Yep. I held my father’s hand when he died. When it was over I hugged him and told him we’d be okay on our own now and that we’d manage.

I was mostly right. Mostly. The waves came and went and I thought I’d be over the worst - but now, a year later I sometimes miss the guy with a pain that feels like it will never end in that moment.

I planted a tree and put a bench under it at the end of a small valley where I now own some meadows and where we used to go together and chop firewood. When it gets too bad I take my dog up there and sit down and tell my dad what’s going on.

That is what I did and what I do. I accept that duty the moment I begin to take care of them as a young puppy or rescue.

To be fair, personal greed causes the same as well. In non capitalist countries, the answer to this might have been “because Dimitri the quality assurance engineer now has a very light and sturdy hunting stand at home”.

Herbert Feuerstein, a german journalist and entertainer went as far as to record his own one hour feature for his previous employer, a public ratio station in the western part of Germany to broadcast after his death. It’s an hour of his favourite music, him telling the story of how all that came to be and some remarks on life and everything. I quite liked the idea and the way he executed it.

People around here usually have trailers behind their normal cars for that. Works fine.

The severity of the problem depends on external factors:

• do you live in a dry and salt-free environment? No problem.
• did the maker of your car implement disc wiping as a precaution? No problem.
• did the maker of your car implement intermittent brake blending during recuperation? No problem.
• is your car less driven in wet and salty conditions and then always store in a dry, warm garage? No problem.
• does your car have drumsin the rear and near-undersized discs in the front? Less of a problem.

I drive an electric vehicle and the unfortunate reality is, that brakes that are large enough for an emergency stop get underutilized during everyday, regenerative braking. So they rust.

My solution is: Every time I get back to our village in wet weather, I accelerate hard on the last long straight and brake hard to almost a standstill once. No more brake trouble, all four rotors squeaky clean, but any measuring device would write me up as the biggest idiot on the roads out there.

That is too general of a statement. I have three EVs in my family, none of them do any temp condition of the battery just by being plugged in. However, EVCC turns off the wallbox when they reach 75% SoC and there is no appointment that day in our shared calendar. Sitting at high SoCs kills batteries, especially in warm climates.

I usually buy refurbished Thinkpads with a year of warranty. There are at least two resellers for those in Germany that I know of, AfB and Lapstore.

Eh - YT music (premium) offers 256kB-ish Opus now. That’s on par with 320kBps MP3.

YT Music Premium delivers 256kBit/s Opus now, Deezer delivers FLAC.

If I had to guess…

Yep. And in my case, the backup battery is connected to another DC input on the inverter and the inverter pretty much manages everything. As I understand the documentation, there is no other way to use solar AND a battery at the same time as a power source for islanding. Switching over manually with a short disruption in-between is always possible of course, as is charging an AC coupled battery from an islanding solar inverter.

@Pretzilla@lemmy.world

An engineer dabbling in such things explained to me, that it is hard enough to regulate a small island network frequency and voltage-wise from a single point. Reacting to whatever another source (something like another solar inverter out in the garden with a few panels of its own, e.g.) in the same island grid does could easily lead to potentially destructive oscillations in the regulation circuit. Large grids have “mass” - literally, because large generators and electric motors are spinning at whatever speed they are spinning in whatever phase they are in. So small disturbances from regulating too quickly or a little wrong just disappear into that. The same doesn’t go for a small island grid, so at Fronius they have decided to put 52Hz on the grid which by standard prevents other sources from syncing. Electric utilities do the same when they have to power small villages from diesel generators temporarily - 52Hz and the house mounted solar generators don’t sync.

Our handsets are the same that the police around here use. We use the same digital network, repeaters etc., the divide is only in software.

TBF, those Motorola OUIs would constantly throw alerts for the fire station next door as well.

That sentence does not make any sense whatsoever. SATA and SAS are hot pluggable as well.

Not necessarily. While running parallel to the grid or needs to sync to it of course, but when running in island mode it can do whatever it feels like - if it supports that. My Fronius runs at 52Hz e.g. to keep other generators in the island from starting up.

“Interesting.”

Yes. Likely and unfortunately correct.

I fear the day that man dies. I hope I have lost interest in gaming at that point.