It gets better: he also refused to restore power to the shed the cousin of the electricians son wired, because the line was buried without a conduit, and uh, was not rated for the absolutely massive drill press he had in there.

Not sure how he didnt trip the main breaker trying to use it, I have been told every electronic in the house lost power when it was on (house had a 60? amp service when I moved in).

I mean, I once had to explain to my electrician that the reason the dryer plug was screwed to the side of my panel box (6’ off the ground) was because the previous homeowner was the son of an electrician.

Hope you called an Uber, don’t stroke and drive.

I am fully aware of that, but i have free PCs, and no money for buying brand new dedicated equipment, so its going in a VM or two.

At $0.50/kwh, I probably wouldn’t bother charging my car, because gas would be cheaper!

And yeah, I am not surprised how fast it adds up, though charging my Escape PHEV is still visibly my biggest power cost, at least when it isn’t -10C for weeks on end (my pellet stove doesn’t like staying lit above -15C, not that pellets are any cheaper than space heaters…).

Actually, this (and a few other comments) made me double check my rates, and wow, I don’t think I would ever want to live somewhere with a $0.50/kwh rate - mine is between $0.12 and $0.14 depending on if I am over the 133 kWh threshold or not.

I am trying to decide how to balance services, but running all 3 slightly less old computers will be less costly than the 2 very old computers I am currently running, due to them being on newer processor architecture.

I was definitely planning to have at least 2 running 24/7 though, specifically for having 2 pihole instances running, as well as having headscale and my tailscale exit node on separate devices (so that devices like my phone are still covered by the pihole).

That is a fair point on jellyfin needing the best CPU.

Was mostly asking about doing a swarm/cluster because i am unsure if there is a benefit, but i have the hardware, so if there is a benefit i wouldn’t mind setting it up.

On that note, what is recommended for a NAS OS?

I mean, the Vostros are way more power hungry than the new equipment, and I have been running those for almost 2 years now. Electricity cost is a fair though.

So definitely put jellyfin on the P330 if i am transcoding (I am currently not doing so i believe, as the vostros really can’t handle it).

What are the benefits of k8s over docker compose files?

Hah, 60km in an escape is a great joke, I am lucky if i get 40km in my 2021. I know my wants/needs are probably a pipe dream, but my daily round trip is ~120km, and being able to do that without an engine would be great.

Being able to do that, and do a 650km round trip in a day would be amazing.

But as to ‘why not the escape’, I want the other type of PHEV - a vehicle designed to be full electric, but with an efficient generator to increase the range, not a vehicle designed for gas usage with batteries shoved in it - I find even on a shorter average commute (when I bought the vehicle it was ~10km a day), I was going through quite a bit more fuel than one would expect considering I at most needed 25% of my battery capacity.

Ah,thats less fun. Still not a big deal, since I would never be sitting in my back seat, but good to know.

Neither of those are an issue for me - I dont open the sunroof on vehicles that have it, and my escape has nearly given me a concussion on more than one occasion, so i am used to ducking the hatch at this point.

Using the fuel range while discussing electric vehicles is pretty dishonest and/or misses my point completely.

The leaf and the bolt are smaller than my needs, what I am hoping for is something the size of my escape (or maybe slightly larger) thats either a phev with a generator with ~150km full electric range, or a full electric with a 500+km range.

It also can’t be a Japanese make because i have such a long torso that my head rests against the ceiling, and I dont want another american made vehicle until they figure their shit out. This doesn’t leave me with much options for my next vehicle, so i am quite hopeful for what’s coming.

I can’t wait for BYD to start selling in Canada, I am tired of my escape’s insistence on burning fuel for the hell of it, and all affordable hybrids/EV’s in Canada having shit all for range.

A 150km battery + generator would be amazing for my use case, basically only road trips and camping would cost me fuel money.

Internet was down at work today, I tried to use the start menu on a coworkers computer to search for an app.

Got a ‘connection timed out’ message instead, and had to scroll through the list like a rube.

Not all of them come with the detachable case - my wife’s OLED case isnt.

Just get pen and island, problem solved

Just to add to the tire wear conversation: My winter tires have lasted 5 seasons (from early October-late April), and are finally worn enough for the tire shop to tell me this was the last season for them, and I drive ~140km/day.

My summers on the otherhand were purchased from a dealership and only lasted 3 seasons (and were showing some pretty bad wear at that). New ones will be going on their second season next month, hopefully they last longer than that!

This is on a PHEV ford escape.

I mean, in Canada we can activate esims by scanning a digital qr code, and we have significantly less scam calls than the US does… Because we have much better laws about that sort of thing.