than your main vehicle and suddenly your basement is full and you’re working on two cars. No problem though, because you could just get a cheap backup vehicle…

I have five because of this. I need help.

Yeah, but that isn’t prevented by turning the inverter off. 🤷

Huh, I always assumed MXM was a well meant but stillborn gadget standard. Neat to hear that it actually serves its purpose here and there!

What kid of form factor is used for that? Is it something brand specific?

https://www.extrudr.com/shop-eu/products/greentec/?variant=UHJvZHVjdFZhcmlhbnQ6MTczNQ%3D%3D

Somewhat expensive but pretty temperature resistant.

It’s usually when they can stand by themselves that I decide they’re due.

No, no, I am kidding, however a week of normal office use, yeah, sure. I’d like them to die because of wear in the field, not in the washing machine.

Fun game to play in our village - put the wrong bin out on Tuesday evening for two hours, watch the confusion spread.

Every room has two circuits for the outlets and one for the lights so a fault can be fixed with some light and powertools available and so that every room still has power when a single phase goes out. The kitchen alone has about ten circuits, freezer, dish washer, oven, microwave, kettle each one of their own, induction stove three because 3 phase power and a few for the normal outlets. I just want to be able to run everything at the same time e.g. when making breakfast. It adds up that way.

One in the carport, one in the workshop, one on each floor of the house - that’s five plus the new panel I’m putting up for the greenhouse, not that many, imho. I just like clean infrastructure and hate core drilling concrete more than necessary.

Probability for that is 1:3, because usually it’s “doesn’t fit” *flip* “doesn’t fit” *flip* “fits” .

Smart move delegating that department. Coming from the guy that once mentioned that I liked one certain candle in the presence of some family from my girlfriends side, and now we have switched to those transparent IKEA containers for storing all the birthday and Christmas gift candles.

At least, all of that is going to make a spectacular bonfire one day.