BluePen7

As someone recovering from back pain from a car accident, back pain (or tightness) often just means there's a weakness somewhere, probably at or anywhere below that location (could be tight hips, even ankles).

It's finding that weakness that can sometimes be the hard part, but deadlifts use the whole damn back so they're great to cover that area.

That being said, the body loves to try and compensate, so I didn't find proper relief with home workouts (and often just aggravated things), I needed all the gym machines to properly isolate muscles so my body wouldn't try and cheat. Trying random machines is also a great way to identify weaknesses.

Commercial drones like this typically come with enough batteries to run non-stop.

Even at the standard 1C charge rate, you'd only need 4 batteries to effectively fly non-stop.

In the article they mention the system was meant for rough terrain where they were hand-spraying because the tractor couldn't get there, but I guess they're working on making it viable for large flat farms now.

Kinda like how there's ads on the home screen of certain products, but other companies may opt to forgo them for a more premium experience that keeps customers coming back and paying them long-term subscription fees?

Money was always the objective, hell it's even their legal duty, and shareholders could sue if you claimed otherwise.

Some companies just choose to look further than the next quarter ahead with their plan to get that money.

Where did you charge?

I recently tried the ones at Esso in Canada, it literally feels like 4x the weight.

I've never needed 2 handles to manipulate a gas pump or Tesla charger, but with the CCS I had to use both hands and my body weight to sorta force it around. It was wild.

I actually got a CCS adapter and did exactly that with my Tesla this week.

Esso in Canada has free DC charging for a while through their Journie app.

It is like manhandling a pressurized firehose, and I'm a 30 year old male who works out. I had to actually put my phone away and use both hands to force it around, I'm accustomed to the Tesla connector I easily one-hand.

And despite how big and thick it was, it was still so weirdly heavy I had to double check it wasn't somehow secured to the ground as well.

There is a 0% chance either of my elderly parents would be able to get that plugged in.

The Tesla official one is $230.

All you need then is a breaker, dryer outlet, and some thick gauge wire between the two.

Parts can be more expensive than one might think.

Couldn't agree more, due to their added size maintaining/operating a Silverado 1500 was similar to maintaining my Lexus. Reliable enough, but bigger tires, brakes, rotors, more fuel, etc.

That's the difference, he's doing his own work. Hell, around here the minimum labour charge is already more than $100.

As someone who owned a Saabaru, many 4 figure shop quotes become a weekend and <$100 in parts. Just depends on if you have the time and space to DIY.

Don't forget the Saabaru

As a BMW owner, I actually found the repair pricing quite comparable. Maybe not quite to a Corolla, but it was to a Lexus.

If anything the Lexus was a bit more, due to how common BMW specialist shops are, while there's none for Lexus.

The issue for me was the frequency of the repairs, 5 years of Lexus ownership cost me less than any 3-4 month period of BMW ownership over the 2 years I owned it.

I suppose I can only compare 2-3 repairs, cause the other dozen repairs for the BMW simply didn't break on the Lexus, nor did it spring any of oil leaks my BMW was famed for.

Depends on how well the wiring is done in the first place.

I am an enthusiast of the entire reliability spectrum of vehicle brands.

There are people on Range Rover forums wondering why their infotainment doesn't work half the time in their brand new SUV, meanwhile when I goggled why my windshield wipers wouldn't turn off in my 97 Tacoma, I found a thread that suggested a wire would wear through in 200-300k miles (which was my mileage).

I owned a BMW 325i that was full of gremlins, then owned the competing Lexus IS350 (with far more features), to double the age and mileage without 1/10th of the issues.

You attribute it's reliability to it's simplicity, but I'd argue Toyota simply builds things to a better standard.

As most people know, Lexus is also Toyota, and I've been driving a fully loaded luxury sedan from 2008 that also gave me no problems I didn't cause.

It had plenty of fancy do-dads (that are pretty standard nowadays), a steering wheel and seat that moved into place upon entry, adaptive headlights that swivel and self-level, heated/ventilated seats, backup camera and infotainment, etc.

Only time I thought it was acting up (error with the self-levelling headlights), I discovered something had bashed the entire sensor bracket off the undercarriage. Replacing the bracket fixed it immediately.

It made it to 280,000km (175k miles) before a red-light runner wrote it off, and it went to the scrapyard without even the check engine light on.

Meanwhile the equivalent BMW fell apart on me in half that mileage, and hell, so did an F150 actually (and it was as basic as could be!)

I'm only 30, but at this point a 15 year old car still feels kinda "new" to me. Up until a few months ago, I drove a 2008 Lexus, felt perfectly modern.

But in regards to driving a manual in traffic, does a diesel not make it easier? An engine suited to lower RPMs, but with more torque, seems perfectly suited to clutching in/out to shuffle along.

Ironically due to being unable to get the Ioniq 5 and ending up with the Tesla, I'm now in the market for a generator. If it's the quiet model and you live in western Canada, I'd be interested.

The Tesla even voids your warranty if you try and use a inverter from the cigarette lighter, such BS. I'm now worse off in emergencies than I was with my old gas car.

So far I've had to buy one of those AC camping batteries to keep the internet on, as during outages everyone's phones simultaneously switch to LTE/4G making it unusably slow.

I'm still buying a gas generator for heating, as my home heating is natural gas so I technically only need to power the fan/thermostat.

I just hope this furthers V2L adoption, unfortunately due to the wait times for an Ioniq 5, I had to settle for a Tesla.

Frustrates me so much that I drive a massive power bank on wheels, but have no way to get that power back out of the car.

I mainly desire it for home backup, and potentially charging another EV, as far as the grid goes I think this is just another attempt by PG&E to avoid investing in their own infrastructure at the expense of people's car's charge cycles.

When I switched to WFH, it was amazing suddenly finding an extra 5 figures annually in my pocket.

Commuting is also the most dangerous thing the average person does.

My wife only commutes in 4 days a month, and we still have dashcam footage from multiple close calls.

Recently a pickup truck cut someone off and hit their car, then proceeded to flee during rush hour. In traffic doing about 20MPH he swerves though a hair away from my wife at over 60MPH. She asked me to check the footage because the wind force was so strong she wasn't sure he didn't graze her.

Everyone looks at you crazy if you want to do an extreme sport, or even something like dirtbiking, but on my old commute there'd be 2-3 major accidents a week, a death every week or two, and nobody bats an eye. All so I can log into a data centre in North Virginia, that's nowhere near me.

For me I'm the exact opposite.

Didn't mind working in the office, it was nice enough, coworkers are all friendly.

But having to live anywhere near my office in a high COL area means I was priced out of affording even a 500 square foot apartment. Going remote meant that same salary bought me a newly built detached 6 bedroom house.

I didn't mind the office, I minded being a poor renter instead of upper middle class. Office inconveniences pale in comparison.

It's worse than that, I didn't just gain space and scenery. I went up an entire socioeconomic class.

Previously I was priced out of the housing market, renting a small basement suite.

Now I own a large detached home, and thanks to the rental suite, spending less each month than I did before.

And this is all before you consider the equity myself and my tenant have paid down, or even any home appreciation. It's effectively doubled my TC since I moved.

I was wondering the same thing as an infrastructure engineer making Canadian peanuts compared to my friends who moved to the US.

I guess it’s mostly my own fault for being nervous about switching jobs, but hearing them accidentally hiring obvious frauds makes me think it’s not as daunting as I feel.

So unfortunate it behaves like an inefficient gas car 24/7 when it's below freezing out.

It was one of only 2 vehicles in it's class (EV with a range extender), which was what I wanted, but being Canadian I wouldn't get the benefits half the year.

The other was the BMW i3 REx, I nearly bought one until I found out AC problems can somehow cost 5 figures to repair, effectively totalling the car.

I just gave up and bought a full EV.

ICE cars fuelling speed isn't limited by the temperature of the gas tank when you arrive.

We could give power users a button to manually do that, but how far in advance you press it would have to depend on the heat you'll gain naturally on that particular route, the ambient temperature, and how you typically drive.

And if you get it wrong, you've wasted a bunch of your battery power or arrived colder than ideal. If you accidentally pressed it, or changed your mind, you've used a bunch of power for absolutely no reason.

Personally, I don't trust the average driver to check their tire pressure.

Oh I'm comfortable with DC, and am unafraid of low voltage tinkering.

For mains it's not the 120V zap I'm particularly worried about, it's the possible fire that occurs months later while I'm asleep because of some rookie mistake I made (connection that gets loose and starts to spark or something), that endangers anyone in the structure.

If I could have all the danger upfront and while I'm actively working on it (like woodworking), and limited to just myself, I'd be much more comfortable.

I guess not necessarily the "most" consequences, but the best hidden (at least to me as a novice).

When woodworking, I'm aware of the spinny bit and can watch a quick video on how to use the tool safely. And it's only a danger to myself (or anyone in the very immediate vicinity), while in active use.

My fear about electricity is the hidden dangers, or how things can seem to work fine up for hours/days/years until they don't and melt/start a fire, and then my home can go up in flames while myself and my family are asleep over something as trivial as a loose connection.

This is the same reason I moved out of the city.

Rents are very high because they assume you can live there without a car, but as someone who frequently drove far out of the city I was paying for the worst of both worlds.

I agree with your TCO assessment, thanks to pandemic/WFH myself and my partner were able to switch to sharing a car and we saw about 10k in annual savings.

It's funny, in high school due to social perceptions I didn't align myself with the "shop kids", and took exclusively computer-based electives.

It's led me to a lucrative career in programming, but now all my hobbiest time is actually spent learning the same hands-on skills I would have gotten in shop class, I love doing automotive repairs, I even learned how to fix my own AC system, and want to learn to weld.

Electrical is the tricky one because it's the one with the most consequences for mistakes. I wish there was a "electrician lite" night school or something.

Because our government doesn't understand technology and generally gets fleeced anytime they encounter it.

Remember the Phenix pay system? It was an IBM project that was supposed to save us 70 million a year, instead they paid IBM an additional 2+ BILLION to try and fix the broken crap they'd delivered. Never even worked, they're currently taking bids to replace it already.

80% of public servants had pay issues, many were foreclosed on because they couldn't pay their mortgages, someone even killed themselves.

And we expect the Canadian government to accurately determine ROI on digital ad spend? That's hard enough for skilled people in the space (some who have found it to have no effect altogether). Our government is simply going to be fleeced for every penny they have (and then some).

Remember, these are the same people who shut down the CRA website every night. Can't even access your tax info after hours.

He's not wrong, but the world has picked a different path.

Hydrogen only creates water, and can be refuelled as quick as gas.

Wouldn't have minded driving one of those Toyota Mirais, but there isn't even a Hydrogen station at the other end of the long trip I regularly do, nor is it any cheaper than gas anyways.

And that's the story all over, better tech environmentally and practically but no infrastructure, no hype, and no momentum. It's dead.

Fully charges the cars pre-emptively

It gives us a choice/warning right? Because sometimes I'll stop charging so it doesn't trip the breaker as I run something else.

I regularly do a 200 mile mountain pass with a 75MPH limit, and have been explaining all this to my wife regarding our new Tesla.

But I'd have never admitted how much more efficient our old ICE car would have been at 50MPH than the usual 85MPH I preferred (it's 3 lanes wide and empty, so it's not unsafe to go slower, I just didn't want to).

I thought all keyless fobs had secret keys inside of them.

There's one inside the one for my Lexus (and you have to pop the cover off the door handle), and on Mercedes the start/stop button is removable to reveal a slot where the fob actually clicks in.