A lot of them are going to brushless DC motors now and 10v led dimmers so if you try jacking that into 110v you have a single use smoke machine.

If Republican voters could read, they’d be very upset.

Where we are now sure seems to be the direct result of people not getting their asses kicked for being pieces of shit.

Too many people accepted intolerance and bigotry being spread without natural consequences which let the bigots and bullies think they had the right to do it, and in the process, it convinced everyone else that the bullies were the majority.

Yeah, incompetence is the limiting factor here. It’s certainly not for lack of trying.

It was an actual issue when I was looking for a dumb ceiling fan that could be speed controlled from a wall switch. I didn’t want a remote, I didn’t want the bullshit non-servicable integrated light, I didn’t want a wireless remote, and I sure as shit didn’t want any wireless or Bluetooth built in… It took going direct to the manufacturer and buying a discontinued model to get that. Absolutely fucking crazy. The light on one of the fans at my mom’s house died and because its a built in led module, on a 5ish year old fan, they aren’t made anymore, and you can’t just swap it with an off the shelf setup because it uses some crazy non-consumer available connector.

Did you check the other yolk with a magnifying glass?

Can I sign Texas up for this?

If anyone asks I just say I voted for the president. Anyone asking me that doesn’t need to know and anyone who knows me already knows based on my personality.

Don’t forget Republicans trying to distance themselves from the consequences of their own actions.

I’m not a fan of how they fit or their toe seams.

I haven’t thought about Gaslight in a while, I need to mix them back into rotation.

It was a new one for me as well. I have been on a Morello kick the last few days and I stumbled on it.

Pass into the iris yes, the ice cream machine is still broken.

Accidentally

I was told that I gave one of our young engineers a “crisis of conscience” for telling him about how a product we were developing needed some more work and testing because we didn’t have enough data on it to release it for use.

Somehow management decided that I was poisoning the company and was toxic for not releasing a partially tested product that could either get people sick or set things on fire and then get people sick.

I was told to get on board and apologize to the young engineer for being a bad example or leave. I started polishing my resume, then turned in my resignation.

I spoke to the young engineer in a friendly and non-acusatory manner and he denied staying any of that to management, he claimed he understood what I was telling him and he agreed with my statements. We still keep in touch.

Ride until you break stuff, then upgrade what broke or what’s limiting you. Logical increments is a great way to live imo.

Yeah if my wife’s family wasn’t here and unwilling to move, I would be somewhere less hostile and more functional too.

To run a heater or ac, you need a significant generator. I have been looking at battery systems and to run an existing residential ac, its like 10k and you need two inverters. Where I am, the power failures have been minimal and manageable (30 minute intervals every couple months) The exception was Hurricane Beryl and we were out of power for 3 days. I intermittently ran a generator for our fridge and the neighbors to charge stuff but even running a window unit was not an option on our 5000w generator. It burned maybe 2 gallons of gas?

Running an electric central air heater is also essentially out of the question. With a gas heater, you just need to run the fan and not heat the elements.

Despite the health risks, that is why we still use. Gas water heaters, gas furnaces, gas dryers, and a gas stove in our house. I want the fallback of running stuff without power. The grid is also shitty to the point (in some areas) that it fried my uncles induction stove, fridge, and ovens even living in a major city.

That also wouldn’t have helped during the winter storm in Austin because the gas supply basically froze and lost pressure so those folks were really hurting.

I think the big built in generators run 15k plus and run off natural gas. I did learn that they also require a maintenance subscription (because of course they do) and thats like 2k a year iirc.

Check your homeowners insurance cost and property taxes before you start talking about how cheap houses are in Texas. It can run $18k/year in insurance and another 10k in property taxes for a $400k house… If you put 80k down on a $400k house, the mortgage is roughly $2100/month in principle and interest, plus another $933ish per month for Property taxes($5000/year), insurance($5000/year), and hoa fees($1200/year). Your housing cost is ~$3k/month. Property taxes go up every year on top of that. They are limited to a 10%/year increase but historically, that translates to basically a guaranteed 10%/year increase, especially in the last 10 years. Insurance premiums have more than doubled in the last 10 years as well.

Welp, you have me soundly beat. My longest is 85 hrs and 6 minutes.